What you write below seems based on a misunderstanding. The reformers
(mujadids) who are prophecied every 100 years aren't people who bring
a new rules. They are more like people who revive the faith and
understanding and piety of the community.
-G
On 5/11/06, janine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you. I did not realise that Sharia law is seen as eternal. He does not
seem to think so, because he allows for reformers in Islam, he said that
that was foreseen in Islam, that every 100 years or so a reformer would come
about.
So the changes in obligatory prayer etc he sees as a reform of Islam, of
making Islam more appealing to westerners. (yes I told him that many Muslims
became Bahais, so much so that they kept on banning Bahá'u'llah until He
ended up in Akka, but he is quite fixed in his views).
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iskandar Hai, M.D.
Sent: 06 May 2006 21:53
To: Baha'i Studies
Subject: Re: question about Islam
Dear Janine,
In a sense he is right that the Baha'i Faith is a re-iteration of Islam
but then in that sense the Baha'i Faith is a re-iteration of Judaism,
Christianity, etc., as we believe that the foundation of all religions is
one. The essential and fundamental tenets of all faiths are the same. They
all teach one creator God, and they all teach love and fellowship, etc.,
and they all prohibit murder and theft, etc., etc. In that sense Islam is
a re-iteration of the religion of Abraham, of Moses, of Jesus, etc., etc.
But Muslims believe that Islamic shari`ah law is eternal, never to be
abrogated; things like the obligatory prayer (the salAt), the point of
adoration (Qiblih), fasting, and laws pertaining to personal status such
as inheritance, matrimonial/divorce laws, penalties and fines for theft,
murder, adultery, etc., etc., are considered by Muslims to be eternal and
not subject to abrogation. So, I'm surprised that your Muslim Shaykh
friend would not notice that Baha'is have new obligatory prayers, new
Qiblih, new Hajj pilgrimage place/practice different from Islam, cannot
practice bigamy, have a clear cut prohibition against slavery, have a
Divinely-ordained administartive order based on explicit Texts of the Book
of Baha'u'llah's Covenant and on the Will & Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha,
etc., etc., and have a new 19-day month of fasting in March (Ramadan is
29-30 days and is a lunar month, cycles through the seasons) as being
abrogations of Islamic shari`ah religious laws if he has actually read the
Aqdas and other Baha'i Holy Writings,
Warm and loving regards,
Iskandar
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Tim Nolan wrote:
> Hello Janine,
>
> >He feels that the Bahai faith is just a reiteration of Islam, nothing
> new. <
>
> The Baha'i Faith has an explicit, written Covenant, which preserves the
unity
> of the Baha'is. Islam doesn't have this, which is why there are rival
Islamic factions.
> The Baha'i Covenant also provides a source of continuing, unerring
divine guidance,
> after the Founder is no longer physically present. Sunni Muslims do not
have this, and Shi'a Muslims haven't had this for about 13 centuries.
>
> Baha'u'llah forbids religious warfare, Muhammad did not forbid this.
>
> Those are just two examples off the top of my head. He will find others
If he studies the revelation of Baha'u'llah more closely.
>
> Tim
>
>
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