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From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
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Subject: Re: salvation and islam
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Date: 24 May 91 15:13:44 GMT
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In article <1991May21.180820.24973@wpi.WPI.EDU> rayes@mcs.kent.edu (Mohamed Omar Rayes) writes:
>There are no saints in Islam.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this.  It may be true in theory (i.e.,
by the Qur'an and hadith), but in practice is it not sometimes otherwise?
When I was in Morocco there were many tombs of Muslims saints (usually 
white buildings).  Their descendants would hang out there, and people 
would go to the tombs to get a blessing or a cure (they were supposed
to pay the descendants a bit to get this).  I was told that this was
pretty widespread, and not just in Morocco.  But  I certainly can't
make any blanket statements about the practice, and wonder how this
varies among the Muslim world.
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