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rami
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Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem
thanks, anti christ = anti spirituality = materialsm and all that satisfies the nafs such as lusts desires etc. one reason why secular society is seen as a great evil, it places no limits on and actively promotes lusts. |
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Rasul Allah (sallah llahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "Whoever knows himself, knows his Lord" and whoever knows his Lord has been given His gnosis and nearness.
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Servetus
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Capisce. I finished reading Muhammad Asad's The Road to Mecca and find his ideas concerning Dajjal rather insightful, if arguable. Serv Edited by Servetus |
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Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem
care to sumerise his views, i am not familiar with them. |
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Rasul Allah (sallah llahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "Whoever knows himself, knows his Lord" and whoever knows his Lord has been given His gnosis and nearness.
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Very briefly, and operating here from an at times faulty memory, the noteworthy idea is Muhammad Asad's (otherwise known as Leopold Weiss's) recognition of the metaphorical aspect of Dajjal's one, or single eye. In the book, he tells his Sheikh, and his Sheikh approves the observation, that the single eye of Dajjal might be understood as the West's fully open eye of Materialism and material accomplishment, yet increasingly closed -or perhaps, more accurately, atrophied- Spiritual eye. Asad was writing in the earlier part of the last century. Near the same time, and again only as I recall, this same observation was made by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani, the founder of the Ahmadiyya sect. If I have the correct person here, it was, in fact, in part because he was said to be able to both recognize and identify Dajjal (the term relates, in this case, not only to Western secularism but also to British Imperialism, wherein it becomes entangled in complicated conspiracy) that his followers acknowledged him as the promised Mahdi, of sorts, and hence the sect's name, I presume. Again, though, that is in a nut-shell, and, these days, the idea that the one eye of Dajjal is the open Materialistic eye of the West seems quite current in Islam as a sort of accomplished fact, as, for example, even Abdal Hakim-Murad reiterates the theme in one of his articles. Thank you for asking and I hope that I was clear. Servetus Edited by Servetus |
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#5 The definition of 'anti-Semite,' at least the American-English version, should be broad enough to cover anyone who disagrees with Norman Podhoretz, including his wife. Servetus Edited by Servetus |
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Angel
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I disagree |
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~ Our feet are earthbound, but our hearts and our minds have wings ~
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Angel
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Hello Servetus come by the pond more often and say hi |
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~ Our feet are earthbound, but our hearts and our minds have wings ~
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(Thanks, Angel.) #6 Halliburton: the White Man's Burton. Servetus Edited by Servetus |
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