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The Hindu and Buddhistic explanations of life after death, with always the influence of the soul taking forms either much lower, such as the lowest animals, or much higher, like some of the so called Gods of both Brahmanism and Buddhism, seem to many brought up outside their immemorial tradition as ...

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Hello Sheza

I understand the frustration you are seeing. One can not use the object as the proof (for ex. happiness means happy) -- that falls under the mathematical concept of a tautology and therefore irrelevant, as you quite rightly point out, to answering your question.

Reason alone must ...

The Arabic "Qurao" refers to menstruation - so three courses of menstruation to establish without doubt if the wife has undergone any conception by her husband in order to establish parentage. The waiting period is one during which there is also hope for reconciliation. Further, 2:232 protects the ...

Thank you for posting this. I had not had time to find it and had been intending to.

Regards and YAM

I would venture to say that this dual understanding prevails even today within the diversity of our Jamat. The Nasr Khusraw context represents the Zaheri understanding and the Ginanic tradition represents the Batini understanding.

There seems to be a preponderance of this type of erroneous ...