Comment below: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 9/3/06 12:09 AM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Bill Maher did a bit on his show this week about converting to Islam. > > Unlike, say, Judaism which is a long, drawn out affair if you want to > > convert to it -- you gott take classes, study the religion, etc. -- > > according to Islam you just say two sentences and you're in! > > > ³There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.² > > Surely true on some level. > **End**
Coleman Barks, in one of his translations of Rumi, and speaking out of the Sufi tradition, translates the standard "There is no God but Allah" (la ilaha il Allahu) as "There is nothing but God, God alone is." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
