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From: khan@romulus.rutgers.edu (Farrukh Shah Khan)
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Subject: Re: HOW I REVERTED TO ISLAM
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Date: 12 Dec 90 14:27:10 GMT
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In article <1990Dec9.012023.21931@nntp-server.caltech.edu> nnk@cs.wayne.edu (Nasir Naseem Khawaja) writes:

> In article <1990Dec5.082914.2315@nntp-server.caltech.edu> mayne@sun10.scri.fsu.edu (William (Bill) Mayne) writes:
> 
> >I am curious about the use of the word "reverted" in the title
> >of this thread and the text of the article in question........
> >Does it have some special significance to Muslims, suggesting 
> >something like the soul "coming home" even if they weren't a 
> >Muslim before?
> 
> 
>     I believe this WAS (as you speculated) a case of a non native
>     English speaker who used "Reverted" where it should have been
>     "Converted", which is what we Muslims call those who accept Islam.

      It is No such case.
      The term "Revert" is used to signify the concept of pureness and
      innocence of a child unlike Christianity. According to
      philosophy of Islam, every person is born innocent (a Muslim;
      what a contradiction of terms for current muslims!!). We gather
      all sins in this world by our actions and more importantly our
      intentions. A child is not responsible of its parents' actions
      and nobody else can take our sins from us (and add them to
      his/her list of sins). Only Allah can forgive our sins if He
      wishes and He also does not add them to somebody else's list of
      sins. Is it not common sense justice.
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