Dear Janine,
Well, I guess that's a very strange view of the Baha'i Faith and Islam
that your friend has. I'm pretty sure he can't find very many Muslim
`ulamA scholars who would agree with him.
Regards,
Iskandar
On Thu, 11 May 2006, janine wrote:
> Thank you. I did not realise that Sharia law is seen as eternal. He does not
> seem to think so, because he allows for reformers in Islam, he said that
> that was foreseen in Islam, that every 100 years or so a reformer would come
> about.
>
> So the changes in obligatory prayer etc he sees as a reform of Islam, of
> making Islam more appealing to westerners. (yes I told him that many Muslims
> became Bahais, so much so that they kept on banning Bah'u'llah until He
> ended up in Akka, but he is quite fixed in his views).
>
>
>
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-----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iskandar Hai, M.D.
> Sent: 06 May 2006 21:53
> To: Baha'i Studies
> Subject: Re: question about Islam
>
> Dear Janine,
> In a sense he is right that the Baha'i Faith is a re-iteration of Islam
> but then in that sense the Baha'i Faith is a re-iteration of Judaism,
> Christianity, etc., as we believe that the foundation of all religions is
> one. The essential and fundamental tenets of all faiths are the same. They
> all teach one creator God, and they all teach love and fellowship, etc.,
> and they all prohibit murder and theft, etc., etc. In that sense Islam is
> a re-iteration of the religion of Abraham, of Moses, of Jesus, etc., etc.
>
> But Muslims believe that Islamic shari`ah law is eternal, never to be
> abrogated; things like the obligatory prayer (the salAt), the point of
> adoration (Qiblih), fasting, and laws pertaining to personal status such
> as inheritance, matrimonial/divorce laws, penalties and fines for theft,
> murder, adultery, etc., etc., are considered by Muslims to be eternal and
> not subject to abrogation. So, I'm surprised that your Muslim Shaykh
> friend would not notice that Baha'is have new obligatory prayers, new
> Qiblih, new Hajj pilgrimage place/practice different from Islam, cannot
> practice bigamy, have a clear cut prohibition against slavery, have a
> Divinely-ordained administartive order based on explicit Texts of the Book
> of Baha'u'llah's Covenant and on the Will & Testament of `Abdu'l-Baha,
> etc., etc., and have a new 19-day month of fasting in March (Ramadan is
> 29-30 days and is a lunar month, cycles through the seasons) as being
> abrogations of Islamic shari`ah religious laws if he has actually read the
> Aqdas and other Baha'i Holy Writings,
>
> Warm and loving regards,
> Iskandar
>
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