WORK IN PROGRESS:
This post is a work in progress and is subject to changes, revisions, edits and deletions. I've presented it here to give you an idea of a general concept; however, I'm not sure I've done a very good job explaining it. Please bear with me as I continue to work through this.
The following diagram refers to various states. Click on the image to make it larger:
There are other things about me that are referenced in The Bible and The Quran:
- "In my distress I groan aloud ..." (Psalm 102:5, NIV)
- "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him." (Isaiah 53:2, NIV)
- "... a man of suffering and familiar with pain." (Isaiah 53:3, NIV)
- Lay worn out and exhausted (Daniel 8:27, NIV)
- Bad breath (Job 19:17, NIV) Someone once told me my breath was bad enough to gag a maggot. I also have bad body odour.
- A thorn in the flesh (2 Corinthians 12:1-10, NIV)
- No angels can be seen with me (Quran 6:8, Sahih) (Just because you can't see any angels with me doesn't mean there are no angels with me.)
- Not rich, no treasure (Quran 11:12, Sahih)
- No sign (Quran 6:37, Sahih)
- Revelations are gradual, not all at once (Quran 25:32, Sahih)
- I'm not a great man from one of the two cities (Quran 43:31, Sahih)
- Did not know the Book or the faith (Quran 42:52, Sahih) (I read the Quran for the first time in 2012)
- There are other things as well.
