tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16701032924609338682024-03-16T19:26:32.474-05:00Qur'aan todayBEWARE: The Qur'aan has been deliberately mistranslated by the Europeans. Info on left panelMike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-34633098425546626802020-04-08T02:06:00.001-05:002020-04-08T02:06:07.018-05:00MCE Course for Imams and Muslim Leaders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The following essay is addressed to fellow members of the family of faiths, particularly those who have formed negative impressions about Islam in their interactions with Muslim Imams, and the Imams and Muslim organizations.<br /><img alt="" class=" wp-image-9675 alignright" height="226" sizes="(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px" src="http://worldmuslimcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WMC-LOGO3-300x300.jpg" srcset="http://worldmuslimcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WMC-LOGO3-300x300.jpg 300w, http://worldmuslimcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WMC-LOGO3-150x150.jpg 150w, http://worldmuslimcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WMC-LOGO3-768x768.jpg 768w, http://worldmuslimcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WMC-LOGO3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http://worldmuslimcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WMC-LOGO3-624x624.jpg 624w, http://worldmuslimcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WMC-LOGO3-180x180.jpg 180w, http://worldmuslimcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WMC-LOGO3-60x60.jpg 60w" style="border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0.857143rem 0px 0.857143rem 1.71429rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="226" /></div>
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Dr. William Hayden had a bad experience in an encounter with an Imam (appended below). I am sure you had, but certainly, I have had that experience. First of all, we regret that one of my fellow Muslims has reinforced the narrative of killing the infidelsIslamic. Secondly, as Muslims, we need to take responsibility for the prevalence of such ignorance among our Imams and scholars and offer solutions.</div>
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Years ago, I was in a Mosque; a similar experience took place. The Imam was addressing the interfaith gathering, and a lady asked him about beating the wife. The Imam had a mean smile (to me) on his face and said, the commandment is to hit with Miswak (an earlier version of toothbrush, a tiny branch of a tree about 6″ long). I interrupted and told him that for a millennium, the scholars of that time had interpreted the word “Daraba” to mean “beat.” A woman scholar by the name Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar has researched it thoroughly and found out that Daraba meant separation, it is used as such 23 out of 27 times in the Quran. Now, the Imams who are current with the interpretations are clear about it.</div>
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Still today, many men believe they can beat their wives with “Miswak” after admonishing them, how disgusting it is, and goes against the spirit of Islam of treating women with dignity. Prophet Muhammad was one of the first men who restored the rights of women to be individuals, to own property, initiate marriage and divorce, and be accountable for their acts individually. Please note that even until 100 years ago, women were treated as chattels in America.</div>
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Islam is accused of violence, not because it is, but because Muslims allowed misinterpretations of the Quran and the fake Hadiths to continue. Most of them did not pay attention to the translations. As an example, the Word Jihad carries the same wisdom in the Quran, to reign in on ill-will, anger, hate, malice, and the aptitude of avenging. Shamefully, the traditional scholars had interpreted as warfare against infidels. Islam abhors wars, the only way it would allow is in self-defense.</div>
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The Seerah (Prophets Biography) by Ibn Hisham inspired Al-Baghdadi to abuse the Yazidi, Christian, and Shia women as goods of pleasure won in the battle. Why don’t we label these books as “Do not entirely reflect the character of the Prophet and Allah’s disposition?” Or even call them Bogus books.</div>
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There are many such misunderstandings. Muslims out of reverence for the scholars failed to do their due diligence and swallowed a whole lot of crap as legitimately Islam. Corrections are coming now. I would suggest you read three-books – The Quran translation by Dr. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/safikaskas2?hc_location=ufi" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Safi Kaskas</a>, Hadith by Dr. Abdur Rab and American Muslim Agenda by Dr. Mike Ghouse.</div>
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Quran is the only authentic book for Muslims, all other material is subject to checking it out, but not believing them as the truth.</div>
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Infidels are those who do not believe what the Muslims believe. To be an on equal footing, an Islamic value, those Muslims who don’t believe what you believe are infidels.</div>
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Quran expressly prohibits killing any human, unless it is in self-defense. The verse says, if you save a life, it is like saving the whole humanity, or if you kill one person, it is as if killing the entire understanding. The idea springs from Cain and Able, if both of them had killed each other, the whole humanity would have gone, and thus saving one, saved the entire humankind.</div>
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SOLUTION</div>
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Every field of knowledge has Mandatory Continuing Education (MCE); sadly, our Imams and preachers do not have that luxury afforded to them. It is time we start the MCE course at ICNA and ISNA conventions. Many of our Imams are not current with the “accepted” changes in the items mentioned above. We need to consider making MCE, a requirement to hire an Imam.</div>
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We need a new light on why we do what we do. I hope ISNA and ICNA leadership takes bold steps to present different points of view instead of chasing their tails. Islam is the umbrella of the Aalameen (Universe) and accepts full diversity within its shade. Indeed it agrees with all humanity, as we all originated from Adam & Eve. All are vying to do good and must be appreciated.</div>
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As an Atheist turned Muslim (since 1998), Islam is not a belief drilled into me, but the wisdom to create peaceful, cohesive societies where every human feels secure about his/her faith, race, ethnicity, and culture. If you want to learn about Islam, listen to criticism of Allah, Muhammad, Islam, and the Quran and find common sense answers right in the Quran. You will find wisdom in the Quran, instead of reacting as it may offend your belief. The more criticism you hear, the more knowledgeable you become with confidence. Indeed, Islam is common sense. Let me assert, If it is not common sense, then it is not Islam.</div>
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Let me also caution – finding the truth is your responsibility. If an Imam says this is the Quran, it isn’t. There are three (out of 55 now) translations out in the market that is ugly and spiteful. To ensure you are reading the right translation read at least four different translations and make sure you read three verses before and after the problematic verse.</div>
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Go to this site <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.IslamAwakened.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0FB9f8O8yWfmM3EBF4QwLVUozA0VlJf30ZzmWejUFmrSu82cXjGGpFV1I&h=AT2xAaMIJxScUoyzjSoe2I6HBazmx8qI1DlrFIMqidECYViH7tAVfvYSLQa7NQnjMtn-FGY8kirOn9pIsJARtFPEKaa1Tu2sVLFcAAMxTU-cuMWrPCt14iIDS7YkIt7BWWnzlg03E4GJs1P6bQ" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.IslamAwakened.com</a> scroll down at the home page, and for every verse, there are 50 different translations. The burden is on you to find the truth, and if you do, you will find peace of mind and clarity.</div>
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If all else fails, buy my book “American Muslim Agenda.” Check the website <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.AmericanMuslimAgenda.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3yCx1XZSHvkPpWGDKuzcgZATkn7X34FgmeSDyCl_pvigQNak5AQK0641A&h=AT1_WnoxBRUW3MrvpMs6KtHjZHKUrwlGbwsPxXsrtdxsAtBV2I9RxHoi2r51oIT4Yrca3kPj4oBmE71-1Wsl2voi4AES9HxKlxB7O4UHz1d8yvHll6Kj8d9WrL39ecX24MDUXVY0su0ewVadqg" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.AmericanMuslimAgenda.com</a> for reviews by Rabbi, Pastor and Muslim scholars, contents, and critical responses.</div>
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A NOTE FROM DR. HAYDEN</div>
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WHAT IS AN INFIDEL?<br />By Dr. Hayden<br /><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />The author, Rick Mathes, is a well-known leader in prison ministry. The man who walks with God always gets to his destination. If you have a pulse you have a purpose.</span></div>
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The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States , especially in the minority races and especially with prison inmates.</div>
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Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for maintaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who each explained their beliefs.<br />I was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say. The Muslim gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video.</div>
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After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers. When it was my turn, I directed my question to the Muslim and asked:</div>
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‘Please, correct me if I’m wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. If that’s the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?’</div>
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There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he replied, ” Nonbelievers”<br />I responded, ‘So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven. Is that correct?’<br />The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.’</div>
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He sheepishly replied, ‘Yes.’<br />I then stated, ‘Well, sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine The Pope commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith or Dr. Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!’</div>
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The Muslim was speechless.</div>
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I continued, ‘I also have a problem with being your friend when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a question:</div>
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Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?’</div>
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You could have heard a pin drop.</div>
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Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the ‘Diversification’ training seminar were not happy with my way of dealing with the Islamic Imam, and exposing the truth about the Muslims’ beliefs.</div>
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In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the US. to elect the President.<br />I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on! This is your chance to make a difference.</div>
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Dr. Mike Ghouse is a speaker, thinker, author, business consultant, community organizer, news-maker, and an interfaith wedding officiant. He is deeply committed to Religious Freedom, Human Rights, and Pluralism in Religion, Politics, Societies, and the workplace. He is dedicated his time to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day to the media and civic, religious, and political leaders.</div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-40271408428686126312020-04-08T02:03:00.000-05:002020-04-08T02:03:36.695-05:00Unbelievers need not be Idol Worshippers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“Unbelievers” in general meant those who did not believe what you believed and opposed and persecuted you for what you believed. Why do we need to interpret them as Idol worshippers? Those who opposed and persecuted the Prophet’s tribe could be anyone. From the book “American Muslim Agenda” available at Amazon, Kindle, Barnes & Noble, etc.</div>
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A similar mistake was made in the interpretation of another verse. Which the Muslim scholars of the past falsely wrote, “Jews who did not observe Sabbath would be turned into Apes.” The Quran did not say that. What the Quran said was, “those who did not observe Sabbath would act like apes, meaning if you don’t take a day off, week after week, you could behave unreasonably.</div>
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The common God of the universe would not discriminate one of his creations from the other; neither is HE a villain of his creation.</div>
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That is the reason to take a day off on Sabbath to take rest and rejuvenate.</div>
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FORMULA ABOUT JUSTICE VERSE</div>
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All the justice verses in the Quran have a formula based on the following seven or, at a time, three or five steps:</div>
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1. If the bad guys pull over their truck in front of your house, you tell them to back off.<br />2. If the bad guys keep coming at you, you ask them to back off.<br />3. If the bad guys jump on you and want to throw you out of your own space, you act and chase them.<br />4. If the bad guys run and hide behind the bushes, you find them wherever they are. The verse is, “Kill the infidels wherever you find them.”<br />5. Now you can shoot the bad guys in self-defense to end the misery.<br />The above is a normal process with anyone in most of the states in the United States. The Quran is no different but goes two steps further.<br />6. When you about smite them on their necks, and they beg for mercy and seek forgiveness, the Quran advises you to take a step back.<br />7. The Quran instructs you to stop the aggressive reaction and forgive the criminal. The best one among you is the one who forgives. It prevents the revenge mechanism and frees you to live in peace.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Misrepresented Verse</strong></div>
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The following statement was made by Robert Spencer’s favorite: “When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them and lie in ambush everywhere for them” (Quran 9:5).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Actual Verse</strong></div>
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The explanations to the numbers in parenthesis follow:</div>
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And so, when the sacred months are over [6], slay those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God wherever you may come upon them, [7] and take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place [8]! Yet if they repent, and seek to prayer, and render the purifying dues, let them go their way: for, behold, God is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace [9]. (Quran 9:5)</div>
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IN RESPONSE TO THE FOLLOWING POSTING</div>
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Does the Quran call for killing Christians?</div>
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Many Islamophobes use this verse to claim it does: “kill them wherever you find them.” (Qur’an 2:191).</div>
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Is this passage in the Quran urge Muslims to kill Christians? No, it doesn’t. Why? Because it is taken out of context and misinterpreted.</div>
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The verse is talking about a specific situation between the Muslims who had to run for their lives from Makah to Medina and their previous oppressors and enemies, the idol worshippers of Quraish: “Fight in God’s path against those who fight you, but do not be aggressors, for God does not love aggressors. (02:190) [If they start a fight] kill them wherever you find them, and expel them from wherever they expelled you. Oppression is worse than murder. Do not fight them at the Holy Sanctuary unless they fight you in it. If they fight you, kill them. That is the reward of the unbelievers. (02:191) If they stop, God is forgiving and Merciful-to-all.”</div>
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First, the “unbelievers” in this context who were fighting the Muslims are the idol worshipers of Quraish. They are not Christians.</div>
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Second, it does not refer to Christians and Jews whom the Quran view as believers.<br />Third, it says, “if they fight you, then kill them.”</div>
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Fourth, it says Do not be aggressors, If the idol worshipers start a fight, kill them, and finally, If they stop, God is forgiving and Merciful-to-all. Accept their repentance and stop being aggressive.</div>
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Ibn Al-Qayyim (1292-1350 ) wrote, “The Prophet never forced the religion upon anyone, but rather he only fought those who waged war against him and fought him first. As for those who made peace with him or conducted a truce, then he never fought them, and he never compelled them to enter his religion, as his Lord the Almighty had commanded him: There is no compulsion in religion, for right guidance is distinct from error (2:256). The negation in verse carries the meaning of the prohibition. Namely, you may not force your religion upon anyone.”<br />Source: Hidayat Al-Hayara 237</div>
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<span style="line-height: 28px;">The book is about building a cohesive America where each one of us feels secure about our faith, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual and political orientation. Who does not want to live a tension free life at home, workplace, and in the public space? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The "American Muslim Agenda” serves a two-fold purpose. On the one hand, it separates the chaff from the grain for fellow Americans to see Muslims for who they are and not how the media projects them. On the other hand, it challenges Muslims to restore Islam to its original purpose; that is to create cohesive societies, in our case, a coherent America, where each one of the 323 Million Americans feels proud of his or her uniqueness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The book presents many success stories to keep the reader bemused. I am pleased to submit three versions of the blurbs on the book talk. The format can be 10 minutes or 20 minutes presentation with room for Q&A. We want our esteemed guests to go home fully satisfied with all the questions they have had about Islam and Muslims. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our conservative friends would grudgingly acknowledge the pathway laid out in the book, while the moderates will dance with joy. If your vision of America is in tune with the book, together as Americans, we can contribute towards the greatness of our nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Unfortunately, some of the Muslim scholars from the past have reduced Islam to a religion of rituals and obedience. This book brings clarity to Muslims and fellow humans and separates the chaff from the wheat for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The overall theme of the book is to open people's hearts and minds towards each other. I believe that the ultimate ‘unexpressed’ purpose of humans is to live freely and be comfortable with one's culture, race, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, and individuality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">It will appeal to Muslims and Non-Muslims alike, as they have never seen the pristine, pluralistic Islam. Moreover, for the first time in Islamic history, the essence of Islam is explained. Also, for the first time, the book explains twelve values directly from the Quran that contributes towards building cohesive societies with no privileges to one over the other. It is human nature to get along with fellow beings, and this book will resonate with them and pave the path for them to see the light at the end of the tunnel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. The American Muslim Agenda challenges Muslims to think and restore Islam to its original purpose – i.e., to create a cohesive America, where each one of the 323 Million Americans feels secure with his or her faith, race, ethnicity culture, sexual and political orientation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">2. The American Muslim Agenda paves the way for Muslims to own their mistakes, and remedy them. It corrects how fellow Americans perceive Muslims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">3. Islam is not about imposing (Sharia) your ideas or governing others. Islam is about living your life and letting others live theirs with freedom. That is the original Islam. Islam is about freedom and firmly stands for free will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">5. Never before in Islamic history, twelve values of Islam that contribute to creating secure, orderly and cohesive societies have been articulated. Verses from the Quran fully back each value. Thus, the book becomes a reference manual to teach and learn about Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">We have to assure each other and every American without exception that we are committed to each other's security, prosperity, and peace. Our goal is to reach out to every American who has not been reached before, particularly those who do not understand us. As American Muslims, we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in our constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">The book “American Muslim Agenda” will become a reference manual to knowledge seekers and teachers of Islam, and those who want to see one nation, one people and one America. For Muslims, it is backed up with verses from the Quran. You can order this book from Amazon, Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Google, and other book stores. See the talking points at http://www.AmericanMuslimAgenda.com and Mike’s profile appended at https://www.linkedin.com/inmikeghouse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">The book paves the way for Muslims to own their mistakes, remedy them, and correct how fellow Americans perceive Muslims. Mike argues that Islam is not about imposing your ideas or governing others. Instead, Islam is about living your life and letting others live theirs with freedom. It is a bold challenge to Muslims. He shows a narration from humanity's (Aalameen) perspective of the essence and purpose of Islam for the first time in history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">Mike articulates, for the first time in Islamic history, twelve values of Islam that contribute to creating secure, orderly and cohesive societies. He concludes that the best way to combat Islamophobia (and other phobias) is through education, engagement, and dialogue. Mike lays out a clear agenda to foster harmony among fellow Americans. It is akin to planting a seed and nurturing to give the beneficence to the next generation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">As a community, American Muslims have not developed any concrete plans to extricate themselves out of the chaotic situations, hostility and incessant Islamophobic rhetoric we face. Each time a terrorist acts out, we start praying and wishing that the terrorist not be a Muslim. We are Americans, and we can do better than that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">When we start defending America and the American values we are in! We become an integral part of American Fabric. That is the clear objective articulated in this book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">The American Muslim Agenda will be in the hands of lawmakers, presidential candidates, media persons, lobbyists, think tanks, educators, interfaith activists, CEO, and fellow Americans. The book is about building a cohesive America where each one of us can live securely with our faith, race, ethnicity, and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 28px;">As American Muslims, we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in our constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-20670453046062325632019-02-13T20:09:00.001-06:002019-02-13T20:09:43.658-06:00American Muslim Agenda - What is it?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">Would the book American Muslim Agenda bring attitudinal change among Muslims? Yes, it will, it’s akin to planting seeds and nurturing it to give the beneficence to the next generation. I know most American Muslims will wholeheartedly subscribe to the refreshed understanding of Islam, we need to expand it to more Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">Some of the reservations we have about Muslims and Islam are based on what we have heard from our parents, teachers, clergy, favorite media people and others. We need to find the truth on our own and find freedom from misunderstandings. It is a blessing to be free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">Muslims have shied away from confronting difficult issues about their faith, and most of them don't even have a clue about the essence of Islam, it was never articulated before in the history of Islam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">A few medieval scholars have reduced Islam to rituals, five pillars, dhimmi, jizya, sharia, externalities, and enforcement of your rules on to others. That is not Islam, and most Muslims can recite verses that Islam is about free will. God uploaded free will into Adam’s DNA, and emphasized it in the Quran, the prophet practiced ‘freewill’ and established examples for it. Sadly, Muslims know the truth but were bullied into silence with fatwa bombs. All I have done is articulated what Muslims believe, but dared not say it. The book is the voice of the majority of ‘American’ Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">This book is a product of twenty years of research and thousands of discussions in which Muslims, non-Muslims, and “Islamophobes” have participated in it, including debates on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Stuart Varney, Pamela Geller, Brigitte Gabrielle, Robert Spencer, Jamie Glazov, Raymond Ibrahim, Walid Shoebat, Wafa Sultan, and several others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">Islam is about living your life and letting others live theirs. Islam is about building cohesive societies where all of God's creation lives with dignity and freedom. In God’s universe, we are merely a speck, and no one is more privileged than the other. If you are a moderate individual of any faith, you will find the book in tune with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">It is time to go beyond the five pillars of Islam, and I hope the Imams and Muslim scholars who are free thinkers would appreciate the contents of the book. This book may indeed become a reference manual for teaching Islamic values that contribute to creating a better world for all humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">The American Muslim Agenda offers guidance to Muslims to be one with all, and it voices what Muslims believe and live with and empowers them to live their lives and let others live with free will. The book opens the door to people of other faiths to shed their biases and join hands in creating a world of safety, security, and harmony for all humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">Islam is a public religion, and Muslims don't own it exclusively. You are invited to participate in discussions, including your faith. The book is expected to initiate conversations about the nature of Islam and fellow humans. I welcome your criticism (after reading the book).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-87409278362582890112018-06-13T15:31:00.001-05:002018-06-13T15:31:11.968-05:00Ramadan Reflections <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few questions are answered here; why do we celebrate on different days? What is it with the Moon? How do you greet Muslims on this day? What kind of culinary delights are out there? How do Muslims celebrate in different parts of the world? Ramadan TV Commercials? A bit of politics too.</div>
