Later in His life Muhammed found it necessary to conduct correspondence with the Byzantines. They ignored letters that were not "sealed" a recognizable seal being a sign of authoirty. It is recounted that Muhammed had a series of ring seals made to authenticate His correspondence headed to Byzantium.
Dear Scott, What I don't get is what is your point here? "I agree most muslims put faith in the hadith of the last sermon, but I cannot equate hadith and the Qur'an." Whether you can or not is really irrelevant. The question really is whether or not Muslims are being faithful when they do? You can't measure them by standards of authority we arrived at for ourselves centuries later. warmest, Susan __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
