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jaeheewillalwaysbemyfav · 3 years

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so since you're gonna do the avatar!mc au with the entities you think each brother would fear the most (SO excited for that btw, my friend can attest to the fact that i've basically been rambling about tma x om nonstop since the first post you made that put the two together), i'd love to hear your thoughts on which entity each brother would *be* an avatar of, if you're cool with sharing! personally i love the ideas of specifically vast!levi and dark!belphie but i'd love to hear your takes on the concept! <3

So because of how time works, despite receiving this ask on July 12, by the time you see this it’ll be August! So the entire Avatar!MC series should be out by now, which I hope you will/have enjoy/ed. I wholeheartedly agree with the concept of Vast! Levi, which I’ve talked about before (as you know ;) ), but I will happily ramble about it again!

These aren’t gonna be short fics though bc I do Yearn to save that energy for The Longfic, which is still in the planning stages because a) I can’t pick a timeline, and b) trying to match up the timelines of Obey Me and TMA is hard, especially when I tend to have a violent disrespect for actually paying attention to the timing of plot events in both. I already fucked up a part of the plotting because I forgot the order we get pacts with the brothers lmao

Content warnings: Mentions/allusions to tma-typical Spookies, yet another installation of my Cursed Crossover idea, lengthy debates about what makes someone choose to become an avatar of fear, spoilers for Lesson 16+ of Obey Me and S5 of TMA

What Entity Do I Think The Brothers Would Serve? (Cursed TMA x Obey Me Crossover)

Lucifer

So I put him as falling victim to the Eye/Beholding bc of his whole thing about Secrets and Pride being about wanting control over your own image

And he does have a creepy tendency in canon to always know when his brothers are up to some Dumb Shit

BUT! You know what we see in Lucifer’s character that we see in a certain Entity?

A simultaneous manipulation of others and submission to being manipulated by a higher power

That’s right, I think Luci would be a Web avatar

But Winter, Lucifer wouldn’t wanna take marching orders from someone/thing else! He’s too proud for that— You’re right! He doesn’t want to. But he will.

He willingly submitted himself and his family to Diavolo for eternity to get what he wanted (saving Lilith)

And from how much we see him work, it’s safe to say that he’s a pretty damn essential part of running the Devildom

If he really wanted to, he could probably successfully pull a coup on Diavolo

But he doesn’t, because he’s trapped himself by his own honour code

Thus, the sexual tension bromance we all know and love/insist is Deeply Problematic and blacklist (depending on how much you like/hate dialuci lol)

10/10, would fill with spiders again

Mammon

I put Mammon as falling victim to the Buried for pretty obvious reasons

But admittedly picking a fear he’d serve is trickier

I had to get a bit abstract with it, but I think the Hunt might suit him

Not necessarily the primal *cough* and police brutality *cough* parts of the Hunt tho

More like how Basira was considered an avatar of the Hunt in the fearpocalypse because of her mission/promise to Daisy

See, Greed can stem from fear

Fear of losing what you have, of no longer being able to support yourself, of being preyed upon by others

So people become greedy as a defense mechanism, to protect what they have

If they’re on the offensive, they won’t be targeted

Also, if you’re constantly pursuing more more more, there’s no time to think about anything else

Like consequences, or guilt, or Feelings

If Mammon let his little tough guy act go too far for too long, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say he could start heading down the path to avatarhood

After all, people pay big money for hitmen and bounty hunters…

Leviathan

As I said last time, I can see why people would associate Levi with the Lonely first: he’s a shut in, he acts like he wants nothing to do with people/would rather be alone, and I get it

BUT! All of that actually stems from the fact that Levi has terrible self-esteem and thinks he deserves to be this gross shut in loser

While envy can make you want to bring others down to your level, so to speak, Levi tends to just shun “normies”, not actively conspire to sabotage them

He actually does crave understanding and to have people in his life, he just doesn’t know how to go about it

Boy’s got Mega Social Anxiety is what I’m saying (funny how both the Lonely and the Eye can be real bad for that, huh)

But the Vast? Nihilism? Takes all the pressure off

If everyone is a small, insignificant speck in the face of an uncaring, unfathomably large cosmos, who cares what you do? Who cares what people think of you?

