please read this

newrevert

Salaam brothers and sisters..
I came across this today by way of referal from a like minded sister.

http//mentalbondageinthenameofgod.wordpress.com/

some of you may have seen this and others may not. Im only into the fourth chapter but its making so much sense! Maybe we could get a little discussion going? Would love to hear the views of others though.

admin, if i posted in the wrong place, please move the thread

peace and love.

Melly

I think there was a previous discussion about this here http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=7402.10 .

I may be useful to you or maybe not

newrevert

Thanks sis. X

Melly

Your welcome, but actually sis I think that the link I sent was a discussion of only part of the article and not the whole thing. Sorry about that.

justamuslim

Thanks for the link. I just briefly glanced through the section on salat as that is my focus right now.

There have been a lot of discussions on the forum and searching/going through them well....it does help much when someone posts again something that has already been discussed. So thanks.

newform

peace be with you new revert, I found aidid safars book an interesting read but didn't care for his blatant slander of Edip Yuksel.
anywho, I highly recommend reading Ahmed Hulusi's Muhammad's Allah and his other books free on his site. www.ahmedhulusi.org/en/

safar seemed to have employed a lot of Hulusi's ideas but I prefer Hulusi as he tells people not to take his info he shares as being spoon fed and to think and verify for yourself. but yeah Muhammad's Allah if you liked reading mental bondage. if you have Kindle app it may still be free there but is also free on his site. Peace.

mmmm

I agree with newform regarding "peace be with you new revert, I found aidid safars book an interesting read but didn't care for his blatant slander of Edip Yuksel. "
Sometimes we need those people to take us from one point to another, if someone showed me this forum three years ago I would like to be as far from it as I could but inch by inch my believes I held all my life disintegrated in order for me to accept that its OK to question as long as you're sincere in finding answers (now its perhaps too overwhelming for me so I need to step back and start again ))

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abdalquran

The whole thing started with Edip's critique of Aidid. That was no poem of love either.

newrevert

Thanks guys. I'll continue with mental bondage then go onto the one suggested and as with everything else, make up my own mind. Inshallah i have the patience to wait til Im done with one before starting the next though as i have a habit of reading multiple things at once and getting myself confused.
Peace guys. X

Wakas

I dont know of anyone here who knows Arabic who thinks highly of Aidid's work. Maybe that's just a coincidence.

In any case, Aidid's work is good at pointing out flaws in the Traditional understandings. When it comes to Quranic understandings however, its more of a hit and miss, in my view.

Petrus

Peace! What I get from a quick reading of Aidid's work is that arabic (and Al-Quran by consequence) is a language impossible to translate.... any word can be replaced so easily...

abdalquran

All languages are fluid according to the growing paradigm of human experience. This is why relying on ancient dictionaries is problematic. All one has are words and their meanings. One can never again access that window of experience.

dawngorgeous

Peace New Revert

I would advise you to read as much of Aidid's book as you can, if only to challenge some of your long held beliefs. It's a very interesting read.

Dawn.