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The Muwatta
The Nichomachaen Ethics
On Divorce

>>13272958
Burke writes more on broad social concerns than he does on everyday morality

The Al-Muwatta
The Nichomachaen Ethics
On Divorce

>>13272958
Burke writes more on broad social concerns than he does on everyday morality

Marxism as a political position is about the Last Man

>>13272020
>The first thing Muhammed did when he came into Mecca was to kill and exile the jews

The tribes who had fought against him in violation of treaties, he did not exile or kill anyone just for being Jewish. Also regarding Makkah, you're wrong: Jews and Christians were allowed to pass through but not allowed by the polytheists to live there anymore

>>13272068
Sufis do not have an alternative interpretation, but an additional one. They consider this one worthless if you do not abide by and accept the mainstream one as well.

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The Bible gives God's--may He be glorified and exalted--law, Paul said it was obsolete. I am unsure when or where Christians believe God--the Glorious, the Exalted--sent down another law.

Great points, but Christisnity refuses to have religious law because Paul says no.

I have read him btw, he helped me feel less uncertain about Sharia, especially the death penalty for apostasy. Brilliant writer.

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https://www.change.org/p/international-union-of-muslim-scholars-release-a-fatwa-banning-anime-and-declare-it-haram-to-watch-anime-fda1bd10-5b7b-457a-a484-2228255ce962


>>13270869
This is sort of like saying how can Christianity be true when the Bible was only in Latin for so long

>>13268769
Guénon considered strict observance of the exoteric (for Islam he said this is Sharia) to be required to even start learning to esoteric (which in Islam he says is haqiqa)

>>13269319
That is all it ever was. You will notice that despite the extreme modesty of Muslims, feet are not sexualized, they are bare on both men and women during worship, even in countries where it is mandatory for women to cover their hair. Capitalism is about constanty inventing new desires so people are always unsatisfied and empty and keep working for paper printed, at the discretion of the capitalists, by privately owned machines, and going into debt just to be able to have an occupation or a home

This is a false flag to make Christians look bad, saged and reported

>>13268749
Posssibly

>>13268760
I fully condone them, they had a peace agreement and violated it, letting them live after that is a liability because their word is worthless

>>13268781
On the contrary, many church fathers saw the Roman Empire as prepared by God to spread Christianity

>>13268788
Warlord is just a pejorative here for non white leader and warrior

He had multiple wives but he required wives to be given equal income and a house each of their own, it's not like Buddhists were monogamous

He had slaves and treated them better than most employees are treated and the Qur'an says let slaves who ask for it earn freedom

>>13268718
He unified Arabia into a powerful empire out of a bunch of feuding tribes. Similar accomplishments in the west, such as the Roman Empire, are considered heroic

>>13268691
You are far more violent than the Prophet, Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, desu. When Muhammad defeated Makkah, he pardoned all his enemies

Indifferentism and failure to seriously devote yourself to a faith, both of which Guénon opposed

>>13268600
Apostatasy in a political here is tantamount to treason, God, may he be exalted and glorified, orders the same to be done to apostates repeatedly in the Bible. This does not mean death if you cease to believe or practice, only if you openly denounce Islam. This leads to subversives causing community division like they did in the west during the Enlightenment

Christians didn't tolerate idol worship either

Buddhists are not Amish, please stop imagining that.

Jews and Christians have too

Don't steal. It works

Male adulterers were executed too

Christians have a far more bloody history. Shintoism for its size is very bad too

Slavery in Islam is arguably more humane than the conditions of sweatshop labor used by the west

>>13268555
>outlaws the infanticide of girls, common there and then
>has due process that doesn't imvolve torture to get confession, unlike the civilized west at that time
>says masters must dress and feed their slaves equal to themselves while the west treated them literally like animals

Savagery indeed

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That is not journalism per se, it is an article on a book

>>13268423
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/books/review/the-iran-iraq-war-by-pierre-razoux.html

>>13268386
>Iran's Revolutionary Guards also used the T-55 tanks they had captured in earlier battles.[6] Basiji child-soldiers were sent forth to bodily clear the Iraqi minefields and allow the Revolutionary Guards to advance.[10] The Basij also launched human wave attacks on Iraqi positions, inspired before battle by tales of Ashura, the Battle of Karbala, and the glory of martyrdom. Sometimes an actor (usually an older soldier) would play the part of Imam Hossein and, on a white horse, gallop along the lines, providing the inexperienced soldiers a vision of "the hero who would lead them into their fateful battle before they met their God".[6] The "martyrs" had signed "Passports to Paradise" (as admission forms to the Basij were nicknamed), received a week of basic military training by the Revolutionary Guard, and were sent directly to the front lines.[6]

>>13268321
>Islam is a sick religion. Muhammad was a warlord that condoned of beheading
Napoleon was a warlord too, yet venerated in the west (he venerated Muhammad, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him)

What is wrong with the death penalty?

>>13268303
There are a lot of kuffar who are worthwhile experts on Islam. The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology for example is an excellent work even though many of the contributors are kuffar. I don't subscribe to or like Nasr's Islam, but that doesn't mean he is not a worthwhile expert. Also traditionalists are not heterodox until they say all religions are equal. Islam is the purest faith, but others can go to heaven (according to an hadith related by Ibn Arabi, Muslims will make up 1/4-1/2 of those in paradise

>>13268236
Most don't dilligently follow a religion, which Guénon considered very important. He believed Islam was the purest religion because it made such a sharp distinction between esoteric and exoteric, and the latter perfectly followed from the former and was required to attain it, and because both were imparted in their entirety by one prophet

>>13268199
Because the Shia narrative that Umar and Aby Bakr essentially wanted to push Ali into powerless obscurity contradicts their continued close association with him and his involvement with their administration. You don't do that with someone you consider a serious political rival who would be willing to overthrow you.

Prayers for them are done because they asked for it and doing so is considered a good deed.