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Terrorism Manual

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 22, 2001

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toothpicks?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 22, 2001.

A manual? Cheerist, even terrorists succomb to bureaucracy!

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 22, 2001.

Re: Lars: "Toothpicks?"

From: Other aspects of Wudoo: The Siwaak

The SIWAAK is that which the mouth is brushed with. And it is also called the MISWAAK, the plural being: SOOK. And the siwaak comes from the Araak tree and it is a well-known tree. Abu Hanifah said: It is the best of the trees whose twigs are used for brushing the teeth... smelling of milk. Abu Ziyaad said:From it is taken there tooth-sticks - from its twigs and roots - and the best part for that is its roots, and it is broadly spreading. And Ibn Shameel: The Araak is a tall fine-shoot green tree with many leaves and branches, having weak wood and growing in hollows - miswaaks are taken from it, being one of the citrus trees. Its singular is Araak and its plural Araa-ik. (Lisaan-ul-'Arab, 268).

It is mustahabb (desirable) to use the siwaak at many different times as is established from the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) that he used to use the siwaak at every Prayer, and before reading the Qur'an, and before sleeping and when waking, and when the breath changes - whether fasting or not - or whether at the start of the day or in the afternoon, and it is a form of worship which is easy therefore observe it, O my Muslim Brother.

Quraan.com

-- Zzzzz (asleep@the.wheel), September 22, 2001.


Who knew?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 22, 2001.

Is it surprising to find that the Q'uran has some peculiar injunctions to the faithful? Not to anyone who has read the Book of Leviticus in the Bible.

I claim the Bible can outweird the Q'uran any day of the week - with the New Testamant tied behind its back! Yet, most Christians seem like nice folks anyhow.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), September 22, 2001.



If you took all the genealogical stuff, and the dietary regulations and prohibitions, and the civil and judicial legalistic stuff out of the Bible, the Torah, and the Qur'an you could easily fit the actual religious messages contained in all three of them into a paperback the size of a Harlequin Romance...

-- Zzzzz (asleep@the.wheel), September 22, 2001.

And Moses' full lips quavered, the smoldering heat in his gaze made Jezabel quiver with desire. Then he invited her into his tent to see his "tablets"........

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 22, 2001.

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