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اگر حسب۔ منشاء تمہارا کام نہ بن سکے تو پھر جس حالت میں ہو، مگن رہو ۔ If you cannot get things as much as you desire than be contented with what you have. Imam Ali (a) saying # 49

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Knowledge and wisdom are really properties of a faithful Muslims, though lost to him. Get them back, though you may have to get them from apostate. Acquire wisdom and truth from whomever you can, because even an apostate can have them, but unless they are passed over to a faithful Muslim and become part of wisdom and truth that he possesses, they have a confused existence in the minds of apostate. Value of each man depends upon the art and skill which he has attained. One who imagines himself to be all knowing will surely suffer on account of his ignorance. Whoever keeps his affairs in order with God (follows His Orders sincerely ), God will also put his affairs with man in order; whoever makes arrangements for salvation, the Lord will arrange his worldly affairs; whoever advises his own selves, God will also protect him. He is the wisest and the most knowing man who advises people not to lose hope and confidence in the mercy of God , and not to be too sure and over confident of immunity from His wrath and punishment. Like your body your mind also get tired and fagged ; in such case find educational diversion for it. The knowledge is very superficial which remains only on your tongue ; the intrinsic merit and value of knowledge is that you act up to it. How I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. One who develops the trait of greed and avarice invites degradation; one who keeps on advertising his poverty and ill-luck will always be humiliated; one who has no control over his tongue will often have to face embarrassment and discomfort. Surrender to and acceptance of God are the best companions ; wisdom is noblest heritage ; theoretical and practical knowledge are best marks of distinction ; deep thinking will present the clearest picture of every problem. A wiseman's mind is the safest custody of secrets ; an open and pleasant countenance gets more friends, patience and forbearance will hide and cover many defects. A conceited and self admiring person is disliked by others; charity and alms are the best treatment for ailments and calamities , one has face in after life the deeds that he has done in this world. Man is the wonderful creature, he he see through layers of fat (fatty tissue), he hears through a bone, he speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue). When this world favours anybody it lends him qualifications, attributes and surpassing merits of others; and when it turns it face away from him, it snatches away even his own excellences and fame. Treat people in such a way and live amongst them in such a manner that if you die they weep over you; alive they crave for your company. If you get an opportunity and power over your enemy then, in thankfulness to God for this, forgive him. He is very unfortunate who cannot in his life time gain a few sincere friends and sympathizers, and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them. When few blessings comes your way , do not drive them away through thanklessness. Overlook and forgive weaknesses of generous people , because if they fall down the hand of God lifts them. Failures are often result of timidity and fears ; disappointments are results of uncalled for modesty. Hours of leisure pass away like summer cloud; therefore, do not waste opportunity of doing good. Happy is the man who always kept the life after death in his view, who remembered the day of Reckoning through all his deeds, who led a contended life, and who was happy with the lot that God hath destined for him. If you help a deserving person without his request then it is generosity, and if you help him after his request then mostly it is due to shyness to refuse or fear of reproach. There is no greater wealth than wisdom; no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture ; and no greater friend and helpmate than consultation. Endurance is of two kinds; when you endure unpleasant things coming to you, and when you bear refusal of things pleasing you. Wealth converts every foreign country into your native place, and poverty turns your native place into a strange land. We; Ahlay Baith, hold such central and balancing position in religion that those who are deficient in understanding and acting upon its principles will have to come to us for improvement, and those who are over doing have got to learn moderation from us. When somebody asked Hazrat as how he was getting on he replied, "What do you want to know about a person whose life is leading him towards ultimate death; whose health is the first stage towards illness and whom society has forced out of his retreat?"

