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- From: darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice)
- Subject: Re: Let's try these proofs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.100101.14573@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1993Jan21.222614.119787@marshall.wvnet.edu> <1jq0i0INN5rq@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:01:01 GMT
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- In <1jq0i0INN5rq@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan21.222614.119787@marshall.wvnet.edu>, yea027@marshall.wvnet.edu writes:
- >|> Printed by
- >|> Islamic Teaching Center, P.O. box 38
- >|> Plainfield, Indiana 46168
- >|> Tel. (317) 839-8157
- >|>
- >|> How did it happen?
- >|>
- >|> Would you believe a man if he tells you that there is a
- >|> store which is running smoothly but has no salesman,
- >|> storekeeper or someone to look after it? Or would you
- >|> believe him if he told you that the chair in front of you
- >|> assumed its present form all by itself?
-
- >Followed by hundreds of line of argument from design, and minor
- >variations.
-
- >I have a serious question. Is this really current stuff in
- >Islamic teaching?
-
- >jon.
-
- As a Muslim, I can say "no" -- this is just one style of polemical
- writing some Muslims have tried in an attempt to try to "prove" God
- "logically". It is not a fundamental part of Islamic teaching, though
- it is probably a characteristic response of many religious people when
- faced with the secular onslaught of today's world. True Islamic teaching,
- in my opinion, goes far deeper.
-
- I believe the true heart of Islam to be Sufism -- not all Muslims
- would agree with me, but many would. I personally think that Sufism
- ["Tasawwuf"] reveals the true metaphysical depth of the religion.
-
- Fred Rice
- darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
-