RE:Michael Wolfe
by Bob on Apr 01, 2008 10:38 PM Permalink
Your new found belief suits you. Hang people in public, Stone throwing, cover a beautiful women's face under a veil and so on. That is you and you like it. So be it.
I don't like it. Leave us alone and we are VERY HAPPY the way the rest of the world is.
RE:Michael Wolfe
by hakeem on Apr 01, 2008 10:14 PM Permalink
My politicized friends were dismayed by my new interest. They all but universally confused Islam with the machinations of half a dozen middle eastern tyrants. The books they read, the new broadcasts they viewed depicted the faith as a set of political functions. Almost nothing was said of its spiritual practice. I liked to quote Mae West to them: Anytime you take religion for a joke, the laughs on you.
Historically a Muslim sees Islam as the final, matured expression of an original religion reaching back to Adam. It is as resolutely monotheistic as Judaism, whose major Prophets Islam reveres as links in a progressive chain, culminating in Jesus and Muhammad. Essentially a message of renewal, Islam has done its part on the world stage to return the forgotten taste of lifes lost sweetness to millions of people. Its book, the Quran, caused Goethe to remark, -You see, this teaching never fails; with all our systems, we cannot go, and generally speaking no man can go, further.
RE:RE:Michael Wolfe
by RAZAK MOHAMED on Apr 01, 2008 10:34 PM Permalink
Dear Friend Lotus,
You are absolutely wrong. Islam does emphasize violence or force unless you are attacked.
Killing a cow is a sin in Hinduism. But if a cow is attempting to kill you, then, for your own saftety it is allowed to kill even the cow which is symbollicaly sacred in Hindusim. The similar concept in Islam when it comes to violence. Don't involve in violence unless you are attached and harmed.
RE:RE:Michael Wolfe
by hakeem on Apr 01, 2008 10:15 PM Permalink
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
108.001 YUSUFALI: To thee have We granted the Fount (of Abundance). PICKTHAL: Lo! We have given thee Abundance; SHAKIR: Surely We have given you Kausar,
108.002 YUSUFALI: Therefore to thy Lord turn in Prayer and Sacrifice. PICKTHAL: So pray unto thy Lord, and sacrifice. SHAKIR: Therefore pray to your Lord and make a sacrifice.
108.003 YUSUFALI: For he who hateth thee, he will be cut off (from Future Hope). PICKTHAL: Lo! it is thy insulter (and not thou) who is without posterity. SHAKIR: Surely your enemy is the one who shall be without posterity,
