New Groundbreaking Arabic Book: Peacemaking from the Quran
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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.
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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?
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Peace everyone,
I would like to present a groundbreaking Arabic book entitled "Peacemaking from the Quran" demonstrates the meaning of peacemaking (islam) as well as concepts such as "salat", "masjid", "hagg", "ramadan", etc. The book is based in part on many of the valuable discusssions that took place right here on the Free-minds forum.
The complete book can now be downloaded from the following site
I have also started working on an English version. I will let everyone know once it is completed.
Peace and best wishes,
Ayman
Salaamun alayka,
I did not read your book but I have read some articles of you.
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe your book is a (upgraded) collection of some of your articles and posts here.
What will happen to your book if after some time you come to new understandings?
I am not talking about some small corrections but about new understandings about concepts which are totally different from how you understand them now.Salaam,
Benderps grats on so many likes on FB
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What will happen to your book if after some time you come to new understandings?
I am not talking about some small corrections but about new understandings about concepts which are totally different from how you understand them now.
A new book I assume? It has been known to happen, whether it happens here is a hypothetical most can't really answer. Not sure why you asked that question however, are you expecting bro Ayman to say nevah evah that's crazy talk? Or a more reasonable, I'll let you guys know if I change my mind? In either case it shouldn't stop someone from publishing their thoughts unless they're not sure of what it is they're talking about.peace
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A new book I assume? It has been known to happen, whether it happens here is a hypothetical most can't really answer. Not sure why you asked that question however, are you expecting bro Ayman to say nevah evah that's crazy talk? Or a more reasonable, I'll let you guys know if I change my mind? In either case it shouldn't stop someone from publishing their thoughts unless they're not sure of what it is they're talking about.
peace
salaamun alayki,
I don't know, that's why I am asking
I think it needs big courage to say A in one book with n evidences to prove A, and then in the next book to say you were totally wrong.peace