Mohammed Mana – Role Of The Judeo-Christian Tradition In The Quranic Narrative

Mohammed Mana

Sh. Mohammed explains to us what the role of the Judeo-Christian tradition is in the Quranic Narrative

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The speakers discuss the importance of understanding the story of the Moosa- parable and the role of Judeo Christian transmission in the writing of the Quran. They consider the information from Judeo Christian sources and consider the value of the information provided for the story's academic and intellectual value. They also address questions about the relationship between the parables and the biblical ones.

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			A lot of times people when they when they look at the story of Musa right and even other attend
other classes about that. But then sometimes we'll run into situations where we're learning about
the Judeo Christian tradition of the life of Moosa. Does that content stick around? We consider it
like, what's its role in the Quranic narrative? Well, we deal with this issue a lot. Whenever we are
talking about different profits or messages in the whole, I'm sure we come across information from
Judeo Christian sources. Yeah. And we're like, what do we do with this information? Do we accept it
wholeheartedly? Or do we reject it wholeheartedly. And what essentially we need to do is we need to
		
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			properly understand the platonic narrative. And if this information that we are getting from non
organic sources, or non Islamic sources, is not contradictory to what we have in the Islamic
tradition, then what we can do is we can accept it for its academic value, sure, and for the
intellectual value that it adds to the story that we're discussing. And that doesn't mean that we
have to establish it as a hard and fast you know, fat historical fact. Now, what are some questions
that might come about in terms of the relationship between the two of them? Oh, there's a lot of a
lot of questions that would arise like for example, was the pharaoh at the time of the birth of Musa
		
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			the same one that Moosa later then comes to as a prophet and messenger, and the one that essentially
drowns, okay, and then also, you have so many different characters in the story of Musa so. Are
there any characters that are in the Quranic narrative that are not in the biblical one, and vice
versa? Okay. So these are some questions that we will address along with many more in our upcoming
course, the life of masa