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Submitters Perspective, June 2002
Inviting others to God is the main subject, drawing on the Quran to teach wisdom, kindness, patience, tolerance, and no compulsion, since God alone guides, and to show when to walk away, with Noah as the closing example. Readers' letters to submission.org follow, including a new Muslim whose husband resists her turn to the Quran alone and converts rejecting Hadith as hearsay.
June 1, 2002
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Submitters Perspective, May 2002
The Quran as God's fully detailed guidance, mercy, and sole source of law, with the Paradise promised to those who follow it, leads this May 2002 issue. A poem thanks God for everyday blessings, and a parent's note for Mother's Day and Father's Day explains that children honor their parents most by worshiping God alone.
May 1, 2002
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Submitters Perspective, April 2002
Pilgrimage to Mecca as an inner spiritual journey, where praying in unison dissolves prejudice and righteousness is the best provision, told through one pilgrim's experience of God's closeness. Further pieces apply the poem of the blind men and the elephant to judging the Quran in part and following experts, and list the Devil's tools named in the Quran.
April 1, 2002
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Submitters Perspective, March 2002
A former traditional Muslim from Mumbai describes leaving Hadith and Sunna for submission to God alone, explaining the one Shahaadah, the righteous life of 2:177, and freedom from fear and grief in 2:112. A Christian reader reflects on what the Quran says about Christians and on fighting in Mindanao. A closing piece argues that alcoholism is an addiction, not a disease.
March 1, 2002
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Submitters Perspective, February 2002
Women's rights in the Quran lead the issue, through a review of Lisa Spray's book Heart's Surprise, which contrasts the Quran's equality of men and women with traditional practice on polygamy, veiling, marriage, menstruation and the contact prayer, and reading the Quran. A poem on doing good anyway follows, along with reader letters about submission.org from an Ebionite, a new Muslim, and a Christian.
February 1, 2002
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Submitters Perspective, January 2002
Quranic verses showing that Abraham received the rites of Submission, including the Contact Prayers, Obligatory Charity, fasting and Hajj, and that Moses, Aaron and Jesus observed them. Citing Hayim Donin's To Pray As A Jew, the lead article argues that ancient Jewish prayer with prostration, washing and a call to prayer resembled Salat. A prayer of thanks to God and a book notice follow.
January 1, 2002
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Submitters Perspective, December 2001
Responding to violence in the name of religion after the attack on New York City, the lead essay presents Submission as a way of life open to every faith, citing Quranic verses on the sanctity of life, jihad, patience and forgiveness. Readers write in about the website and the rejection of hadith. A closing piece examines dogs in the Quran and fabricated hadiths attributed to Abu Hurayra.
December 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, November 2001
Ramadan 2001 opens the issue, with fasting rules from the Quran, lunar months, and why astronomical new moon times replace moon sighting, giving this year's start, end, and Night of Power dates. A Thanksgiving reflection after September 11 links Lincoln's and Washington's proclamations to Quranic warnings against being unappreciative of God's blessings. A closing appeal seeks sponsors and volunteers to place Qurans in libraries.
November 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, October 2001
A Submitter explains to friends why he stopped attending Friday prayer at a mosque he says advocates idol worship. Drawing on the Quran, he distinguishes the non-believer from the idol worshiper, who believes in God yet follows religious laws not authorized by God, idolizes others beside God, expects intercession from Jesus, Mary, and Muhammad, or follows ancestors without studying the Quran.
October 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, September 2001
The Quran as complete, fully detailed, and all we need for salvation, with no need for hadith and sunnah, its mathematical miracle of 19 as proof of authenticity, and God as the Teacher who gives understanding. A report covers the 16th annual United Submitters International Conference in San Francisco in August 2001, followed by readers' letters about submission.org.
September 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, August 2001
A reflection on feeling faith rather than merely practicing it: reverence in the contact prayer, night meditation, constant remembrance of God, cheerful charity, and eagerness for righteous works, all traced through Quranic verses. A second piece asks whether Muhammad's physical appearance matters, arguing that the message outweighs the messenger and criticizing Islamic websites that describe him through hadith.
August 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, July 2001
The Psalms given to David are read alongside the Quran, with passages on refuge in God, His power, the vanity of wealth, idols, and the righteous inheriting the earth set beside matching verses. A second piece argues from the prayer Jesus taught that he was not God, and a nineteenth century hymn on God as Creator of all things shows submission in other religions.
