Nabeel Qureshi writes this essay , which focus mainly on whether if Christians should read the Qur'an. He opens the article with a short narrative He narrates his childhood, when his parents would always recite the Qur'an five times a day. At age of three, Qureshi had recited and memorized the entire Qur'an . Qureshi tells us that his experience is not unusual. The Qur'an is "the basis of Muhammad's prophetic claims, the foundation of Shari'a law, and the common denominator among all Muslims." Thus it is the like food to the Muslims. Then, Qureshi simply answers the title's question: Christians shouldn't read the Qur'an. Qureshi gives two reasons to why Christians shouldn't read the Qur'an. First, the Qur'an was not written to be read as a book. When Mohammad was alive, there was not a written Arabic book, and what the Muslims read today is just "short liturgical recitations." It was after that Mohamed had died, people combined these recitations together and called it the Qur'an. Due to this reason, Many Muslims are confused and frustrated. The second reason is that the Qur'an only complies a small portion of the Muslim's worldview. There are many other books including "sola scriptura," the Islamic way of life from the traditions, called "hadith."
This article is very organized and comprehensible. He starts the essay with a narrative, an easy approach to the readers. He uses this narrative to, eventually, answer the question of the title very directly by simply quoting "no". He is very rational, in a sense that he states the two main reasons to support his concluding thought. In spite that fact that it was a short article, it was very persuasive.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/november/should-christians-read-quran.html
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