Ten years ago today, I returned from my church mission in Colorado and Kansas. Though I have learned much since 2014, I grew more during those two years of service than any other time in my life.
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Quranic Quote of the Week #12: Race to Do Good
There is an unfortunate and incorrect stigma that Islam is an intolerant faith. So to wrap up my Quranic Quotes of the Week series, I’d like to give 10 examples of how the Quran REALLY instructs believers to view and treat those of other religions.
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“The only thing that prevents what they give from being accepted is the fact that they disbelieve in God and His Messenger, perform the prayer lazily, and give grudgingly.” (Quran, 9:54)
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“Devote yourselves to God and assign Him no partners, for the person who does so is like someone who has been hurled down from the skies and snatched up by the birds or flung to a distant place by the wind. …
“We have made camels part of God’s sacred rites for you, … so invoke God’s name over them as they are lined up for sacrifice. … It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches God but your piety.” (Quran, 22:31, 36–37)
Quranic Quote of the Week #7: True Religion
“True Religion, in God’s eyes, is islam: devotion to Him alone. … Ask those who were given the Scripture, as well as those without one, ‘Do you too devote yourselves to Him alone?’ If they do, they will be guided, but if they turn away, your only duty is to convey the message.” (Quran, 3:19–20)
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Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)
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“And as the city was held by the Hebrews from that time, I too will here conclude my account.
“If it has been well and pointedly written, that is what I wanted; but if it is poor, mediocre work, that was all I could do.
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Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)
“Let us get up now and fight for our lives, for today is not like yesterday or the day before,
For here is the battle in front of us and behind us, and on one side the water of the Jordan, and on the other marsh and thicket, and there is no room to retreat.
Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #5: By the Crown of the Head
Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)
This one’s pretty fun and awesome, but it requires a bit of context first, so bear with me:
In “The Story of Bel and the Dragon,” we see a sort of alternate version (or maybe additional tale?) of Daniel in the Lion’s Den. The Persian King Cyrus, who with the Babylonians worships idols, commands Daniel to worship statues.
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Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #4: All Will Prove Good in Their Season
Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)
“Therefore from the beginning I have become assured,
And have reached this conclusion and left it in writing:
The works of the Lord are all good,
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Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #2: Heavier Than the Darkness Were They to Themselves
Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)
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“For those who claimed to drive away fears and troubles from sick souls
Were sick themselves with ridiculous fear
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