Quranic Morality: vol.2 , issue 1 : Islam
Array The prayer breakfast offers a vivid illustration of the growing presence and increasing political influence of Latino evangelicals, who now make up some 15% of the rapidly expanding Hispanic population in the U.S., according to a recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center. That survey also shows that among eligible Latino voters, evangelicals are twice as likely as Latino Catholics to identify with the Republican Party (37% vs. Latino evangelicals also are far more likely than Latino Catholics to describe themselves as conservative (46% vs. This trend is reflected in the fact that nearly two-thirds of Latino evangelicals (63%) say English is their primary language or that they are bilingual, compared with less than half (45%) of Latino Catholics. Perhaps reflecting the zeal of recent converts, Latino evangelicals are somewhat more likely to say they attend church weekly than white evangelicals (70% compared to 61%) and to view the Bible as the literal word of God (76% compared to 62%). Latino evangelicals also take more conservative positions on many social issues compared with Latino Catholics and even compared with other evangelicals. A large majority (77%) also say that abortion should be illegal, compared with 54% and 61%, respectively, for Latino Catholics and white evangelicals. But Latino evangelicals differ from white evangelicals, and more closely resemble Latino Catholics, on other policy issues. While only a minority (33%) of non-Hispanic evangelicals say that immigrants strengthen American customs and values, a solid majority (59%) of Latino evangelicals hold that view. (The comparable figure among Latino Catholics is even higher at 67%.) Latino evangelicals, along with other Latinos, also hold generally liberal views on economic issues and are more likely to support government programs and sympathize with poor people than are white evangelicals. Recent Voting Patterns The strong Republican orientation of Latino evangelicals compared with other Latinos was clearly evident in the 2004 presidential election. (The percentage of the Hispanic Catholic vote remained unchanged at 33%.) And not only did Latino Protestants vote more heavily Republican in 2004, they also represented a higher percentage of the Latino electorate than in 2000 (32% vs.
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PHOENIX — GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s wife Cindy took to the airwaves last week, recounting for Jane Pauley (on Dateline) and Diane Sawyer (on Good Morning America) the tale of her onetime addiction to Percocet and Vicodin, and the fact that she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization.
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The nation of Israel was born on 15th May 1948 and the Arab countries immediately declared war on Israel.The Arabs forces were defeated and Israel gained 50% more territory after the war.In 1956 Egypt seized the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran and closed it to Israel shipping and Israel took it as, declaration of war, mounted an invasion of the Sinai with the collaboration of France and Britain.In 1967 Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt again closed the Strait of Turin to Israel shipping and Israel retaliated and occupied the Sinai and Gaza from Egypt,the West Bank from Jordan, and Golan Height from Syria.In October 1973, also known as the Yom Kippur War, the Arab coalition forces led by Egypt attempted to retake the Sinai and Golan Heights but was severely defeated by Israeli armed forces, with the help of the United States, providing them with aerial information, on ground movements and strength of Arab coalition forces .America was the eyes in the sky using airborne surveillance planes to relay back information to Israel military commands.In June 1981, with the support and encouragement of the United States, Israel air force bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak, Iraq and crippled it. America declared its neutrality which was designed to deceive the Iranians.They operated a clandestine operation through Saudi Arabia to provide exaggerated report of Iran military weakness to Iraq so as to encourage Saddam to invade Iran.At the height of the war America furnished the Iraqis with intelligence reports on Iranian troop concentration and damage assessment of Iraqi attacks on Iran.They did not object to the extensive use of chemical weapons against Iran.They also gave billions of dollars in commodity credits and guarantees and encouraged other European nations to supply arms to Iraq.Iran has become the common enemy of Iraq and America and it used Iraq as its proxy.Diplomatic initiatives on the current crisis with Iran to stop her nuclear programme has not been successful.America has imposed sanctions and even threaten war on Iran.On 25th Feb 2007 the Telegraph of UK reported - US FUNDS TERROR GROUPS TO SOW CHAOS IN IRAN. Many Arabs consider their leaders weak, incapable, and are stooges of America.It was obvious that Americans double standard and impunity to the atrocities committed by Israel on the Palestinian people were major contributing factors to the birth of terrorism.The war on Iraq has given terrorism a quantum leap.It has gone global and is now a multi-national business with subsidiaries and affiliates throughout the Muslim world.In the past, most terror groups were confined within borders of the country or within a region.Al-Qaeda headed by Osama bin Laden was the only one with far-reaching influence and extensive networks.It was formed in 1988 to help the mujahedeens to drive out the Soviets from Afganistan.The jihadists war in Afganistan was partly sponsored and financed by the CIA and partly Arabs money mostly Saudis. Iraqis had been killed and killed mostly by Americans guns and bombs.The situations in Afghanistan was no better.The two countries are now the killing fields created by America as a war of attrition to weaken the Muslims Ummah.For the Americans to leave Iraq now there would be complete anarchy.The sectarian violence, slaughter, and massacre would be of unimaginable proportion and fragmentation of Iraq would be inevitable.The Vietnam War lasted almost fifteen years.Would Iraq be another Vietnam and killed many more innocent Iraqis before the Americans withdrew?Was the invasion of Iraq legitimate?
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But the previous messages were unprotected by God, so man was able to change them but the final message (Quran) is under the protection of God, so no one can change it.The QuranAl- Quran is the final and preserved message of God for mankind, revealed upon the final Prophet Muhammad. The followings are the different ways, through which the message (Wahy / Revelation) came to the prophet are as follows:* True Dreams: whatever the Prophet dreamt in the night became true during the day.* The angel (Gabriel) used to suggest directly to the heart of the Prophet, being invisible to him.* Sometime the message came in form of the ringing sound of a big bell.* Coming down of the angel in the form of a man.* Coming down of the angel in his original shape.* The message came down directly to the prophet’s heart without any agency (angel or voice).The Collection of the QuranThe Quran is a book of revelation from God. Since the verses of the Quran were recited during prayer the companions had to memorize them in order to recite them in their daily prayers.In this way the memorization and the writing down of the Quran both started from the very first day of revelation.According to traditions, whenever a revelation was received, Prophet called one of his scriber companions and dictated the verses to them. in the books of hadith.It is also established in these books that in the last year of the Prophet’s life, when the revelations had been completed, Gabriel came to the Prophet and recited the entire Quran in the existing order twice, and similarly the Prophet also recited to Gabriel the entire Quran twice. when the Prophet died at the age of 63 years, the Quran existed in two forms: one, in the memory of the several thousand companions, since they repeated the Quran daily on different occasions, having learned it by rote in what is now its present order; Zaid ibn Thabit, the Prophet’s foremost scribe, and an authority on the Quran was entrusted with this task.The compilation was done very meticulously Zaid made an announcement that any person who has written even the smallest portion of the Quran in the presence of the Prophet Muhammad and this was witnessed by two persons must bring such written portions. That is, the scattered bits and pieces of the Quran in written form were collected by him, not so that they could be assembled and bound in one volume, but so that they could be used to verify the authenticity of the Quran as memorized by countless individuals and passed on in oral tradition. Once this exact correspondence between the oral and written forms of the Quran had been established beyond any doubt, Zaid proceeded to put the verses of the Quran down on paper in their correct order. It is an irrefutable fact that any copy of the Quran found in any part of the world at any time will be exactly the same as that handed down to the Muslims by the Prophet in his last days, arranged in the form still extant today.The Quran and ManThe Holy Quran is the message of Allah. (Quran 10:57)The Quran is for all mankind but only a believer can benefit from it.“This (Quran) is a clear insight and evidence for mankind, and a guidance and a mercy for people who have Faith with certainty.”(Quran 45:20)Quran is the preserved message of God; The message of Quran is more important than its language.The Quran is read by two aims: for being an Islamic jurist and to understand & follow guidance of God.