Yeah, you’d be kinda weird too if you stared into the infinite abyss of the ocean and realized it was just the maw of a gargantuan sea monster too, Karen, lay off

Plus aesthetically, the great Awful Deep most people fear in the ocean is a comfort to Levi

And again, THE VAST IS MORE THAN JUST THE SKY

I WENT ON A BOAT ONCE

LIKE REAL FAR OUT, SO I COULDN’T SEE LAND FOR DAYS

IT WAS JUST ENDLESS B L U E

AND I WAS ON A CRUISE IN THE CARIBBEAN

I SAW A FRACTION OF THE OCEAN’S S U R F A C E AND IT WAS I M M E N S E

Did you know we’ve only explored like 5% or whatever of our oceans? Think about that! Every Single Thing we know about what’s in there is just the tip of the iceberg!!! GOD KNOWS WHAT’S DOWN THERE!!! PROBABLY FUCKED UP FISH IS WHAT

*ahem* anyway, fishee

Satan

Another tricky boi

I marked him down as fearing the Desolation, as a reflection of what he fears most in himself

I probably could have also gone with Slaughter, but I’d say that’s more baby/early-Satan

Desolation is also about destruction of potential, and Satan has very carefully built himself into a non-rage-monster person

So tearing that all away from him is :)))

But what would Satan give himself over to?

Ceaseless Watcher, I want that twink OBLITERATED—

Satan clings to knowledge and erudition to distance himself from the rage he was born as

“Watch and learn” is literally how he became a person

I find it deeply funny that it could also easily be how he becomes a monster once again

Also if you think the avatar of Wrath wouldn’t have a use for supernatural blackmail you’re just straight up incorrect

Couple that with Satan’s various connections and he’d be a Force to Reckon With

Asmodeus

I put him as a victim of the Corruption bc I found it extremely fitting considering the duality of his romanticized image vs the “dirty” fluid-filled nature of Lust.

Lust can be really nasty, but as licentious as Asmo’s supposed to be, he’s surprisingly coy

(now part of that comes from the fact that Obey Me isn’t strictly 18+/full-on porn, but still)

There’s a lot of Interesting Ideas to unpack there with attitudes towards sex vs sensuality and idealisation vs reality

Now as for an avatar… I debated this for a very long time, tossing around Eye, Stranger, Spiral, even Web for like one second

But I think I’ve got it

Slaughter!

Specifically the musical/random outbursts of violence side (not so much the war side)

Why? Well for one, Biblical Asmodeus is said to “"transport men into fits of madness and desire [...] with the result that they commit sin, and fall into murderous deeds (Testament of Solomon, verse 23).”

But also, Obey Me Asmo’s affair with that portrait chick from the earlier lessons started a whole ass war

Like it or not, the boy is very good at instilling manic violence in people

They don’t call it bloodlust for nothing

Beelzebub

I paired Beel with an End avatar MC bc the boy fears losing his loved ones like he lost Lilith

You could argue that Desolation would fit there too but I liked how it fit Satan better

Now as for a Vibe…

I’m tied between Flesh and Corruption tbh

Though corruption is mostly bc buge :)

So I’ll talk about the Flesh

So uh, mass consumerism, meat is meat, cannibalism… see where I’m going?

Ignoring the Hans because that was super racist, the two Flesh avatars I remember best are Jared Hopworth and The Guy Who Stuck His Arm in a Spooky Meat Grinder To Feed His Buds

I think of Jared in relation to Beel not because of the gym thing, but because his very chill/apathetic attitude towards his patron is similar to how I’d picture Beel’s approach to all this

Like “well, guess I’m here now”

I love Beel as much as everyone else, but he’s not exactly apologetic about his… habits

Not to the degree that he’d actually try and change them anyway

So if he got started on the path to Flesh avatarhood, he’d be pretty fucked

Belphegor

I put Web for him as a fear almost entirely because of the concept of Uno Reverse Card, ngl

It does technically tie into his whole thing about being trapped in the attic, since he’d denied all agency and freedom in there, but… Uno Reverse

Dark!Belphie is an interesting concept, and MAG86 “Tucked In” is iconic, but tbh I don’t really… Get the Dark

Don’t get me wrong, put me in a dark place and I will be scared, I don’t like not seeing things, but I have a hard time wrapping my head around why one would become an avatar of the Dark

It’s not a very “primary” fear imo? Like, I’m scared of the dark bc I can’t see what’s there, ie. a threat could be there and I wouldn’t know, but intellectually I know it’s just the absence of light. That’s not really spooky on its own.

I guess what I’m saying is I can attribute spookier things related to the Dark better to other Entities, so I’m not sure what its draw is specifically

According to the Entity Sexiness Survey I did a while back, there’s apparently some Catholic stuff going on with the Dark so maybe that’s why i don’t get it lmao

Anyway I’d put Belphie down for Spiral

“What lies behind a smile” indeed cowboy

Apparently it’s getting choked

Is it because MC’s entire relationship with him is originally founded on a lie?

