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Archeology & History / Re: Who is Mister Israel and who is his descent?

« on: December 26, 2012, 06:39:09 PM »

(Don't get me wrong. I love a good archaeological rant as much as the next person but it should serve to enlighten, not to perpetuate some kind of ancient internal feud. The very earliest of Muslim scholars have taken such precious care in explaining to people that the true nature of Al Lah is so unfathomable, so beyond gender and other human measures of substance that I simply do not see how people can continually become so entangled in the sort of mundane talk which only ever ends in confrontation.)

 

 

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Archeology & History / Re: Who is Mister Israel and who is his descent?

« on: December 26, 2012, 05:36:52 PM »

Sorry, but I think that all this true lineage stuff sounds like racist crypto-rabbinic crap.

Half the problem for Westerners trying to figure out Islam is trying to figure out Arabic.
Problem for many, including Arabs, is remembering that the world was once much more Oriental in culture and that Islam is directly descended from the pre-Nicean Christianity yet fails to reflect this.

Regardless, I think that literalism is a poison to any prophetic message.
Salaam.

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General Issues / Questions / Re: Some questions regarding Islam

« on: October 07, 2011, 07:24:35 PM »

Salaam, HyperEntity.

You're going to find an endless debate on this topic, HyperEntity.
This is what the Hadith does to people and why they leave it behind.

Personally, I am not much interested in a book which tells me to shave off my pubic hair and wipe my arse with a specific hand.
It's outright invasive, not to mention absurd. I don't allow it to affect me one way or the other, any more.

There are some rational opinions out there regarding the subject but my choice is to just forsake the books as
more propaganda and leave right and wrong to the conscience Al Lah gave me, with or without a book to decipher it for me.

Good luck to you.

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Discuss Latest News/Events / Wall Street Live

« on: October 02, 2011, 04:41:52 AM »

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

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Discuss Latest News/Events / UNGRIP (Full-length film.)

« on: October 01, 2011, 04:22:03 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tScuHwVtRcY

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Introduce Yourself / Re: New here... multi-religious person practicing some aspects of Islam

« on: September 29, 2011, 08:34:41 PM »

About a third of Turkey's population practises a religion similar to yours.
They're called Alevi.

Salaam.

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General Issues / Questions / Re: Misleads of Free-Minds Teachings--Positive Criticism

« on: September 28, 2011, 02:32:20 AM »

Salaam.

The Quran allows one to use dirt in place of running water, if it is not ...say "available",
in the same way that many people surround themselves with burning sage or sweet grass smoke when they pray.

There is a message in this that falls outside of simple, literal translation.

I think what the person meant, who said that one can pray in the nude if they choose to do so,
is that we are not bound to the sort of malignant, ritualistic behaviour which takes the breath
out of the words left for us by the Messenger through his close Companions.

We are to be clean, we are to be modest.
We are to pray as we were taught and regularly, according to the movement of the day.

Imagine a place where the sun shines constantly for much of the year....

It's best to reach for the essence of the teachings, to read them in your own light,
to apply them to your own life, while giving others room to find and apply their own understanding,
as Al Lah reveals it to them personally.

We forget that Shaykh was often there, in the distant past, for a vast number of people
who couldn't even read. To teach them to read, even. My shaykh lives on the other side of the world and he would be ashamed of me if I were not able to figure it out for myself. 

Times change. That is not bi'dah. That is time.

P e a c e .

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Off-Topic / Re: THE MUSIC THREAD

« on: September 23, 2011, 02:36:13 PM »

Little clip of a musical ensemble I am currently working on.
(You'll hear a traditional gamelan in the background.)

http://m3zh3p.net/gravitydubtk1.mp3

Probably be doing more farming than jamming, in the months to come, however.
Moving to Hawai'i to work under a yoga master.

Salaams.
(I'll sing on it later, after I shine it up just a bit more.)

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Science / Re: Atheism as mental deviance?

« on: September 23, 2011, 02:29:38 PM »

In my training as a Sufi dervish, I was taught to understand God as a sort of energy force.... genderless and expressive in aspect through every thing and experience under the sun.

(In fact, I had already made this conclusion on my own, which is how I became so interested in Sufism in the first place.)

But how many atheists would agree with me on those points?
Probably quite a few.

Which is more cuckoo? To believe this ...or to believe that a bearded old man is going to come floating down from the sky with a legion of trumpeting, winged humanoid creatures and set things right again?



Kind of a toss-up, sometimes, isn't it?

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Discuss Latest News/Events / Re: Libya - Supporting the Government

« on: September 23, 2011, 02:20:44 PM »

I don't feel obliged to be in support of one or the other.

If you dig into history, you can plainly see that the very same people/organisations who are the source of the trouble in the world are often also the same who support the revolutions with their sway within banking, military and policing factions of the government.

They will set up a dictator for their own purposes and, then, when the dictator goes rogue, they will organise a revolution and come out eating cake, once again.

They've been doing for a very long time, now, all over the world.