Dawoodi Bohra Forum

anjami

Your post about the Quran not being a book was interesting. It is my understanding that the Quran has no biginning and no end? A book normally has a biginning a middle and an end. It is also interesting to note that the verses (ayah) are "signs". ---signs that show the way perhaps?

It is my understanding that "honor" killings are also part of the "tradition" of Sikh and Hindu communities. (western media did report on these before getting fixated on Islam) A 2007 ABC news article mentioned that homicide was the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S.---pregnant wo...

There is only one God, so regardless of our different understanding or ways of worship---we all ultimately worship the "one" God/divine/creator ---whatever name we may call it. Making judgements against others based on a premise that you/your beliefs/your God is "superior" to all others is the cause...

Sorry about this being off the subject but I found the question by IAMMUSLIM interesting. I think the verses are not referring to differences of understanding/interpretation but rather the "division" caused by claiming the "only truth" or the "only right path" and that all other ways of understandin...

I am not sure the "voilent" protests against cartoons really represents Islam/peace. When I mentioned lesser Jihad---It was not my intention that such (cartoon)protests be an ideal example of it. I was thinking more in terms of the Islamic concept of "Ijtihad"---to strive, to make efforts to solve a...

Responsibility When such things happen---I wonder about responsibilty. Ofcourse the one who commits a crime is totally responsible for his actions---but what about the community, the religious leaders or prayer leaders of the community, the scholars of faith? The women? what, if any, responsibility ...

If Hijab/beard are used as political statements by religious leaders who are "fundamentalists" then should "modernists"/"progressives" take off hijab and shave off beards as a counter political statement? In this battle of influence of muslims, who do you think will eventually win---the fundamentali...

Is there something wrong with muslim boys that they cannot control themselves? Are they "weaker" than other boys their age who are able to go to a prom and still behave? Maybe western boys are better at the inner Jihad? And the girls. Are our girls such wimps that they cannot defend themselves or th...

by the way---in an unrelated program, an egyptian woman mentioned that before 1975, egyptian women did not wear the headscarf---this is a trend that started only after 1975----did the Quran suddenly change or what? She wonders....

I read this article on another news site---I think al-jazeera? It went into more details ----for example---when the men were asked why they were harrassing women, the answer was because they were bored!!!---not because of lewd thoughts or such---they were doing it out of boredom!!! also, women weari...

Maybe if muslim youth were encouraged to interact with each other while maintaining respect for the other as a human being---we might see less mistreatment of women by muslim men. ---I read somewhere of how U.N. peacekeeping soldiers were raping female children! and some of these men came from musli...

I think many "unislamic" concepts/ideas have crept into islam and are considered as "requirements" of islam. During the time of the prophet, women were equal partners of the community and religion. they were "participators". Why then the "segregation" now? What happened? The whole purpose of being a...

Abraham Lincoln was also not a practicing christian.

Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers and the one who wrote the declaration of Independence was not a christian---he was a Deists. He beleived in one God. He also had a copy of the Quran and read it.

instead of fashioning a "new Islam" we should abolish the hadiths altogether and simply go back to the "original Islam" the one in the quran. after all, prophet muhammed was a human, like the rest of us and what he thinks and feels cannot be divinely inspired. the quran is not the thoughts and feeli...

since i was not familiar with the terms, maya, atman etc --i googled them. apparantly, there is a duality in "maya" that is, there is the reality of god and the reality of creation and in order to understand the reality of god, one must understand that the perception of the reality of the universe i...

thanks for the reply. what an amazing idea! the revised verse would read something like this---- surah 4, verse 1---"o mankind! fear your guardian lord, who created you all from a single (nafs) feminine principle created out of it her mate and from them both, spread many men and women what is this f...

christians believe that eve was created out of adam's ribs---which has lead some christains to conclude that women are inferior to men. some muslim scholars like to point out that in Islam men and women are equal because god created them from the same nafs. this word is translated varyingly as --sou...

arabic should not be called "the speach of god" the quran says arabic was used as the language of the quran so that the poeple to whom the message was sent would understand it. God does not have a language preference. brotherhood and universality and tolerance are good messages about the haj. but me...

muslims, both men and women, cannot claim to be against terrorism when they actively or passively allow their women to be terrorized.

It was found that the chimps have photographic memory and that this ability is also found in human babies. In human adults, photographic memory is sometimes found in savants, people who have brain impairment so that they end up with special abilities. Some scientists think that humans today do not u...

From the article, i would assume that the christian god has a gender and that this gender is male. Is allah male or female or genderless?---If god is genderless----we cannot put human characteristics or status of "father" or "mother" or "friend" to allah---right?

The Quran gives many freedoms to women and one of them is the freeedom to dress as they choose (with the condition that the dress be modest). This condition is applied to both men and women. However, what is disturbing to me is the misconceptions regarding this issue of the veil. Many imams and shei...

The internet has given the power of the transfer of knowledge to individuals rather than governments or institutions. Now with the click of the mouse, anyone can gain knowledge on any subject. That is why this forum is so great. People can talk about Islam, post articles, debate and see different vi...

Passages from the Koran are translated and interpreted in different ways. One interpretation regarding the veil is below---- the article from the internet:- "Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and guard their chastity; that is purer for them. And tell the believing women to lower their gaze ...

This is an article from the Internet "the Guardian" ---An Interesting point of view. If ministers really want a proper debate, they must learn that where the veil is forbidden, women hasten to wear it Karen Armstrong Thursday October 26, 2006 The Guardian I spent seven years of my girlhood heavily v...

The article mentions something like---either the judeo-christian philosophy will win or the islamic philosophy will win. I would say, Islam has already "won". If Islam is about submission to one god, then most of the world is already monotheistic and therefore is "Islamic". Islam includes christians...

I have friends who have had the same experience, christians comming up to them and saying their god is not the same as the god of islam. If christianity claims to be a monothiestic religion, as does Islam, then there cannot be a "right" god or a "wrong" god because there is only "one" god. Therefore...

The (american) article seems to have very conveniently forgotten that the american colonists themselves fought this so called "Islamic way of war" when they drove the British out of America. It is called guerilla warfare and people all over the world use this tactic. (take vietnam for example)

informative article. I had wondered about this whole "Shebaa Farms" bussiness. The article claims Hezbollah wants Isreal "wiped off the map". It is getting really tiring to continously read such statements from the press. It would be nice if the countries in the region would take out an advertizing ...