KORAN KORNER WITH STRO 10/15/2014
The weird as shit story of the 7 Sleepers and/or People of the Cave. It's about 7 (in Christianity) to unknown group of Christians (plus a dog in Islam) who were either hiding or banished to a cave while Christians were being persecuted by Emperor Decius. They fell asleep. When they woke up, they thought it had only be a day or two, but was actually 309 years later. When they left the cave, they found Rome was a Christian city. They sent one of them out to get some food, but told the dude to be careful that no one recognizes them. But the usage of old coins tipped them off and they all died after being discovered. Only Allah knows exactly how many people were in the cave and for how long they were in there. The actual site of the cave is claimed to be in Tunisia, China, Turkey, Jordan, Glastonbury, and Algeria. Weirdly, it isn't claimed to be IN ROME.
Allah is really, really, really pissed that Christians think Jesus is his son. Like, super pissed about it. It offends him greatly.
Talking about non-believers in hell being covered in sheets of fire, with water like molten brass being poured on them if they cry for help, and then being beaten with iron maces. Non-believers are also told to hang themselves at one point, and Mo says he will bring war to all of them, but he doesn't have the exact date on when each one will happen.
A story about a rich dude thinking he was better than his neighbor just because he was more wealthy and waking up the next day to find his garden dried up and dead, while his neighbor's was healthy and green.
A number of different stories of what will happen on the day of Resurrection/End of Days. There will be lots of earthquakes, non-believers falling into the fires, pregnant women going into labor and/or miscarrying, and everyone will be judged one at a time. There is also the possibility that all souls will go to Hell first, with the good not being harmed, but it was unclear the passage wasn't actually referring to the Heaven-Hell bridge mentioned earlier in the book.
Everyone in Heaven wears gold bracelets, silky green robes, and chillax in recliners.
Arabs used to use camel references for nautical terms. The example given is "riding camel of the sea" when talking about sailing.
Alexander the Great pops up as apparently a contemporary of Abraham.
A straight bizarre and confusing story about Moses. I read it 3 times and had no idea what I was reading. Moses gave a dope speech. Someone asked if there was anyone smarter on earth than Moses. Moses said, "nope". Allah said that was bullshit and that A. No single prophet has all the knowledge and B. There is always someone who knows something someone else doesn't. Moses wants to meet this dude. He's told to take a bunch of fish on a boat, and when they disappear, he'll find the dude he's looking for. A young guy went with Moses. When they reached a place where the two rivers meet, Moses immediately passed out. While he was out, the fish wriggled free. The young guy didn't wake Moses up, so they kept going. They then had to retrace their path and found a dude with a hood, who had a powerful aura. Moses got rid of the young guy and went with the Hooded Dude. Hooded Dude told him to keep quiet until spoken to and not ask questions. Hooded Dude cut a hole in the boat. Then he killed a young boy. Moses was like, "stop fucking sinning man". The Hooded Dude told him to just chill. Then they came to a city and asked for food since they had no fish. They didn't get any. Hooded Dude fixed a wall for free. It turns out that the hole in the boat was because the boat belonged to poor people and the king was seizing all the boats, so he put it out of commission so the king wouldn't steal it. As for the kid, his parents were believers, and they feared he wasn't, so the dude killed him so the parents could have a new, better kid. And as for the wall, well, it belonged to two orphans, and under the wall was a treasure that they could claim once they hit puberty. If only Moses had had patience, he would have known these things weren't actually sins. I read it 3 times in the book and had to read 2 other interpretations and explanations for it to make ANY sense. It still doesn't make a ton of sense to me. The point was basically "God works in mysterious ways" type of deal.
There is a whole chapter on prophets that gives the basic run down on all of them. One at a time.
Zachariah asked for a successor. Allah said, "Sure, brah, his name is John, the first to be named that". It isn't clear if it was the first person EVER to be named John, or just the first of Zach's kids to be named that.
An angel in the form of a man came to Mary, who was wearing a veil to hide herself, to tell her that she was pregnant. She had an awful, awful labor underneath a palm tree. But then her FRESHLY SQUEEZED OUT INFANT baby Jesus told her to chill out and everything was okay. However, the person telling her that might have also have been Gabriel. Or the tree. But Jesus most definitely spoke like a grown ass man as an infant.
When Abraham was telling his dad about how the idols of the Arabs were all wrong, Pops told him he better get his ass out of there before he got it stoned.
Enoch was dope and his name in the Islamic world is Idris.
At one point Mohammed complained about how long of a gap there was between messages from Allah, so Gabriel came down and told him to STFU and he'll get a message when he gets it.
The entire Moses/Pharaoh story is recapped AGAIN. The 4th time it has been told in full. This time, the Pharaoh is repeatedly called OUTRAGEOUS by Allah, which lends more credence to my theory that he's Aquaman.
Moses somehow burnt his tongue on a hot coal as a kid and had a speech impediment that Allah fixed.
Solomon had a seal with the holy name written on it. This gave him the powers to communicate with animals, control the weather, and use flying carpets/thrones. Making him Dr. Dolittle, Storm, and Aladdin.
A lot of threats towards Mecca. Those people must have really pissed Mo off at some point.
1 human day is like 1000 years to Allah.
Don't fuck anyone that isn't your wife or your slaves.