Great things about the Qur'an
No genealogies
No contradictions ("Will they not then ponder on the Qur'an? If it had been from other than Allah they would have found therein much incongruity." -4:82)
Beautiful and readible even when going into the law. So readible that many Muslims memorize the whole thing
>The similitude of the life of the world is only as water which We send down from the sky, then the earth's growth of that which men and cattle eat mingleth with it till, when the earth hath taken on her ornaments and is embellished, and her people deem that they are masters of her, Our commandment cometh by night or by day and We make it as reaped corn as if it had not flourished yesterday. Thus do we expound the revelations for people who reflect.
This is verse 10:24 as translated by Pickthall, a famous English writer who converted and worked with a team of Muslim scholars on it. Full text here
The Qur'an a rather different take on Genesis than the Bible. Adam was already mortal before eating the fruit (Satan, who is not a talking snake, promises it will give Adam immortality). It is just a fruit. Adam asks for God's forgiveness and gets it. God doesn't walk around or rest or make man in His image. There is nothing to suggest the Deluge covered the whole planet, indeed that is contrary to the recurring theme of God's wrath being incited by the rejection of His messenger (here Noah); each messenger who is an ultimatum prophet is sent to a specific people and if they refuse to heed, God reigns fury on them. Examples include Egypt after Moses, Median after Shu'eyb, Sodom and Gomorrah after Lot, Jerusalem after Jesus, Thamud after Salih, etc.
As for the story of Jesus, according to Islam Paul claimed to have visions and added a lot of things, such as abolition of the law, that Jesus did not teach.
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This an interesting article by a man who converted
>But when I entered the chapels and listened to the ministers, the regeneration I sought didn’t happen. Christian voices sounded all too agreeable and compromising. I wanted something stronger, something that didn’t bargain with secularism. I found it in Islam.