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Array The prayer breakfast offers a vivid illustration of the growing presence and increasing political influence of Latino evangelicals, who now make up some 15% of the rapidly expanding Hispanic population in the U.S., according to a recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center. That survey also shows that among eligible Latino voters, evangelicals are twice as likely as Latino Catholics to identify with the Republican Party (37% vs. Latino evangelicals also are far more likely than Latino Catholics to describe themselves as conservative (46% vs. This trend is reflected in the fact that nearly two-thirds of Latino evangelicals (63%) say English is their primary language or that they are bilingual, compared with less than half (45%) of Latino Catholics. Perhaps reflecting the zeal of recent converts, Latino evangelicals are somewhat more likely to say they attend church weekly than white evangelicals (70% compared to 61%) and to view the Bible as the literal word of God (76% compared to 62%). Latino evangelicals also take more conservative positions on many social issues compared with Latino Catholics and even compared with other evangelicals. A large majority (77%) also say that abortion should be illegal, compared with 54% and 61%, respectively, for Latino Catholics and white evangelicals. But Latino evangelicals differ from white evangelicals, and more closely resemble Latino Catholics, on other policy issues. While only a minority (33%) of non-Hispanic evangelicals say that immigrants strengthen American customs and values, a solid majority (59%) of Latino evangelicals hold that view. (The comparable figure among Latino Catholics is even higher at 67%.) Latino evangelicals, along with other Latinos, also hold generally liberal views on economic issues and are more likely to support government programs and sympathize with poor people than are white evangelicals. Recent Voting Patterns The strong Republican orientation of Latino evangelicals compared with other Latinos was clearly evident in the 2004 presidential election. (The percentage of the Hispanic Catholic vote remained unchanged at 33%.) And not only did Latino Protestants vote more heavily Republican in 2004, they also represented a higher percentage of the Latino electorate than in 2000 (32% vs.
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PHOENIX — GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s wife Cindy took to the airwaves last week, recounting for Jane Pauley (on Dateline) and Diane Sawyer (on Good Morning America) the tale of her onetime addiction to Percocet and Vicodin, and the fact that she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization.
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The nation of Israel was born on 15th May 1948 and the Arab countries immediately declared war on Israel.The Arabs forces were defeated and Israel gained 50% more territory after the war.In 1956 Egypt seized the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran and closed it to Israel shipping and Israel took it as, declaration of war, mounted an invasion of the Sinai with the collaboration of France and Britain.In 1967 Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt again closed the Strait of Turin to Israel shipping and Israel retaliated and occupied the Sinai and Gaza from Egypt,the West Bank from Jordan, and Golan Height from Syria.In October 1973, also known as the Yom Kippur War, the Arab coalition forces led by Egypt attempted to retake the Sinai and Golan Heights but was severely defeated by Israeli armed forces, with the help of the United States, providing them with aerial information, on ground movements and strength of Arab coalition forces .America was the eyes in the sky using airborne surveillance planes to relay back information to Israel military commands.In June 1981, with the support and encouragement of the United States, Israel air force bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak, Iraq and crippled it. America declared its neutrality which was designed to deceive the Iranians.They operated a clandestine operation through Saudi Arabia to provide exaggerated report of Iran military weakness to Iraq so as to encourage Saddam to invade Iran.At the height of the war America furnished the Iraqis with intelligence reports on Iranian troop concentration and damage assessment of Iraqi attacks on Iran.They did not object to the extensive use of chemical weapons against Iran.They also gave billions of dollars in commodity credits and guarantees and encouraged other European nations to supply arms to Iraq.Iran has become the common enemy of Iraq and America and it used Iraq as its proxy.Diplomatic initiatives on the current crisis with Iran to stop her nuclear programme has not been successful.America has imposed sanctions and even threaten war on Iran.On 25th Feb 2007 the Telegraph of UK reported - US FUNDS TERROR