Is it because the Spiral deals with distortions in your perception, gaslighting gatekeeping girlbossing, as well as foggy liminal mental spaces like between sleep and consciousness, death and life?

Is it because I think Belphie would absolutely delight in driving someone bananas by fucking with their dreams until it bleeds into their waking life?

Is it because being a person or consistent being at all is too much effort, consistent internal geography is hard, fuck it, just be an endless twisting series of hallways?

Yes :)

#obey me #tma #cursed tma x om crossover #obey me headcanons #tma the entities #lucifer #mammon #leviathan #satan #asmodeus #beelzebub #belphegor

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wisdomrays · 3 years

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: Was Muhammad's Mission Limited and Temporary?

All of the available information and resources, including his life, shows that his mission was universal and eternal.

Such men as Alexander the "Great," the Roman Caesars, Napoleon, Hitler, and the imperialists of Europe, Russia, and America all sought extensive dominion for the sake of worldly power and authority. But when Prophet Muhammad ordered his followers to spread Islam all over the world, his aim was to remove the obstacles preventing human happiness in this world and the next, to prevent them from going to Hell, and to enable them to regain their lost values and inherent purity. As the final Messenger, always under His Guidance and Command, his life was a struggle to spread the light of Islam as far as possible so that others might hear the Divine Message. Certainly he succeeded.

Let's go over some points that demonstrate his mission's universality:

• While still in Makka, he sent some Muslims to Abyssinia. Through the efforts of those believers, many Abyssinians had the chance to know and embrace Islam. While this migration was undertaken to escape intense persecution at home, it also caused the king Negus and other Abyssinian nobles to convert to Islam. This was one of the first proofs of universality.

• Among the early Muslims were Bilal (from Abyssinia), Suhayb (from Rum [Byzantium]), Salman (from Persia), and others. Although they were from different nations and races, they were in the first rank of Muslims. Furthermore, the fact that such people and many more non-Arabs were given higher ranks and esteem than many Arabs shows that Islam, from the beginning, had a universal perspective.

• Long before the conquest of Iraq and Persia, the Prophet told Suraqa that one day he would wear the bracelets of Chosroes, son of Ormuz, Emperor of Persia. This indicates that the Prophet knew that Islam would be carried to Iraq and Persia, and implies that it had to be carried there. It happened just as the Prophet predicted.

• While resting in the house of Umm Haram bint Milhan (his paternal aunt and wife of 'Ubada ibn Samit), the Prophet slept for a short while. When he awoke, he said smilingly: My community has been shown to me. I saw it waging war on the seas like kings sitting on thrones." Forty years later, Umm Haram accompanied 'Ubada on the conquest of Cyprus. She died and was buried there, where her grave can still be seen. As before, it was an indication from the Prophet that his Companions would, and must, carry the Divine Message overseas.

• Once the Prophet told his Companions: "Egypt will be conquered after my death. Be kind and benevolent to its people. Deal with them gently, for there is kinship and duty between you and them." So he informed them that Islam would reach Egypt during their lifetimes, and asked them to preserve the kinship established by his marriage to Mary, the Egyptian Copt.

• Before the Battle of Khandaq, while he was digging the ditch, the Prophet foretold the conquest of Hira, the fall of the columns of Chosroes' palace (the Persian Empire), and the capture of Damascus. It happened as he foretold.

Many Prophetic traditions and Qur'anic verses also state clearly that his Prophethood was for all nations and all times. Among them are the following:

• In one hadith, the Prophet says: "Each Messenger was sent to his own nation. I was sent to humanity." In another tradition, it is narrated as "to blacks and whites." Confirming this, al-Tabari narrates a different hadith: "I was sent to all both as a mercy and a Prophet. Complete my mission. May God's mercy be on you."

• When Chosroes' envoy visited him, the Prophet said to him: "In the near future, my religion and its sovereignty will reach Chosroes' throne."

• Centuries before the conquest of Anatolia and Constantinople (now Istanbul), he foretold that Muslim armies would reach Europe and that Constantinople would be conquered. Many attempts were made to realize this and be blessed, for, in the words of the Prophet: "Constantinople will be conquered. Blessed is the commander who will conquer it, and blessed are his troops." Since that city was a symbol of a large dominion, the Prophet was directing his community to carry Islam worldwide.

The Qur'anic verses related to the Prophet's mission are all self-explanatory. They say unmistakably that the Divine Revelation, through the Prophet, was meant for all humanity. Muhammad was commissioned to warn both humanity and jinn. For instance:

This is no less than a message to (all) the worlds (38:87).

