For believers, the Koran is a transcript of the word of God as told to the Prophet Mohammed.
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How to understand "as told" here?
What's the meaning of the whole sentence?
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Sign up to join this communityFor believers, the Koran is a transcript of the word of God as told to the Prophet Mohammed.
orginated from:the article
How to understand "as told" here?
What's the meaning of the whole sentence?
Let's break it up:
as in this sentence means 'the same way as'.
told is the past of to tell, which simply means that He spoke to the Prophet.
So, as told means 'the same way as he said it'.
So, the meaning of the whole sentence is as follows.
The word of God is a set phrase that means something like 'all rules and promises made by God', so basically what people believe God wants them to do, and what He will give them if they do so.
A transcript is writing something down literally, for example, you could make a transcript of a court hearing.
So, believers (people who believe in God, or in this specific case, Muslims) believe the following: God told the Prophet a lot of things about how He wanted people to behave. Someone then wrote down everything that was said, and that writing is the Koran.