Who wrote the Bible and Torah ?

My friend Arnon Katz who is from Israel wants to Discuss this, can you discuss it with him ? Rehan, can you please ask your expert for interpretation to this phrases from the Quran: the Qur'an says that God gave the Land of Israel to the Jews ! It [the Qur'an] "is a guide for the righteous, who have faith in the unseen and are steadfast in prayer" [Qur'an: Sura 2, "The Cow", verse 2] It [the Qur'an] is "a confirmation of previous scriptures" (i.e., the Bible) [Qur'an: Sura 12, "Joseph", verse 112] "We [Muslims] believe in that which was revealed to us [the Qur'an] and that which was revealed to you [the Torah]. Our God and your God is one. To Him we surrender ourselves". [Qur'an: Sura 29, "The Spider", verse 47] "Enter, My People, the Holy Land which Allah has assigned for you. Do not turn back, or you shall be ruined". [Qur'an: Sura 5, "The Table, verse 21] "We [Allah] settled the Israelites in a blessed land and provided them with good things". [Qur'an: Sura 10, "Jonah", verse 93] "Pharoah sought to scare them [the Jews] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him, together with all who were with him. Then We said to the Israelites: 'Dwell in this land. When the promise of the hereafter comes to be fulfilled, We shall assemble you all together [in the Land of Israel in the End of Days]". [Qur'an: Sura 17, "The Night Journey", verse 103] "it was Our [Allah's] will to favour those who were oppressed [the Jews] and to make them leaders of mankind, to bestow on them a noble heritage and to give them power in the land [of Israel]: and to inflict on Pharoah, Haman, and their army, the very scourge dreaded by their victims". [Qur'an: Sura 28, "The Story", verses 5-6] "We [Allah] gave the persecuted people [the Jews] dominion over the eastern and western lands which We had blessed [the east and west banks of the Jordan River]. Thus your Lord's gracious word was fulfilled for the Israelites, because they had endured with fortitude; and We destroyed the edifices and towers of Pharoah and his people". [Qur'an: Sura 7, "The Heights", verse 137] "To Moses We gave the Scriptures, a perfect code for the righteous, with precepts about all things, and a guide and a blessing, so that his people might believe in the ultimate meeting with their Lord". [Qur'an: Sura 6, "Cattle", verse 155] "tell of Our servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: men of might and vision whom We made pure with the thought of the hereafter. They shall dwell with Us among the righteous whom We have chosen". [Qur'an: Sura 38, "Sad", verse 46] "Glory be to Him [Allah] who made His servants [Muhammed and El Burak] go by night from the Sacred Temple [of Mecca] to the farther Temple [of Jerusalem], whose surroundings We have blessed, that We might show him some of Our signs. He [Allah] alone hears all and observes all. We [Allah] gave Moses the Scriptures and made them a guide for the Israelites, saying, 'Take no other guardian than Myself. You are the descendants of those whom We carried in the Ark with Noah. He was a truly thankful servant'". [Qur'an: Sura 17, "The Night Journey", verses 1-3] "We gave the Scriptures to the Israelites and bestowed on them wisdom and prophethood. We provided them with good things and exalted them above the nations". [Qur'an: Sura 45, "Kneeling", verses 16-17] "There is guidance, and there is light, in the Torah which We [Allah] have revealed. By it the prophets who surrendered themselves to Allah judged the Jews, and so did the rabbis and the divines; they gave judgement according to Allah's scriptures which had been committed to their keeping and to which they were witnesses". [Qur'an: Sura 5, "The Table", verses 44-45]

Is there a lawyer here ? Can you answer my friend about the following: Is Pakistani legal stuff based on english common law? I suspect india is and I know that Pakistan broke away from india but I dont know what they did with respect to their legal system Pakistani law is based upon the legal system of British India; thus ultimately on the common law of England and Wales. -- that means that its similar but not identical to what I am learning now, and what I have learned since I started law as a hobby in 1992 which means it might be possible for me to do some introductory level law classes for your school. it would by no means by anything overly complex but like law for business owners or whtaever it would take a good amount of research on my part though to learn the differences between there and here. near as I can tell there are 3 basic legal systems globally. common law (from the UK), civil law (from ancient rome) and sharia law (from either the quoran or muhammed's other writings I am unsure where exactly it comes from) I know jewish law is also different, its based on the torah as its superceding law and then laws of man but am unsure which type of legal system they have. and I suspect there are other smaller localized legal systems elsewhere in the world. but those are the 3 biggest I do not know much about sharia law but I do know that it varies greatly from place to place, ruler to ruler. Iran for example lets women work but some other places think of that as a sin. This makes it harder to research because a change in rulers can potentially change a lot of definitions.