This is but a warning; an eloquent Qur'an to admonish the living and to pass judgment on the unbelievers (36:70).

We have sent you to all humanity, giving them glad tidings and warning them, but most people understand not (34:28).

Say: "O People! I am sent unto you all, as the Messenger, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the Earth. (7:158)

The Qur'an expressly tells us that former Prophets were sent to their particular community or nation, and draws our attention to the difference between them and Prophet Muhammad. For instance:

We sent Noah to his people. He said: "O my people! Worship God! You have no other God but Him." (7:59

To the 'Ad, We sent Hud, one of their own brethren. He said: "O my people! Worship God! You have no other god but Him." (7:65)

To the Thamud, We sent Salih, one of their own brethren. He said: "O my people! Worship God! You have no other god but Him." (7:73)

We also sent Lut; He said to his people. (7:80)

To the people of Madyan We sent Shu'ayb, one of their own brethren. (7:85)

Moreover, with almost every mention of these Prophets, the Qur'an states that they were raised from among their own brethren and sent to their own nation. Thus, there is no ambiguity over who was a Prophet for his own nation and who was the one for humanity.

Since the first revelation, the Prophet has been heard and respected almost everywhere. His teachings, which have established a way of life for peoples as far apart as China and Morocco, have touched the hearts of countless people in every part of the world. They have been—and remain—the most enduring model for a balanced, civilized life, and have led to human development in every field.

Despite the most vicious and sustained oppression of Muslims, the vandalizing of their culture, the misrepresentation of their values and history, Islam's principles and ideals remain fresh and vivid in the hearts of the great majority of Muslims. Indeed, true Muslims are respected, and even many non-Muslims agree that our problems can be resolved only by applying those principles. Islam's sheer endurance, through the conquest and defeat of its followers as well as among so many different peoples and languages, cultures, and climates, proves that Prophet Muhammad's mission is for all people and eternal.

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sleepless-rain · 7 years

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Episode 11 Part 3/6 - Hit and Receive, combination Q and A Special live broadcast episode!

Translation for the intro under the cut!

Translator preface:

This is my first time translating a radio and I plan to translate this whole episode (as a trial), however that being said there are a few warnings I do want to put out before you start. I am not a professional, do not quote my work. this is for entertainment purposes etc wording and such are subject to interpretation thus can contain multiple meanings/my word choice may be misinterpreted.

please do not repost to any other website unless permission is granted by me (this goes for subbing videos/whatnot).

I had to decrease the audio file size so please find the full ep if you’d like higher quality audio!

Now that I have that aside please enjoy!

Episode 11 Part 3 - Hit and Receive, combination Q and A

Part 2 | Part 4 (coming soon! )

Murase Ayumu = A Ishikawa Kaito = K Okamoto Nobuhiko= N

(anything in brackets is considered overlapping lines) *asterisk marks actions/sounds etc* (TL: clearly, a translation note)

Kaito: well then, in order to get to know Nobuhiko-san better let’s move onto this section,

(Nobu: Oh!)

Ayu: Hit!

K: And receive!

A/K: Combination Q and A!

K: right! So like a volleyball combination attack well toss questions, and our guest Nobuhiko-san will respond, which is an attack!

A: after being hit with all the questions, we’ll backtrack to the responses of interest! Are you ready?

N: hmmm

A: this is no good!

K: this was already in the script

N: ahh yeah you’re right. My juniors are getting mad at me.

N: come at me!

(K: Yoshaaa!)

*boys screaming*

K: Now then, question, start!

A: In one sentence, what kind of show is Haikyuu?

N: Ummm, even though you don’t die, you cry a lot.

K: ahh…. Hakyuu is a story about volleyball, but when you were in high school were you in any clubs Nobuhiko-san?

N: umm… badminton

A: In regards to Nishinoya Yuuya, the character you voice act as, what kind of character is he?

N: he’s like a protective charm

*crowd laughs*

K: is there anything you focus on when you voice act?

N: Ummm… to lower my centre of gravity.

A/K: Ohhhh

A: Do you and Noya have any similarities?

N: eh!? Um, we’re both short.

*Laughing*

K: Are there any particular memories from recording?

N: …..I kind of forgot

A/K: !?!?

N: Wait, Kaito-kun and Fu.. were really passionate

(K: he said Fu.)

A: alright, this is a personal question from Fu, is there, is there anything you’ve been into lately?

