This is a fairly easy talk to improvise, considering the variety and beauty of the Qur'anic verses to weave it around - although the very idea of suggesting this variety of meanings is enough to give a lot of muslims apoplexy. Well, they do tend to hold up a bound collection of printed sheets of paper and say "This is the Book in which there is no doubt!" (a mistranslation to start off with, and usually at the service of a certainty of interpretation which goes against the recommendations of the book itself - as well as the nature of human intellect)
ISLAMIC OUTREACH - Lesson Five
Belief in the Books of Revelation
RECAP TO ANGELS
Meaning of Book
Qur'an uses associated words in several contexts
The Book of Creation
The Pen - The signs of God
2.1 Alif Lam Mim
2.2 That is the Book, wherein is no doubt,
2.3 who believe in the Unseen, and perform the prayer,
2.4 who believe in what has been sent down to thee
2.5 those are upon guidance from their Lord,
6.38 No creature is there crawling on the earth,
6.59 With Him are the keys of the Unseen;
6.60 It is He who recalls you by night,
6.61 He is the Omnipotent over His servants.
6.62 Then they are restored to God
10.61 Thou art not upon any occupation,
11.6 No creature is there crawling on the
11.7 And it is He who created
22.70 Didst thou not know that God knows all
35.11 God created you of dust
27.73 Surely thy Lord is bountiful to men; but most of them
27.74 Surely thy Lord knows what their hearts conceal, and
27.75 And not a thing is
57.22 No affliction befalls in the earth
57.23 that you may not grieve for what
57.24 such as are niggardly, and bid men
Nations Books
45.27 To God belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth.
45.28 And thou shalt see every nation hobbling on their knees,
45.29 This is Our Book, that speaks against you the truth;
Personal Books
17.13 And every man - We have fastened to him
17.14 "Read thy book! Thy soul suffices thee
17.15 Whosoever is guided, is only guided
17.71 On the day when We shall call all men
18.46 Wealth and sons are the adornment of the present world;
18.47 And on the day We shall set the mountains in motion,
18.48 "You have come to Us, as We created you upon the first time;
18.49 And the Book shall be set in place; and thou wilt see
23.62 We charge not any soul save to its capacity,
Revealed Books
Unity not Adversity
2.113 The Jews say, "The Christians stand not on anything";
2.114 And who does greater evil than he who bars
3.79 It belongs not to any mortal that God should
29.46 Dispute not with the People of the Book
4.54 Or are they jealous of the people
6.154 Then We gave Moses the Book, complete
5.51 And We have sent down to thee the Book
Qur'an
Iqra
7.52 And We have brought to them a Book
7.53 Do they look for aught else but its
12.1 Alif Lam Ra
12.2 We have sent it down as an Arabic Koran;
10.37 This Koran could not have been forged
10.38 Or do they say, "Why, he has forged it"?
56.75 No! I swear by the fallings of the stars
56.76 (and that is indeed a mighty oath, did
56.77 it is surely a noble Koran
56.78 in a hidden Book
56.79 none but the purified shall touch,
56.80 a sending down from the Lord of all Being.
The Essence of the Book
3.7 It is He who sent down upon thee the Book,
43.1 Ha Mim
43.2 By the Clear Book,
43.3 behold, We have made it an Arabic Koran;
43.4 and behold, it is in the Essence of the Book, with Us;
13.38 And We sent Messengers before thee, and We
13.39 God blots out, and He establishes