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I received my books this morning, they are fantastic! Thank you for posting the link and thank you Electronic Dawah Project for the books which are a great help to my study of Islam!

This is getting confusing, especially after reading this aswell: http://www.abuabdissalam.com/qa/halal-meat-14/ http://www.nmnonline.net/fatwa/halalmeat.htm

If I was basing it purely on the Quran then the answer would be yes. Which is more important, the Quran or the Sunnah?

But that is not what it says in the Quran!

But that is not what they are saying. They are saying that we should utter the name of Allah on all the food we eat and that is what they say the Quran says.

Is this what it says in the Quran or are the bits in brackets not actually part of the text?

It was this I was refering to: Sadly, Muslims scholars have substituted God's condition for making food lawful (which is through uttering God's name on it before eating it) by a new un-Quranic condition of their own making. Somehow they have made slaughtering the only lawful method of killing...

Found this article on halal meat/food. Just wondering if what they are saying is correct? http://www.quran-islam.org/articles/halal_meat_(P1156).html

Unless of course you go to the far east where bowing is the equivilent of shaking hands, places like Malaysia this is the norm, bowing that is.

I really hope not. The US is currently trying to withdraw its forces from two war zones (Iraq and Afghanistan), I doubt they want to get into another ground war so soon. If anything does happen it would more than likely be drone strikes or cruise missile strikes, that way US personnel aren't...

No, not leaving, just thought I would share my news!

Hi everyone, just thought I would do a quick post and thank you for all your help. I may not have posted much but have read a lot and learned a lot from all your posts here on TTI! Well I made a decision and tonight I made Shahadah at my local Islamic Cultural Centre. I am now a revert to...

Eid Mubarak to you all!

This link was posted on facebook this morning: http://www.changeafrica.com/1/id90.html It states that Muslims had burned to death over 200 christians in Nigeria. The truth is that this was a tragic accident which happened in 2010 when a petrol tanker exploded killing 235 people...

I've never heard of the name John used for a toilet, is it a middle eastern thing?