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Old 04-15-2009, 19:08   #1109
redleg99
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Get a copy of the book "Reliance of the Traveller." Full title is:

Reliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law Umdat Al-Salik

You can find it on Amazon. Skip the sections on how to wash yourself.

Read the sections about "Abrogation" - which tells you later sections of the Quran overrule the earlier ones...

Then read about Jihad.
Something to consider is that Reliance of the Traveller is a manual of Shafi'i school jurisprudence.
Since Shafi'i comprise less than 30% of all Muslims* it might be a mistake to assume all Muslims, or even all Shafi'i for that matter, truly believe what it says.

* Wikipedia says 28%. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafi%27i
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