Inbox Received: Please read, and reply on it, if you can, as it is important! Rehan, do you really think all this stuff of making mutual friends and trying to reach many people has any sense at all when I have not seen any comment about the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday????? Except a quote of Quran , BTW exactly to one of the Torah, which claims whoever kills an innocent person is as if he had killed all humanity. We are mourning our dead people, we are shocked, we feel at war, and I swear for the salvation of my soul I have not seen ONE single Muslim saying WE, MUSLIMS MUST CHANGE THIS, we must take the helm and change the direction. How can any Western worry about any of what you say when the most we can see is few voices saying : "I am sorry for them, in the same way I am sorry for everybody who is killed", or saying IS is funded by USA and Israel (I wonder why I am surprised, for a Muslim EVERYTHING is Jews fault!!!! The lack of empathy this means nearly drove me yesterday to unfriend all Muslims I have as a Facebook friend. I feel close to vomit when I read what Muslims say ...Palestine shit upon it, Syria, Burma.... actions have reactions.... My Answer: Dear Friend, the thousands of years of created hate can not go away over night, there are many many issues, Every time I will speak, You will look at the same thing in different way and the people who are muslim will look at it in a different way, and both will not be happy, as both are polarized. TILL the time comes, where YOU and OTHERS do not want to VOMIT ( which means your sub-contious old programming of your brain is in control) There will be no peace , And that can only happen, when WE ALL work on our own selves, and not give access to REACTION of our minds, to other people.

Some words from my Jewish friend Jonathan D. Lipson My Torah tells me to take my misbehaving child to the center of town so the child can be stoned to death. Because of modernity, I would send my child to counseling for behavior correction. In my Torah, if my wife first comes to me as a non-virgin, I'm supposed to take her to her Father's home to stone her to death. Because of modernity, premarital sex may be immoral, but not stoning your wife to death. What if you had sex before her, is it right that she stones you to death. If my wife sleeps with another man, I'm supposed to take her to the center of town and stone her to death. I prefer to divorce her because of modernity. Unfortunately these are the social conditions of a modern society?

"36 times in the Torah we are commanded to love the stranger, because we were once strangers in the land. You don’t repeat something 36 times in the Torah unless it’s really important." — Rabbi Dan Moskovitz , Temple Sholom, Vancouver

There's a famous story about a Jewish scholar, Hillel the Elder, a contemporary of Jesus. A pagan came to him and offered to convert to Judaism if the rabbi could recite the whole of Jewish teaching while he stood on one leg. Hillel stood on one leg and said, "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the Torah. The rest is commentary. Go and learn that."

I grew up hearing that Bible and Torah was modified over the years ! Where can I find proof for this ?

Here is a list of the purpose of life according to the world's 10 major religions: 1. Christianity: To glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. This is achieved by having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and living in accordance with His teachings as outlined in the Bible. 2. Islam: To worship Allah, the one true God, and to live in accordance with His commandments as outlined in the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad. 3. Hinduism: To attain liberation from the cycle of birth and death and to merge with the ultimate reality of Brahman. 4. Buddhism: To end suffering and to attain enlightenment, through the cultivation of wisdom, compassion, and ethical and mental discipline. 5. Judaism: To follow the commandments of God as outlined in the Torah and to fulfill one's role in the world as a member of the Jewish people. 6. Sikhism: To attain union with God and to live a life of service and devotion to others. 7. Taoism: To live in harmony with the Tao, the ultimate reality and the source of all things. 8. Confucianism: To cultivate virtue, wisdom, and moral character, and to serve one's family, community, and the world. 9. Jainism: To attain liberation from the cycle of birth and death and to live a life of non-violence, compassion, and spiritual discipline. 10. Shinto: To live a life of devotion to the kami, the spirits or deities of Shinto, and to maintain a harmonious relationship with nature and the world. Please note that these are generalizations and that the beliefs and practices of individuals within each religion may vary.

Book burning incidents have taken place throughout history for ideological reasons. The burning of the Bible has also occurred in Europe. Here are some notable incidents of Bible burning in Europe: Martin Luther's 1534 German translation of the Bible was burned in Catholic-dominated parts of Germany in 1624, by order of the Pope 1 . In 1553, the Talmud was publicly burned in Venice, Italy, which was a center for the printing of Jewish books 1 . In 1568, there was a lesser-known burning of Jewish books in Venice, Italy 1 . In 1490, a number of Hebrew Bibles and other Jewish books were burned at the behest of the Spanish Inquisition 1 . In 1522, the authorities at Leiden ordered the confiscation of all Lutheran works in the town, but apparently did not burn them 1 . The first mass book burning in the North was in 1521 in the ecclesiastical territory of Utrecht. The first mass book burning in Amsterdam took place later, in 1526. Thereafter, public book burning remained part of life in the Habsburg Empire 1 . In recent years, there have been incidents of burning the Bible in Europe. Here are some examples: In January 2023, a man named Erinipuzha Mustafa burned the Bible in Kerala, India, in revenge over the desecration of the Quran in Europe 3 . In April 2017, a UK rabbi-politician burned the Christian Bible on the eve of Passover, sparking controversy in the British media 5 . In July 2023, a request was filed to burn the Torah and Bible outside the Israeli embassy in Sweden, following the burning of a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm 2 . Some commentators have suggested that burning holy books should be illegal, as it is a manifestation of a phenomenon widespread across European countries that are on their way to becoming post-Christian 6 . In Malaysia, the prime minister has stated that the burning of any religious book or text, including the Quran, the Bible, or the Hindu holy texts, will not be tolerated 6 . In 2010, a high court judge banned the burning of religious books in South Africa, and the following year, a UK court jailed a man for burning the Quran in public 6 .