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I urge Muslims around the world to take a minute to stop and appreciate the men and women who serve our nation, police, firefighters and others who are out there for the safety of individuals and families. I have done this time and again, and I always remember the Louisville experience, where the police officer asked me to forward the email to him, asking Muslims to appreciate them, and after the Eid prayers, he had forwarded it to many police officers. I urge Muslim organizations to issue a press release to this effect, and this is our appeal from the World Muslim Congress, a think tank committed to building a cohesive America.</div>
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Pluralism is alive and kicking in Islam – i.e., respecting the otherness of others! Indeed, there are many schools of thought, and the good clergymen always point out the different traditions, Dr. Imam Kavakci, one of the leading Muslim Scholars, always advised on that basis. It is up to the individual to follow what he or she is conditioned or comfortable with. The non-pluralistic Muslims resort to name calling the others who take a different path. But all of them celebrate the festival.</div>
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A month-long fasting should clean up our bodies, hearts, and souls, it means you are no biased towards anyone, you have no wall between you and another human and that you are committed to peace and harmony. What others do to you does not matter, but how you behave towards others is all that matters in making America great again. By the way, I am an independent, and not a Republican or a Democrat and I am a Pluralist Muslim, like a majority of Muslims – i.e., respecting the otherness of others, and accepting the God-given uniqueness of each one of his beautiful creation.</div>
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When is the Eid? Ramadan Celebrations? Is it Friday, Saturday or even Sunday? For some, it will depend on when the moon (first day) is sighted.</div>
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Pluralism is alive and kicking in Islam – i.e, respecting the otherness of others! Indeed, there are many schools of thought, and the good clergymen always point out the different traditions, Dr. Imam Kavakci always advised on that basis. It is up to the individual to follow what he or she is conditioned or comfortable with. The non-pluralistic Muslims resort to name calling the others who take a different path. But all of them celebrate the festival.</div>
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Politics plays a crucial role in our Temples, Synagogues or Churches, Mosques are no different. A few scientifically-inclined-Muslims have adopted NASA’s calculations believed to be precise. However, four different traditions are operating concurrently; i) Strictly Calendar, ii) NASA iii) Sighting with bare eyes and iv) sighting by others in the community.</div>
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The NASA-oriented and the Calendar-group miss out the fun, joy, and exhilaration of waiting and watching the needle thin moon on the horizon. The whole family gets out on the rooftops, or higher grounds, some even climb electric poles, and a few will drive out where they can see the sky without obstacles, kids would climb on parent’s shoulders, and a few go from place to place shouting in excitement, did you see it? It is like the belief in Santa Claus, Angels, and other myths, each tradition fulfills one’s emotional needs and every one becomes sentimental. After all, if celebration does not have the excitement, it is not a celebration.</div>
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America’s spirit of freedom touches every soul, no matter what religion or tradition they follow. American Muslims are no different, they prefer to have a pre-set date to start fasting and the celebration called “Eid” pronounced as Eeed as in Eeel. The idea is for them to take a day off from work or get an optional day off for their children from the schools. Always, the joy multiplies when the family and friends celebrate it together. They prefer to start on a pre-set date and trust the calculations.</div>
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The conflicts are the same everywhere on the earth. Each group subscribes to one of the four systems mentioned above. America is no different; you will find celebrations on one or three different days in any given city, the Sunnis, being the largest group has the greater division within, while the Sufis, Shias, Ismailis, WD Mohammad, Bohra and Ahmadiyya follow the pre-determined dates.</div>
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The consensus may be attributable to having central spiritual leadership in all groups except the Sunni. However like the American Public wishes to see the Republicans and Democrats drop the party lines and focus on what is good for America, the Muslims also wish they could celebrate the Eid on one single day. It ain’t going to happen, it is human to differ. It is against the spirit of Ramadan to denigrate, diminish and devalue other practices.</div>
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The essence of Ramadan is to become humble, simple and free from ill-will, anger, meanness, and hate. Let’s fill our hearts with goodwill and honor Ramadan by saying “Eid Mubarak” or Happy Eid to everyone who celebrates on a different day in the same town. The essence of Ramadan is joy and let’s not prick the bubble; God has not signed a pact with anyone behind other’s back to favor one and disfavor the other. Let’s allow God to be an honest God who is just, kind, merciful and loving as Quran says. Let’s rejoice the differences of interpretations. If you want to celebrate every day, go to every celebration.</div>
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In the spirit of Ramadan, I pray that Ramadan gets into our hearts and minds and make us embrace all factions of Muslims without undermining their tradition and further pray that we treat every human on the earth with dignity, respect, and care.</div>
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The Shia-Sunni conflict we see in Iraq is new to both groups of Muslims, conflicts have always been there but the violence in conflict took birth after we (The Americans) invaded Iraq and sowed the seeds of division. Shamefully, the Shia and Sunni played it out. Our short-sighted foreign policy is pitting Saudi Arabia against Iran. Iran is not a threat to anyone, it is the false propaganda by Netanyahu, and salesmanship of defense contractors to sell Arms to Saudi, and the stupid Saudi monarchs have bought the idea, I wish we can sell peace and democratic education that will benefit us all in the long haul. I wish, the leadership of these two nations make a bold move and meet in Singapore and hash out the differences. I also wish in the spirit of Ramadan, the Pakistani people will wake up and correct the ugliness in their constitution that shamelessly discriminate Ahmadiyya Muslims. Above all, I wish Muslims chose to follow the foundation of Islam; Amin, that is caring for every human being and seeking peace and harmony by respecting the otherness of others.</div>
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That is indeed the wisdom expressed in Qur’an, Al-Hujurat, Surah 49:13: “O mankind! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. The noblest of you, in sight of God, is the best in conduct. God Knows and is Aware of everything you do.”</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MUSLIMS MUST DO THIS</span></h1>
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I urge Muslims around the world to take a minute to stop and appreciate the men and women who serve our nation, police, firefighters and others who are out there for the safety of individuals and families. I have done this time and again, and I always remember the Louisville experience, where the police officer asked me to forward the email to him, asking Muslims to appreciate them, and after the Eid prayers, he had forwarded it to many police officers.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHAT ELSE? </span></h1>
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Everything you always wanted to know about Ramadan is here at <a href="http://www.ramadannews.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.RamadanNews.com</a></div>
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Ramadan around the world at <a href="http://ramadannews.com/videos-ramdan-around-the-wordl/" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ramadannews.com/videos-ramdan-around-the-wordl/</a></div>
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Ramadan Commercials by McDonald at <a href="http://ramadannews.com/ramadan-commercials/" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ramadannews.com/ramadan-commercials/</a></div>
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Ramadan Culinary at <a href="http://ramadannews.com/ramadan-traditions/" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ramadannews.com/ramadan-traditions/</a></div>
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The essence of Ramadan at <a href="http://ramadannews.com/essence-of-ramadan-may-be-traceable-in-your-faith/" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ramadannews.com/essence-of-ramadan-may-be-traceable-in-your-faith/</a></div>
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What does God want? http://ramadannews.com/happy-ramadan-what-does-god-really-want/</div>
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You can also read “The Rituals of Ramadan” followed by the “Spirit of Ramadan”.<br />Usually, Arabic Speaking people call it Ramadan, all others call is Ramzan, both are acceptable terms.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There should be at least 100 ways of wishing the festivities:</strong><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Ramadan Mubarak!<br />Salamat Hari Raya<br />Eid Mubarak<br />İyi Ramazanlar<br />Ramadan Kareem<br />Hayırlı Ramazanlar<br />Hoşgeldin Ramazan,<br />Happy Eid-ul-fitr</em></div>
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If you know the greetings in any other langauge, please send an email to MuslimVision2020@gmail.com to be included for the next Eid.</div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-42971845904887246052018-05-12T10:30:00.000-05:002018-05-12T10:30:51.253-05:00Quranic guidance on Muslim Behavior <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am glad to see the new writings about Islam, Quran and the Prophet, all fully employ common sense embedded in Quran. Thanks to Afreen Rizvi for compiling these verses</div>
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Mike Ghouse<br /><a href="http://www.muslimspeaker.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Muslim Speaker</a></div>
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59 examples of how the Quran tells Muslims to behave<br />By Afreen Rizvi Courtesy – <a href="https://themuslimvibe.com/featured/59-examples-of-islamic-etiquette-in-the-holy-quran" style="border: 0px; color: #00bcd5; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Muslim Vibe</a></div>
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The Qur’an was revealed by Allah in order for mankind to be guided. Below are 59 instructions that have been directly ordained upon us through the Holy Quran:</div>
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1. Do not be rude in speech</h3>
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“So by mercy from Allah, [O Muhammad], you were lenient with them. And if you had been rude [in speech] and harsh in heart, they would have disbanded from about you. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them and consult them in the matter. And when you have decided, then rely upon Allah . Indeed, Allah loves those who rely [upon Him].” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 3:159</cite></div>
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2. Restrain Anger</h3>
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“Who spend [in the cause of Allah] during ease and hardship and who restrain anger and who pardon the people – and Allah loves the doers of good.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 3:134</cite></div>
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3. Be good to others</h3>
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“Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom your right hands possess. Indeed, Allah does not like those who are self-deluding and boastful.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 4:36</cite></div>
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4. Do not be arrogant</h3>
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“[Allah] said, “Descend from Paradise, for it is not for you to be arrogant therein. So get out; indeed, you are of the debased.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 7:13</cite></div>
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5. Forgive others for their mistakes</h3>
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“Show forgiveness, enjoin what is good, and turn away from the ignorant.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 7:199</cite></div>
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6. Speak to people mildly</h3>
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“And speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded or fear [Allah].” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 20:44</cite></div>
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7. Do not ridicule one another</h3>
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“O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames. Wretched is the name of disobedience after [one’s] faith. And whoever does not repent – then it is those who are the wrongdoers.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 49:11</cite></div>
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8. Do not say a word of disrespect to your parents</h3>
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“Say not to them [so much as], “uff,” and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 17:23</cite></div>
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9. Do not follow anyone blindly</h3>
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“And when it is said to them, ‘Follow what Allah has revealed,’ they say, ‘Rather, we will follow that which we found our fathers doing.’ Even though their fathers understood nothing, nor were they guided?” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:170</cite></div>
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10. Grant more time to repay if the debtor is in hard times</h3>
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“And if someone is in hardship, then [let there be] postponement until [a time of] ease. But if you give [from your right as] charity, then it is better for you, if you only knew.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:280</cite></div>
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11. Do not engage in bribery</h3>
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“And do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly or send it [in bribery] to the rulers in order that [they might aid] you [to] consume a portion of the wealth of the people in sin, while you know [it is unlawful].” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:188</cite></div>
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12. Do not break promises</h3>
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“Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah , the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:177</cite></div>
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13. Stand out firmly for justice</h3>
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“O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah , even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor, Allah is more worthy of both. So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just. And if you distort [your testimony] or refuse [to give it], then indeed Allah is ever, with what you do, Acquainted.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 4:135</cite></div>
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14. Women also have the right for inheritance</h3>
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“And for women is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave, be it little or much – an obligatory share.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 4:7</cite></div>
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15. Protect orphans</h3>
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“To this world and the Hereafter. And they ask you about orphans. Say, “Improvement for them is best. And if you mix your affairs with theirs – they are your brothers. And Allah knows the corrupter from the amender. And if Allah had willed, He could have put you in difficulty. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:220</cite></div>
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16. Do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly</h3>
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O you who have believed, do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly but only [in lawful] business by mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves [or one another]. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful. – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 4:29</cite></div>
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17. Try for settlement between people</h3>
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“And if two factions among the believers should fight, then make settlement between the two. But if one of them oppresses the other, then fight against the one that oppresses until it returns to the ordinance of Allah . And if it returns, then make settlement between them in justice and act justly. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 49:9</cite></div>
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18. Avoid assumption</h3>
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“O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 49:12</cite></div>
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19. Do not spy and backbite</h3>
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And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah ; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful- <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 49:12</cite></div>
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20. Spend wealth in charity</h3>
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“Believe in Allah and His Messenger and spend out of that in which He has made you successors. For those who have believed among you and spent, there will be a great reward.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 57:7</cite></div>
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21. Help those in need by finding them</h3>
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“[Charity is] for the poor who have been restricted for the cause of Allah , unable to move about in the land. An ignorant [person] would think them self-sufficient because of their restraint, but you will know them by their [characteristic] sign. They do not ask people persistently [or at all]. And whatever you spend of good – indeed, Allah is Knowing of it.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:273</cite></div>
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22. Speak to the needy kindly</h3>
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“And if you [must] turn away from the needy awaiting mercy from your Lord which you expect, then speak to them a gentle word.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 17:28</cite></div>
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23. Honour your guests</h3>
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“Then he turned quickly to his household, brought out a roasted fattened calf, and placed it before them. He said: ‘Will you not eat?’”- <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 51:26</cite></div>
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24. Be dutiful towards your parents</h3>
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“And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach old age [while] with you.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 17:23</cite></div>
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25. Practice what you preach</h3>
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“Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:44</cite></div>
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26. Stay away from corruption</h3>
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“Eat and drink from the provision of Allah , and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption.”- <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:60</cite></div>
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27. Fight only with those who fight you</h3>
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“Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:190</cite></div>
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28. Keep striving</h3>
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“And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strives” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 53:39</cite></div>
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29. There is no compulsion in religion</h3>
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“There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:256</cite></div>
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30. Choose rulers by their merit</h3>
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“And their prophet said to them, “Indeed, Allah has sent to you Saul as a king.” They said, “How can he have kingship over us while we are more worthy of kingship than him and he has not been given any measure of wealth?” He said, “Indeed, Allah has chosen him over you and has increased him abundantly in knowledge and stature. And Allah gives His sovereignty to whom He wills. And Allah is all-Encompassing [in favor] and Knowing.”” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:247</cite></div>
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31. Do not burden a person beyond his scope</h3>
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“Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity. It will have [the consequence of] what [good] it has gained, and it will bear [the consequence of] what [evil] it has earned. “Our Lord, do not impose blame upon us if we have forgotten or erred. Our Lord, and lay not upon us a burden like that which You laid upon those before us. Our Lord, and burden us not with that which we have no ability to bear. And pardon us; and forgive us; and have mercy upon us. You are our protector, so give us victory over the disbelieving people.”” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 2:286</cite></div>
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32. Do not become divided</h3>
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“And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided. And remember the favor of Allah upon you – when you were enemies and He brought your hearts together and you became, by His favor, brothers. And you were on the edge of a pit of the Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be guided.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 3:103</cite></div>
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33. Men and Women have equal rewards for their deeds</h3>
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And their Lord responded to them, “Never will I allow to be lost the work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one another. So those who emigrated or were evicted from their homes or were harmed in My cause or fought or were killed – I will surely remove from them their misdeeds, and I will surely admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow as reward from Allah , and Allah has with Him the best reward.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 3:195</cite></div>
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34. Do not be miserly</h3>
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“Who are stingy and enjoin upon [other] people stinginess and conceal what Allah has given them of His bounty – and We have prepared for the disbelievers a humiliating punishment.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 4:37</cite></div>
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35. Do not be envious</h3>
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“Or do they envy people for what Allah has given them of His bounty? But we had already given the family of Abraham the Scripture and wisdom and conferred upon them a great kingdom.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 4:54</cite></div>
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36. Do not be an advocate for deceit</h3>
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“Indeed, We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], the Book in truth so you may judge between the people by that which Allah has shown you. And do not be for the deceitful an advocate.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 4:105</cite></div>
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37. Stay away from sin and aggression</h3>
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“… but do not cooperate in sin and aggression. And fear Allah ; indeed, Allah is severe in penalty.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 5:2</cite></div>
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38. Be just</h3>
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“O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm for Allah , witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just; that is nearer to righteousness. And fear Allah ; indeed, Allah is Acquainted with what you do.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 5:8</cite></div>
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39. Avoid intoxicants and alcohol</h3>
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“O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah ], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 5:90</cite></div>
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40. Do not gamble</h3>
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“Satan only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling and to avert you from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. So will you not desist?” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 5:91</cite></div>
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41. Do not insult others’ deities</h3>
