{"id":89940,"date":"2025-10-28T17:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=89940"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:10:29","slug":"randomly-changing-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/28\/randomly-changing-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Randomly Changing Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the first things which struck me about the Qur&#8217;an the first time I read it was how it can suddenly and jarringly jump to a completely different scene, and even change who is speaking. For example, the following verse is clearly Allah speaking&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>That is Paradise, which We will grant to whoever is devout among Our servants<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/quran.com\/19\/63\">Quran 19.63<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;and then suddenly and without warning we now shift to the angels speaking as a group&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We only descend by the command of your Lord. To Him belongs whatever is before us, and whatever is behind us, and everything in between. And your Lord is never forgetful&#8230;<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/quran.com\/19\/64\">Quran 19.64<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things which struck me about the Qur&#8217;an the first time I read it was how it can suddenly and jarringly jump to a completely different scene, and even change who is speaking. For example, the following verse is clearly Allah speaking&#8230; That is Paradise, which We will grant to whoever is devout among Our servants &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2969,29],"class_list":["post-89940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-featured","tag-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89942,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89940\/revisions\/89942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}