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Knowledge and wisdom are really properties of a faithful Muslims, though lost to him. Get them back, though you may have to get them from apostate. Acquire wisdom and truth from whomever you can, because even an apostate can have them, but unless they are passed over to a faithful Muslim and become part of wisdom and truth that he possesses, they have a confused existence in the minds of apostate. Value of each man depends upon the art and skill which he has attained. One who imagines himself to be all knowing will surely suffer on account of his ignorance. Whoever keeps his affairs in order with God (follows His Orders sincerely ), God will also put his affairs with man in order; whoever makes arrangements for salvation, the Lord will arrange his worldly affairs; whoever advises his own selves, God will also protect him. He is the wisest and the most knowing man who advises people not to lose hope and confidence in the mercy of God , and not to be too sure and over confident of immunity from His wrath and punishment. Like your body your mind also get tired and fagged ; in such case find educational diversion for it. The knowledge is very superficial which remains only on your tongue ; the intrinsic merit and value of knowledge is that you act up to it. How I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. One who develops the trait of greed and avarice invites degradation; one who keeps on advertising his poverty and ill-luck will always be humiliated; one who has no control over his tongue will often have to face embarrassment and discomfort. Surrender to and acceptance of God are the best companions ; wisdom is noblest heritage ; theoretical and practical knowledge are best marks of distinction ; deep thinking will present the clearest picture of every problem. A wiseman's mind is the safest custody of secrets ; an open and pleasant countenance gets more friends, patience and forbearance will hide and cover many defects. A conceited and self admiring person is disliked by others; charity and alms are the best treatment for ailments and calamities , one has face in after life the deeds that he has done in this world. Man is the wonderful creature, he he see through layers of fat (fatty tissue), he hears through a bone, he speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue). When this world favours anybody it lends him qualifications, attributes and surpassing merits of others; and when it turns it face away from him, it snatches away even his own excellences and fame. Treat people in such a way and live amongst them in such a manner that if you die they weep over you; alive they crave for your company. If you get an opportunity and power over your enemy then, in thankfulness to God for this, forgive him. He is very unfortunate who cannot in his life time gain a few sincere friends and sympathizers, and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them. When few blessings comes your way , do not drive them away through thanklessness. Overlook and forgive weaknesses of generous people , because if they fall down the hand of God lifts them. Failures are often result of timidity and fears ; disappointments are results of uncalled for modesty. Hours of leisure pass away like summer cloud; therefore, do not waste opportunity of doing good. Happy is the man who always kept the life after death in his view, who remembered the day of Reckoning through all his deeds, who led a contended life, and who was happy with the lot that God hath destined for him. If you help a deserving person without his request then it is generosity, and if you help him after his request then mostly it is due to shyness to refuse or fear of reproach. There is no greater wealth than wisdom; no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture ; and no greater friend and helpmate than consultation. Endurance is of two kinds; when you endure unpleasant things coming to you, and when you bear refusal of things pleasing you. Wealth converts every foreign country into your native place, and poverty turns your native place into a strange land. We; Ahlay Baith, hold such central and balancing position in religion that those who are deficient in understanding and acting upon its principles will have to come to us for improvement, and those who are over doing have got to learn moderation from us. When somebody asked Hazrat as how he was getting on he replied, "What do you want to know about a person whose life is leading him towards ultimate death; whose health is the first stage towards illness and whom society has forced out of his retreat?"

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Praise and Eulogy is for Allah for the blessing and bounties which He has bestowed. And thanks to HIM upon what He revelated (to His servants) And Praise is for HIM upon the common boons and blessings which He bestowed upon His servants without their request And upon the comprehensive and complete blessings which He granted to all and sundry and gave it to us, consequetively. Those graces and favours which are uncountable.
And are irredeemable and uncompensatable due to their plentifulness of number. And the imagination of their end is out of the reach of human mind.

He invited the servant to thankfuness for the sake of the consequetive and continous enhanecment of blessings. And opened the door of euloqy and Praise (of Allah) upon them so that He may make his favours and beneficiences great and plentiful for them.

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I testify that there is no Diety (Lord) except the sole and matchless Allah. And the testification of the singleness of Allah is a word that Allah has declared sincerity (as) it's reality, and made the hearts the centre of it's contact and union. And has made the specifications and research of the oneness of Allah's station obvious and evident in the light of meditation. The Allah Who can not be seen by the eyes and tongues are unable and baffled to describe His virtues and attributes. And the intelligence and apprehension of man is helpless and destitude from the imagination of his howness.

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Allah made all the beings without previous matter and sample and shape and pattern. And made them wear the dress of life by His main and mights and created them according to His Devine will and Intention short of it that He might have neeeded their creatlon or have wished any benefit for Himself from their shaping and sketching except this that he wanted to give a proof of Hls wisdom and make the people (creations) aware about His obedience and submisslon and invited them to his servitude and worship and make His Invitation grand and ostentatlous.

