RE: ProgressiveMuslims digest, Vol 1 #386 - 7 msgs

Salaams,

Thanks for the info Laura.  That's definitely a possibility.  One that seems
more consistent with the rest of the koran.

As to not altering Gods creation, I think you may be referring to this line
[30.30] Then set your face upright for religion in the right state-- the
nature made by Allah in which He has made men; there is no altering of
Allah's creation; that is the right religion, but most people do not know--

As I said, I don't know arabic, but when I first read this, it seems God is
saying not to alter the religion.  Gods creation is the religion of Islam in
this context.

Yameen

> Message: 2
> From: "Bobbe Leviten" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] RE:
> ProgressiveMuslims digest, Vol 1 #384 - 8 msgs
> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:37:59 -0800
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>
> AA,
>
> But isn't there some Qur'anic injunction about not altering what Allah
> (swt) created?  So I would imagine castration would come under that
> category.  I may be wrong.
>
> kh,
> Bobbe
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Laura <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Date: 2/9/2004 7:26:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] RE:
> ProgressiveMuslims digest,
> Vol 1 #384 - 8 msgs
> >
> > Salaam Alaikum,
> >
> > I believe those male servants may have been castrati.
> Wasn't it a custom
> to
> > have boys castrated at a somewhat young age so that they
> would become
> > servants and later guardians of wives?
> >
> > This is only based on a book I read of a member of the
> royal family in
> Saudi
> > Arabia who described at length one such servant living on
> her grounds.
> >
> > Laura Hussain
> >