RationalWiki:Annotated Qur'an/The Moon

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 * 1=54:17
 * 2=We made the Quran easy to learn. Is there anyone who would learn?
 * 3=Easy to learn? Why then have people argued for centuries over how to implement even straight forwarded seeming rules?
 * 1=54:18
 * 2=Aad denied the truth. So how were My punishment and My warnings?
 * 3=More horror theatrics.}}
 * 1=54:19
 * 2=We unleashed upon them a screaming wind, on a day of unrelenting misery.
 * 3=Doesn't this inspire spiritual bliss?}}
 * 1=54:20
 * 2=Plucking the people away, as though they were trunks of uprooted palm-trees.
 * 3=So harmoniously beautiful!}}
 * 1=54:21
 * 2=So how were My punishment and My warnings?
 * 3=God is love!}}
 * 1=54:22
 * 2=We made the Quran easy to remember. Is there anyone who would remember?
 * 3=Actually very few human beings have ever memorised the whole thing.}}
 * 1=54:23
 * 2=Thamood rejected the warnings.
 * 3=Uh oh. Another character didn't buy into this nonsense.}}
 * 1=54:24
 * 2=They said, “Are we to follow one of us, a human being? We would then go astray, and end up in Hell.
 * 3=And so he was sent to a made up realm in the afterlife.}}
 * 1=54:25
 * 2=Was the message given to him, out of all of us? In fact, he is a wicked liar.”
 * 3=This is a story about people who called Muhammed an impostor.}}
 * 1=54:26
 * 2=They will know tomorrow who the wicked liar is.
 * 3=This isn't surprising because there were countless so called "prophets" at the time.}}
 * 1=54:27
 * 2=We are sending the she-camel as a test for them; so watch them and be patient.
 * 3=None the less...apparantly Allah didn't like this and so the loving forgiving sky god destroyed them.}}
 * 1=54:28
 * 2=And inform them that the water is to be shared between them; each share of drink made available.
 * 3=A dreaded story.}}
 * 1=54:29
 * 2=But they called their friend, and he dared, and he slaughtered.
 * 3=Designed to inspire fear.}}
 * 1=54:30
 * 2=So how were My punishment and My warnings?
 * 3=So that you will believe this nonsense.}}
 * 1=54:31
 * 2=We sent against them a single Scream, and they became like crushed hay.
 * 3=Graphic descriptions of horror.}}
 * 1=54:32
 * 2=We made the Quran easy to understand. Is there anyone who would understand?
 * 3=A common mechanism in the Quran. Keep repeating something until you can no longer resist its truthfulness.}}
 * 1=54:33
 * 2=The people of Lot rejected the warnings.
 * 3=Oh dear God not another example....}}
 * 1=54:34
 * 2=We unleashed upon them a shower of stones, except for the family of Lot; We rescued them at dawn.
 * 3=...of the loving forgiving God destroying an entire people.}}
 * 1=54:35
 * 2=A blessing from Us. Thus We reward the thankful.
 * 3=Yes. All that horror was such a blessing.}}
 * 1=54:36
 * 2=He had warned them of Our onslaught, but they dismissed the warnings.
 * 3=A fictional story that cannot be proven.}}
 * 1=54:37
 * 2=They even lusted for his guest, so We obliterated their eyes. “So taste My punishment and My warnings.”
 * 3=And yet...it is used as evidence in this book.}}
 * 1=54:38
 * 2=Early morning brought upon them enduring punishment.
 * 3=At least some of the other Surrahs pace the amount of horror in them, but this Surrah is just an endless litany of fear.}}
 * 1=54:39
 * 2=So taste My punishment and My warnings.
 * 3=Wow...fear is meant to be experienced by various senses.}}
 * 1=54:40
 * 2=We made the Quran easy to memorize. Is there anyone who would memorize?
 * 3=Huh..have I heard this before?}}
 * 1=54:41
 * 2=The warnings also came to the people of Pharaoh.
 * 3=Oh sweet Jesus...yet another example...}}
 * 1=54:42
 * 2=They rejected Our signs, all of them, so We seized them—the seizure of an Almighty Omnipotent.
 * 3=...where the loving forgiving Allah punishes a whole group of people for the sins of a leader.}}
 * 1=54:43
 * 2=Are your unbelievers better than all those? Or do you have immunity in the scriptures?
 * 3=Just when you thought four examples were enough...we need a fifth.}}
 * 1=54:44
 * 2=Or do they say, “We are united, and we will be victorious”?
 * 3=That's right...here come the Makkahs.}}
 * 1=54:45
 * 2=The multitude will be defeated, and they will turn their backs.
 * 3=They were warned.}}
 * 1=54:46
 * 2=The Hour is their appointed time—the Hour is more disastrous, and most bitter.
 * 3=And warned.}}
 * 1=54:47
 * 2=The wicked are in confusion and madness.
 * 3=With horror.}}
 * 1=54:48
 * 2=The Day when they are dragged upon their faces into the Fire: “Taste the touch of Saqar.”
 * 3=And more horror.}}
 * 1=54:49
 * 2=Everything We created is precisely measured.
 * 3=This is a sort of evidence that God's plan is an ingenious mechanised symmetrical perfection.}}
 * 1=54:50
 * 2=And Our command is but once, like the twinkling of an eye.
 * 3=As though all the horror that preceded this builds up to a cathartic beauty.}}
 * 1=54:51
 * 2=We have destroyed your likes. Is there anyone who would ponder?
 * 3=Even though all these fictional stories happened...would you still dare doubt the coming appocalypse?}}
 * 1=54:52
 * 2=Everything they have done is in the Books.
 * 3=So apparantly everything that has happened on Earth was recorded in the holy books.}}
 * 1=54:53
 * 2=Everything, small or large, is written down.
 * 3=Except of course while this was written civilisations were developing in many other continents the writers of these books didn't know about.}}
 * 1=54:54
 * 2=The righteous will be amidst gardens and rivers.
 * 3=And now comes the reward for believing in this nonsense.}}
 * 1=54:55
 * 2=In an assembly of virtue, in the presence of an Omnipotent King.
 * 3=You get to go to a beautiful place that no one can proves exists because you have to die to find out if it is true or not.}}