(K: *laughing*)

N: Into anything lately? I’ve been really into... ah yeah! Umm, Junpo Levan (TL: some sort of store?) theres a play called Q-U-I-T, pronounced Kito, their almond chocolate is really good.

A: Chocolate maniac!

(K: Bring some back!)

K: this is a personal question from Ishikawa. What’s your most recommended dessert at the moment?

A: Oh! So passionate!

N: even I just said it?

K: well then, something besides chocolate!

N: Besides chocolate? Besides chocolate ah, ummm, ah, well, at a place called Demmel, theres a famous Za hatol (TL:??? I have no idea what the name is) at Demmel.

K: Za Hatol?

(A: Za Hatol? What’s that?)

N: ahhh its like the king of chocolate cakes. That place sells raw cookies that are really, really good.

K: Can you tell us the name again?

(A: r-raw?)

N: Demmel

(K: Demmel)

N: A place called Demmel, its really delicious please try it.

(A: demmel )

K: Thank you very much.

A: …demmel’s…

(N: Yes, yes Demmel’s)

K: Hey,hey the questions! The questions! I’ll take the notes okay! I’ll tell you after!

(A: *screaming*)

A: Ah,to Ayu and Ishikawa! No, to Fu and Ishikawa, a word if you could!

N: Ummm, a word? Um, let’s hang out some time?

K: Ah, let’s go! A word to our listeners if you could!

N: A word! Please keep supporting Haikyuu!

*clapping*

K: ohh thank you! Yes, so our event writer , our funny event writer has taken notes for us.

N: That person is great! So amazing!

K: So were there any questions you were interested in?

A: For me, Nobuhiko-san’s, Za Hatol cookie dough…

(N: Lets hang out...)

A:it really stuck to me, I really, really like it oh no… but the people at the company would get mad

(K: you looked like you liked it…. Is that so)

N: we walk the same path…

(A: this is bad)

K: But Nobuhiko-san you’re still okay, physically.

(N: will it be okay?)

K: It’s your organs.

(N: Yeah it’s pretty bad for my insides)

K: It’s pretty dangerous so please hold back.

N: Zahatol is supposedly so amazing it’s called the king of all chocolate cakes and the coating and the inside is all chocolate. To put it simply it’s a chocolate cake.

A: Chocolate cake!

K: sounds good. I wonder if Nobuhiko-san will buy us some?

*Laughing*

A: this junior doesn’t hold back.

(N: really? Damn it)

K: (TL: SPEAKING TOO FAST RIP)

N: My heart is racing.

A: W-what’s raw cookie ? I’ve heard of raw caramel and raw chocolate but…

N: um, it’s in the shape of a cookie but the moment you, but it’s when it starts melting.

A: Huh? That sounds amazing.

N: it’s really good.

K: ah, I wonder if he’ll buy us some~

(A: yay!)

N: Ah, but it sells out so quickly…

A: Well then it might be hard at the next Haikyuu event but at the next, next event…maybe….

N: If I get an appearance that is.

K: um is there anything you focus on when you voice act? You said “lowering your centre of gravity” is that in front of the mic as well?

N: huh? If I did that in front of the mic wouldn’t be in front of it.

(K: you wouldn’t)

K: I was just wondering what you meant by it.

N: Ah… ummmmnn… I’ve been told a lot of times by the director they want a sense of reliability. So I got told to breathe from my stomach a lot. Because when you yell you pay attention to the stomach, which I don’t really do much. I prefer to breathe from my chest, and I was asked to breath from my stomach so I do it while imagining that I’ve lowered my centre of gravity all this time I guess.

K: ahh *trips over words*

K: so what’s the difference between… breathing from your chest and your stomach?

N: What is the difference? I guess if you breath from your stomach, the breath comes out slowly from your stomach so you can give it your all.

(K: Hmmm I see.)

A: But Noya is quite intense.

*Agreement*

N: Like… all his lines are really cool.

(A: really cool!)

N: right

(K: yes.)

N: That’s unfair. On top of being able to read the atmosphere , whenever everyone’s up in arms he does it to perk everyone up, and even when he’s in a pinch. I think it’s really manly.

(A: very manly.)

K: even his face, during the training camp, there was that part with his hair down right.

N: ah, that was cool.

K: I thought that was super cool!! I was like, what I want to be like that! I guess in the end it’s that hairstyle.

(A: I guess so)

(N: Right)

A: the fact that it’s all flat but it’s all poofy

(K: I think it looks coolest flat )

(N: Really fires you up)

(A: Right)

N: Other thing that I’ve noticed is that it gets really fun. So while I’m voice acting and things get interesting I want to put a lot of extra things into it but I get ‘the eye’ from the director.

