The Baha'i Studies Listserv On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Gilberto Simpson < [email protected]> wrote:
> The Baha'i Studies Listserv > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Iskandar Hai, M.D. > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > > > Oh, that's interesting. Someone from Atlanta steals your stuff. You can't > > find him. You just go and steal some stuff from a person who is traveling > to > > or from Atlanta. > > First we aren't really talking about a modern metropolis so that's not > the right analogy. Its a tribal society so its more like a particular > street gang has a certain territory. They have your belongings and on > top of that, it is likely that your belongings are actually part of > the caravan and being sold elsewhere. So you interrupt the caravan to > a) prevent your belongings from being traded and b) to recoup some of > the loss. > But, you don't know if you have the right guy. That's the point. You are just assuming. > > > > The four months are regarded in a special category in Islam. Nether did > > Muhammad abrogate the four months thing. Actually many of the pre-Islamic > > rite and rituals are carried over right into Islam. Besides, being > deceitful > > is not terribly ethical behaviour. > > It's not clear what you are saying. Did the raids occur in Rajab or not? > The Nakhlah raid was in Rajab and one of Abdullah ibn Jahsh's guys, Ukkash ibn Mihsan had shaved his head, deceitfully. > > __________________________________________________ > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-549413-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
