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From: hanan@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (Hanan Lutfiyya)
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Subject: Re: Dress Codes in Islam
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Date: 11 Apr 91 11:35:29 GMT
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In Message-ID: <1991Apr9.060113.7445@wpi.WPI.EDU> (M. Afroz Lateef) writes
>In article <1991Apr5.043242.15563@nntp-server.caltech.edu> whaddara@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>>religion, especially as regards social restrictions. When a ruling has
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>>been made in Islam you could expect that breaking that rule will bring
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>>adverse consequences. This applies to such varied things from 'moral'
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>>Wael M. R. Haddara
>>All disclaimers apply. I'm only a student :-)
>> 
>   WELL SAID!

>   Even if we try to explain somethings, it is beyond the 
>understanding of someof the people. (those whose minds are corrupted by
> satan).


>M. Afroz Lateef
>Also a student
>(at _)  TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY.

   Let's be careful here.  Do all rulings have to be necessarily correct?
Many "Islamic scholars" make "rulings".  All use the Quran to make
their claims.  Are we suppose to never question these scholars?  
  A person questioning a "ruling" by an "Islamic scholar" is not
necessarily influenced by Satan or is it because this person will
not blindly follow "Islamic scholars".
  Also different scholars will have different opinions and approaches.
Different scholars will have conflicting opinions on the same
subject.  Are you saying that there is one correct view and
all different opinions are the result of minds that have been
corrupted by Satan?
  One example of what I would consider a stupid, silly ruling 
is the Saudi "Islamic scholar" who said that
women should not drive.  This "scholar" also ruled that the
earth was the center of the universe.  He only changed his mind
after a Saudi astronaut went up in the Space Shuttle.  He seems
to have a great deal of influence in Saudi Arabia.  Should he
be followed blindly just because he is an Islamic scholar?
Rather people should be able to do some reasoning for themselves.

Hanan Lutfiyya
(Always a student)
University of Missouri-Rolla