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From: gt8145a@prism.gatech.edu (FADEL,AYMAN HOSSAM)
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Subject: Re: Dress Codes in Islam ....
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Date: 9 Apr 91 06:06:13 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.044254.15940@nntp-server.caltech.edu> whaddara@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>
>The issue that I'm trying to adress is that Islam is not an irrational
>religion, especially as regards social restrictions. When a ruling has
>been made in Islam you could expect that breaking that rule will bring
>adverse consequences. This applies to such varied things from 'moral'
>behaviour and relations between the sexes to alcohol consumption.
> 
> 
>Wael M. R. Haddara


I think we should avoid attempting to justify or defend Islamic injunctions
rationally.  Rationality, as we know it today, is a product of a culture
that does not (admit to) believe in the non-empirical, i.e. that which
is not perceived by the five physical senses.

There can be no religion without belief in the unseen (al-iimaan bil-ghayb).
It is then entirely useless to discuss religion with people who
will not believe in the unseen.

In addition, I prefer to equate rationality with hawaa, or whim.  In most
cases, we merely rationalize whatever we wanted to believe anyway, and
then we sanctify it (our whim) over revelation by calling it rationality.

salam,

ayman

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FADEL,AYMAN HOSSAM
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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