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From: zix@cs.nott.ac.uk (Zafer Iqbal)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: HOW I REVERTED TO ISLAM
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Date: 13 Dec 90 07:07:48 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.

No reverted is the correct word - Islam regrads every child to be born a
Muslim. He/she remains Muslim until they reach the age of maturity where they
can decide for themselves what to believe in &c... and hence become a Muslim
or a non-Muslim.

>...
>>There have been a few articles which though written in English (sort of) 
>>contained so many unusual words I couldn't figure out what the author was
>>writing about!
>
>
>     Though I am not a native Arabic speaker, I think that we people
>     of the middle-eastern countries (Muslim) know some tid bits of
>     the language which are enough to get us by at a congregation
>     given in English by an Arabic speaker.
>
>     Here are a few of the words you will most likely hear (or read)
>     in a discussion on Islam.
>
>   * SAW -- Sal' Allah 'O' Alayhey Wasallam  [same (as you said) as PBUH]

    * Khilafah - the perfect ruling system which comprises of a caliph who
      implements Islam 100% in a country!

>...
>
>     Nasir.
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	Zaf