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The Foreigner Woman in Bible versus Quran (2)

 

This is the second article in the series of “The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”.  Few quotes from the first article of this series are given here.

 

In language, the foreigner woman or the stranger woman is the alien woman or the exotic woman or the outsider woman. However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1 and Ezra 10:2), the foreigner woman or the stranger woman is the non-Israelite woman.

 

1 Kings 11:1 (American Standard Version and King James Version)

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women (strange women), together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

 

Ezra 10:2

…foreign women of the peoples of the land… (American Standard Version)

…strange wives of the people of the land… (King James Version)

 

Subsequently, any non-Israelite woman is foreigner or stranger women.

This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreigner.

 

According to the inspired word of God (Proverbs 23:27-28 and 5:3-6), the Bible says that the prostitute is a deep pit; the foreign woman is a narrow pit. She lies in wait like a robber and increases the unfaithful among mankind. For the lips of the foreign woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.  Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to hell; she does not ponder the path of life; her paths are crooked, and she does not know.

These Biblical verses morally insult and put down all the non-Israelite women, the Foreigner ones.  

Does this mean that the Lord God authorizes racial discrimination among the women on the earth?

 

In the entire Quran, there is No foreigner woman or the stranger woman.

Also, there is No foreigner man or stranger man

 

The Quran (Verse 40:39-40) says:

Truly this ephemeral life of the world is only an enjoyment, containing comforts which will eventually disappear; it does not last, whereas the Hereafter truly is the everlasting abode which will never perish; it is Eternal.

Whoever commits an evil deed shall not be requited except with the like of it; he will be repaid the like thereof.  Whoever acts righteously, whether male or female, and is a believer, sincere in his faith, such shall be admitted into Paradise wherein they will be provided without any reckoning, an abundant provision, [given to them] unconditionally; there, they will be nourished without stint, without measure or limit.

Herein, the Quran does not determine the race, the color and/or the location, etc. of such male or such female.  Unlike the Bible, the Quran does show any racial interest.

According to the Islamic teachings (Quran and Hadith), all human beings are created by Allah; and the best of them is the one (he or she) who believe in His Creator and obey His Law regardless of his or her race, color, location etc.

 

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The Bible

 

A. Proverbs 23:27-28 (American Standard Version)

27 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

28 Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

 

B. Proverbs 5:3-6 (American Standard Version)

3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol (grave or hell);

6 So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not.

 

 

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The Quran

 

Verse 40:39-40 (Qarib Translation)

 

(39) The life of this world is nothing but an enjoyment, but surely, the life of the everlasting life is the stable abode.

(40) those who do an evil deed shall only be rewarded with its like, but those who believe and do good works, either men and women, shall enter the gardens of paradise and are provided for without reckoning.

 

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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars truthful when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

About the Author

Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil,
Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Head (ex-) of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit, Ain-Shams University. Cairo, Egypt
President of the Egyptian Society of Inventors, Honorary President of SPIC-Egypt (The Society of Practitioners of Infection Control – Egypt), Co-Chief Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Lab. Medicine
Member of the Egyptian union of Writers, Published 5 Books and some 60 Medical Articles, Supervisors for 79 PhD theses and111 Master Degree theses.

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