[Reader-list] Rethinking Islam

[Rahul Asthana]

> In fact all the religions are are pain the ass if
> they dont behave the
> way it should be...

Hi Inder,
1. What do you mean by "way it should be"?
2.Is there any way to determine an absolute "the way
it should be"?
3.If all religions would behave in "the way it should
be", would that mean all religions should be
similiar,or do you mean all religions should conform
to some checklist?
P.S. If you are an atheist and you meant by this that
religions should subjugate themselves to social
mores,then theres nothing to explain.But please do
examine this from the point view of a theist and let
me know your thoughts.
Thanks

Rahul

--- inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shuddha's crime that his name sounds Hindu, but
> Garcia Lorca was
> homosexual and yet incorporated Islamic terminology
> in his poems.
> Borges too used efficiently the litrary phrases in
> his famous style of
> writing. I dont know how many more in Latin American
> literature are
> benefited by the use of Islamic sounds. Even in
> Paris there was groups
> led by Paul Gaugin called Nabis and thier first
> painting was indeed
> titled ' Talisman' and who led a strange mystic
> life...
> 
>   It is only in India that this kind of wrting is
> seen a Muslim
> specific only, and in Paskistan anything Hindi would
> be seen as Hidnu
> specific only...
> 
> Besides that Shuddha Laments
>  ............. which exhausted and scattered the
> Islamicate
> intelligentsia, led to the'closure of the gates of
> 'Itjehad'
> (interpretation) and the rise of dogma and clerics,
> which Islam (which
> never had a centralized clergy
> 
> The main thrust of the scholarly piece is that Islam
> is urgently in
> need to restore its true glory by reincoporating its
>  mystical,
> logical and intellecual past.
> 
> In fact all the religions are are pain the ass if
> they dont behave the
> way it should be...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Tapas Ray
> <tapasrayx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hello! i'm a little confused. what exactly is the
> problem you see in
> > shuddha's post? do you think that as someone with
> a hindu name, he
> > should not have read so much about islamic
> thought, or if he did, should
> > not have mentioned that in public?
> >
> > just curious.
> >
> > tapas
> >
> >
> >
> > kirdar singh wrote:
> > > Very interesting... S.Jabbar asked "if there are
> Islamic scholars who
> > > can guide me..." and quickly jumped in Maulvi
> Shuddhabrata Sengupta to
> > > guide her. I can very well see Maulvi Shuddh in
> the sorely needed role
> > > of a mujtahid in Islam in the times to come...
> Hail Mutazilites, Hail
> > > Farabites, move away you Yogis... Here comes the
> New Age Islamic
> > > Ijtehad, Sarai being the new Baghdad...
> > >
> > > (Sorry I'll give you the references later, since
> I am in a flight
> > > between Babylon and Ankara.)
> > >
> > > KS
> > >
> > > (sorry, just couldn't help break the serious
> silence on this issue
> > > from the other Sarai fellows who are as usual
> spellbound).
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Shuddhabrata
> Sengupta
> > > <shuddha at sarai.net> wrote:
> > >> Dear Sonia,
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for your post. I have been studying Ibn
> Arabi, Ibn Rushd and
> > >> the Mutazila for quite some time now. And have
> always been struck by
> >
> >
> >
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