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"Beware of this fake Book", one email says

Just received an email that was circulating around regarding a book, called "The True Furqan" posted on Amazon.com.. Editorial description at Amazon says about this book: "
Arabic and English side-by-side on every page. Prose and poetry of the highest caliber in classical Arabic with English interpretation. It contains 77 surahs (chapters) dealing with as many subjects which are beautifully written and easily understood. Love, Light, Peace, Truth, Repentance, Women, Marriage, Fasting, Prayer, Abrogation, The Sacrifice, Inspiration, Paradise, The Scale and The Excellent Names are some of the chapters written in the unique style of the Quran."

I have not read the book myself but it seems a lot of Moslem people did and many are saying that this book is blasphemous and is a Western attempt to rewrite the Moslem Holy Book in its own ways, insulting Islam and Moslems. One reviewer said:
"It is over 366 pages and is in both the Arabic and English languages...it is
being distributed to our children in Kuwait in the private English schools!
The book contains 77 Surats, which include Al-Fatiha, Al-Jana and Al-Injil.
Instead of Bismillah, each begins with a longer version of this
incorporating the Christian belief of the three spirits. And this so called
Quran opposes many Islamic beliefs. in one of its ayats it describes having
more than one wife as fornification, divorce being non-permissable and it
uses a new system for the sharing out of the will, opposing the current one.
It states that Jihad is HARAAM. This book even goes as far as attacking
Allah, Subhanahu wa Tahala! All this is poisoning our children at approx.
$3.
"

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