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“And do not insult those they invoke other than Allah, lest they insult Allah in enmity without knowledge. Thus We have made pleasing to every community their deeds. Then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them about what they used to do.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 6:108</cite></div>
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42. Eat and Drink, But Be Not Excessive</h3>
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“O children of Adam, take your adornment at every masjid, and eat and drink, but be not excessive. Indeed, He likes not those who commit excess.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 7:31</cite></div>
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43. Protect and help those who seek protection</h3>
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“And if any one of the polytheists seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that he may hear the words of Allah . Then deliver him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 9:6</cite></div>
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44. Allah will forgive those who have done wrong out of ignorance</h3>
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“Then, indeed your Lord, to those who have done wrong out of ignorance and then repent after that and correct themselves – indeed, your Lord, thereafter, is Forgiving and Merciful.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 16:119</cite></div>
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45. Invitation to God should be with wisdom and good instruction</h3>
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“Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He is most knowing of who is [rightly] guided.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 16:125</cite></div>
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46. Do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge</h3>
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“And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge. Indeed, the hearing, the sight and the heart – about all those [one] will be questioned.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 17.36</cite></div>
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47. Keep aloof from what is vain</h3>
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“And they who turn away from ill speech” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 23:3</cite></div>
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48. Do not enter others’ houses without seeking permission</h3>
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“O you who have believed, do not enter houses other than your own houses until you ascertain welcome and greet their inhabitants. That is best for you; perhaps you will be reminded.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 24:27</cite></div>
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49. Walk on earth with humility</h3>
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“And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth easily, and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 25:63</cite></div>
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50. Judge with justice between people</h3>
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“Indeed, Allah commands you to render trusts to whom they are due and when you judge between people to judge with justice. Excellent is that which Allah instructs you. Indeed, Allah is ever Hearing and Seeing.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 4:58</cite></div>
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51. Do not neglect your portion of this world</h3>
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“But seek, through that which Allah has given you, the home of the Hereafter; and [yet], do not forget your share of the world. And do good as Allah has done good to you. And desire not corruption in the land. Indeed, Allah does not like corrupters.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 28:77</cite></div>
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52. Enjoin right, forbid wrong</h3>
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“O my son, establish prayer, enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong, and be patient over what befalls you. Indeed, [all] that is of the matters [requiring] determination.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 31:17</cite></div>
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53. Do not walk in insolence through the earth</h3>
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“And do not turn your cheek [in contempt] toward people and do not walk through the earth exultantly. Indeed, Allah does not like everyone self-deluded and boastful.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 31:18</cite></div>
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54. Women should not display their finery</h3>
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“And abide in your houses and do not display yourselves as [was] the display of the former times of ignorance. And establish prayer and give zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah intends only to remove from you the impurity [of sin], O people of the [Prophet’s] household, and to purify you with [extensive] purification.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 33:33</cite></div>
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55. Do not despair of the mercy of Allah</h3>
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“Say, “O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 39:53</cite></div>
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56. Decide on affairs by consultation</h3>
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“And those who have responded to their lord and established prayer and whose affair is [determined by] consultation among themselves, and from what We have provided them, they spend.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 42:38</cite></div>
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57. The most noble of you is the most righteous</h3>
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“O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 49:13</cite></div>
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58. Act justly to people of all faiths</h3>
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“Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes – from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 60:8</cite></div>
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59. Seek forgiveness of Allah. He is Forgiving and Merciful</h3>
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“And whatever good you put forward for yourselves – you will find it with Allah . It is better and greater in reward. And seek forgiveness of Allah . Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.” – <cite style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Holy Quran 73:20</cite></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first Quran was translated in the year 1142,
and it was commissioned by the European Kings to Paint Islam as a bad religion,
and they frightened their subjects that Muhammad was going to slaughter the
people of Europe if they don't stand up against the advancing Arab armies. The work was carried out by the French Abbey
for a fee. They coined word the word
"Mohammedan" religion for Islam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a big story I would like to tell, as it is
easier than writing it out. Please read the full story with many videos and
write-ups at <a href="http://www.quraanconference.com/">www.QuraanConference.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Quran is a book of guidance in building cohesive
societies where no human has to live in fear or apprehension of the other; it
is as simple as that. I usually refer to
at least 5 different translations to get the essence of a single verse, and of
course, our formula to understand the Quran is to read three verses before and
three verses after a given verse to understand the context and meaning behind
the verse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, every faith including yours has a % of
people who do things that go against the very teaching of the faith they claim
to espouse. That is an insignificant number and less than 1/10th of 1% of any
group. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the years, I have collected about 20
different translations for reference. A
few are in this picture. I have also
visited the Library of Congress and checked Jefferson's copy of Quran
translation by George Sale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>You may like this article in Dallas Morning
News</b>; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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September 2010 02:28 AM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Over and over you hear it said: If Muslims
oppose terrorism, why don't they stand up and say it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If that has been you, Mike Ghouse ought to be
your hero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is hard to imagine that anyone has worked
harder than the Carrollton resident to demonstrate the peaceful and moderate
side of Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And that effort includes personally visiting
Dallas' First Baptist Church last Sunday just to put a friendly face on the
"evil, evil religion" that the Rev. Robert Jeffress denounced a few
weeks before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"It was wonderful," Ghouse said of the
visit. "We were so warmly received."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He hopes a quick chat with Jeffress will be the
start of a deeper discussion about Islam and the importance of respect between
religions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"I want to have a dialogue with him, not to
say he is wrong but to share another point of view," Ghouse said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The 57-year-old Muslim was born in India and has
lived in the United States for 30 years. He owns a small property management
firm. But most of his day is devoted to building bridges between people of
different faiths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"It is my passion," he said in his
distinctive raspy voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He has been a guest a dozen times on Sean
Hannity's TV and radio talk shows. "I don't like the way Sean cuts me off,
but I have to honor him for giving the American public a semblance of another
point of view."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ghouse said he can understand fear and criticism
of Islam because he went through a time of similar feelings. As a teen, he was
troubled by passages of the Quran. He called himself an atheist for a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But he said deeper study led him to realize the
Quran had been purposely mistranslated down through history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Middle Ages, European leaders
commissioned a hostile Quran translation to foster warfare against Muslim
invaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Later, Muslim leaders produced another
translation to inflame Muslims against Christians and Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"It was all for politics," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ghouse said he hopes to present Jeffress with a
modern, faithful translation and challenge him to find evil verses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"If he can, I will convert. I will join his
church," Ghouse said. "If he can't, I will call on him to retract his
statements and become a peacemaker."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ghouse acknowledges that deep problems persist
within Islam. "Three steps forward, two steps back," he said with a
sigh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And he agrees that mainstream Muslims have not
done enough to counter violent images of their faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"That is very true," he said.
"But part of it is that many Muslims have given up hope that we will ever
be heard."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He said repeated denunciations of terrorism seem
to fall on deaf ears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And some efforts have backfired – like the
proposed Islamic information center in New York. He said it should be hailed
for furthering the moderate Muslim cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have been astounded by the amount of
anti-Islam propaganda that circulates via e-mail. Tons of it has come my way in
the last few weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">One theme is that people like Mike Ghouse can't
be trusted, that Islam encourages deception.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But Ghouse says actions speak louder than words.
And he points to elections in Muslim nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">More than half of Muslims live in countries with
some degree of democracy. And time and time again, Islamist parties are
overwhelmingly rejected in favor of secular, mainstream parties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"The religious parties don't get more than
3 percent of the vote," Ghouse said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the most important question in those surveys is: ‘Do you know anything about
Islam?' " Ghouse said. "Most people say no."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the truth, they will change their minds."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 30px;"><i>The American Quran Pissing Off the Saudis</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 30px;"><i><br />The Study Quran</i> puts this great religious work in historical perspective.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A new translation of the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/11/talking-death-and-life-with-a-sheikh.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none; transition: color 150ms ease;">Quran</a>, with commentary, is causing a stir—and maybe something of a revolution—in the world of English-speaking Muslims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why’s that? Because Salafists—adherents of a very conservative brand of Islam—have dominated the world market for Qurans for decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Funded by the oil-rich royal family in Saudi Arabia, which has an especially rigid Wahhabi branch of Islam, the Salafis have exported their teachers, their mosques, their audio and video productions, and religious texts across the Arab world and into Pakistan, Europe, and North America, quashing alternate interpretations that don’t fit their narrow views.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 30px;">“In all these places, they funded the building of Saudi-style mosques with Wahhabi preachers and established </span><i style="line-height: 30px;">madrasas</i><span style="line-height: 30px;"> that provided free education for the poor, with, of course, a Wahhabi curriculum,” religious scholar Karen Armstrong </span><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-isis-how-saudi-arabia-exported-main-source-global-terrorism" style="color: black; line-height: 30px; text-decoration: none; transition: 150ms ease;">wrote</a><span style="line-height: 30px;"> about the Saudi export of religion in 2014. “At the same time, young men from the poorer Muslim countries, such as Egypt and Pakistan, who had felt compelled to find work in the Gulf to support their families, associated their relative affluence with Wahhabism and brought this faith back home with them, living in new neighborhoods with Saudi mosques and shopping malls that segregated the sexes.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seeing this new translation as a challenge to their orthodoxy in English-speaking countries, Salafis are none too pleased. In online discussions and reviews, influential Salafis are panning the volume, called <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Study-Quran-New-Translation-Commentary-ebook/dp/B007XJ77QG/ref=as_at?tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&linkCode=as2&" style="color: black; text-decoration: none; transition: color 150ms ease;" target="_blank">The Study Quran,</a></i><i> </i>as a soft-bellied facsimile that might be fine for academia, but not fit for following.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In fact, this no mere academic debate. Followers of the Saudi-Wahhabi-Salafi version of Islam in Europe and the United States are increasingly seen by law enforcement as a pool from which radical jihadis can draw recruits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some strains of this Salafi interpretation have popularized <i>takfirism</i>—the practice by which some Muslims declare that others are not true believers. The aftereffects are clear in fringe jihadi groups like the self-declared caliphate that calls itself the Islamic State, where those who believe differently are deemed apostates who can be, and are, slaughtered en masse. The vast majority of Salafis are not jihadis and not takfiris. But those who are use their understanding of their Quran to justify killing Shia Muslims, Yazidis, adulterers, gays, and anyone else who runs afoul of their zealotry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Generations of the world’s Muslims have, now, grown up in the shadow of this Saudi religious empire, ignoring previous centuries of rigorous religious discourse, debate, and dissent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Study Quran</i>, setting the record straight, may come as something of a revelation to Muslims and anyone else interested in Islam who speaks English. It is a formidable academic endeavor, and since it was published in November it has been flying off the shelves in a massive hardback edition. (It is also available now on Kindle.<br />The <b> </b>editors have compiled a new translation, new commentary, and drawn on dozens of the most prominent<i>mufassirs</i> (interpreters or exegetes), many of whom have never before been accessible to an English-speaking audience. Indeed, “very few” of the sources cited in <i>The Study Quran</i> are available in English translation, head editor Seyyed Hossein Nasr told The Daily Beast.One soon comes across nuances that are unmentioned or ignored by extremists. <i>The Study Quran</i> notes, for instance, that verse 47:4—used by ISIS to justify beheadings—focuses on “the brevity of the act, as it is confined to battle and not a continuous command.” This interpretation would seem to challenge extremists who attempt to carry out such acts on civilians, whether on the streets of London or in Syria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Salafism “was not in the mainstream of the Muslim tradition,” said Nasr. “It rejected centuries of Islamic thought.” The scholars contributing to <i>The Study Quran</i>, who are both Sunni and Shia, also break with the ultra-Orthodox animus against Shiism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Study Quran’s</i> rich commentary, crowding around a few verses on any given onion-paper page of the hardback edition, seeks to remedy the previous absence of solid historical discourse. After all, Nasr said, even centuries ago the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca meant that exegetes, or interpreters of holy texts, were able to have a much richer exchange of ideas—and much more knowledge of one another—than European thinkers of the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s no surprise then, that Abu Eesa Niamatullah—a British Salafi with a large social media presence—<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AbuEesaPersonal/posts/553389941490844?_rdr=p" style="color: black; text-decoration: none; transition: color 150ms ease;" target="_blank">cautioned</a> followers tempted by <i>The Study Quran </i>to “avoid it. Like the plague.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“It doesn't just have mistakes, it's actually dangerous,” Niamatullah said. “This is advice to the 99 percent of people here, those who don't have the detailed tools necessary to separate the wheat from the chaff.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“My point being that I see it as absolutely a threat to orthodox Sunni creed that such translations and commentaries, but more importantly, such deviated individuals such as Nasr being given a prominent platform to the hearts and minds of the basic masses who can't filter through the nonsense like you can,” he added in a comment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A more <a href="http://muslimmatters.org/2015/12/14/the-study-quran-a-review/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none; transition: color 150ms ease;" target="_blank">moderate review,</a> recommended by prominent cleric Yasir Qadhi to hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, acknowledges that the rigor of <i>The Study Quran</i>“is apparent after even a cursory reading,” but nonetheless it “is an academic and educational work, and as such includes commentaries from sources that may not be considered orthodox depending on one’s denominational orientation.” (Qadhi recently<a href="http://muslimmatters.org/2014/04/22/on-salafi-islam-dr-yasir-qadhi/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none; transition: color 150ms ease;">distanced</a> himself from the Salafi label and critiqued some aspects of the movement.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Some of the Sufi commentaries can come off as uncomfortably esoteric,” the author Mobeen Vaid writes. “<i>Khārijite </i>positions are occasionally expounded upon, and not for the purpose of refutation.” (Kharijites were a rebel sect in the first century of of Islam.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The differences that make it suitable for academia but not practice go all the way down to the understanding of the very nature of the Quran. “For believers,” says Vaid. “the Quran doesn't <i>say </i>anything, God does.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And yet, <i>The Study Quran</i> fills part of what some scholars see as a perpetual hole in the study of Islam. Quranic translations abound, but centuries of commentary, debate, and context have long been the exclusive domain of those with a strong command of Arabic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We appear to be amidst a deluge of English translations of the Quran," Scott Lucas, a professor at the University of Arizona, wrote in 2014, reflecting on the proliferation of translations in the prior decade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pretty much any Quran given out in a <i>da’wa</i>, or religious outreach, program almost anywhere in the world has its roots in Saudi Arabia. Most of them use a translation completed by Yusuf Ali, an Indian-born, British-educated scholar who died in the mid-20th century. Published in 1938, it included not only Ali’s translation, but also parenthetical commentary on meaning—much of which has been stripped out by its Salafi adapters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first Quran ever owned by this reporter was an Ali translation, distributed through a Chelsea-based <i>da’wa</i> program to a bank teller, who unloaded it to this student of religion when she was still a teen. The thick hardcover has the scripture in two varieties: the original Arabic, as well as an English translation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Significantly, <i>The Study Quran, </i>already voluminous, does not include the original Arabic, the language in which Allah delivered his message to Muhammad. But the Arabic text is now readily available online and in many smaller volumes for comparison.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ali wasn’t the first translator of the Quran into English, of course. One of the earliest widely available translations was by George Sale, and it served as the standard for nearly two centuries. It’s rife with annotations that point to Sale’s Christian understanding of the “Mohammedan’s” holy scripture. More recent translations have come from feminists and creative translations that assign each Arabic word one—and only one—English equivalent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And <i>The Study Quran</i> surely won’t be the last. The authors’ main goal, after all, is not a definitive translation—but a demonstration that different interpretations were “established, well known, and rigorously discussed over the centuries,” Nasr said.</span></div>
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I welcome this new translation of Quran by Safi Kaskas and David Hungerford
among the multitudes of translations. Indeed there are nearly 300 English translations
in the market now, and each one reflects the experiences of the translator, as it should. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(pbuh) understood human nature, and believed in freedom, an inalienable rights of
individuals. He has repeatedly said, there is no compulsion in religion and that you cannot push any one to believe against his or her will. Thus, in his last sermon, he said (paraphrase), ‘I am leaving this book to you to read and understand it, hang
on to it, and you cannot go wrong with it.’ <br />
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Mind you, he did not assign the interpretation of the book (Quran) to anyone. He
did not say, ‘look, from here on if you have questions about the book, check
with So and So Shaikh.’ He know each person will read and understand through his own prism and that is why Islam is also called a Deen of fitra (human nature). I would say don't judge Islam, Christianity or any faith by the actions of the individuals, religion stands on its own - a pristine system to create peaceful societies, most people get that right and a few don't. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Quran cannot be more clearer than this, it repeats endlessly that no one is
responsible for your actions but you, and it is your responsibility to get the
book right before you act. Police will give you a ticket if you violate the
traffic rules, your claim that you did not know does not release you from the mistake you made.
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Quran is a book of guidance to find peace within and peace with others, if you
don’t get that right, go back and read it. God cannot be wrong; it is your
understanding that is wrong. By the way no one owns God, he, she or it is not any one's property either.<br />
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There is a simple test to determine the authenticity of the translation (or your
understanding of it); and that is, God is not a villain of his own creation.
Quran respects all creation, and respects all traditions and calls for
accountability, justice and mercy to build a cohesive society where no one has
to live in fear of the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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based on the individual, the more an individual interacts with people of different faiths, the
greater the understanding of Islam he or she would have, indeed Prophet Muhammad grew
up in such an environment and he was pluralistic to the core like Jesus and all the great spiritual masters of the world. He respected the otherness of of the others and it is summarized in this video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Tyt7raIXM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Tyt7raIXM</a><br /><br />Religion is not about arrogant claims that you have a
superior product. Arrogance creates conflicts with others right off the bat. No matter what
religion it is, it teaches humility that builds bridges and harmony between different people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Take a look at Safi’s translation, it's available at Amazon, “The Qur’an with
references to the Bible” by Safi Kaskas and David Hungerford. You owe it to yourselves to find the truth.<br /><br />
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activist and he clearly grasps the essence of Quran, that is to create cohesive societies.
