mughal@iago.caltech.edu (Mughal, Asim) (11/05/90)
__Asim Mughal_______________________________________________________________ I only represent myself, not my university and/or my employer. --flames & unsolicited e-mail will be sent to 'dead-file area Mughal@citiago.bitnet mughal@Caltech.bitnet mughal@iago.caltech.edu ____________________________________________________________________________ Bill Mayne asks about a copy of Quran (spellings do not matter since it is not an English word.) The translation by Maulana Maududi has been found by some easier to understand. It is avaliable from: ICNA 166-26 89 Avenue Jamaica, NY 11432 (718)-657-4090 for $16 + 15% SH. If you want to find out about Islam I suggest you find it out from Muslims. (instead of Penguin Classics) As for suggestions to read, read it from the beggining to the end. You will not get the picture if you read sections of it neither will you be able to say that a certain subject is not in Koran. Also, there are no good sections to get overview, to get overview you have to read it all. (Actually there are no "good" sections, Each verse is Divine and cannot be removed, not read, or altered.) Regards
yamen%jomby@cs.wisc.edu (Soner Yamen) (04/09/91)
An excerpt: Qur'^an & the Universe To Muslims, the process of breathing life into the corpus of man's understanding of the universe has become widely referred to as the "Islamization of knowledge." But this is not simply a matter of coloring current ideas and data in shades of Islam. Our higher criticism and learning must be totally rethought, wiping away the unbelieving premises on which today's narrow empiricism is based. It is not ignorant and unhealty for man to continue the journey of life a skeptic, doubting everything -even his own existence- until otherwise proven. How small and foolish it would be to confine ourselves to a handful of limited senses. Man's understanding is based upon inspiration from his Creator. Revelation is the highest and purest kind of knowledge because it comes from the All-knowing, All-seeing, Omniscient God -and man has only one authentic, unchanged revelation to turn to that can unravel the mysteries of the universe: the Qur'an, the last divine dispensation from God to man. So the first step in this sojourn begins with bismillah and opening the Qur'an, where the Creator of the cosmos brings man from darkness into light about his time-bound home. wassalaam, -sy-