(K: Back down)

(N: back down)

N: I’ve been told don’t do that, don’t do that.

K: thank you. So now about hanging out together. Where should we go?

N: I want to play volleyball, volleyball.

(A/K: *Agreeing*)

K: but you mentioned being in the badminton club, so it would be nice to play badminton.

N: OH!

(A: Badminton)

N: but Kaito-kun ... we have haven’t we?

K: One more time.

N: oh I see, I see.

(A: a second time)

K: That time, ah, you versed me?

N: Ah, together?

(K: maybe together )

K: With everyone at Pro-fit, we played doubles on one side.

(N: right, yes, yes ,yes)

K: yes, so in the end I never versed you.

(A: Huuuhhh)

K: we need to see who’s stronger.

(N: yes I want to do this.)

A: before in the dressing room... what was it, that thing that goes bam! Bam!

K: Teoshizumo? (TL: so I THINK it’s this game where you push/slap each other’s hands? )

A: huh?

(K: Teoshizumo)

A: Ah, we were playing teoshizumo... we got super into it… um does everyone know what teoshizumo is? Ah you all know, well I didn’t.

(N: yeah … I guess not(?))

A: and you go BAM, and when you watch it doesn’t look that difficult. Kaito-kun is so strong!

(K: *Kaito laughing* no, no not at all.)

A: I lost in about 5-6 seconds and…

(K: I’m a power player)

A: ah right.

*Screaming and grunting from Kaito and Ayu.*

N: what passionate voices.

A: after that I was told that Nobuhiko-san was even stronger, I was thinking “no way!”, but Nobuhiko-san seems like he’d just go snap… but Kaito-kun lost.

(N: This was the first round)

A: the way Nobuhiko-san plays… how do I put this…he manages to kind of side step Kaito-kuns powerful attacks.

K: Yeah it’s very evasive (TL: not entirely sure, seems like nobu/ayu weren’t sure eitherHAH)

(N: Directional power?)

(A:attack power?)

K: A very flowing movement

(A: a very technical feeling)

(K: yes)

N: I’m pushing but I’m not.

(A/K: *agreeing*)

K: I couldn’t push at all…. Why are we talking about teoshizumo on haikyuu radio

N: Right! Right?

(K: what is this?)

A: That match just really left an impression on me.

(K: What kind of radio is this?)

N: Okay, okay so with everyone in the haikyuu group could have some sort of a sports day.

(A: Right!)

(K: Yeah! I want to!)

N: I want to! Do you guys want to watch?

K: Alright…. STAFFF!!

*Laughing*

K: Alright, so let me introduce Noshinoya Yuu’s profile. Noshinona- nishi- nishi- sorry Nishinoya-san could you do this for me?

N: ROLLING THUNDER!!!

K: Okay, I’ll do this. Nishinoya yuu, a second year at Karasuna high school, position- Libero, height 159.3cm, woah not even 160, weighs 51.1kg, birthday October 10th. Ah, 3 days before mine!

(N: oh you see)

K: The shortest in the team, on the court he has everyone’s trust, indeed the Karasuno’s guardian. When Hinata and Kageyama joined Karasuno , along with Azumane he was away from the club etc etc. That’s what sort of character he is.

K: yes so we have a lot of mail. Today we did a sort of survey? We have a section called “Karasuno Bulletin board” to respond to everyone’s answers.

Any feedback on the layout for the translation is super appreciated!

That being said I am not 100% sure whether I’ll be continuing to translate other radios (as it is a LOT of work) so please be aware of that! My translation tag is #leo_translation so if you’re keen on hearing the rest of this episode please keep an eye on it!

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wisdomrays · 4 years

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IS THE QURAN THE WORK OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD?: Part 2

The Qur’an is the Word of the All-Knowing and All-Seeing, who knows His creation inside as well as outside, forward as well as backward in time. The Qur’an therefore comprehends the human beings it addresses, it tests them as it teaches-indeed, if we may so put it, the Qur’an reads’ its readers. For believers, the consciousness of being before the Divine Message can, in the words of the Qur’an, make their skins shiver, so suddenly and fully does the atmosphere around them, the climate within them, change, like an abrupt alteration in body temperature.