He passes in both the tests I have mentioned earlier. I have promised him to
read his translation write a review, and I shall soon do that, after I complete my book, "the Mistakes Muslims have made". <br />
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Video Interview of Safi Kaskas - <a href="https://youtu.be/HLuAvLKNjlw"><b>https://youtu.be/HLuAvLKNjlw</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.quraantoday.com/">www.QuraanToday.com</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.quraanconference.com/">www.QuraanConference.com</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/">www.WorldMuslimCongress.com</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.muslimspeaker.com/">www.MuslimSpeaker.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1865 Quran | <a href="http://www.quraantoday.com/">www.QuraanToday.com</a> <br /><br />The Libraries are a treasure! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By Taylor Holland<br />Special to <a href="http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20100910/NEWS/100909583?p=2&tc=pg">The Tuscaloosa News</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While Islam’s holy book now appears safe from a Florida pastor’s plan for a bonfire, the Quran at UA had its own dramatic rescue from the flames. It was the only book saved from burning of the university library at the hands of Union troops in 1865.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We don’t know who chose it, why they chose it or how it got back to the university. All we know is that for a long, long time, we’ve had this book,” said Clark Center, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library curator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The order to burn the University of Alabama had been given long before federal troops arrived in Tuscaloosa on April 3, 1865. They believed that <span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 25.29px; widows: auto;">the university, along with a </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 25.29px; widows: auto;">local textile factory and hat factory, provided materials to the Confederate army.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the morning of April 4, 200 Union soldiers led by Col. Thomas M. Johnston approached the center of campus, the Rotunda, which held the university’s collection of books and natural history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the troops marched down the long, gravel street lined with cedar trees, they were met by a group of university faculty that included Andre Deloffre, the university’s librarian, and William Wyman, professor of Latin and Greek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Deloffre begged Johnston to spare the library, one of the finest of its time. Johnston responded by sending a courier to headquarters, asking if the library could remain unscathed, but he was instructed by his general to burn the Rotunda as planned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to Center, what happened next has become part of University of Alabama lore. Legend has it that before Union troops set the building on fire, either Johnston, one of his aides, Deloffre or someone else went into the Rotunda to save one book — a copy of “The Koran: Commonly Called The Alcoran Of Mohammed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The book was an English translation of the Quran and had been published in Philadelphia in 1853. Soon after it was removed from the library, the building, along with much of the rest of campus, was engulfed in flames.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Maybe he took it home and sent it back, maybe he went in, chose something and handed it to the librarian,” Center said. “I think, for a long time, the story was just verbal; it was just accepted that the book was here. The first time I’d seen it in writing was 1931 in the Centennial issue of The Crimson White. ”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Center said that he had no doubt the book was an original from the Rotunda and that it had probably been purchased by the library to help them cover the topic of religion as broadly as possible, since the university’s students had never been exposed to the Quran before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The stamps inside of it are consistent to those from other pre-Civil War books. It had definitely been here since before the war,” he said. “Religion was a big part of life back then. Most of the university’s students were Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and even Catholics, and most had never seen something like that.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Center said the book helped modern-day historians better understand the university’s past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“It shows that the university, in the antebellum period, was attempting to give its students a broad education to enable them to learn points of view that were not necessarily their own,” he said.</span></div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-19118101334301354982015-12-08T02:36:00.000-06:002015-12-08T02:36:00.394-06:00Quran 4:34 beat the woman is a mis-translation - Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has been believed to say to beat the wife as a last resort. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Extensive article about wife beating, <a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2014/05/wife-beating-is-culture-of-men-and-not.html">http://www.worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2014/05/wife-beating-is-culture-of-men-and-not.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-40024112871469187952015-09-05T07:53:00.002-05:002015-09-05T07:53:35.184-05:00The Fantasy Islam of Mike Ghouse by Front Page Magazine<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.12px;">Fantasy Islam is an imaginative construct of Dr. Steve Kirby, and he is no stranger to me. I was there in the same boat 15 years ago.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><em style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">I don’t claim to be a scholar, nor do I claim to be an authority on Islam, but I do claim that I have investigated Islam thoroughly, invited criticism, discussed with many, and have found answers. I did not have to choose to be a Muslim, there was no need for me to be one, however, I decided to choose a religion for me and Islam suited me the best for two reasons – I knew and had re-learned a lot about it, and it is an inclusive and pluralistic faith.<br /></span></em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><br />I will be responding to the following article by Dr. Kirby, as I have responded before to many such misunderstandings at the site www.Quraantoday.com.<br /><br />Meanwhile, review this video Pluralism in Islam. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Tyt7raIXM" style="color: #0c0c0c; text-decoration: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Tyt7raIXM</a><br /><br /><br />Mike Ghouse is a motivational speaker committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. More about him in 63 links at www.MikeGhouse.net</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.12px;"># # # </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.02px;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">THE <b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">FANTASY ISLAM</b> OF MIKE MOHAMED GHOUSE</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/dr-stephen-m-kirby" style="color: #0c0c0c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/dr-stephen-m-kirby</a><br />A moderate Muslim's personal version of Islam -- and its curious non-relationship with Islamic doctrine.</span></h3>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fantasy Islam: A game in which an audience of non-Muslims wish with all their hearts that Islam was a “Religion of Peace,” and a Muslim strives to fulfill that wish by presenting a personal version of Islam that has little foundation in Islamic doctrine.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As I pointed out in an earlier <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259380/lure-fantasy-islam-dr-stephen-m-kirby" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">article</a>, "Fantasy Islam" is a popular game among many non-Muslims and so-called “moderate” or “reformist” Muslims. Mike Mohamed Ghouse appears to be such a Muslim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ghouse was born Mohamed Ghouse in India (He adopted the name "Mike" later). He was raised as a Muslim until he became an atheist in the late 1960s; he returned to Islam in the late 1990s and lives in the United States. Ghouse is a frequent guest commentator on Fox News and syndicated talk radio programs, and he writes for major newspapers. Ghouse also plays Fantasy Islam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In an article titled "<a href="http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2009/08/quraan-on-apostasy.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">Qur'aan on Apostasy</a>," Ghouse makes the following claim about the punishment for apostasy:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately, it is a common belief that 'death' should be the punishment for apostasy. However, the Qur’aan mentions nothing of such punishment, so why should we impose such a cruel and inhumane form of punishment? Are we so insecure about our own religion that if anyone is to leave it we kill them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But Ghouse is wrong: In 4:89 of the Koran Allah commands Muslims to take hold of those apostates who have left Islam and “kill them wherever you find them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And, for the sake of argument, even if it wasn’t in the Koran, death for apostasy is still a part of Islam because that is what Muhammad commanded. Muhammad said that death was the penalty for a Muslim who left Islam (e.g. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, Nos. 6878 and 6923; and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sahih Muslim</em>, No. 1676). Muhammad even specified the nature of that death:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If someone changes his religion - then strike off his head!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas, 36.18.15, in a section titled “Judgement on Abandonment of Islam.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So we see that this "cruel and inhumane form of punishment" for apostasy is well-grounded in Islamic doctrine.</span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Muslim-Americans 'Uphold' the U.S. Constitution</span></u></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In an article titled "<a href="http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2015/07/happy-4th-muslims-are-integral-part-of.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">Muslims are an integral part of American Heritage</a>," Ghouse made the following statement:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As American Muslims we uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined in the U.S. constitution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Islamic doctrine, found in the verses of the Koran and the teachings of Muhammad (the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sunnah</em>), is diametrically opposed to the U.S. Constitution. Consider just these three amendments to our Constitution:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">1<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">st</span> Amendment – Freedom of Religion and Speech:</u> The penalty for a Muslim who wants to leave Islam is death (4:89 and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sunnah</em>). Non-Muslims are given the option of fighting to the death, converting to Islam, or paying the jizyah (9:5, 9:29, and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sunnah</em>). Once Allah and Muhammad have decided on a matter, Muslims are not allowed to disagree (33:36, 4:115), and criticism of Muhammad is cursed by Allah and punishable by death (33:57, and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sunnah</em>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">8<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> Amendment – Cruel and Unusual Punishment Is Prohibited:</u> Islam commands the following punishments: Flogging (24:2), Stoning (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sunnah</em>), Amputation for Theft (5:38 and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sunnah</em>), Beheading (8:12, 47:4, and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sunnah</em>), Crucifixion (5:33), and Cutting-off of Hands and Feet from Opposite Sides for waging war against Islam (5:33).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So just by considering these three amendments, we can see that if Muslim-Americans believe in Islamic doctrine, they cannot "uphold, protect, defend and celebrate the values enshrined" in the Constitution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is the “best way” to understand the Koran? Ghouse <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/quran-is-not-for-muslims_b_6174940.html#es_share_ended" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">wrote</a> this simple explanation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The best way to understand Quran [sic] is to remember, "If it is not about justice, mercy and creating harmony", then the translation is wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The immediate response to Ghouse’s statement is to look at the preceding section involving the three Amendments to our Constitution. There is little justice, mercy and harmony there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But Ghouse also said that Marmaduke Pickthall’s translation of the Koran, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Meaning of the Glorious Koran</em>, was one of three translations he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/quran-is-not-for-muslims_b_6174940.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">recommends</a>. So let’s look for the justice, mercy and harmony in some of the verses from Pickthall’s translation:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 0.5in; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not." (2:216)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 0.5in; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"In truth the disbelievers [non-Muslims] are an open enemy to you." (4:101)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 0.5in; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk." (5:51)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 0.5in; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful." (9:5)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 0.5in; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers [non-Muslims] and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey’s-end." (9:73)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em 0.5in; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Lo! those who disbelieve [in Islam], among the People of the Scripture [Jews and Christians] and the idolaters, will abide in fire [sic] of hell. They are the worst of created beings." (98:6)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is not a lot of justice, mercy and harmony in these verses from Pickthall’s translation, so according to Ghouse’s standard, he appears to be recommending a translation of the Koran that is “wrong.”</span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Allah Loves Everybody</span></u></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In an article titled "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/quran-is-not-for-muslims_b_6174940.html#es_share_ended" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">Quran is not for Muslims</a>," Ghouse wrote that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God [Allah] is not the God of Muslims and no where he claims that in Quran [sic]…God loves us all, and no one is deprived of his love…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In reality we find that in the Koran Allah states that the only religion acceptable to him is Islam (e.g. 3:19 and 3:85). And Allah states that Islam is to be made superior over all other religions, even if the non-Muslims don’t like it (e.g. 9:33, 48:28, and 61:9). Allah curses the Jews and Christians (9:30). He states that non-Muslims are among the worst of creatures who “will abide in the fire of Hell” (98:6), while Muslims are the best of creatures (3:110 and 98:7). Non-Muslims are “open enemies” to Muslims (4:101) and Jews are among the worst of those enemies (5:82). And Allah commands Muslims to be harsh toward non-Muslims (e.g., 8:57, 9:73, 9:123, and 48:29) and to kill those non-Muslims (9:5).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In spite of Ghouse’s claim, and as I noted in more detail in a previous <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dr-stephen-m-kirby/do-we-all-believe-in-the-same-god" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">article</a>, Allah is only the god of Islam and the Muslims, and Allah has no love for non-Muslims.</span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Ubiquitous 2:62</span></u></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chapter 2, verse 62 of the Koran is commonly quoted by Muslim-Americans to indicate that Judaism and Christianity are respected in Islam and the adherents of those two faiths will be rewarded by Allah. Ghouse continues with this theme in the article "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/quran-is-not-for-muslims_b_6174940.html#es_share_ended" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #631312; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">Quran is not for Muslims</a>":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[I]f you take care of his creation (neighbor), you need not worry; your rewards are with him. Just to make sure we understand this precisely, he says, whether you are a Jew or a Christian and by corollary other, if you take care of your neighbor, I will take care of you (2:62).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is Chapter 2, verse 62</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and does righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In spite of what Ghouse and other Muslim-Americans claim, this verse only means that Jews and Christians would be rewarded for the good deeds they did <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">before </em>the advent of Islam. After the advent of Islam,<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">righteous good deeds</em> would be accepted by Allah only if they are done by Muslims. And this verse was actually abrogated by 3:85 which stated that Islam is the only acceptable religion to Allah, and non-Muslims will be “losers” in the Hereafter (e.g. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Tafsir Al-Qurtubi Vol. 1, and Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan</em>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As is common in Fantasy Islam, Ghouse’s personal version of Islam has little, if any, support from Islamic doctrine, and actually often runs counter to that doctrine. This appears to be of little concern for many in his non-Muslim audience because such personal versions relieve their concerns about Islam and allow them to continue to consider the jihadists as just a fringe group of “radicals” who have “hijacked” and “perverted” the Religion of Peace. Ignorance, whether willful or not, can be a great anesthesia. But anesthesia is only temporary and will not alter the world going on around you, and to which you will eventually reawaken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of three books about Islam. His latest is "Islam According to Muhammad, Not Your Neighbor."</span></div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-48636789178168430492015-06-22T22:30:00.000-05:002015-06-22T22:30:13.289-05:00Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) - the forgiver <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">QuraanToday.com | Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) the forgiver.<br /><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God loves those who forgive often and God loves the least who are arrogant. Everything God says in Quran is demonstrated by the prophet.<br /><br />A few Muslims believe they have to defend the prophet, they are wrong, he is beyond all defending, same goes with God, he protects us and not vice versa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is a list compiled by Muhammad Yunus about how forgiving the prophet was.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Meccans called the Prophet an <span style="line-height: 115%;">impostor
(30:58), insane (44:1, 68:51), and an insane poet (37:36), </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">questioned
why he could not show any miracles (6:37, 11:12, 13:7, 17:90-93, 21:5,
25:7/8, 29:50), and why the Qur'an was not revealed to a man of importance
from the two cities (43:31), charged him of being coached morning and
evening (25:5, 44:14). They also charged him with forging lies and
witchcraft (34:43, 38:4), forging lies against God, forgery and making up tales
(11:13, 32:3, 38:7, 46:8), witchcraft (21:3, 43:30, 74:24), obvious
witchcraft that was bewildering (10:2, 37:15, 46:7) and of being
bewitched or possessed by a Jinn (17:47, 23:70, 34:8).</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That was when he was in Mecca - the first 12 years of the revelation when
he was not in a position to protest let alone revenge.He bore all these charges
and insulting remarks with patience and without any protest and continued to
love his people (42:23) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Come Medinite period that saw the Prophet rising in power day by day and
becoming the chief arbiter (Civil Head) of Medina who could punish anyone he
wished, he remained no less forgiving: : </span></div>
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forgave those who deserted him on way to a battlefield (Uhud) by saying:
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Prophet
forgave those of his followers (3:159) who defied his orders in the battle of
Uhud and ran off for booty at a crucial moment in the battle (3:153) leading to
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He forgave all his Meccan enemies upon integration of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He forgave all the hypocrites who had persistently
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He forgave the defenders at the Trench Siege who took
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He forgave the followers who declined to join him in his
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-79917871510107422015-06-20T10:29:00.001-05:002015-06-20T10:29:16.859-05:00Don't mess with Quran. <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 21.4500007629395px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 28px;">How wrong was I to believe that almost all Muslims were aware of the mis-translations of Quran. It came as a big surprise to me to know that there are Muslims who innocently believe that everything they read "about" Quran is divine without ever questioning it. Please be aware that there are two translations of Quran that are not only wrong, but bad. They have attempted to mess with Quran, but failed.<br /><br />Quran is for the entire humanity, but the Hilali Khan/Mohsin Khan duo's translation has reduced it to the exclusive book of Muslims. If a Jew, Christian or a Hindu were to read it, they have every reason to fear Muslims and the "Muslim God " who teaches hatred towards them. All you had to do to acquire the free copy of this book was to call 1-800 number and they would send a free copy of the Quran, I have no idea how many copies are out there in the hands of innocent people, we can check the boasting emails or news letters proclaiming how many million copies were distributed. A lot of damage was done. The good news is many of the mis-translation are fixed since 2012.</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 28px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Hilali Khan and Mohsin Khan Duo as great scholars. They mis-translated the Quran around 1924, and as Muslims blessed with the courage to speak, we have to disagree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 28px;">Let us not elevate any human’s words to be on par with God – men like Hilali Khan, Mohsin Khan, Tamiya, Kathir, Banna, Qutub, Maududi, Shah Waliullah and other fallible humans have made several mistakes. We should not give their word equivalency to God’s word. </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 28px;">Whatever their intention was, these men have messed up the translations and interpretations of Quran. The brunt of Islamophobia that we are dealing with today was mothered by their work. Indeed, the Spencers, Gellers, Baghdadis, Bin Ladens and Awalakis believe in that version of Islam.<br /><br />Full article will be out in a few days and a link will be provided. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">www.WorldMuslimcongress.com | www.QuraanToday.com<br /><br />The clarity of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's tafseer is incredible. Those of you who may not know the Maulana – he was born and raised in Madinah and moved back to India - his ancestral land. He was a nationalist leader for all of Indians, the Hindu Majority and all minorities, and was the first education minister of independent India and laid the foundation for the educational institutions like IIT’s that rival MIT’s. I believe Muhammad Yunus, a member and a Muslim scholar listed in the emails is a member of IIT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Maulana was a pluralist, and an inclusivist, as is Islam – the phrases like Rabbul Aalameen, Rahmatul Aalameen should lead us to become Mukhlooqul Aalameen. We need to consciously pull us out of the path of political Islam of self-interest and restore it to Islam for common good. It is in the same line of thinking, I believe the purpose of Islam is to build cohesive societies where no human has to live in fear of the other but God (deviation from truth). Islam is about restoring harmonious, peaceful and a well-functioning cohesive world, God had created.<br /><br />Some of the statements that jumped at me are:<br /><br />“It states that they rank the highest who have sacrificed everything in the path of truth and endure steadfastly the trials and tribulations that befell them on the way of truth. That is the criterion of goodness.” – and I will add to this from Sura Hujurat “the best ones among you are those who learn about each other – for knowledge leads to understanding and understanding to acceptance of another point of view.<br /><br />In Hindu scriptures there is a powerful phrase “Satyamev Jayate - Truth alone triumphs” and Mahatma Gandhi popularized it, and now it is the national symbol of India... The Maulana has clearly distinguished the purpose of war was not victory or the conquest but bringing forth sustainable peace for “all”.<br /><br />He pulled out the essence of the Sura – that is the truth alone triumphs and gives examples, “It therefore behooved the followers of the faith that they should have nothing to do with even their parents and brothers if they belonged to the enemy camp.” And elsewhere in Quran It lays down that you have to tell the truth even it goes against you or your interests. Indeed, there is no 5<sup>th</sup> in Islam; truth is given the highest value.<br /><br />I am presenting the following papers at Aligarh Muslim University:<br /><br /><span style="line-height: 15.3333320617676px;">1. </span><a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2015/03/mike-ghouse-of-world-muslim-congress-to.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333320617676px;">http://www.worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2015/03/mike-ghouse-of-world-muslim-congress-to.html</span></a><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333320617676px;">3. <a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2015/03/is-united-islam-possible-international.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">http://www.worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2015/03/is-united-islam-possible-international.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Shared by Rafiq Lodhia<br /><br />SURAH: AL-TAWBAH ( THE REPENTANCE) – CHAPTER: 9 – VERSES: 20-28<br /><br />Maulana Abul Kalam Azad – The Tarjuman al-Qur’an – Year: 1968<br /><br />The criterion of superiority of one over another in the sight of God is indicated in<br />verse 20. It states that they rank the highest who have sacrificed everything in<br />the path of truth and endure steadfastly the trials and tribulations that befell them<br />on the way of truth. That is the criterion of goodness. It is a lesson for the present<br />day Muslims who have developed an outlook on life and follow a way of living so<br />alien to the teachings of Islam. Even like the pagan Arabs of the Prophet’s time,<br />they prefer the traditional way as against the way of life laid down for them by<br />Islam. Whenever a rich man living a thoroughly un-Islamic life provides booths<br />(sabil) of cool drinks during the days of Muharram and arranges the celebration<br />of the Prophet’s Day (mawlud) on a lavish scale or pays for lightning a mosque<br />or a dargah on a particular day, the entire Muslim community exultingly applauds<br />him, and no one cares to know whether what he did was for the sake of God.<br />One should remember that such deeds do not constitute righteousness in the sight<br />of God. Goodness lies only in the purity of belief in God and sincerity in action and<br />steadfast endurance of trials in the way of God. That is the criterion of goodness<br />sponsored by the Qur’an.<br /><br />It has been pointed out above that this chapter was revealed in the ninth year of<br />Hijra and that the earlier verses of it were publicly announced during the period<br />of Hajj that year. This was the time when Mecca had already been conquered<br />and strength of the enemies put down for ever on the field of Hunain. For the<br />expedition to Tabuk as many as thirty thousand Muslims, had assembled, so much<br />so that there remained no party in the Arabian peninsula to challenge the supremacy<br />of the followers of the Prophet. Still there lurked in the situation a few weaknesses.<br /><br />Point A: A large number of Meccans who had opposed the Prophet but had been<br />pardoned by him at the time of his victorious entry into Mecca had joined the Muslim<br />fold. Being new converts to Islam, they could not fit into its way of life quickly. So<br />when war was declared on those who were still opposed to the Prophet in the<br />country and were giving no rest to its followers, a number of new Meccan converts<br />began to feel concerned about their relations who were in the enemy camps. In fact,<br />they could not rise above their sense of kinship with them or their tribal prejudices,<br />and so formed but a weak wing of the Muslim camp.<br /><br />Point B: There were also in the Muslim camp quite a number of hypocrites and<br />timid people. They raised the cry that now that much had been gained for the<br />Muslims, there was no longer any need for them to engage themselves in further<br />warfare.<br /><br />Point C: The victories which the Muslims had won on the battlefield had developed<br />in them a general sense of indifference to any possible danger lying ahead of them.<br />The majority of them thought that now that the Arab land had nearly yielded to the<br />call of Truth and that there was left no strength among those who had not yet<br />chosen to yield to the call, there was no imperative need to be on the alert. They<br />hardly could realize at the moment the height of power and influence that destiny<br />had marked them to reach. This development in the situation was clearly a source<br />of danger to the security of the Muslims not only at this hour but in the days to<br />follow as well.<br /><br />The necessity therefore was felt to revive in the Muslims the spirit of sincere<br />attachment to their faith and bring home to them once again the high purpose for<br />which they were to live and work as earnestly as ever before. They were to be told<br />that the period of trials was not yet over and that on the other hand it was just to<br />begin. Of the task lying ahead of them, what was of primary importance at the<br />moment was the liquidating of whatever opposition that there still was to the<br />mission of the Prophet and to establish perfect peace and order in the land.<br /><br />It is why verse 16 calls upon the Muslims to reflect over the situation and realize,<br />that that was not the hour when they should relax their efforts to reach their goal.<br />It states that the faith which they professed had yet to be tested in full. So in the<br />succeeding verses after drawing attention to the character that should distinguish<br />the Muslims, a significant observation is made in verse 23 that the sense of sincere<br />attachment to one’s faith and the sense of loyalty to those who were opposed to<br />the faith could not subsist together or felt simultaneously in one’s mind. It therefore<br />behooved the followers of the faith that they should have nothing to do with even<br />their parents and brothers if they belonged to the enemy camp.<br /><br />Verse 24 is emphatic in asserting that in a conflict between faith and denial of faith,<br />he alone will be regarded as a man of faith or faithful whom nothing in the world,<br />and even one’s love for those near and dear to him, should weaken his attachment<br />or devotion to his faith. It is on this basis that the edifice of a civilized society can<br />be raised. It refers to all the essential ties which one has necessarily to respect in<br />life. But the principle of devotion to an ideology such as that which function for the<br />security and welfare of a society as a whole, demands from everyone professing<br />faith in his ideology that he should rise far above every other form of attachment<br />and let nothing detract him from serving whole-heartedly the cause of truth which<br />that ideology upholds.<br /><br />The Qur’an also draws particular attention to the attachment one feels to one’s<br />worldly comfort in life and so might like one’s country not to involve itself in any<br />war. For instance, one might be gaining wealth by pursuing the avocation of<br />commerce. In a state of war, opportunities for commerce may be lessened. That<br />is a fear which is bound to stare in the face of every one living on commerce.<br />Further, in a state of war one stands the risk of losing one’s possessions. The<br />thought of the risk will naturally disturb one immensely. Before such as these who<br />are moved by considerations of this nature, the Qur’an places an abiding truth of<br />life and asks them seriously to reflect over it. The truth is this. When a people are<br />called upon by the force of circumstances to defend the cause of truth and uphold<br />it for the good of men, it should behoove everyone who sincerely believes in the<br />truth to be prepared to sacrifice everything dear to him, so that truth might prevail<br />and bring happiness to one and all. The Qur’an gives the tiding to such devotees<br />of truth that whatever they might lose in the struggle would be repaid to them<br />manifold when truth shall triumph and bring peace and prosperity to one and all.<br />“Indeed with God lies the great reward,” says the Qur’an.<br /><br />History has recorded for all times the glorious manner in which the companion of<br />the Prophet stood the test of devotion to their faith in God. It may be asserted<br />without exaggeration that there are few parallels in the annals of man to the<br />devoted support that they offered to the Prophet in his struggle in the cause of<br />truth. They sacrificed all that they had for the love of God, with the result that<br />they reaped in return what the pursuit of goodness always offers for the benefit<br />of man.<br /><br />But what is our position today? Are we prepared to scrutinize our lives in the light<br />of this verse of the Qur’an.<br /><br />Verse 26 refers to the battle of Hunain in eight year of the Hijra, when soon after<br />the conquest of Mecca, the tribes of Hawazin and Thaqif in co-operation with the<br />tribes of Bani Nadir and Bani Hilal attacked the Muslims. The Prophet issued forth<br />from Mecca into the valley of Hunain. In this engagement, the Muslims were thrice<br />in number. Naturally, therefore, they felt confident of success. But when the hour<br />of trial arrived, their superiority in numbers could not avail. It was only a handful<br />of staunch adherents of the Prophet, who, inspired by the example of their leader,<br />saved the situation and won the victory for the Muslims.<br /><br />The Muslim force had to proceed through a narrow pass. The enemy force lay in<br />ambush awaiting the Muslims to enter this pass. They knew that among the Muslims<br />nearly as many as two thousand were new converts from Mecca. A good many of<br />these were allies of the enemy. The moment the Muslims moved into the narrow<br />defile, the enemy force showered arrows over them from their bows. It was a<br />sudden attack. A large section of the Muslim army took to their heels in a state of<br />alarm. The situation seemed clearly to go against the Muslims. It was at this juncture<br />that the Prophet ask, ‘Abbas, his uncle, to cry out to his old comrades of Samra who<br />had sworn allegiance to him at the time of the treaty of Hudaibiya to steady themselves.<br />The cry inspired a new courage in the hearts of the staunch among them who forthwith<br />returned to the Prophet and gave so stiff a fight to the enemy that they had to suffer<br />a defeat at the hands of the Muslims.<br /><br />This incident was a great eye-opener for the followers of the Faith. It brought home<br />to them that mere numbers do not bring victory. The strength of numbers does<br />contribute to success in warfare. But success does not always depend upon numbers.<br />It is the strength of will and the determination not to yield which ultimately count and<br />help even a small band of determined fighters to rout a force many times strong in<br />numbers. The Qur’an addressing the Muslims points out that there were occasions in<br />the past when though they were few in numbers they had achieved victory over the<br />enemy. But that now at this hour in Hunain when they prided themselves over the<br />largeness of their numbers, mere numbers did not avail. That was a matter for them<br />to reflect over.<br /><br />In verse 28 the Quran reverts to the order issued in an earlier verse of this chapter<br />prohibiting the polytheists to enter the Ka’ba any further. That House of Prayer had<br />been raised by the Prophet Abraham and his son Ismail for the worship of God, the<br />One, and was meant to serve as a center of spiritual activity for those who believed<br />in the unity of God.<br /><br />In this verse the reference to the uncleanliness of the polytheists is not to their<br />physical condition but to the uncleanliness of their hearts. Islam does not regard the<br />person or the body of anyone as unclean. Every man as man stands on the same<br />footing as every other human being. It is why it has prohibited untouchability and<br />does not single out any section of humanity as untouchable. In fact, it is clear from<br />the recorded history of the Prophet that the Prophet maintained social relationships<br />with not only the People of the Book, the Jews, but with the polytheists of his time.<br />He used to dine with them and accept their invitations and also offer invitations to<br />them. History has recorded that he at times had allowed them to stay in his own<br />mosque at Madina.<br /><br />The verse under reference has a limited application. It applies to the seat of Ka’ba<br />along and not to any other Muslim place of worship. In fact, after the issuing of<br />this order, the Prophet had allowed the Christians of Yemen, and the polytheists<br />from Ta’if to stay in his mosque.<br /><br />Surah: 20 – They who have believed in God and abandoned their homes for the<br />sake of God and striven with their possessions and their persons in the way of<br />God, shall rank high in the estimation of God. These are they who shall attain<br />success (in life).<br /><br />Surah: 21 – Tidings of mercy doth their Lord send them and of His good pleasure<br />and also of gardens in which lasting joy shall be theirs.<br /><br />Surah: 22 – Therein shall they abide for ever. Surely (for such people) there is a<br />great reward from their Lord.<br /><br />Surah: 23 – O Muslims! Do not take your fathers or brothers for friends if they<br />prefer unbelief to belief; and whoso of you shall take them for friends they shall<br />be regarded as those who have been unjust to themselves.<br /><br />Surah: 24 – Say (to the Muslims, O Prophet!): If your fathers and your sons and<br />your brothers and your wives, and your kith and kin and the wealth that you have<br />acquired and the merchandise which ye fear may not have a proper sale, and the<br />dwellings of which you are very don, be dearer to you than God and His Apostle and<br />striving in the way of God, then, wait until God disclose what He wills to do. And it is<br />not in the manner of God to guide the impious.<br /><br />Surah: 25 – (O Muslims!) This is a fact that God had helped you on many a previous<br />occasion (when you were few in number) and on the day of Hunain, when despite<br />the strength over which you had exulted availed you not, and the earth with all its<br />vastness had straitened on your and you to turn back in fight.<br /><br />Surah: 26 – It was then, God infused into the Prophet and those faithful (to him)<br />the spirit of steadiness and self-assurance and succoured them with unseen hosts<br />and defeated the unbelievers, and that is what the unbelievers deserved.<br /><br />Surah: 27 – Yet after this, God will turn in mercy towards whomsoever He pleaseth;<br />for indeed God is Forgiving, Merciful.<br /><br />Surah: 28 – O ye Muslims! Surely those who ascribe partners to God are an unclean<br />lot. Let them not after this year approach the Holy Place of Prayer, and if (due to<br />lack of opportunity to profit by trading with them at the time of Hajj) you apprehend<br />poverty, (then, do not lose heart for), God, if He please, will soon give you riches<br />out of His abundance. Verily, God knows (your needs) and He will in His Wisdom<br />compensate you for your loss.</span></span></div>
Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-31193518259725253912015-03-22T00:51:00.001-05:002015-03-22T00:52:58.319-05:00Quran formula for law and order<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">Mike Ghouse, World Muslim Congress, Dallas | Washington (214) 325-1916 </span><a href="mailto:SpeakerMikeGhouse@gmail.com" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;">SpeakerMikeGhouse@gmail.com</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">Mike Ghouse is a public speaker, thinker, writer and a commentator on </span><a href="http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/">Pluralism</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">,</span><a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/">Islam</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">, </span><a href="http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/">India</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">, </span><a href="http://www.israelpalestinedialouge.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.israelpalestinedialouge.com/">Israel-Palestine</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">, </span><a href="http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/">Politics</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"> and other issues of the day. He is a human rights activist, and his book standing up for others will be out soon | He is producing a full feature film ” </span><a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/">Sacred</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">” to be released on 9/11 and a documentary “</span><a href="http://www.americatogetherfoundation.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.americatogetherfoundation.com/">Americans together</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;">” for a July 4 release. He is a frequent guest commentator on Fox News and syndicated Talk Radio shows and a writer at major news papers including Dallas Morning News and Huffington Post. All about him is listed in 63 links at </span><a href="http://www.mikeghouse.net/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.mikeghouse.net/">www.MikeGhouse.net</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"> and his writings are at </span><a href="http://www.theghousediary.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.theghousediary.com/">www.TheGhousediary.com</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 21px;"> – Mike is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.</span>Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-20473035131504235592015-03-21T10:41:00.002-05:002015-03-21T10:41:19.748-05:00Does Islam need a Reform or we just need new interpreters?<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Does Islam need a Reform or we just need new interpreters?</b><br /><br />Reform is one of the most detested words among Muslims. On the one hand the academics see the corrupted versions of Islamic interpretations and rightfully want to fix it, whereas, the firebrand religious leaders take it as an attack on their tradition and willing to shed the blood to defend it.<br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And how do we bring the change? The key is communicating the intent (niyya) and a need to understand the issue without pulling the rug from underneath their feet.<br /><br />Justice is one word in Islam that wraps balance, harmony, fairness, mercy and equity together for the society to function cohesively, where no one has live in fear of the other but God. <span class="apple-converted-space">W</span>ithout it, things will degenerate into a dysfunctional society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sharialaws.blogspot.com/2013/02/genesis-of-sharia-law.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sharia</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> is central to all this, which was designed to offer complete guidance to personal and public behavior of a Muslim, and justice to humanity. However, due to human management Justice was not served. <o:p></o:p></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">We have identified a few problems in “applications” of the Sharia laws that undermine the principles of justice in dealing with apostasy, blasphemy, rape, divorce, dhimmi, separation, marriage, child custody, and inheritance, interfaith and other issues.<br /><br />We need to </span><a href="http://sharialaws.blogspot.com/2014/01/fixing-sharia-laws.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">fix the laws</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><a href="http://sharialaws.blogspot.com/2014/01/fixing-sharia-laws.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">without it a large swatch of population becomes rudderless. In the Indian context, we may want to go with UCC as it’s’ intent is Justice and is enforceable.</span><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mike Ghouse, World Muslim Congress, Dallas | Washington (214) 325-1916 |<a href="mailto:SpeakerMikeGhouse@gmail.com" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">SpeakerMikeGhouse@gmail.com</a><br />...............................................................................................................................<br />Mike Ghouse is a public speaker, thinker, writer and a commentator on<a href="http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/">Pluralism</a>, <a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/">Islam</a>, <a href="http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/">India</a>, <a href="http://www.israelpalestinedialouge.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.israelpalestinedialouge.com/">Israel-Palestine</a>, <a href="http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/">Politics</a> and other issues of the day. He is a human rights activist, and his book standing up for others will be out soon | He is producing a full feature film ” <a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/">Sacred</a>” to be released on 9/11 and a documentary “<a href="http://www.americatogetherfoundation.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.americatogetherfoundation.com/">Americans together</a>” for a July 4 release. He is a frequent guest commentator on Fox News and syndicated Talk Radio shows and a writer at major news papers including Dallas Morning News and Huffington Post. All about him is listed in 63 links at <a href="http://www.mikeghouse.net/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.mikeghouse.net/">www.MikeGhouse.net</a> and his writings are at <a href="http://www.theghousediary.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.theghousediary.com/">www.TheGhousediary.com</a> – Mike is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.</span></div>
Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-51195132638449102472015-03-21T10:39:00.002-05:002015-03-21T10:39:25.004-05:00Can Muslims lead a conglomeration of faith communities? International Conference at Aligarh Muslim University<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;">Published at www.WorldMuslimCongress.com</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 28px;">International Conference</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> <br />"Intellectual Crises of the Muslim Ummah: Rethinking Traditional Solutions"<br />Aligarh Muslim University, April 6-7, 2015<br /><br />ABSTRACT OF PRESENTAION<br />by Mike Ghouse<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Can Muslims lead a conglomeration of faith communities? Implications of Kalmae</b><b> </b><b>siwa</b><br /><br />Muslims can lead a willing conglomeration of faith communities if they start believing in being Mukhlooqul Aalameen, representing the interests of all humanity. It is an extension of their belief in God as Rabbul Aalameen and prophet as Rahmatul Aalameen.<o:p></o:p><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Was Islam ever meant to be a religion for Muslims? Indeed the message of Islam was for those who submitted to the idea of oneness of humanity, universe and its creator, and further believed in accountability of their actions in preserving the harmony of the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God has set himself up as a God of universe - the very first verse in the first and last chapters of Quran declares “Rabbul Aalameen” and “God of humanity” and throughout the Quran the theme is the same.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/quran-is-not-for-muslims_b_6174940.html#es_share_ended" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Quran is not for Muslims</a>, and by making it exclusively ours, we are reducing God to be our property and denying him to others and thus creating a Muslim specific God, as if others have their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Implications of <a href="http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=3&verse=64" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">3:64</a>and <a href="http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2010/09/q385-other-than-islam.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">3:85</a>God is advising to be truthful, state your belief and acknowledge the otherness of other's belief (109.6) , but come to common terms and figure out how to work together. The best ones among you are the ones who learn about each other. Knowledge leads to understanding and understanding to acceptance and appreciation of another point of view. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have an obligation to lead the world in creating cohesive societies where no one has to live in apprehension or fear of the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mike Ghouse, World Muslim Congress, Dallas | Washington (214) 325-1916 |<a href="mailto:SpeakerMikeGhouse@gmail.com" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">SpeakerMikeGhouse@gmail.com</a><br />...............................................................................................................................<br />Mike Ghouse is a public speaker, thinker, writer and a commentator on <a href="http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/">Pluralism</a>,<a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/">Islam</a>, <a href="http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/">India</a>, <a href="http://www.israelpalestinedialouge.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.israelpalestinedialouge.com/">Israel-Palestine</a>, <a href="http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/">Politics</a> and other issues of the day. He is a human rights activist, and his book standing up for others will be out soon | He is producing a full feature film ” <a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/">Sacred</a>” to be released on 9/11 and a documentary “<a href="http://www.americatogetherfoundation.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.americatogetherfoundation.com/">Americans together</a>” for a July 4 release. He is a frequent guest commentator on Fox News and syndicated Talk Radio shows and a writer at major news papers including Dallas Morning News and Huffington Post. All about him is listed in 63 links at <a href="http://www.mikeghouse.net/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.mikeghouse.net/">www.MikeGhouse.net</a> and his writings are at <a href="http://www.theghousediary.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.theghousediary.com/">www.TheGhousediary.com</a> – Mike is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day.</span></div>
Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-74604579546921471092015-03-21T00:25:00.001-05:002015-03-22T13:50:22.937-05:0013 Doctrines of Radical Islam ISIS.<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">I am responding to the following surreal claims by an unknown, but well circulated piece called “13 Doctrines of Radical Islam ISIS “ with a singular purpose; To provide the moderate majority (of all faiths) with facts, and to help them not entertain any doubts about the word of God. God loves us all and has given us the free will to manage peace and harmony in the world, so all of us can live without fear of the other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Finding the truth is your own responsibility, if you are curios about these </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">propaganda</span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> verses, please </span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">buy at least three different translations of Quran and figure it out yourselves for your peace of mind is your business.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">However, if you want to counter any one of those guys who either innocently or deliberatly circulate false material, here is a ready made response for you to forward. Always go to</span><a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">www.WorldMuslimCongress.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> or </span><a href="http://www.quraantoday.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">www.Quraantoday.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> and search up for Maligned verses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><br />I will tear this propaganda apart, and present the right quotes to each one of these 13 misquotes. These guys write whatever they want and pass it out as the verses from Quran. I have responded to many of these men and women including Noni Derwish and others. The one that made the biggest mess was Geert Widlers, the hate filled man from Sweden who duped the US Congress and Senate members with his falsities and sold them the 14 minute film called Fitna.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">In the Middle Ages, European leaders commissioned a hostile Quran translation to foster warfare against Muslim invaders. Later, Muslim leaders produced another translation to inflame Muslims against Christians and Jews. The European Kings commissioned the monastery of Abbey to deliberately mistranslate Quran to paint as a cult that wil threaten their lives – and coined the word “Muhammadan” for the first time in 1142 AD. It was all for politics, and we need to reject these false translation, the other one was by an Muslim man “Hilali Khan” who has deliberately mistranslated nearly 60 verses to cause ill-will towards Jews, Chrsitians and others. Please reject those.<br /><br />The most popular and authenitc translations are by Muhammad Asad, Yusuf Ali and Picktal, however there are a few verses not dealt well in their translations and Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar has righted the wrong understanding in verse 4:34 for example.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Many of the following verses are not in Quran, and where additional explanation is needed, I have added two or three translations to give little more clarity. To get the full understanding, the simple formula is read three verses before and after the give verses, and you simply cannot go wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><br />Mike Ghouse , </span><a href="http://mikeghouse.net/MuslimSpeaker.MikeGhouse.asp#sthash.5esiRB9S.dpuf" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Muslim Speaker</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">, thinker and a writer. World Muslim Congress, Dallas, Texas Link<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">I am sick of these guys who present only half truth. Finding the truth is your own responsibility, go buy three different translations and figure it out yourselves. Your peace of mind is your business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Now, here are those 13 </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">propaganda</span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> verses and my response directly from Quran.I hope no one is gullible enough to buy this </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">propaganda</span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">. In the future if you see these, please visit the Quran, read three verse before and three verses after the verse, and you will appreciate the wisdom of all loving merciful and just God. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><b> 1. You can rape, marry and divorce pre-Pubescent girls; Qur’an 65:4</b><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Real Verse: 65:4<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Now as for such of your women as are beyond, the age of monthly courses, as well as for such as do not have any courses,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[10]</span></sup></a><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">their waiting-period - if you have any doubt [about it] - shall be three [calendar] months; and as for those who are with child, the end of their waiting-term shall come when they deliver their burden. And for everyone who is conscious of God, He makes it easy to obey His commandment:<br /><br />This is goofy and there is nothing to discuss, next?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">2. </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px; text-indent: -0.25in;">You can enslave for Sex and work; Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 5:89, 33:50, 58:3, 70:30</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br />I will pick first and the last of the 6 verses.<br /><br />4:3<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And if you have reason to fear that you might not act equitably towards orphans, then marry from among [other] women such as are lawful to you<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[3]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">- [even] two, or three, or four: but if you have reason to fear that you might not be able to treat them with equal fairness, then [only] one - or [from among] those whom you rightfully possess.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[4]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">This will make it more likely that you will not deviate from the right course.<br /><br />70:30<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[not giving way to their desires] with any but their spouses - that is, those whom they rightfully possess [through wedlock] - :<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[13]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">for then, behold, they are free of all blame,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. You can beat sex slaves, work slaves, and wives</span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px; text-indent: -0.25in;">Qur’an 4:34 </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br />4:34<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(L.Bakhtiar)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Men are supporters of wives because God gave some of them an advantage over others and because they spent of their wealth. So the females, ones in accord with morality are the females, ones who are morally obligated and the females, ones who guard the unseen of what God kept safe. And those females whose resistance you fear, then admonish them (f) and abandon them (f) in their sleeping places and go away<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>from</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>them (f). Then if they (f) obeyed you, then look not for any way against them (f). Truly, God had been Lofty, Great.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Comment: “</span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">beat them<span class="apple-converted-space">” was the interpretation that was produced for its full history, however, a scholar by the name Laleh Bakhtiar, had done thorough research in 2012 and has rectified the error. The Arabic word for beat is Daraba, which was used 21 other times in Quran to mean “separation” and sorry to say, men have always interpreted what suits them, and this is one of the few instances. Quite a lot is written about it including my own presentation at World Muslim Congress:</span></span><a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2014/05/wife-beating-is-culture-of-men-and-not.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">http://www.worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2014/05/wife-beating-is-culture-of-men-and-not.html</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">4:34<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>MEN SHALL take full care of women with the bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on the former than on the latter,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[42]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">and with what they may spend out of their possessions. And the righteous women are the truly devout ones, who guard the intimacy which God has [ordained to be] guarded.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[43]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">And as for those women whose ill-will<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[44]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">you have reason to fear, admonish them [first]; then leave them alone in bed; then beat them;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[45]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">and if thereupon they pay you heed, do not seek to harm them. Behold, God is indeed most high, great!<span class="apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br />24:4<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And as for those who accuse chaste women [of adultery],</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[6]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">and then are unable to produce four witnesses [in support of their accusation], flog them with eighty stripes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[7]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">and ever after refuse to accept from them any testimony - since it is they, they that are truly depraved!<span class="apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[6]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">The term rnuhsanat denotes literally ‘‘women who are fortified [against unchastity]", i.e., by marriage and/or faith and self-respect, implying that, from a legal point of view, every woman must he considered chaste unless a conclusive proof to the contrary is produced. (The passage relates to women other than the accusers own wife, for in the latter case - as shown in verses 6-9 - the law of evidence and the consequences are different.(Quran Ref: 24:4 )<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[7]</span></sup></a><sup><span style="line-height: 13.7041673660278px;"> </span></sup><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">By obvious implication, this injunction applies also to cases where a woman accuses a man of illicit sexual intercourse, and is subsequently unable to prove her accusation legally. The severity of the punishment to be meted out in such cases, as well as the requirement of four witnesses - instead of the two that Islamic Law regards as sufficient in all other criminal and civil suits - is based on the imperative necessity of preventing slander and off-hand accusations. As laid down in several authentic sayings of the Prophet, the evidence of the four witnesses must be direct, and not merely circumstantial: in other words, it is not sufficient for them to have witnessed a situation which made it evident that sexual intercourse was taking or had taken place: they must have witnessed the sexual act as such, and must be able to prove this to the entire satisfaction of the judicial authority (Razi, summing up the views of the greatest exponents of Islamic Law). Since such a complete evidence is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to obtain, it is obvious that the purpose of the above Quranic injunction is to preclude, in practice, all third-party accusations relating to illicit sexual intercourse - for, "man has been created weak’’ (4:28) - and to make a proof of adultery dependent on a voluntary, faith-inspired confession of the guilty parties themselves.(Quran Ref: 24:4 )<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br />9:29 (Asad) [And] fight against those who - despite having been vouchsafed revelation [aforetime] [40] -do not [truly] believe either in God or the Last Day, and do not consider forbidden that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, [41] and do not follow the religion of truth [which God has enjoined upon them] [42] till they [agree to] pay the exemption tax with a willing hand, after having been humbled [in war]. [43]<br /><br />There is no mention of Jews and Christians, the propaganda masters have made it up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“pay the exemption tax with a willing hand, after having been humbled” . Humbled- meaning acceptance of their wrong, not necessarily subduing. It is a common practice in the US if the suing party is silly and outrageous, the attorney fee incurred is granted to the wrong doer. It is a penalty for the unwanted aggression.<br /><br />Full discourse is at: </span></span><a href="http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2010/03/quraan-2256-free-will-v-929-compulsion.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2010/03/quraan-2256-free-will-v-929-compulsion.html</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br />8:12<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Lo! Thy Sustainer inspired the angels [to convey this His message to the believers]: "I am with you !"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[13]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">[And He commanded the angels:] "And, give firmness unto those who have attained to faith [with these words from Me]:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[14]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">`I shall cast terror into the hearts of those who are bent on denying the truth; strike, then, their necks, [O believers,] and strike off every one of their finger-tips!"<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[15]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">8:13<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>This, because they have cut themselves off from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[16]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">God and His Apostle: and as for him who cuts himself off from God and His Apostle - verily, God is severe in retribution<br /><br />47:4<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>NOW WHEN you meet [in war] those who are bent on denying the truth,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[4]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">smite their necks until you overcome them fully, and then tighten their bonds;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[5]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">but thereafter [set them free,] either by an act of grace or against ransom, so that the burden of war may be lifted:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[6]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">thus [shall it be]. And [know that] had God so willed, He could indeed punish them [Himself]; but [He wills you to struggle] so as to test you [all] by means of one another.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[7]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">And as for those who are slain in God’s cause, never will He let their deeds go to waste</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-indent: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br />9:111<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>BEHOLD, God has bought of the believers their lives and their possessions, promising them paradise in return, ,[and so] they fight in God's cause, and slay, and are slain: a promise which in truth He has willed upon Himself in [the words of] the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Qur'an. And who could be more faithful to his covenant than God? Rejoice, then, in the bargain which you have made with Him: for this, this is the triumph supreme!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br />9:111<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Y. Ali)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah. Then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.<span class="apple-converted-space"><br /><br />Two translations have been checked, and there is no mention about Virgins. Some men have interpreted Supreme Achievement to getting girls, but that is not in Quran. Wrong people always resort to propaganda to malign religion, or recruit guys with girl greed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">I will be presenting three translations for you to see the difference in expression.<br /><br />2:217 ( L. Bakhtiar) They ask thee about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say: Fighting in it is deplorable and barring from the way of God and ingratitude to Him. And to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>bar from</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Masjid al-Haram, and expelling people from it<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>are</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>more deplorable with God. And persecution is more deplorable than killing. And they cease not to fight you until they repel you from your way of life, if they are able. And whoever of you goes back on his way of life, then, dies while he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>one who is ungrateful, those, their actions were fruitless in the present and in the world to come. And those<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>will be</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Companions of the Fire. They<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>are</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ones who will dwell in it forever.</span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br />2:217<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Y. Ali)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited Month. Say: "Fighting therein is a grave (offence); but graver is it in the sight of Allah to prevent access to the path of Allah, to deny Him, to prevent access to the Sacred Mosque, and drive out its members." Tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter. Nor will they cease fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if they can. And if any of you Turn back from their faith and die in unbelief, their works will bear no fruit in this life and in the Hereafter; they will be companions of the Fire and will abide therein.<br /><br />2:217<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>They will ask thee about fighting in the sacred month.</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[202]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Say: "Fighting in it is an awesome thing (grave transgression); but turning men away from the path of God and denying Him, and [turning them away from] the Inviolable House of Worship and expelling its people there from - [all this] is yet more awesome (greater transgression) in the sight of God, since oppression is more awesome (greater transgression) than killing." [Your enemies] will not cease to fight against you till they have turned you away from your faith, if they can. But if any of you should turn away from his faith and die as a denier of the truth - these it is whose works will go for nought in this world and in the life to come; and these it is who are destined for the fire, therein to abide. (please note I have used the world Awful in place of Awesome)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">47:4<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Y. Ali)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye commanded): but if it had been Allah's Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah,- He will never let their deeds be lost.<br /><br />47:4<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>NOW WHEN you meet [in war] those who are bent on denying the truth,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[4]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">smite their necks until you overcome them fully, and then tighten their bonds;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[5]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">but thereafter [set them free,] either by an act of grace or against ransom, so that the burden of war may be lifted:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[6]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">thus [shall it be]. And [know that] had God so willed, He could indeed punish them [Himself]; but [He wills you to struggle] so as to test you [all] by means of one another.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[7]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">And as for those who are slain in God’s cause, never will He let their deeds go to waste:<br /><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">47:4 (L.Bakhtiar) So when you met those who were ungrateful, then, strike their thick necks until you gave them a sound thrashing. Then, tie them fast with restraints. And afterwards either<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>have</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>good will<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>towards them</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or take ransom for them until the war<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ends</i>, laying down its heavy load. Thus,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>so! But if God willed, He Himself would have, certainly, avenged you. But<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it is</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to try some of you with some others. As for those who were slain in the way of God, He will never cause their actions to go astray.</span><br /><br /><i>Please read the Quran formula above. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">M.Asad, “And so, when the sacred months are over, slay those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God wherever you may come upon them, and take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place! Yet if they repent, and take to prayer, and render the purifying dues, let them go their way: for, behold, God is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace.”<br /><br />Y.Ali “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. “<br /><br />Personally, as a pluralist, I have a problem with the translations. Glad to see Asad explain “ascribe divinity to aught beside God” versus the world “Pagan” used by Yusuf Ali, and “Polytheists by many others”. I would not use the word Pagan, as God does not mean all Pagans, but those who are in war with you , forcing you to disbelieve. Asad is much closer to the meaning of Quran. Someday, I will write, to make it communicate the meaning to a Hindu, Jews, Christian or a Pagan.<br /> </span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br /><i>Please read the Quran formula above. </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">8:60<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hence, make ready against them whatever force and war mounts<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[64]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">you are able to muster, so that you might deter thereby the enemies of God, who are your enemies as well,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[65]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">and others besides them of whom you may be unaware, [but] of whom God is aware; and whatever you may expend<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[66]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">in God's cause shall be repaid to you in full, and you shall not be wronged.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">16:106<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>As for anyone who denies God after having once attained to faith-and this, to be sure, does not apply to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[133]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">one who does it under duress, the while his heart remains true to his faith,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[134]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">but [only, to] him who willingly opens up his heart to a denial of the truth-: upon all such [falls] God's condemnation, and tremendous suffering awaits them:<br /></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[134]</span></sup></a><sup><span style="line-height: 13.7041673660278px;"> </span></sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 238); line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Lit., "one who is coerced, the while his heart is at rest in [his] faith". This relates to believers who, under torture or threat of death, ostensibly "recant" in order to save themselves. Although the Qur'an makes it clear in several places that martyrdom in the cause of faith is highly meritorious, "God does not burden any human being with more than he is well able to bear" (cf. 2:233 and 286, 6:152, 7:42, 23:62, and many other Qur'anic statements to the same effect).<i>(Quran Ref: 16:106 )</i></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br /><br />40:28<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Asad)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>At that, a believing man of Pharaoh’s family, who [until then] had concealed his faith, exclaimed:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[19]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">“Would you slay a man because he says, ‘God is my Sustainer’ - seeing, withal, that he has brought you all evidence of this truth from your Sustainer? Now if he be a liar, his lie will fall back on him; but if he is a man of truth, something [of the punishment] whereof he warns you is bound to befall you: for, verily, God would not grace with His guidance one who has wasted his own self by lying [about Him].<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">[20]</span></sup></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> </span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(231, 231, 231); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: black; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> </span>Thank you</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span family="SCRIPT" lang="0" ptsize="12"><br />mike</span><span family="SANSSERIF" lang="0" ptsize="10"><br />Mike Ghouse, President<br />America Together Foundation<br />(214) 325-1916 text/talk</span><span family="SANSSERIF" lang="0" ptsize="10"><br />............................................................................................................................... </span><span family="SANSSERIF" lang="0" ptsize="10"><br />Mike Ghouse is a public speaker, thinker, writer and a commentator on<a href="http://foundationforpluralism.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Pluralism</a>, <a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Islam</a>, <a href="http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">India</a>, <a href="http://www.israelpalestinedialouge.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Israel-Palestine</a>, <a href="http://centerforamericanpolitics.blogspot.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Politics</a> and other issues of the day. He is a human rights activist, and his book standing up for others will be out soon | He is producing a full feature film " <a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Sacred</a>" to be released on 9/11 and a documentary "<a href="http://www.americatogetherfoundation.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Americans together</a>" for a July 4 release. He is a frequent guest commentator on Fox News and syndicated Talk Radio shows and a writer at major news papers including Dallas Morning News and Huffington Post. All about him is listed in 63 links at <a href="http://www.mikeghouse.net/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">www.MikeGhouse.net</a> and his writings are at <a href="http://www.theghousediary.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">www.TheGhousediary.com</a> - Mike is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. </span></span></div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-41146135956903708572015-03-14T19:29:00.000-05:002015-03-14T19:32:51.335-05:00Harvard recognises Quranic verse 4:135 as one of the greatest expressions of justice<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;">I have written over 200 articles at Dallas Morning News on Pluralism, they include quotes from most religions and most certainly from Quran. On November 12, 2013, I wrote in the article; The verse inscribed at Harvard is from 4:135 where as the one I quoted was from 5:8</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;"><b style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;">Texas Faith: What words of religious faith should politicians really hear and heed?</b><br /><span style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;">For those who serve in public office, I would recommend the following verse.</span><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;">Quran, 5:8 (Asad translation): “O YOU who have attained to faith! Be ever steadfast in your devotion to God, bearing witness to the truth in all equity; and never let hatred of any-one lead you into the sin of deviating from justice. Be just: this is closest to being God-conscious. And remain conscious of God: verily, God is aware of all that you do.”</span><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;">The word hatred has multiple meanings in this case – bias to color, race, appearance, deport and other temperamental proclivities are destructive to everyone at the end. Injustice to one is injustice to all – MLK.</span><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;">There are innumerable examples of Prophet Muhammad and the first four Caliphs punishing their own kith and kin against the complaints of injustice from others. They paid a price to build a society, where one can trust each other and mind their own pursuit of happiness. Justice is what keeps the society going forward.</span><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;">Islam is built around five core values; Mercy, Justice, truth, equality and humility. Everything else is structured to achieve these combined values lumped out as Taqwa, Trust or simply piety. The most dominant characteristic of God, as repeated in Quran is Mercy.</span><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px;">To see the response of other Panelists, go to Dallas Morning News at -</span><a href="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/11/texas-faith-what-words-of-religious-faith-should-politicians-really-heed.html/?nclick_check=1#more-31522" style="line-height: 20.2222232818604px; text-decoration: none;">http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/11/texas-faith-what-words-of-religious-faith-should-politicians-really-heed.html/?nclick_check=1#more-31522</a><br /><br />Mike Ghouse </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;"># # #<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ciibroadcasting.com/2013/01/24/harvard-recognises-quranic-verse-as-one-of-the-greatest-expressions-of-justice/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.ciibroadcasting.com/2013/01/24/harvard-recognises-quranic-verse-as-one-of-the-greatest-expressions-of-justice/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harvard Law School, one of the most prestigious institutions of its kind in the world, has posted a verse of the Holy Quraan at the entrance of its faculty library, describing the verse as one of the greatest expressions of justice in history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Verse 135 of Surah Al Nisa (The Women) has been posted at a wall facing the faculty’s main entrance, dedicated to the best phrases articulating justice:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to a Saudi daily, a Saudi student who studies at Harvard first highlighted the development when he published a picture of the display on his Twitter page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I noticed that the verse was posted by the faculty of law, which described it as one of the greatest expressions for justice in history,” Abdullah Jumma said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Established in 1817, Harvard is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. Among its alumni is US President Barack Obama and a host of influential journalists, writers, media and business leaders and even professional athletes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to its official <a href="http://library.law.harvard.edu/justicequotes/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">website</a>, The Words of Justice exhibition is a testimony of the endurance of humanity’s yearning for fairness and dignity through law. “The words on these walls affirm the power and irrepressibility of the idea of justice.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are approximately two dozen quotations on display in the art installation created by the Law School. The three most prominently displayed at the entrance of the art installation, are quotes from St. Augustine, the Holy Quraan and the Magna Carta. According to the Harvard Law School these quotations illustrate the universality of the concept of justice throughout time and cultures.</span></div>
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Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-22967478818517150182015-03-05T09:53:00.001-06:002015-03-05T10:20:42.424-06:003:64 Other than your religion, related with 3:85<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Site: <a href="http://www.quraantoday.com/">www.QuraanToday.com</a> <br />Link: <a href="http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2015/03/364-other-than-your-religion-related.html">http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2015/03/364-other-than-your-religion-related.html</a></span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />The more I continue to review, the
more universality I read in Quran.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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Years ago I compiled the diverse understanding on 3:85 which had been
mis-interpreted for ages. Here it is- <a href="http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2010/09/q385-other-than-islam.html" title="http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2010/09/q385-other-than-islam.html">http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2010/09/q385-other-than-islam.html</a><br />
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while writing a note about a presentation for Aligarh University, verse 3:64
was part of the note and information came from Corpus.Quran.com, as always, I
have added the translation from Muhammad Asad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My personal
understanding of the verse is based on the belief that the entire
humanity, including different religions and traditions
subscribe to the oneness of the source and cause of creation. Even
though Christians assign divinity to Jesus, Jews to Ezra, Hindus to Vishnu,
Shiva and Brahma as representations of God, and others have similar and
differing beliefs, there is still an understanding that the source is one,
understanding is multiple. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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God is advising to the be truthful, state your belief and acknowledge the
otherness of other's belief (109.6) , but come to common terms and
figure out how to work together. The best ones among you are the ones who learn
about each other. Knowledge leads to understanding and understanding to
acceptance and appreciation of another point of view. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bottom line
- we have to create cohesive societies that function well
together and no one has to live in apprehension or fear of the other.<br />
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Mike Ghouse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">World Muslim Congress<br />www.MikeGhouse.net<br /># # #</span><br />
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l-dukhān (The Smoke)</option><option value="45">Chapter (45) sūrat l-jāthiyah (Crouching)</option><option value="46">Chapter (46) sūrat l-aḥqāf (The Curved Sand-hills)</option><option value="47">Chapter (47) sūrat muḥammad</option><option value="48">Chapter (48) sūrat l-fatḥ (The Victory)</option><option value="49">Chapter (49) sūrat l-ḥujurāt (The Dwellings)</option><option value="50">Chapter (50) sūrat qāf</option><option value="51">Chapter (51) sūrat l-dhāriyāt (The Wind that Scatter)</option><option value="52">Chapter (52) sūrat l-ṭūr (The Mount)</option><option value="53">Chapter (53) sūrat l-najm (The Star)</option><option value="54">Chapter (54) sūrat l-qamar (The Moon)</option><option value="55">Chapter (55) sūrat l-raḥmān (The Most Gracious)</option><option value="56">Chapter (56) sūrat l-wāqiʿah (The Event)</option><option value="57">Chapter (57) sūrat l-ḥadīd (The Iron)</option><option value="58">Chapter (58) sūrat l-mujādilah (She That Disputeth)</option><option 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l-muzamil (The One wrapped in Garments)</option><option value="74">Chapter (74) sūrat l-mudathir (The One Enveloped)</option><option value="75">Chapter (75) sūrat l-qiyāmah (The Resurrection)</option><option value="76">Chapter (76) sūrat l-insān (Man)</option><option value="77">Chapter (77) sūrat l-mur'salāt (Those sent forth)</option><option value="78">Chapter (78) sūrat l-naba (The Great News)</option><option value="79">Chapter (79) sūrat l-nāziʿāt (Those who Pull Out)</option><option value="80">Chapter (80) sūrat ʿabasa (He frowned)</option><option value="81">Chapter (81) sūrat l-takwīr (The Overthrowing)</option><option value="82">Chapter (82) sūrat l-infiṭār (The Cleaving)</option><option value="83">Chapter (83) sūrat l-muṭafifīn (Those Who Deal in Fraud)</option><option value="84">Chapter (84) sūrat l-inshiqāq (The Splitting Asunder)</option><option value="85">Chapter (85) sūrat l-burūj (The Big Stars)</option><option value="86">Chapter (86) sūrat l-ṭāriq (The 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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3:64 (Asad) Say: "O followers of earlier revelation! Come unto that tenet which we and you hold in common: <sup><a class="notelink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><b>[49]</b></a></sup> that we shall worship none but God, and that we shall not ascribe divinity to aught beside Him, and that we shall not take human beings for our lords beside God." <sup><a class="notelink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><b>[50]</b></a></sup>And if they turn away, then say: "Bear witness that it is we who have surrendered ourselves unto Him." <span class="audiolink" style="color: grey; font-stretch: normal;">- <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #660066;"><img border="0" src="http://www.islamicity.com/Global/images/real-icons/Audio_icon.gif" /></a></span> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2EislamiCity%2Ecom%2Fquransearch%2F%3Fref%3D3%3A64%26lang%3DAsad" style="color: #660066; text-decoration: none;" target="_new"><img border="0" src="http://www.islamicity.com/global/images/photo/Facebook/facebookSmallIcon__14x15.JPG" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a good piece by Dr. Shanavas on freedom of speech as well as blasphemy.<br /><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Indeed, Freedom of expression is the God-given right of every human, and is the foundation of civil societies. Indeed, it is the freedom of speech that has allowed Islam to grow in Europe and America. We should honor and respect that freedom with all our heart, mind and spirit. We cannot betray the very ideals that gave us the freedom to be who we are, and we cannot allow anyone to violate others freedom.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These men need to know, that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was criticized, attempts were made to kill him, and he was even harassed including getting pelted with rocks that hurt him. What did he do in return? Retaliate? Hurt them? None of it, instead he prayed for their well being. If you are a follower of the Prophet, you need to be a mercy to fellow humans and not a terrorist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My prayers are with the people of France and with the victims of Muslim terrorists all over the world. If caricature of a prophet can disturb the respect and love of him in his followers, that prophet does not deserve my reverence.</div>
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Unlike the terrorists’ prophet, my Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and the Qur'an stand tall on the side of free press by asking Muslims to ignore the insults and extend kindness and decency to mockers and in worse cases to withdraw from the source of mockery.</div>
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According to Qur’an, the right to blaspheme is essential to the Islamic order, but there is no duty to blaspheme or react violently to blasphemy.</div>
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“And verily messengers before you were mocked but in the end, the mockers were overwhelmed by the very thing they ridiculed.” [Qur’an 21:41.]</div>
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“Indulge [people] with forgiveness, [accepting] what issues spontaneously from people's manners [of behavior], and do not scrutinize them, and enjoin kindness, decency, and turn away from the ignorant, and do not counter their stupidity with the like.” [Qur’an 7:199]</div>
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“You shall most certainly be tried in your possessions and in your persons; and indeed you shall hear many hurtful things from those to whom revelation was granted before your time, as well as from those who have come to ascribe divinity to other beings beside God. But if you remain patient in adversity and conscious of Him - this, behold, is something to set one's heart upon.” [Qur’an 3:186]</div>
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“When you see those who engage in discourse about Our signs, the Qur'an, in mockery, turn away from them, and do not sit with them, until they discourse on some other topic…”[Qur’an 6:68]</div>
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"And obey not (the behests) of the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and ignore their insults, but put thy Trust in Allah. For enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs." (Qur’an 33:48)</div>
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None of the verses mentions the abridgement of free speech for non-Muslims even if it is painful, insulting, and indecent. In fact, free speech is abridged for Muslims because they are expected to ignore any mockery and make a polite exit from the scene in Verse 6:68. So, all Muslims must promote and defend free press. An honorable response from Muslims to insult or other matters is clearly defined in the following verses:</div>
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“And not equal are the good deed and the bad. Repel evil deed by that [deed] which is better; and thereupon the one whom between you and him is enmity [will become] as though he was a devoted friend.” [Qur’an 41:34]</div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amalda,<br />
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You and I are fulfilling the purpose of a dialogue – that is to share each
other’s point of view without having to agree it all but a few points at one
time, but more importantly respectfully understand it.<br />
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I do agree that there are Muslims, (not the majority as we have severe
discussions about it) who think Allah is theirs, and others have their own. It
is considered greatest sin in Islam to think that there is more than one God. Last week we produced three video discussions
with one of the respected Imams of Dallas, myself leading it, and 5 others –
and this very point was discussed. Hope to get the video out in a week on
YouTube. <br />
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I wrote several articles, and one of them impacted the Malaysian clergy to back
out on the same issue, along with several other writers and protestors – Who
Owns Allah? <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/who-owns-allah-the-god-th_b_4143551.html" title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/who-owns-allah-the-god-th_b_4143551.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ghouse/who-owns-allah-the-god-th_b_4143551.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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things are happening in Iraq, ISIS, and Bangladesh… Darfur Genocides was bad;
thank God it is limited to those few nations. We have our own shameful history too with
Sikhs and Muslims, and I hope RSS does no mess it up further and I pray for
Modi to speak up and show that he in charge and stay on the course of vikas and
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Let’s blame the bad guys, and punish them as Bangladesh is doing instead of blaming
the religion, it amounts to aimless barking and serves nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you<br />
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mike<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In a message
dated 1/5/2015 11:33:58 A.M. Central Standard Time, xxxDALLAS@aol.com writes:</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Mike:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Didn't want to
prolong this debate. I agree with what you have said that we should not blame a
religion for misdeed by a few but need to point out one very important and
disturbing aspect of Muslim thinking. That is, the majority of Muslims (not
you) tacitly and foolishly think that Allah is a different (superior) God from
"other Gods". Allah, in most translation, has not been changed
to God giving rise to an impression that Allah and Islam are a
superior entity from others (Islamic God only). You have correctly used the
word God in your English translation but most do not. They purposely do
not change the word Allah in their translation and Muslims
literally believe that if non Muslims do not pray to Allah (by converting
to Islam) they are non believers and non religious so can be killed
wherever found. In short, respect for other religion is lacking in Islam.
As long as they don't believe "God is Allah and Allah is God",
mass genocide in Islamic countries will continue. HOPE OUR FRIENDS IN
RSS DO NOT FOLLOW THAT PATH.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a message dated
1/5/2015 2:20:57 A.M. Central Standard Time, MikeGhouse@aol.com writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Quranic verses 4:89; 9:5
and 9:29<br />
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Amalda, your commentary was serious and here I am taking the time to
respond you. You have a genuine desire to seek the truth, which you have
to find it on your own. Here is however
my story and my take. If I had sensed you were merely attacking, I would
not have responded. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You still have no answered my questions from my
previous response; instead you have asked more questions. Could you please
respond to those questions?<br />
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I chose to walk out of Islam for precisely the same reason that you have quoted
for nearly 30 years of my life. I was
an Atheist until 1999, however, I was always respectful of all religions and
referred to them occasionally, one such day, I flipped pages in Bhagvad Gita
and found this life changing idea “Finding the truth is one’s own
responsibility “and it hit me like a ton of bricks – that very same morning I
heard similar attacks on Islam on the TV and I agreed with the attackers. I
decided to reject “all the hearsay” about Islam and check it out one more time
objectively. Thanks to Bhagvad Gita’s wisdom, I chose to become a Muslim, it is
one of the three reasons, there are several write up and videos on my site
about it. <br />
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I will not elaborate, as you have to find your own truth. I have done a major conference on Quran in
Dallas – with debates on TV and Dallas Morning News – details are at <a href="http://www.quraanconference.com/" title="http://www.quraanconference.com/">www.Quraanconference.com</a> <br />
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There is a consistency in Quran in dealing with conflicts, and here it is:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It may
be worth your while to see the list of the mistranslated verses and how the
fear mongers in the market have capitalized on those. The best way to
understand Quran is to remember, "If it is not about justice, mercy and
creating harmony", then the translation is wrong. Go back and read it
several times, three verse before the 'wrongfully maligned' verse and three
afterwards, and read at least three to four translations. Quran in Arabic is
precisely same and well preserved, but its translation and interpretations are
not. The treatment of verses is at www.Quraantoday.com and the full story of
Quran conference is at <a href="http://www.quraanconference.com/" title="http://www.quraanconference.com/">www.Quraanconference.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Quran
structured as follows to deal with conflict.<br />
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1. If someone is aggressive and is in an attacking mode<br />
2. You ask them to back off and not attack back<br />
3. If they still attack you, you chase them<br />
4. If they hide, find them wherever they are<br />
5. If they jump on you, kill them before they kill you.<br />
7. However, if they back off and repent, do not attack them anymore<br />
6. If they sincerely want to be friend, give them the chance.<br />
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In response to your note about the three verses, I have copied a verse before the verse you
quoted, and a verse after that to see for yourselves. Ideally, three before and
three after would be better. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white;">Here is
your note, <br />
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<<< </span> Muslims who become
apostates must be murdered (Quran 4:89).<br />
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There is no freewill for non-Muslims who
refuse to accept Islam. They must be murdered as per Quran 9:5 if they are
idol-worshippers; or in the case of Christians/Jews, they submit to Islam, pay
a submission tax and live as oppressed dhimmi under Muslim domination [Quran
9:29]. <br />
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These are just two of the numerous Quranic verses, ordering conquest and murder
of non-Muslims. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And here is my response;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Straight from Quran’s authentice
translations by Muhammad Asad<br />
Online at: <a href="http://www.islamicity.com/quransearch/" title="http://www.islamicity.com/quransearch/">http://www.islamicity.com/quransearch/</a>
Please feel free to check anything you want. There are still three verses that have
been misinterpreted, and which is being corrected in the other translations. If you are serious, I will give you a copy of
the Quran. <br />
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4:88 <b>(Asad)</b> How, then, could you be of two minds <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=4&note=106","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[106]</b></a></sup> about
the hypocrites, seeing that God [Himself] has disowned them because of their
guilt? <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=4&note=107","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[107]</b></a></sup> Do
you, perchance, seek to guide those whom God has let go astray - when for him
whom God lets go astray thou canst never find any way? - <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4:89 <b>(Asad)</b> They
would love to see you deny the truth even as they have denied it, so that you
should be like them. Do not, therefore, take them for your allies until they
forsake the domain of evil <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=4&note=108","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[108]</b></a></sup> for
the sake of God; and if they revert to [open] enmity, seize them and slay them
wherever you may find them. And do not take any of them <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=4&note=109","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[109]</b></a></sup>for
your ally or giver of succour, - <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4:90 <b>(Asad)</b> unless
it be such [of them] as have ties with people to whom you yourselves are bound
by a covenant, or such as come unto you because their hearts shrink from [the
thought of] making war either on you or on their own folk - although, if God
had willed to make them stronger than you, they would certainly have made war
on you. <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=4&note=110","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[110]</b></a></sup>Thus,
if they let you be, and do not make war on you, and offer you peace, God does
not allow you to harm them. <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=4&note=111","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[111]</b></a></sup><sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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9:4 <b>(Asad)</b> But
excepted shall be <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=4","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[4]</b></a></sup> -from
among those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God - [people] with whom you
[O believers] have made a covenant and who thereafter have in no wise failed to
fulfil their obligations towards you, and neither have aided anyone against
you: observe, then, your covenant with them until the end of the term agreed
with them. <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=5","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[5]</b></a></sup> Verily,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9:5 <b>(Asad)</b> And
so, when the sacred months are over <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=6","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[6]</b></a></sup> ,
slay those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God wherever you may come upon
them, <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=7","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[7]</b></a></sup> and
take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every
conceivable place <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=8","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[8]</b></a></sup> !
