Why do we see Muslims give great care to the Qur'an?

Muslims care about the Qur’an because it is the sacred words of God; No falsehood can approach it from before or behind it. It is the constitution for their life sent to them from God, they follow its orders and fulfill its laws to achieve their good life in this world and great happiness in the hereafter. They see that everything told in the Koran becomes true in their lives. They also get sure that everything in the Koran matches what man reaches in science, inventions and discoveries. They also find in the Koran ease of their souls, contentment of their chests and pureness of their hearts.

A couple of points.

1) All muslims are not the same. Some muslims give great care to the Koran, and some do not. Just like any other religion, there are those who are very strong adherents, and there are some who are not. So any question about religion has to be with the understanding that these beliefs are not universal.

2) Muslims value the Koran in the same way that Jews value the Torah, Mormons value the Book of Mormon, and Christians value the New Testament, These are religious books that purport to lay out the historical reasons for current belief. Sort of like in instruction book on what and how to believe.

I don’t think it would be correct to say that Muslims like the Koran more than Jews like the Torah – I think that’s insulting. I would say that any religion that has a holy book at its center must support that holy book as the spine of its religion.

They’re taught to regard the Koran this way. It’s a socially conditioned behavior.

I was raised as a Christian, and I was accustomed to hearing the important people in my social circle speak glowingly of the Bible. It was “the Word of God”, the “Holy Scriptures”, the “greatest book ever written”. People seemed to unanimously put it at the top of their favorite books list.

When you grow up hearing this chorus of praise, you don’t dare to disagree. To not feel enraptured about this book would be to betray a flaw in your commitment to the faith (and the whole social support system that the faith represents). So you convince yourself that you feel this way too. If I were to have been perfectly honest with myself even back then, I would have had to admit that I found the Bible to be very poor reading indeed. But I couldn’t afford that kind of honesty. It was socially dangerous.

Now that I have no social reasons to make myself like it, I can barely bring myself to read more than a few lines of the Bible before turning away in complete disinterest. I have tried to read the Koran, and have found that it strikes me the exact same way.

I can fully understand how, if one is told by people that one respects that here in these writings is the repository of absolute truth, one would want very badly to see that this is so. And wanting badly can affect one’s perceptions.

@thorninmud wrote: “I can fully understand how, if one is told by people that one respects that here in these writings is the repository of absolute truth”.

And therein lies the real problem.

The Jews have their absolute truth

The Christians have their absolute truth.

The Moslems have their absolute truth.

Oops… you cannot have multiple absolutes. It doesn’t work that way.

For the same reason many Christians give great care to the Bible.

They believe Mohammed was the last prophet.

According to history Mohammed came after Jesus

Mohammed wrote the Koran.

He is therefore in their eyes better than Jesus , and think we Christians should be following him like them.

So technicially they put the Koran in high esteem in the same way Christians do the Bible.

Christians don’t believe that there was someone after Jesus that we must follow to so we stick with the Bible. Christians believe that Jesus was THE MESSIAH.

If you read the Bible and Koran together , you will see that some of the stories in the Koran can be evidenced back to the bible.

That is why often non-radical Muslims say they respect people of ” the Book” . Meaning the Bible.

They believe in Jesus , they just think he was one of the many prophets in religious history and that we are following the wrong prophet.