4..
Allah fixed the reward for His obedience and torment for His insubordination and disobedience so that He may restraln His servants from His wrath and fury and lead them to His paradise.

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And I testify that my father Mohammad (SAW) is the apostle and the servant of Allah. And Allah selected and chose him before appolnting him at the post of Prophethood. And He named him before choosing and selecting him. And chose him before envoying and delegating him. Then all the creations were hidden and covered in the covers of unseen and were hidden amid the screen and curtain of fear and fright and stayed near the last and final border of non entity (nothingness) for Allah was aware of and knew the end of matters and because of Hls encompassing the incidents of times and ages and His knowledge of the predestinates.

Allah appolnted him (as apostle) so that he may complete and finalise His matter and Implement His order and materialise His decreeds and predestinates.

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Allah saw nations and groups had various different sects in their religion and scattered and staying on the verge of the fires of differences, busy with the their idol worshipping. They denied God with all the signs and symbols of HIM. (IRFAN) So Allah illuminated the darknesses through my father Mohammad (SAW) and removed the darknesses from their hearts, removed (cured) the blindness of the eyes.

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My father (Mohammad (SAW) ) stood up with (his) guidance among the people. And saved them from perversion and aberration, and turned their blindness into enlightenment and guided them towards the firm religion. And called (invited) them to the straight way.

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You the servants of Allah, are the ones to maintain His injunctions and prohibitions, and the carriers of His religion, and His relevation, and the trustees of Allah upon your souls, and the propagators of His religion among the other nations.

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Oh the servants of Allah! (beware) the real leader from Allah, is present among you and the commitment has previously been made to you and the remaining and left over of the prophet hood has been appointed for your guidance.

That is the speaking book of Allah the truthful Quran, and a beaming and gleaming light, in which all the secrets and facts about the completion of man and his prosperity have been exhibited and illuminated. It guides from darkness towards light of guidance. It s followers are the subject of envoy of others.

10.
The book of Allah is the guide of it's followers towards the pleasure of Allah. Listening (carefully) to it leads to the salvation. The enlightened and conspicous evidences and proofs of Allah can be obtained through it. And (also the knowledge) of His interpreted intentions and fear invoking constraining prohibitions. His sufficing testimonies and conspicous arguments, and desired virtues and allowed endowments and gifts and obligatory devine laws. (can be obtained from it)

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Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and infedility).

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And (made) service the cause of your getting distant (purification) from pride (egoism).

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And rendered alms for the purity of your soul and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.

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And rendered fasting for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

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And Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.

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Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts.

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And (Allah set) the subordination and obedience of us (the houshold of the Prophet (SAW)) for the security of society's system and our Immamate as a safety from seggregation and disunity).

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And (Allah made) Jahad (holy war), the honour and glory for Islam and abjectness and humbleness for the infidels and the hypocrites.

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And (Allah rendered) patience as a help for getting reward.

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And (Allah caused) commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks (public).

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And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.

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And Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.

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And Allah made law of retaliation (revenge for homicide) as the security of blood (from being shed).

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And Allah executed the vow performing as a medium for forgiveness.

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And (Allah rendered) the correct use of weights measure (units) a medium for stoping from selling less (than actual).

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And (Allah rendered) prohibition from drinking wine the cause of taking distance from contaminations (evils).

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And Allah made the prohibition to accuse someone of adultery a protection (shield) for avoiding (His) curse.

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And (Allah made) refraining from theft for the sake of positiveness and affirmation for modesty.

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And Allah prohibited polytheism for the sake of (bringing about) sincerety in (His) adoration and worship.

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Certainly, an apostle has come to you from among yourselves; grievous to him is your falling into distress, excessively solictious respecting you; to the believers (he is) compassionate, merciful.

So if you assay and recognise him you will find he is my father not the father of your women and the brother of my cousin, (Ali a.s) not that of your men. And how nice a relation I have to him. So he propagated his prophetic (mission). He always used to turn his face from the polytheists.

And fought against them till he beat them up. He would invite people towards Allah by wisdom, and beautiful admonition. He broke the idols and scattered the aggregation of polytheists in a way that they ran away (from the battle fields), so that finally the hidden secret of oneness of Allah became manifested by him.

