About that; I was considering sending my grandmother (a devowed protestant) a Christmas greeting card with arabic greetings next to the Dutch ones but I figured I shouldn't do it; for her health's sake et al 
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About that; I was considering sending my grandmother (a devowed protestant) a Christmas greeting card with arabic greetings next to the Dutch ones but I figured I shouldn't do it; for her health's sake et al
About that; I was considering sending my grandmother (a devowed protestant) a Christmas greeting card with arabic greetings next to the Dutch ones but I figured I shouldn't do it; for her health's sake et al
We know you want to show off your latest languege discoveries... Have you read more about Arabic since our last discussion (a year ago?!)?
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Read it in the end titles of a movie - figured it should apply to my posts
Yes it's quite interesting actually!
On a more religious note: I was in a book shop the other day and I was flipping through a Dutch translation of the Koran. Now, I read a lot of things that I grew up with myself as I was raised Christian (these two religions really are a lot alike) but I also quickly realised that this was no fucking good - I would just draw the wrong conclusions by simply reading it.
Figured if I ever really wanted to learn I'd go ask an imam or something.
Read it in the end titles of a movie - figured it should apply to my posts
Yes it's quite interesting actually!
On a more religious note: I was in a book shop the other day and I was flipping through a Dutch translation of the Koran. Now, I read a lot of things that I grew up with myself as I was raised Christian (these two religions really are a lot alike) but I also quickly realised that this was no fucking good - I would just draw the wrong conclusions by simply reading it.
Figured if I ever really wanted to learn I'd go ask an imam or something.
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Yes it's quite interesting actually!
On a more religious note: I was in a book shop the other day and I was flipping through a Dutch translation of the Koran. Now, I read a lot of things that I grew up with myself as I was raised Christian (these two religions really are a lot alike) but I also quickly realised that this was no fucking good - I would just draw the wrong conclusions by simply reading it.
Figured if I ever really wanted to learn I'd go ask an imam or something.
Yes it's quite interesting actually!
On a more religious note: I was in a book shop the other day and I was flipping through a Dutch translation of the Koran. Now, I read a lot of things that I grew up with myself as I was raised Christian (these two religions really are a lot alike) but I also quickly realised that this was no fucking good - I would just draw the wrong conclusions by simply reading it.
Figured if I ever really wanted to learn I'd go ask an imam or something.
About the part in bold. It really depends on what you mean. But If you'd ask me on which would be the best source, I'd say the Quran itself. After all, the chances of that particular translation being faulty is a lot less than the chance misteaching by any Imam. My best recomendation would be to read the Quran and obsorb it as much as you can, then leave the questions to an Imam, but always make sure he provides you with sources from the Quran. That's actually pretty much how my Mom became Muslim. She was lucky enough to not have been influenced by media...etc. She went about it gradually and has never looked back. What's worth mentioning is that she confessed that if she had gone to Saudi Arabia before becoming Muslim, she would probably never have become Muslim. That's how sad the situation is now.
Yes I read. I heard that the main distinction between the two only appear after Abraham (Ibrahim in Islam). Those two are still one and the same person and appreciated in the same manner in both religions, but from there on the gap starts to widen (that's what I've heard anyways).
Hmm ok I might do that. I'll be travelling a lot later this year; I'll need a book to keep me from going mad (only so much of a 'view' I can take from a moving vehicle of some sort).
But the Bible is actually the reason why I gave up on Christianity (to great sadness of my family but it's my decision, my life). It's too conflicting. And at either rate; I believe that when a person is religious, he/she lives by that religion and accepts it as a whole. In my case, that was impossible. Only taking bits and pieces out of a religion and live by those sounded far too hypocritical to me and so I dropped it.
So you see how I got weary on holy books.
Hmm ok I might do that. I'll be travelling a lot later this year; I'll need a book to keep me from going mad (only so much of a 'view' I can take from a moving vehicle of some sort).
But the Bible is actually the reason why I gave up on Christianity (to great sadness of my family but it's my decision, my life). It's too conflicting. And at either rate; I believe that when a person is religious, he/she lives by that religion and accepts it as a whole. In my case, that was impossible. Only taking bits and pieces out of a religion and live by those sounded far too hypocritical to me and so I dropped it.
So you see how I got weary on holy books.
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