GROUPS TO SOW CHAOS IN IRAN. Many Arabs consider their leaders weak, incapable, and are stooges of America.It was obvious that Americans double standard and impunity to the atrocities committed by Israel on the Palestinian people were major contributing factors to the birth of terrorism.The war on Iraq has given terrorism a quantum leap.It has gone global and is now a multi-national business with subsidiaries and affiliates throughout the Muslim world.In the past, most terror groups were confined within borders of the country or within a region.Al-Qaeda headed by Osama bin Laden was the only one with far-reaching influence and extensive networks.It was formed in 1988 to help the mujahedeens to drive out the Soviets from Afganistan.The jihadists war in Afganistan was partly sponsored and financed by the CIA and partly Arabs money mostly Saudis. Iraqis had been killed and killed mostly by Americans guns and bombs.The situations in Afghanistan was no better.The two countries are now the killing fields created by America as a war of attrition to weaken the Muslims Ummah.For the Americans to leave Iraq now there would be complete anarchy.The sectarian violence, slaughter, and massacre would be of unimaginable proportion and fragmentation of Iraq would be inevitable.The Vietnam War lasted almost fifteen years.Would Iraq be another Vietnam and killed many more innocent Iraqis before the Americans withdrew?Was the invasion of Iraq legitimate?
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But the previous messages were unprotected by God, so man was able to change them but the final message (Quran) is under the protection of God, so no one can change it.The QuranAl- Quran is the final and preserved message of God for mankind, revealed upon the final Prophet Muhammad. The followings are the different ways, through which the message (Wahy / Revelation) came to the prophet are as follows:* True Dreams: whatever the Prophet dreamt in the night became true during the day.* The angel (Gabriel) used to suggest directly to the heart of the Prophet, being invisible to him.* Sometime the message came in form of the ringing sound of a big bell.* Coming down of the angel in the form of a man.* Coming down of the angel in his original shape.* The message came down directly to the prophet’s heart without any agency (angel or voice).The Collection of the QuranThe Quran is a book of revelation from God. Since the verses of the Quran were recited during prayer the companions had to memorize them in order to recite them in their daily prayers.In this way the memorization and the writing down of the Quran both started from the very first day of revelation.According to traditions, whenever a revelation was received, Prophet called one of his scriber companions and dictated the verses to them. in the books of hadith.It is also established in these books that in the last year of the Prophet’s life, when the revelations had been completed, Gabriel came to the Prophet and recited the entire Quran in the existing order twice, and similarly the Prophet also recited to Gabriel the entire Quran twice. when the Prophet died at the age of 63 years, the Quran existed in two forms: one, in the memory of the several thousand companions, since they repeated the Quran daily on different occasions, having learned it by rote in what is now its present order; Zaid ibn Thabit, the Prophet’s foremost scribe, and an authority on the Quran was entrusted with this task.The compilation was done very meticulously Zaid made an announcement that any person who has written even the smallest portion of the Quran in the presence of the Prophet Muhammad and this was witnessed by two persons must bring such written portions. That is, the scattered bits and pieces of the Quran in written form were collected by him, not so that they could be assembled and bound in one volume, but so that they could be used to verify the authenticity of the Quran as memorized by countless individuals and passed on in oral tradition. Once this exact correspondence between the oral and written forms of the Quran had been established beyond any doubt, Zaid proceeded to put the verses of the Quran down on paper in their correct order. It is an irrefutable fact that any copy of the Quran found in any part of the world at any time will be exactly the same as that handed down to the Muslims by the Prophet in his last days, arranged in the form still extant today.The Quran and ManThe Holy Quran is the message of Allah. (Quran 10:57)The Quran is for all mankind but only a believer can benefit from it.“This (Quran) is a clear insight and evidence for mankind, and a guidance and a mercy for people who have Faith with certainty.”(Quran 45:20)Quran is the preserved message of God; The message of Quran is more important than its language.The Quran is read by two aims: for being an Islamic jurist and to understand & follow guidance of God.
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