Re: The new Quran: 'The True Furqan'
It was first released among troops in middle east. As it turns out, occupation usually carries with it fruits such as spread of ideology and preaching. But, fortunately the book was quickly spotted, rebuted, and the awareness has been on the rise to a point where everyone now knows about it.
Another thing to be careful of, and this is widespread in Asian communities specifically is that we take anything caligraphic literally without actually reading what it says.
Case in point the phrase "Rabbana aatina fi dunya" which is a verse from the Holy Quran to mean "Our Lord! Grant us good in this world..." as opposed to what Christians missionaries would give out to deprived folks who know no better and take any arabic text to mean something of the Quran, for example the simple change of one word can change the entire meaning if you replace Rabbana with "Abbana" which means "Father" or "O Father" or "Our Father"..which when translated is beyond the shadow of doubt from non-muslim source(s), because muslims don't refer to God as 'Father'..no matter the language.
Another prime example, and place yourself in this position for a second: If i presented you as a gift a piece of decoration that looked very exquisite and classy and it read what seems like "Muhammad" (s.a.w.) you would take it w/out hesitating, but would you actually read it carefully to see what it says? What if it was written "Muhabbah" instead? Which means love... :) Had you ignored it, you would be successfully deceived to think what you've received is the name of prophet (s.a.w.) when infact it is not.
I mean, these are just tiny example. And i realize it's literally micromanaging, but just something to think about. We should learn to look with the eye of our mind and heart lest we remain blind.
We must become intelligently aware, and know our scripture so our naive communities are not deceived. The age of fitnah is the most challenging time muslim ummah will face. And it brings to memory a hadith where beloved Prophet (s.a.w.) said, and i paraphrase "I see fitnah coming down on my ummah like rain, and no house is safe from it". Fitnah comes in many forms and variations, and in today's age it is usually in the form of misinformation. Let us educate ourselves more people. Our faith is on line here, and everything else that we take for granted.