And he made the logic of religion reach the ears ((of the people) and settled down the foam of the camels of satan and turned the salogan yelling of those devils silent. And downed the agents of hypocrisy and mutual commitments of the infidels got dissolved till such time that, you (people) spoke to a group of enlightened and modest men with the words of oneness of Allah and sincerity.

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You were on the edge of a fire ditch, and were a cup of drink and the morsal of a greedy one and a firebrand of every hastey one and were being trampled on (by other nations) and drank from the contaminated waters gathered over in ditches and your energy (food) was (secured by) the leaves of trees and desert grass. And for your abjectness and abasement you were always afraid that those arround you might abduct you in the winking of an eye. So, Allah liberated you (of these misfortunes) through my father Mohammed (SAW). Inspite of it that he (SAW) was involved and at war against the intrepid and the hungry wolves of Arab and the stubborns refractories of the people of the books (Jews and Christians). Whenever his opponents would lit the fire of war, Allah extinguished it to your benefit.

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Imam Hassan (AS) said, 'on the friday night I saw my mother (Fatima (as)) standing in her arch of prayer. She was continuously kneeling and performing prostration till the dawn broke. I would hear her pray for the faithful men and women, but she did not at all pray for herself. I said, 'Oh mother why did you not pray for yourself like you prayed for others?' so she replied, 'Oh my son, first thy neighbour and there after your own house.'

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The Prophet (SAW) said to Fatima (AS) what is the thing which is a blessing for woman?'

She said that, 'she must not see a man (stranger and not intimate) and a man must not see her.'

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One day a lady came to Fatima (AS) said 'I have a weak old mother who does not know a few problems about her service (prayers). She has sent me towards you to question you (about them). Thus Fatima answered her (questions). And the number of her queries reached to ten and Fatima (AS) replied to all her questions. Then she (the woman got a shamed because of the high number of her questions. And said, 'Oh daughter of the Prophet (SAW), 'I do not put you to more inconvinience than this.'

Fatima (AS) said, 'Ask me what you do not know. Have you ever seen a person who is one day hired to carry a heavy thing to the roof top from ground for an amount (equal to) a thousand dinnars (nearly a hundred thousand miskal (unit of weight) of gold) and he may feel himself tired.'

She said 'No'. Fatima (AS) said, 'I have been hired by Allah to get a wages which if the space between the earth and sky is filled up with pearls still (That wages) would he more than it for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired exhausted.'

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Oh Allah! belittle me in my eyes and glorify and magnify Your station to me. And inspire me (about) Your obedience and the practice which may cause Your pleasure and the shunning and evading from things (matters) which are the cause of Your wrath, oh the most merciful of all! 36.
Oh Allah! content me with the sustenence you have granted me. And till such time that you keep me alive, hide me and make me sound and prosperous. And forgive me and take pity upon me when I die. (During death process). Oh Allah! do not help me in something that you have not predestined for me. And facilitate the achievement of that thing which you have predestined for me.

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Oh Allah! bestow upon my parents and all those persons who have rights of their blessings and beneficiences upon me, the best of Your rewards. Oh my Allah, spare me the leisure and respite for the object for which You have created me. And do not let me be busy and involved (absolutely) in my commitments. And do not torment me when I ask forgivensess. And do not deprive me of what I yearn and question you for.

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Underlying are the rhymes which Hazrat Zahra (AS) recited upon the mourning of Prophet's (SAW) demise.

The person who smells the sweet fragnance of the grave of the Prophet (SAW) so what if he does not smell any other fragnance for long times to come?

Agonies and anguishes and griefs poured upon me in such a way that had they poured upon days those would have turned into nights. (bleak, dark and bewildering).

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The dust of sorrow covered the space of sky and the sun has faded and the bright day turned bleak. The earth has become dark and gooomy after the death of the Prophet (SAW) Woe! Alas! what the earth will have much of Jolting upon being seperated and parted from him (SAW).

It is meritorious and befitting that the east and west of the world may weep upon the parting of Prophet (SAW) and the persons of Muzzir tribe and all of they rest of the Yemen tribes shed tears.

And the great magnificient mountain of the existence and the hidden and covered Kabaah (House of ALLAH) and its pillars should shed tears.

Oh the terminator and finaliser of the (series of) prophets! the light of whome is the source of blessing for the worlds inhabitants, Be the salutation and blessings of Allah the desender of Holy Quran upon you.

