New Groundbreaking Arabic Book: Peacemaking from the Quran
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A very enjoyable read of the first 2 chapters. Your attempt to uncover the true meaning by treating proper nouns as common nouns certainly makes for a better and more fluid understanding of the The Reading.
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Peace brother g1q1,
A very enjoyable read of the first 2 chapters. Your attempt to uncover the true meaning by treating proper nouns as common nouns certainly makes for a better and more fluid understanding of the The Reading.
Thank you for your kind assessment. Common nouns are universal concepts and this certainly makes for a more natural and universally applicable understanding, which is in line with the spirit of the message.
Peace,
Ayman
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Peace everyone,
All thanks is due to the god that the book's Facebook page has gathered over 57K fans in the one month since it was started. If this trend continues, we could be in the initial stage of a real revolution like the Protestant revolution that helped usher Europe out of the dark ages, if the god willed.
https//www.facebook.com/Quran4Peace
Peace,
Ayman
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Peace brother Ayman,
It's a great development. I was the 13th liker or something close to that and could observe the sudden and rapid rise of your book's facebook page. It makes me remember sura 110... Maybe that time has just arrived.
I am looking forward to your translation of the remaining chapters )
Salamun alayka, my dear brother.
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"According to M.Asad"
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You're right. You should be critical.
Salam Abdelilah
You were right. I was wrong. I couldn't see these facts then. But I can see it now. I guess I wasn't ready for the information in his book when I wrote a post in this thread. I was blind to the facts. It indeed makes sense that the word muslim should be translated as peacemaker. Islam, muslim and other words that haven't been translated to english, and instead have been taken as proper names or nonsensical labels should definitely be translated to english, so that several misconceptions and falsehoods about "Deen of islam" can be dismantled.
I recommend his book to all members in FM
http//www.quran4peace.org
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Peace brother Abdelilah,
This is exactly the idea. Keep it simple and easily accessible. Also, focus on the so-called "pillars" because if we show that even those basic tenets have been grossly distorted and we can demonstrate how the truth in the great reading is vastly different to the traditional practices then we do not even need to waste any time in endless arguments about traditions. If something as big as "hagg"/feast has been so much distorted and turned into a pagan ritual then small potatoes such as Bukahri Hadiths and Ibn Hisham Sira are already destroyed.
I would greatly appreciate your help and everyone's help in sharing ideas on how to spread the word about the book.
Peace and best regards,
Ayman
Peace Ayman
Here are some ideas on how to spread the word about the book and reach a greater audience
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Make colorful flyers with a short introduction to the book to catch peoples interest, including a link to the website quran4peace.org, so people can go
to the website and read the book. Deliver the flyers to muslims and non-muslims in the street or cycle into different neighborhoods and put them into peoples mail boxes at night when they are asleep Just kidding. Do it at daytime. This method is similar to the tactic of Jehovas Witnesses (the experts of self-promotion). This method might sound crazy, but it actually works. Haha. -
Contact journalists of different newspapers about a story about your book.
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Go to different forums on the internet and recommend the "book and the website quran4peace.org" to muslims and non-muslims.
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Make videos about the book on youtube, vimeo and other videosharing sites. Put the book title and the url of the website under the videos.
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Translate the book to several different languages (Indonesian, Hindi, Turkish, Bengali, Dari, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish etc.) to reach a greater audience.
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Peace dear brother Timur,
Peace brother Ayman,
It's a great development. I was the 13th liker or something close to that and could observe the sudden and rapid rise of your book's facebook page. It makes me remember sura 110... Maybe that time has just arrived.
I am looking forward to your translation of the remaining chapters )
Salamun alayka, my dear brother.It is a great honor to have you my dear brother as one of the early members of the page. The god has blessed us and we are now up to over 145,000 since my last post less than a month ago.
I am still working on the English translation of the remaining chapters. The difficulty and why this is taking more time is that they are not translations. It is actually a rewriting of the book in English.
Peace and best regards,
Ayman
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Peace brother Ayman,
I have not yet seen your works more than briefly, but the little I have seen looks promising. Unfortunatly I have limited access to any usable Internet. I would love to have a good translation of the Quran. Facebook works poorly from here.
God bless you
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Peace dear brother Ayman.
I am still working on the English translation of the remaining chapters. The difficulty and why this is taking more time is that they are not translations. It is actually a rewriting of the book in English.
I understand. Good things need some patience, don't they?
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Peace Timur,
For what purpose did you order all those copies? Are you planning to distribute them somewhere?
I already gave some 20 or 30 copies to family, friends and acquaintances. This collection however, I'm planning to distribute at the entrance to the local mosque next Sunday, the 21st at 2145.
https//www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=131741900361065&l=b15d5f4853
Abdelilah
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Salaam Abdelillah,
Peace,
I sat at the entrance to the local mosque between 2145 and 2300. It went smooth, without incidents. If the god willed the outcome of this small endeavour will be beneficial.
Abdelilah
God bless you. I would love to be able to read this book, but my Arabic doesn't stretch to it, and distribute it in my local mosque too, but I think I'd get into trouble! Hang on a sec., I wouldn't be allowed into my local mosque because I am a woman!
Salaam.
Sajda.
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When I clicked on the website http//www.quran4peace.org/, Got a message that the account has been suspended.
What's up with that?