Susan, At 10:52 AM 12/22/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>The same method was applied to Qur'an by a rather eccentric Imam from Tucson who >>came to the conclusion that everything came to the Number 19. But in my opinion this >>is all nonsense.<<
It is similar to the books Theomatics and Theomatics II, which did something similar with the Bible (similar to E.W. Bullinger's 19th-century work). All of these numerological systems are purely deductive. In one case, with the late Rashad Khalifa, when a couple of qur'anic verses did not fit into his model, he argued that they did not belong in the Qur'an. In all of his translations, they have been removed. Mark A. Foster * http://MarkFoster.net http://CompuServe.m.foster.name ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
