So I’ve decided to do use the Koran as an object and the 18 perspectives of groups of people. I want to show how these 18 groups appropriated the verses from the Koran to justify their beliefs.
Major Arcana | My Perspective | Verse | |
The High Priestess | The Feminist | “[3:195] Their Lord responded to them: “I never fail to reward any worker among you for any work you do, be you male or female — you are equal to one another.” | |
The Magician/ The Sun | The Scholar | “[38:29] … (They) may ponder over its Verses, and that those of understanding would be reminded.” | |
The Emperor | The Ruler | “[5:8]… Be just: that is nearer to piety…” | |
The Heirophant | The Saint | “[87:9] Therefore give admonition in case the admonition profits (the hearer).” | |
The Wheel | The Misogynist |
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The Lovers | The Married Couple | “[25:74] And they say, “Our Lord, let our spouses and children be a source of joy for us, and keep us in the forefront of the righteous.”” | |
Strength | The Believer | “[3:104] Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong; they are the ones to attain felicity.” | |
The Hermit | The Islamophobe | “[2:191] And slay them wherever ye catch them..” |
Death | Death | “[23:99] (In Falsehood will they be) until, when death comes to one of them, he says: O my Lord Send me back (to life)” |
The Hanged Man/Temperance | The Patient | “[2:286] Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear” |
The Moon | The Homosexual | “[4:16] And the two who commit it among you, dishonor them both. But if they repent and correct themselves, leave them alone. Indeed, Allah is ever Accepting of repentance and Merciful.” |
The Devil | The Extremist | “[2:216] Jihad [‘Qital’] (holy war in the cause of God) is ordained for you (Muslims), though you dislike it. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and like a thing which is bad for you. But God knows, and you know not.” |
The Empress | The Scorned Woman | “[24:23] Indeed, those who falsely accuse chaste women, are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter. Theirs will be an awful doom.” |
The Fool | Me |
“[109:6] For you is your religion, and for me is my religion” |
The World | God | “[17:89] And We have explained to man in this Qur’an every kind of similitude: yet the grater part of men refuse (to receive it) except with ingratitude!” |
Here is a work in progress for one of them:
