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Salaam satisfaction. I agree with you on that. however, I do believe in Some Aspects of Democracy, for small things. For example... The Quran might not specify certain things about the community such as If we should use the open feild in the city to build a Football stadium or build a park... So I think that on small things such as that...a Good Community Vote would seem like a good thing. (what do you think about that)? Salaam RA, Quran shows the way how communities should engage using the concept of Hajj, But this current hajj being hijacked by some people from Saudi. To me Hajj and the sacred mosque is not reserved for some place or direction.. Any govt or authority of a group of people with common interests can build a focal point and ask people to get together, feast, offer sacrifices, relax etc... for benefit of the poor and the society. Theres a lot to think about.

Selam Is it right they even celebrate his birthday? Is this not against the core belief of not setting up partners to Allah. 2136 Say ?We believe in God and in what was sent down to us and what was sent down to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and what was given to Moses and Jesus, and what was given to the prophets from their Lord; we do not make a distinction between any of them and to Him we submit.? 688 Such is the guidance of God, He guides with it whom He pleases of His servants. And if they set up partners, then all that they had worked would fall away from them. peace http//festivals.indobase.com/id-milad/index.html Watch pak news and see how eid milad is celebrated elektro

This poster of this title, who blindly quotes the fabricated 99 names for Muhammad to rival God, is unfortunately so ignorant that he cannot even tell that many of attributes listed for Muhammad belongs to God. Besides, he cannot even think about the fact that some of the God's attributes in his list are not attributes of God. For instance, God is not DAARR (The harmer). Peace, Edip Yeah, I noticed that too.

Peace, Respectfully, don't worry an thank you all for the support.God bless you all, brothers and sisters. Been going though some chaos here because recession in Slovenia is different then recession in USA or UK -here, it's recession X 1,000. I was robbed while being in London, they took my passport, wallet, phone and both jackets so now that i'm finally in Slovenia, gotta go from the start. Happens every day. Can't wait to return to London though, it's much better there for me. When i was there, i felt less depressed and closer to my soulmate, i love her. Peace. May GOD give you the strength to recover from your losses. GOD bless you bro Alen. handshake group pr

http//www.slatermedia.110mb.com/Sitchin/Case_of_enigmatic_human_genes.htm I guess the Annunaki are planning to raid Fort Knox anytime soon. rotfl rotfl OMG. A Funny article. Too funny. lol. Gold mining. hhaha

All this time I thought that the flood was connected to the melting of the icecaps, and sea level rise that ended the last ice age. hmm

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Anybody who has an argument in favor of "Allah is a common noun" other than the Biblical one above?

@raginggaijin The very two verses following the one which ayman quoted themselves reference the 'hajj,' but he skipped them.

I knew this piece was likely to send some Jews and Christians in a tizzy http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9599872.0

Web of deceit Lady Mowgli is in fact Spiderwoman On Holocaust Memorial Day this Thursday, there will be fewer eyewitness testimonies than the year before. Within the lifetimes of most people reading these words, there will be none. That is the work of time, and unalterable. Each passing year brings greater and greater reliance on memoirs, therefore written memories of atrocities, unspeakable crimes, incredible survival stories by those who experienced them. The vast majority are the sacred truth. But some, we are learning, are the work of frauds who would alter history for their own benefit. The latest revelation came as a personal shock, because I had been an unwitting accomplice. In 1997, in one of my first author profiles as books editor, I wrote about Misha Defonseca, of Millis, Mass., and her then-new book, Misha A Memoire of the Holocaust Years. I had heard her speak before reading the book, and had fallen under the spell of her story. As she told it, she was seven years old in 1941, living in Brussels, Belgium, when the Nazis came to her home and arrested her Jewish parents. Misha had been hustled off to live with another family, but instead she set off on foot, alone and with only a tiny compass to guide her way eastward, to find her parents. "But they were Catholic, not Jewish, and Defonseca was raised, uneventfully, by relatives, not wolves." Thus began a terrible odyssey, I wrote 11 years ago. Wandering alone on her hopeless quest for four years, clear across occupied Europe, through Germany, into Russia and back again, Misha witnessed greater horrors than most soldiers experienced on the front lines. She wrote of entering and then escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto; living for days in midwinter without food or shelter; stabbing a Nazi soldier to death; and, perhaps most incredibly, living with a pack of wolves. It was a wonderful story, and in fact I wondered. It strains credulity, I wrote, adding Misha offers no proof. There is none, she says. Perhaps, she says, one of the nameless people she encountered in those years will see her book and remember, and get in touch with her. She hopes so. That brief caveat having been delivered, I turned back to the absorbing facts as Defonseca related them into my tape recorder there in the living room of her modest house outside Boston. The book, produced on a shoestring by tiny Mt. Ivy Press, had modest sales here, despite a glowing endorsement from none other than Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize-winning Holocaust survivor and scholar. It achieved a new life in Europe, however, where it sold more than 30,000 copies in France and Italy, was translated into 18 languages, and turned into a film, Survivre Avec les Loups (Living With Wolves), which opened in Paris in January. Suspicions were raised almost from the first, but Defonseca had covered her tracks well. Not until the film was released did experts on wolf behavior and the Holocaust in Belgium publicly question details. Meanwhile, a genealogist in Massachusetts, working with colleagues in Brussels, found the smoking-gun evidence about her parents that finally prompted Defonseca to confess. It was all a lie, she told the Associated Press last month. Her real name, until she married her husband, Maurice Defonseca, was Monique De Wael. She was, indeed, orphaned when her parents, who were in the Belgian resistance, were put to death by the Nazis. But they were Catholic, not Jewish, and Defonseca was raised, uneventfully, by relatives, not wolves.

But you're interpreting that as an ideological prevailing. If that were the case Islam is a complete failure.

Alhamdulillah!

Peace Tony, Language is not an issue here. If God send down the message to Muhammad who speak Arabs, then surely is Arabic. If God send down the bible to Jesus, is it in English that you see now in New and Old testament? No, it's in Jesus language or semitic. I can say you should not received Bible, because the original is in semitic language and jesus is only for Jews, not for Americans, not for British, not for Arabs and not for Tagalog speaking. Can you inform this matter to Filipino christians or American christians? I hope you have also the ability to argue about bible content to all these Christian societies. Even then we don't know if the English people hundreds of years ago really translate the bible from Semitic language to English correctly. How about Bible in Arabic verses for the Arabs? What do you think? Any wisdom in Bible? And yet there are many versions of bible and revised. Is Buddha an indian or chinese? Can you argue with the chinese that Buddha teachings is only for Indians, because Buddha is an indian or speak Indian? All languages were created by God. If the lecture in New York State University is in English, is it only for the Americans? If the Filipino professor translate the American Calculus textbooks from English to Tagalog, what's your opinion? Do you really believed in that Tagalog version or American version? It's up to you. Do you think of the language or the calculus formula? Regarding the pork, it's prohibited by Almighty God who create you Mr. Tony. Not Muhammad, not the Arabs. It's not an issue of nice taste or not. Remember Mr. Tony, God can make pork meat tasty, but just to test you whether you obey His Command or not? It's not an issue of healthy by eating pork and Arab not eating pork also not healthy. It's just that God create pig or swine as a biological machine to consume all types of dirt on this earth for the stability of environment life cycle. That's the real benefit of having pigs on this planet Earth. We cannot simply kill or wipe out all pigs on this planet Earth. God never say kill all pigs, but not consume pork meat. That's all. Fullstop. If we think of taste or nice, everything in the world we can say tasty. Even some young men like old ladies. It's not the point about preference. I can say I like to drive fast in the downtown New York or Manila, because it's very nice and thrill to do so, but can I just simply say nice and fun without knowing rules and regulations of the country or police department? Muhammad is the last prophet. Sealed 1400 years ago. But the message is still on. If you still prefer Jesus, it's up to you. If you still need another Prophet for non-Arabs, then you will be alone in this world to wait for another thousands of years and yet no more. Remember, the last message is not a matter of Arabs or non-Arabs. It's a matter of where are you now? If you live in Moses time, surely you will follow Moses. If you want to achieve highest academic level, surely Ph.D is the one. But, even you get Ph.D, doesn't mean you stop doing research. But if you only want up to degree level only it's up to you. Just my opinion.

Peace Sarah, We pray to Almighty God for our safety and hapiness in this world. We thank God, because we are in the path of Quran and not trapped in the traditional muslim mindset. Happy and success always. handshake

I am glad to hear that. Two years ago, he was among the group at Muslim Institute in London participating my lecture. He was one of the witnesses of my debate with the imam who opposed the Quran alone and then could not defend his position and had to literally escape from the lecture room. http//www.islamicreform.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74adventures-of-an-islamic-reformer-at-oxford-london-and-istanbul Selam Edip Interesting turn of events for you. I would have loved to be at your lecture in London. We share a little with the Turkish police as I am now wanted for not attending my national service although it has been persponed till the end of the year they are accusing me of staying in the country for 10 years without my knowledge. Its amazing how I could be in two places at once. Specially as I was born and raised in London and only ever spent 4 weeks in Turkey all my life, going there twice for two weeks at a time. They don't seem to be very reasonable people although I have proof. Oh well not to worry. Peace

Concordance pdf is very good offer. If you can also upload some of Mustansir Mir's books, that will be a genuine addition to Qur'an students online resources Verbal Idioms of the Qur'an, Coherence in the Qur'an etc.

Anyone who's Body and life has been terminated here on Earth, and is a Rightious Person that does acts to better Humanity....Should not only be Respected in Life, but they Should be respected in death. (this is my personal opinion not hadith). Allah has said "We have honoured humanity as a whole."(17/70) The Quran says"The most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is the one who is more obedient to the laws of Allah Almighty." (49/13) Many times in the Quran it speaks about RESPECT and COMPASSION, and gives another example The Noble Qur'an An-Nur 2461 ...when you enter the houses, greet one another with a greeting from All?h (i.e. say As-Sal?mu 'Alaikum - peace be on you) blessed and good. Thus All?h makes clear the Ay?t (these Verses or your religious symbols and signs, etc.) to you that you may understand. The Noble Qur'an An-Nisa 486 When you are greeted with a greeting, greet in return with what is better than it, or (at least) return it equally. Certainly, All?h is Ever a Careful Account Taker of all things. Personally, I feel that If There is another Human Being (be him or her Prophet or Family Member)...Why should you NOT say PBUH or PBUher? Should we Not Acknolwedge and Respect them even in Death? Isa Bin Maryum=PBUH Muhammad=PBUH Solomon=PBUH Rashad Khalifa=PBUH Mother Terrisa=PBUHer Harriet Tubman=PBUher Princess Diana=PBUher See that Wansnt So Hard was it? Anyone else here think that ANY GOOD PERSON IN DEATH should have a PBUH/her said when mentioned? or is it just me? I grew up up saying (Rest in Peace) RIP.

Advice is usually great until it comes to implementation. Your signature has the answer.

Peace Mountaineer, See the following article for a possible explanation http//free-minds.org/language http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9598756.msg213263#msg213263 Peace, Ayman Peace Ayman I've just finished reading your article and I find it intriguing. Peace "Mountaineer", Also see the following http//19.org/index.php?aid=62 (this is the 3rd n IMO most significant part but plz do read all five parts). GOD Bless! Peace jonny_k I'm aware of code 19, that is why I said "other than code 19" but anyway, thanks for the link.