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From: goer@midway.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: A HADITH ABOUT WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST ?? (or my misunderstanding)
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Date: 18 Dec 90 22:32:31 GMT
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In article <1990Dec17.210538.1475@wpi.WPI.EDU>
nnk@cs.wayne.edu (Nasir Naseem Khawaja) writes:
>        
>        So you see, our needs and wants will be quite diferent in the
>        hereafter and hence Allah provided us with concepts that we
>        could be comfortable in believing.

Very interesting.
        
>         ...When we are clearly instructed by our holy book that
>         those writings ARE for all times, we should simply say:
>         
>                          "Aaman to bi'llahe"
>                          [  I    believe   ]
>          
>          I know this sounds quite ridged on my part, but this sole
>          phrase (I believe) has kept us from changing our book as
>          the Jews and the Christians have, just to "get out of some
>          tight corners".

I'd be interested in some examples of where Jews and Christians have
changed their books to get themselves out of tight corners.  I often
see this statement made, but I've actually never seen anyone cite spe-
cific examples.  I believe I could learn much from such examples.

This question isn't directed at Nasir only.  Please, anyone chime in.

Thanks to Nasir, by the way, for a very enlightening response.

-Richard

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