Patti Goebel wrote: Speaking of Babylon, the symbolic city
of corrupted religion, John writes: . . . thy merchants
were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets,
and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the
In a message dated 6/15/2004 3:31:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
'If thy Lord had willed, whoever is in the earth would have believed, all of them, all together. Wouldst thou then constrain the people until they are believers?' (Sura 10:99)
I am wondering what the
Hi Susan,
The verse "Let there be no compulsion in religion" does as much as well but I have heard some Muslims argue that this verse was abrogated once the umma was formed.
Does this mean that some Muslims believe that human understanding
is more authoritative than the Qur'an? If they
