Kutub

• How Muslims use the Qur'an (Importance)

  • Daily worship - verses will be spoken

  • In the Jummah service on a Friday

  • In celebrations, festivals and rites of passage

  • As a source of Shari'ah law for Islamic matters

  • As a source of wisdom, inspiration, guidance and support.

  -Provides important answers/direction.

  -As a source of explanation and insight

  -Treated with great respect and reverence
• Torah (Tawrat)

  Revelations given to Musa (Moses) by God and now lost, no longer existing in their original form
• Tawrat was put together by Moses' followers after his death using parts of the original text but adding their own
• Tawrat


  Talked about in the Qur'an as 'guidance and light'. Not considered direct word of God
• Suhuf (the scrolls of Ibrahim)


  Prophet Ibrahim is always called the 'upright one', always faithful to God
• It is believed Ibrahim received revelations on the first day of Ramadan and they came in parable-like stories
• Suhuf


  They cover issues of worship, reflection etc. Never in one single book
• Gospel (Injil)


  Isa (Jesus) is an important prophet in Islam. The Gospels were the account of Jesus' life and death written by his followers after he died
• Muslims believe the Gospels contain may mistakes as they are not the direct word of God
• Psalms (Zabur)


  Collection of prayers and poems by Dawid the Great King. Given by God as a form of guidance, which Dawud recited as songs and poems
• The version of the Psalms is found in the Psalms of the Bible
• The Qur'an refers to all these books so they must be important
• Muhammad confirmed much of what is taught by these books, gives them importance
• These books


  • They are connected to well-respected prophets, giving them authority
  • They give God's guidance, even if not perfectly
• Some of these books are lost now and no one knows what they actually / originally said
• Some of these books have been changed

  This might take away some of their authority
• The Qur'an has more authority than all of these books together as it is the Word of God, unchanged