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Following you (Prophet (SAW)) inequities (intrigues and revolts) took shape and varient voices were raised so that if you were present and supervising (things) all these differences and deviations would not have taken place.

You set off (on the journey of eternity) from among us and now our condition is like the earth which becomes devoid of the beneficial rains. And your nation upset the order and discipline of matters. So be a witness and do not let their matter get out of your sight.

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Imam Hossein (a.s.) saw a Muslim slave in a farm eating together with dog. On being questioned by the Imam Hossein (a.s.), the slave replied. "On account of my master who is a Jew and his taking very hard work from me, I remain sad due to bad treatment. But I take joy in feeding this dog with me with whatever I get to eat."
On hearing this, the Imam Hossein (a.s.) made contact with the Jew master and offered him 200 Ashrafi for the slave. The Jew was so much impressed by the Imam's generosity that he offered the slave to the Imam Hossein (a.s.) free of charge. Imam Hossein (a.s.) accepted the slave with a kind gesture and gave a gift of 200 Ashrafi to the slave boy and set him free. The wife of the Jew was watching all this and came forward and forgave her Meher money to her husband, the Jew. At this goodness of the wife the husband gave his wife the whole house and the farm as gift.
All this happened due to the kindness of the slave for feeding the dog from the same food that he was eating

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Arabian Summer Night -www.see-and-beseen.com
Did you know that See and Be Seen has a success rate of 25%?
That means that 1 out every 4 people has met THE ONE at our events?


Join Us for an Arabian Summer Evening...

See and Be Seen is taking you to an exquisite Middle Eastern restaurant, with a classy ambiance, splendid Arabic food and a wonderful yet pleasant atmosphere to interact with other Shia's from Canada and the US.
We have made every effort to make this singles event a success. But now it's up to you. Confirm your attendance and invite all your friends to attend as well.
The success of See and Be Seen depends on you! We will only get out of this program, exactly what we put into.
So come on, show your support for your community, make some friends, network a little, enjoy delicious Arabic food and who knows who you might meet at the summer event of the year!
Contact us for more info ... you can even speak to some of the people who have come to the events!
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The event is being held during the UMAA convention umaamerica.org) on Memorial Weekend. We will meet at the Lobby of Sheraton at Tyson's Corner, Vienna, Virginia

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As salamu alaykum.

For those who work in Midtown, or happen to go by there, there is a halal shawarma/platter stand on 27th Street and Broadway which is there 7 days a week from 9am to 5pm.

It's owned by some South lebanese shia and the name of one of the brothers is Ali Hamdan, and the other one also has the last name Hamdan.

Masha allah very nice people and their kabab platter is decent.

Fe amani Allah
Mansoor

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Dont buy it just chuck it. If you get to the reviews at the end you will
notice they are lousy attempts to sell the book.



The new AMERICAN Quran: a dangerous trick



>>A new Quran is being distributed in Kuwait, titled

>>"The True Furqan". It is being described as the ayats

>>of the Shaytan and Al-Furqan weekly magazine has found

>>out that the two American printing companies;'Omega

>>2001' and 'Wine Press' are involved in the publishing

>>of 'The True Furqan', a book which has also been

>>titled 'The 21st Century Quran'!

>>

>>It is over 366 pages and is in both the Arabic

>>and English languages...it is being distributed to our

>>children in Kuwait in the private English schools! The

>>book contains 77 Surats,

>>which include Al-Fatiha,

>>Al-Jana and Al-Injil.

>>

>>Instead of Bismillah, each Surat begins with a longer version of this

>>

>>incorporating the Christian belief of the three spirits.

>>

>>This so called Quran opposes many Islamic beliefs. in

>>one of its ayats it describes having more than one

>>wife as fornication, divorce being non-permissable and

>>it uses a new system for the sharing out of the will,

>>opposing the current one. It states that Jihad is

>>HARAAM. This book even goes as far as attacking Allah,

>>Subhanahu wa Tahala! All this is poisoning our

>>children at approx.$3.

>>

>>Brothers and Sisters please make sure you forward

>>this email to as many people as possible so that we

>>can stop this dangerous trick.

>>Please tell! everyone you know and may

>>Allah reward

>>you.

>>

>>DONT BELIEVE IT?....

>>Here's the review from AMAZON.COM

>>

>>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1579211755/