Thus far, I have discussed only the general fact of the Qur’an, and its general perspective, in order to explain that it can only be of Divine authorship. But the substance of the Qur’an is no less compelling an argument. Those who, with good or bad intentions, allege that it is a work of human authorship cannot sustain their allegation. Scriptures other than the Qur’an, precisely because, as above mentioned, they have been tampered with by human hands, make claims that we know to be untrue. For example, in these scriptures a particular account is given of the creation of the world, or of a natural phenomenon (for example, of the great flood), which we know, from modem investigation of the stars or, on the earth, from investigation of fossil records, to be false. Human beings altered those scriptures to suit their own understanding and so, as science has progressed, it has made their understanding and their now corrupted scriptures irrelevant and, for the most part, obsolete. The Qur’an by contrast is preserved by Divine Decree against any consequence of human neglect or human misunderstanding.

How, except on account of its Divine authorship is it possible for The Quran to be literally true on matters of which people had not the least inkling at the time when the Qur’an was revealed? Do not the unbelievers realize that the heavens and the earth were one unit of creation before we split them asunder’? (al-Anbiya’, 21.20). It is only in the last few years that we have been able to con template this verse about the first moment of the universe in its literal meaning. Similarly, when we now read-God is He who raised the heavens without any pillars that you can see. Then He established Himself on The Throne [of authority]. He has subjected the sun and moon [to a law]; each runs its course for a term appointed. He does regulate all affairs, explaining the signs in detail that you may believe certainly in the meeting with your Lord. (al-Ra’d, 1 3.2)-we can understand the invisible pillars, without elaborate exposition, as the vast centrifugal and centripetal forces which maintain the balance amid the heavenly bodies; we can understand from this and related verses (e.g. al-Rahman, 55.5; al-Anbiya’, 21.33, 38, 39; Ya Sin, 36.40) that the sun and moon are stars with a fixed life-span, that their force of light has or will fade, that they follow a track in the heavens determined with the most minute exactness. The literal understanding of these verses does not diminish the responsibility that comes with understanding-that you may believe certainly in the meeting with your Lord-in other words, the purpose of the verses has not changed, only the circumstance of our knowledge of the phenomenal world has changed. In the case of the former scriptures, the advance of the sciences has meant that the inaccuracy of those scriptures has become ever more visible, with growing irrelevance of the beliefs associated with them. In the case of the Qur’an, by contrast, the advance of knowledge about the phenomenal world has not made even a single verse harder to believe or to understand; on the contrary many verses are now understood more fully and more clearly. (We have given many more examples of such verses in other pieces more specifically addressed to the subject of the Qur’an and science: see Gulen, M. F. Questions This Modem Age Puts to Islam, pp. 86-94.)

Yet there are people who still allege that the authorship of the Qur’an belongs not to God but to an inspired Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace. While asserting that they are on the side of sense and reason, these people allege what is humanly impossible. How could a man utter, some fourteen hundred years ago, what have since been recognized, by a different route, as scientifically established truths? How is that humanly possible? How is it on the side of reason and sense to claim such a thing? By what means did the Prophet discover, with an anatomical and biological accuracy only recently confirmed, how milk is produced in mammal tissues? How did he discover how rain clouds and hailstones form; or determine so correctly the fertilizing quality of the winds; or explain how land-masses shift and continents form and deform? With what giant telescopes from what observatory did he find out about the physical expansion of the universe? By what equivalent of X-ray vision was he able to describe in the most careful, unmistakable detail, the different stages of an embryo’s evolution within the uterus?

Another miraculous aspect of the Qur’an to be mentioned concerning its Divine origin is that lust as the information it gives about the past is absolutely true, so too its predictions are very significant For example, at a time when the Companions considered the articles of the Hudaybia Treaty are quite adverse, the Qur’an gave the good tidings that they would enter the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram) in full security, and the Religion of Islam would prevail over all other religions. (Surah al-Fath, 48:27-28) The Qur’an also clearly pronounced that the Romans would be victorious against the Persians in nine years from their utter defeat in 615, but the believers would destroy both of those, the greatest powers of the then world. (Sura al-Rum, 30:2-5) When the Qur’an gave this good tiding, there were scarcely forty believers and they were all being made groaned under the pitiless tortures of Makkan chiefs.