Yet if they repent, and take to prayer, and render the purifying dues, let them
go their way: for, behold, God is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace. <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=9","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[9]</b></a></sup> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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7: Read in conjunction with the two preceding verses, as well as with
2:190-194, the above verse relates to warfare already in progress with people
who have become guilty of a breach of treaty obligations and of aggression</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9:6 <b>(Asad)</b> And
if any of those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God seeks thy
protection, <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=10","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[10]</b></a></sup> grant
him protection, so that he might [be able to] hear the word of God [from thee];
and thereupon convey him to a place where he can feel secure: <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=11","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[11]</b></a></sup> this,
because they [may be] people who [sin only because they] do not know [the
truth]. - <span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9:28 <b>(Asad)</b> O
YOU who have attained to faith! Those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God
are nothing but impure: <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=37","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[37]</b></a></sup> and
so they shall not approach the Inviolable House of Worship from this year
onwards <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=38","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[38]</b></a></sup> And
should you fear poverty, then [know that] in time God will enrich you out of
His bounty, if He so wills: <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=39","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[39]</b></a></sup> for,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9:29 <b>(Asad)</b> [And]
fight against those who - despite having been vouchsafed revelation
[aforetime] <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=40","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[40]</b></a></sup> -do
not [truly] believe either in God or the Last Day, and do not consider
forbidden that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=41","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[41]</b></a></sup> and
do not follow the religion of truth [which God has enjoined upon them] <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=42","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[42]</b></a></sup> till
they [agree to] pay the exemption tax with a willing hand, after having been
humbled [in war].<sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=43","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[43]</b></a></sup> - <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Note 42 – All people have
their religion, and when they violate their own religion</span><br />
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Note 43 - <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 238);">every able-bodied Muslim is liable to
compulsory military service. Since this is, primarily, a religious obligation,
non-Muslim citizens, who do not subscribe to the ideology of Islam, cannot in
fairness be expected to assume a similar burden. On the other hand, they must
be accorded full protection of all their civic rights and of their religious
freedom: and it is in order to compensate the Muslim community for this unequal
distribution of civic burdens that a special tax is levied on non-Muslim
citizens (ahl adh-dhimmah, lit., "covenanted" [or "protected"]
people", i.e., non-Muslims whose safety is statutorily assured by the
Muslim community). Thus, jizyah is no more and no less than an exemption tax in
lieu of military service and in compensation for the "covenant of
protection" (dhimmah) accorded to such citizens by the Islamic state.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9:30 <b>(Asad)</b> AND
THE JEWS say, "Ezra is God's son," while the Christians say,
"The Christ is God's son." Such are the sayings which they utter with
their mouths, following in spirit assertions made in earlier times by people who
denied the truth! <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=44","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[44]</b></a></sup> [They
deserve the imprecation:] "May God destroy them!" <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=45","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[45]</b></a></sup> How
perverted are their minds! <sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript:var winNote=window.open("shownote.asp?chap=9&note=46","winNote","width=500,height=500,resizable=1,scrollbars=1")"><b>[46]</b></a></sup> - <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="javascript://"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you<br />
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mike<b><br />
Mike Ghouse</b><br />
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Mike Ghouse
is a public speaker, thinker, writer and a commentator on Pluralism at work
place, politics, religion, society, gender, race, culture, ethnicity, food and
foreign policy. He is a staunch defender of human rights and his book
standing up for others will be out soon, and a movie "Americans
together" is in the making. He is a frequent guest commentator
on Fox News and syndicated Talk Radio shows and a writer at major news papers
including Dallas Morning News and Huffington Post. All about him is
listed in 63 links at <a href="http://www.mikeghouse.net/" title="http://www.mikeghouse.net/">www.MikeGhouse.net</a> and
his writings are at <a href="http://www.theghousediary.com/" title="http://www.theghousediary.com/">www.TheGhousediary.com</a> and
10 other blogs. He is committed to building cohesive societies and offers
pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a message
dated 1/5/2015 12:27:45 A.M. Central Standard Time, xxxDALLAS@aol.com writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1670103292460933868" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS" title="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Muslims who become apostates must be murdered (Quran 4:89).
There is no freewill for non-Muslims who refuse to accept Islam. They must be
murdered as per Quran 9:5 if they are idol-worshippers; or in the case of
Christians/Jews, they submit to Islam, pay a submission tax and live as
oppressed dhimmi under Muslim domination [Quran 9:29]. These are just two of
the numerous Quranic verses, ordering conquest and murder of non-Muslims. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a message dated 1/4/2015
11:46:52 P.M. Central Standard Time, MikeGhouse@aol.com writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amalda,<br />
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What has religion got to do with crimes committed by individuals?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can you tell me,
didn't Hindus kill other Hindus in the wars before? Right from Vedic times to
Mahabharata to 10th Century India? How many Hindus Ashoka Slaughtered before
becoming a Buddhist? How many Sikhs did Hindus murder in 3 days and again
within a week, how many Muslims did Hindus slaughter and raped during the
Gujarat riots? Was Hindu Religion Violent? Hell no, neither Islam is violent or
peaceful nor Hinduism is. People are violent, and not all people, a small
percentage of them in every group. Wake up and see the facts. We have to blame
the wrong doers and not others. <br />
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Nuclear power in the hands of bad guys is dangerous, where as the same nuclear
power in the hands of good people is beneficent. Religion is innocent just as
the nuclear power. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4 Million Americans
are in Jails, where as 314 Million are not. Same law books apply to
both - is the law books wrong? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the case you have
cited - Muslims have killed Muslims and we did a program on that. What has
Islam got to do with the tyrants? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A wrong is a wrong no matter who commits it. A rapist must be punished as
rapist and not as a Hindu or a Muslim; a terrorist must be punished as a
terrorist and not as a Muslim or a Hindu. Blame the individual and not the
religion. You can punish the guy and restore justice in the society, but you
cannot punish the religion, it is not a thing - and you cannot kill, kick,
hang, beat up, shoot or bury the religion, then why bark at it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you know anything
about statistics, you would ascribe insignificant numbers to denote the
whole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you<br /><b><br />
Mike Ghouse</b><br /># # #</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a message
dated 1/4/2015 10:58:49 P.M. Central Standard Time, xxxDALLAS@aol.com writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br />
ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE !</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a message dated
1/4/2015 8:32:01 A.M. Central Standard Time, xxx001@gmail.com writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my dear bhakti ,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">u might recall my
pointing out (sometime back)that releasing the Paki POWs who were on a binge in
India at the indian taxpayers expense was-to me-good riddance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HOWEVER<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The perpetrators of
the genocicde and in particular the selective killing of intellectual(some of
it occured hours <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">before gen niazi's
aurrender-should have been tried for war crimes and i would have been glad to
see them get it in the neck <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">samir <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_killing_of_Bengali_intellectuals" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_killing_of_Bengali_intellectuals"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1971 killing of
Bengali intellectuals</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rayerbazar killing
field photographed immediately after the war started, showing bodies of Bengali
nationalist intellectuals (<i>Image courtesy: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Talukdar" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Talukdar"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rashid Talukdar</span></a>, 1971</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During the war, the Pakistan Army and
its local collaborators, mainly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Jamaat-e-Islami" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Jamaat-e-Islami"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jamaat e Islami</span></a> carried
out a systematic execution of the leading Bengali intellectuals. A number of
professors from Dhaka University were killed during the first few days of the
war.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-Blood978-49" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-Blood978-49"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[49]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-roy02homage-50" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-roy02homage-50"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[50]</span></a></sup> However,
the most extreme cases of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing"><span style="text-decoration: none;">targeted killing</span></a> of
intellectuals took place during the last few days of the war. Professors,
journalists, doctors, artists, engineers and writers were rounded up by
Pakistan Army and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razakars_(Bangladesh)" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razakars_(Bangladesh)"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Razakar</span></a>militia
in Dhaka, blindfolded, taken to torture cells in Mirpur, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammadpur_Thana" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammadpur_Thana"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mohammadpur</span></a>, Nakhalpara,
Rajarbagh and other locations in different sections of the city to be executed
en masse, most notably at Rayerbazar and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirpur_Thana" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirpur_Thana"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mirpur</span></a>.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-nyt12-19-1971-51" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-nyt12-19-1971-51"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[51]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-massacre-intel-52" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-massacre-intel-52"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[52]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-BangInt-53" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-BangInt-53"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[53]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-54" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-54"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[54]</span></a></sup> Allegedly,
the Pakistani Army and its paramilitary arm, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Badr_(East_Pakistan)" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Badr_(East_Pakistan)"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Al-Badr</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shams_(Bangladesh)" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shams_(Bangladesh)"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Al-Shams</span></a> forces
created a list of doctors, teachers, poets, and scholars.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-askari05star-55" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-askari05star-55"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[55]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-hasan01onneshon-56" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-hasan01onneshon-56"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[56]</span></a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During the nine-month duration of the
war, the Pakistani army, with the assistance of local collaborators
systematically executed an estimated 991 teachers, 13 journalists, 49
physicians, 42 lawyers, and 16 writers, artists and engineers.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-BangInt-53" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-BangInt-53"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[53]</span></a></sup> Even
after the official ending of the war on 16 December there were reports of
killings being committed by either the armed Pakistani soldiers or by their
collaborators. In one such incident, notable film-maker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahir_Raihan" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahir_Raihan"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jahir Raihan</span></a> was
killed on 30 January 1972 in Mirpur allegedly by the armed Beharis. In memory
of the persons who were killed, 14 December is observed in Bangladesh as
Shaheed Buddhijibi Dibosh ("Day of the Martyred Intellectuals").<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-2005-12-14-35" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-2005-12-14-35"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[35]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-57" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-57"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[57]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-58" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-58"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[58]</span></a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Several notable intellectuals who
were killed from the time period of 25 March to 16 December 1971 in different parts
of the country include Dhaka University professors Dr.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govinda_Chandra_Dev" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govinda_Chandra_Dev"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Govinda Chandra
Dev</span></a> (Philosophy), Dr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munier_Chowdhury" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munier_Chowdhury"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Munier Chowdhury</span></a> (Bengali
Literature), Dr.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufazzal_Haider_Chaudhury" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufazzal_Haider_Chaudhury"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mufazzal Haider
Chaudhury</span></a> (Bengali Literature), Dr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Pasha" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Pasha"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Anwar Pasha</span></a> (Bengali
Literature), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Abul_Khair" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Abul_Khair"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dr M Abul Khair</span></a> (History),
Dr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotirmoy_Guhathakurta" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotirmoy_Guhathakurta"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jyotirmoy
Guhathakurta</span></a> (English Literature), Humayun Kabir (English
Literature), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashidul_Hasan" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashidul_Hasan"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rashidul Hasan</span></a> (English
Literature), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghyasuddin_Ahmed" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghyasuddin_Ahmed"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ghyasuddin Ahmed</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirajul_Haque_Khan" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirajul_Haque_Khan"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Sirajul Haque Khan</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faizul_Mahi" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faizul_Mahi"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Faizul Mahi</span></a>, Dr <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santosh_Chandra_Bhattacharyya" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santosh_Chandra_Bhattacharyya"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Santosh Chandra
Bhattacharyya</span></a><sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-Gallows-59" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-Gallows-59"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[59]</span></a></sup> and
Saidul Hassan (Physics), Rajshahi University professors Dr. Hobibur Rahman (Mathematics),
Prof Sukhranjan Somaddar (Sanskrit), Prof Mir Abdul Quaiyum (Psychology) as
well as Dr.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Fazle_Rabbee" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Fazle_Rabbee"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mohammed Fazle
Rabbee</span></a> (Cardiologist), Dr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFM_Alim_Chowdhury" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFM_Alim_Chowdhury"><span style="text-decoration: none;">AFM Alim Chowdhury</span></a> (Ophthalmologist),<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahidullah_Kaiser" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahidullah_Kaiser"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Shahidullah Kaiser</span></a> (Journalist), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizamuddin_Ahmed" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizamuddin_Ahmed"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Nizamuddin Ahmed</span></a> (Journalist),<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-60" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-60"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[60]</span></a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selina_Parvin" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selina_Parvin"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Selina Parvin</span></a>(Journalist), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf_Mahmud" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaf_Mahmud"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Altaf Mahmud</span></a> (Lyricist
and musician), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhirendranath_Datta" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhirendranath_Datta"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Dhirendranath
Datta</span></a> (Politician), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahir_Raihan" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahir_Raihan"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jahir Raihan</span></a> (novelist,
journalist, film director) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranadaprasad_Saha" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranadaprasad_Saha"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ranadaprasad Saha</span></a> (Philanthropist).<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-daily-sun2-61" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-daily-sun2-61"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[61]</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-DS-Tamanna-62" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide#cite_note-DS-Tamanna-62"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[62]</span></a></sup></span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Mike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670103292460933868.post-23367372940889366992014-11-19T21:10:00.000-06:002014-11-19T21:10:30.612-06:00Quran Is Not for Muslims<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">
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The very first verse in Quran reads, "1:2 (Asad) All praise is due to God alone, the Sustainer of all the worlds (that exist)," and the very last chapter opens with this line, "114:1 (Ali) Say: I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind," and there is a whole lot in between. God chose to address the entire mankind, and rightfully so. Quran is for the whole humanity and not just Muslims exclusively.</div>
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<br />Hold your breath, I cannot pack the next 1200 words in one single sentence, or utter it in one single breath, but I promise you a better understanding by the end of this essay.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.0200004577637px;">A friend has been posting several negative things about Islam and Quran on the Facebook. It has become her mission to denigrate the faith. Thanks to Sean Hannity, through his show, I have learned not to play into the hands of the negative forces like Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and their ilk. Instead, I have learned to take a positive step to mitigate conflicts and nurture goodwill. I strongly believe, if we can enlighten others, that enlightenment becomes contagious. Aggravating the other does not solve the problem, it takes you down as well.<br /><br /> She posted the following verse;<br /><br />“<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Qur'an (33:50) - "O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee" This is one of several personal-sounding verses "from Allah" narrated by Muhammad - in this case allowing himself a virtually unlimited supply of sex partners. Other Muslims are restrained to four wives, but, following the example of their prophet, may also have sex with any number of slaves...</span>”<br /><br /><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">I held the temptation to correct and explain, but decided that would be a wrong approach with the "determined" ones. One has to find the truth on his/her own to believe it, so I gave her the formula to read Quran (down below) that successfully worked out in our Quran Conference. Finding the truth is your own responsibility. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">It is human to denigrate and find faults with other’s faiths, traditions and books; it is also human to find the right answers. If something bothers you about a certain verse in “other’s” faith or books, the right thing to do is to read three verses before, three after, and the given verse. Read enough times to understand it, instead of “gotcha” and gloat. Truth always brings relief, and liberates one from prejudices. I</span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">t is like having a good orgasm, it brings relief to the body, soul and the mind and you'll be free and at peace with yourselves.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Four years ago, Pastor Robert Jeffress of Dallas Baptist Church blurted out, “Quran is a evil book written by an evil man” I challenged him to show where he finds that evil, how he interpreted them… he chickened out, I offered him to find 5 faults with Quran that we can agree in a public forum, if he could, I will become a Baptist, if not I will ask him to shed his hatred for Islam, Quran and the Prophet and become a peace maker that Jesus had called for. This went on local TV for a week and two pieces were written at </span><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/steve-blow/20100919-In-defense-of-Islam-pursuing-9397.ece#sthash.JU9Tx671.dpuf" style="color: black; line-height: 16.4449996948242px; text-decoration: none;">Dallas Morning News</a><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">. </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">Of course, Jesus don’t mean a thing to these men and women, it’s what they can get out using his name. Its’ just not Christians, but Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others also mis-use the scriptures for their gain. Jeffress owed his congregation to do the research and tell the truth, he chose not to. One’s religion does not become superior by denigrating other’s, its cheap tactics. Finally thanks to our friend, Jon Halsey, we ended up doing a full blown Quran conference with 10 non-Muslim clergy on the panel, and we dedicated the conference to Pastor Robert Jeffress with </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">gratitude</span><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"> for causing the conference. It’s all here </span><a href="http://www.quraanconference.com/" style="color: black; line-height: 16.4449996948242px; text-decoration: none;">www.Quraanconference.com</a><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is where we need God’s guidance, to prevent us from promoting and encouraging hatred towards the other. I wish you had written, this verse bothers me and I want to understand, instead of passing a judgment on the Prophet.<br /><br />I ask you to gather up all those men and women, who want to remove bias against Islam, and have questions. As a matter of fact, removing bias towards any one or any faith. I am an an expert in Pluralism and will be happy to address the group of any questions they may have about Quran, bring all the questions. I have taken the time to write because, I believe, we all need to help each other find freedom from misunderstanding and bias. Amen. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 16.4449996948242px;">As Americans we have to work together to create a cohesive America, you can support our work or do it yourselves, I will be happy to help you, and you can help us by donating generously at: </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://americatogetherfoundation.com/donate/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">http://americatogetherfoundation.com/donate/</a> </span><span style="line-height: 20.0200004577637px;"><br /><br />Mike Ghouse</span><br /><a href="http://www.worldmuslimcongress.com/" style="color: black; line-height: 20.0200004577637px; text-decoration: none;">World Muslim Congress</a><br /><br style="line-height: 20.0200004577637px;" /><span style="line-height: 20.0200004577637px;">To be a Muslim is to be a peace maker, one who seeks to mitigate conflicts and nurtures goodwill for peaceful co-existence of humanity. Our work is geared towards building a cohesive society where no human has to live in apprehension or fear of the other. World Muslim congress is a think tank established in 2002 to bring </span><a href="http://worldmuslimcongress.blogspot.com/2012/01/mission-of-world-muslim-congress.html" style="color: black; line-height: 20.0200004577637px; text-decoration: none;">Muslims</a><span style="line-height: 20.0200004577637px;"> of all denominations together, one small step at a time. If we can learn to respect the otherness of others and accept our uniqueness, then conflicts fade and solutions emerge. </span></span></div>
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