144. If a person has reservations about something in one of the Holy Books, should the believer avoid asking honest questions if he might not like the answers?
the Bible No
Yes the Quran
the Bible's Perspective
Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
1 John 4:1Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptising more disciples than John
the Quran's Perspective
Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2:108Or would ye question your messenger as Moses was questioned aforetime? He who chooseth disbelief instead of faith, verily he hath gone astray from a plain road.
Al-Ma'ida (the Table spread) 5:101-102O ye who believe! Ask not of things which, if they were made unto you, would trouble you; but if ye ask of them when the Qur'an is being revealed, they will be made known unto you. Allah pardoneth this, for Allah is Forgiving, Clement. A folk before you asked (for such disclosures) and then disbelieved therein.
Ya Seen (Ya Seen) 36:33A token unto them is the dead earth. We revive it, and We bring forth from it grain so that they eat thereof;
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