Those who make that allegation about the authorship of the Qur’an have abandoned their reason when they do so, and they place their souls in the greatest danger. The Being of God is One, and there are no sharers in it, none, not in any degree. The Prophet, upon him be peace, was the best of men, the ideal, and yet never more than a man. The Qur’an itself so addresses him, so admonishes him, so consoles him, so reproaches him. When the Prophet, for example, had exempted certain of the hypocrites from jihad, the Qur’an criticized him: God forgive you! Why did you give them leave to stay behind before it became dear which of them were truthful and which were liars? (al-Tawba, 9.43). With regard to the taking of captives after the Battle of Badr, he was rebuked in these terms: You (the believers) merely seek the gains of the world whereas God desires [for you the good] of the hereafter. God is All-Mighty, All-Wise. Had there not been a previous decree from God, a stern punishment would have afflicted you for what you have taken (al-Anfal, 8.67-8). When on an occasion the Prophet said that he would do such-and-such a thing the following day without adding insha’-Allah that is, without expressing his reliance upon God, he was warned: Nor say of anything, I shall be sure to do so-and-so tomorrow, without adding ‘if God will And call your Lord to mind when you forget, and say, ‘I hope that my Lord will guide me ever closer than this to the right way’ (al-Kahf, 18.23-4). Another example: You did fear the people, but God has a better right that you should fear Him (al-Ahzab, 3337). As a result of some private matter related to his household the Prophet undertook to never again use honey, never again drink a honey-based sherbet; the Qur’an admonished him: O Prophet! Why do you hold to be forbidden what God has made lawful to you? You seek to please your wives. But God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (al-Tahrim, 66.1). In other verses also, when the higher duties and responsibilities of the Prophet, upon him be peace, are brought into clear focus in the Qur’an, the limits of his authority are clearly pronounced. There is a clear space between the Messenger and the Message revealed to him, as clear as between man and his Creator.

Why do the orientalists and their supporters allege, in the face of all the evidence, that the authorship of the Qur’an belongs to the Prophet? The reason is their fear of Islam. There are many miracles associated with the Qur’an we could not mention them all here-one of the most striking of which is that by the Qur’an was established, in an astonishingly short time, a civilization which has proved both distinctive and enduring. The Qur’an was the constitution, the all-providing, all-generous framework for that civilization. The Qur’an required the administrative, legal and fiscal reforms necessary to sustain a vast state of different cultural communities and several religions. The Qur’an inspired a genuinely scientific curiosity to study nature, to travel and study different peoples and cultures. The Qur’an urged people to lend money for commercial ventures and to eradicate fully the institution of interest, so that while wealth grew (which it did) it would circulate among the whole community. The Qur’an inspired the first ever public literacy and public hygiene programmes (so that the believers could read the Book and prepare for worship). The Qur’an commanded the organized redistribution of surplus wealth to the poor and needy, to widows and orphans, for the relief of captives and debtors, the emancipation of slaves, and for the support of new converts to Islam. One could expand this list considerably; the important point is that only the Qur’an has ever achieved what many world-famous but human works have longed, and completely failed, to achieve. Do we not, each of us, know at least one human account of how to establish or run an ideal society, at least one system or ‘formula’ for solving equitably the problems of social or cultural or political differences between people? And which of these ever succeeded, even in part, even for a short time?

Those who allege that the Prophet is the author of the Qur’an, fear the Qur’an, fear its power and authority for Muslims, fear that the Muslims might again obey its command and restore the civilization of Islam. They would prefer it if the leading people in Islamic countries believed their allegation and so came to believe that the Qur’an is a human work from a certain past century and is, therefore, no longer relevant. Then indeed the dream of those who hate and fear Islam would come true.

Muslims would hold to their religion just as the majority of Christians do in secular Western societies-that is, as a tender memory of something long gone.

They would have us believe that the Qur’an belongs to the seventh century. They will admit, in order to beguile the believers, that the Qur’an was very advanced for its time. But now, they say, it is they who are advanced, they who offer a lifestyle of intellectual and cultural freedom, they who are civilized, while the Qur’an and Islam are backward! But the truth is that, just as advances in the physical sciences have established the accuracy of the Qur’an on questions to do with the merely phenomenal world, and provided the knowledge to enable us to understand the Qur’an more fully, so also improvements in our understanding of human relationships and human psychology will establish the truth of the Qur’an on these questions also.

It may seem mat we have digressed widely from our subject, the authorship of the Qur’an. But indeed we have not lost sight of it. The allegation that the Qur’an is a work of human inspiration is but an instance, and image, of the failure to reflect with sincerity and due humility upon the reality of our being as indebted creatures to whom everything is given. We do not create ourselves. Rather, we are given our lives; we are given our powers of contemplation, comprehension, and compassion; and we are given this extraordinarily subtle, varied and renewable world in which to exercise those powers. So also the miracle of the Qur’an is a gift of mercy to us; it could not have been originated by mankind any more than mankind could have originated themselves. God says in the Qur’an that even if all mankind banded together and got the jinn to help them, they could not so much as create a fly; and likewise, He says, we could not create a likeness of even a part of the Qur’an.

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