July 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, June 2001
Never despairing of God's mercy in hardship, drawn from Joseph, Jacob, Job, Abraham, Zechariah, Mary, and Moses and his teacher in the Quran. A second article answers claimed contradictions in the Quran: that no soul carries another's sins, obeying the messenger versus worshiping God alone, and how creation in two plus four days equals six days.
June 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, May 2001
Apparent contradictions in the Quran are reconciled using the Quran itself, with the teaching that only the sincere can grasp it. Part I covers the death of Jesus, whose body died while his soul was raised to God, and why no life is cut short yet murderers are still punished for their intention. Letters from website readers follow, thanking submission.org for answering questions about hadith and the Shahada.
May 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, April 2001
Converts to traditional Islam are asked a series of critical questions about scholars, Muslim names, dress, Hadith and Sunnah, ablution, and women at Friday prayer, with a former Sunni psychologist explaining why people cling to false beliefs. A second article sets out the Quran's teaching on charity: the obligatory Zakat, daily giving, its recipients, anonymity, and moderation.
April 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, March 2001
Islam is explained as submission to God alone and deen as a complete way of life rather than a religion of rituals, in a study written by an incarcerated brother who teaches classes in prison. A Muslim is defined by devotion to God, not birth, so Jews, Christians, and others who meet the Quran's criteria are submitters. An anecdote recounts a dream of interviewing God about life's lessons.
March 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, February 2001
Quran 4:34 is read as a law that protects women from spousal abuse, with talking, deserting in bed, and reconciliation by family letting a husband's anger subside before any beating, drawing on Dr. Rashad Khalifa's footnote that the sura defends women's rights. A parable of two brothers climbing eighty floors reflects on abandoned dreams and the ultimate goal of God's kingdom. A reader's web comment criticizes Hadith and idolizing Muhammad.
February 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, January 2001
The Quran's many lessons: from the histories of Aad, Thamoud, Midyan, Noah, Pharaoh, Abraham, Joseph, the Children of Israel and Sheba, to the ruins left standing, death as like sleep, livestock and milk, and night and day. Lydia Kelley also draws lessons from her own life, finding peace when steadfast in the prayers and submission to God and losing it to material preoccupation.
January 1, 2001
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Submitters Perspective, December 2000
The Quran as humanity's one guidebook, set against the sects and hadith literature that divide believers, opens this December 2000 issue. A second article draws on the Old Testament, New Testament, and Quran to argue that God alone, not Jesus, is the Savior and Redeemer. Also included are a teenager's poem on the paradox of modern life and readers' comments on submission.org.
December 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, November 2000
Ramadan fasting as ordained in the Quran, its purpose of attaining salvation, and how to use new moon times to determine the start and end of the fast in 2000, including the Night of Power. An article draws on Dr. Scott Peck's four tools of discipline, relating delayed gratification, responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing to the Quran.
November 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, October 2000
Love and unification of believers open this October 2000 issue, with verses showing that God condemns sectarianism as a form of idol worship and commands unity. A Thanksgiving reflection by a woman raised Episcopalian treats guidance as God's greatest gift, asked for in every contact prayer. Readers' comments to submission.org close the issue, including one from a Muslim who rejects sect labels.
October 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, September 2000
Hadith books are set against the Quran as a source of religion, arguing that God made the Quran easy to learn, that hadiths contradict it and insult the prophet, and that the Quran condemns hadith by name. Also included is a report on the August 2000 annual conference in Tucson, Arizona, with its khutba, speeches, website work, and the children's skit.
September 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, August 2000
Racism is examined as a gross sin and a psycho-spiritual illness, arguing from the Quran and science that humans are one species from the same mother and father. Satan's refusal to prostrate before Adam is presented as the first racist act, linked to the superiority complex and delusions of grandeur. Racism is shown to be incompatible with submission to God alone, who alone is superior over His creation.
August 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, July 2000
Benford's Law, the digit distribution used to detect fraud in financial data, applied to the number of verses in the 114 suras of the Quran. Majeed Motahari shows the suras follow the law's predicted pattern and that the weighted group totals equal 437, or 19 times 23. A reader's letter asks whether submission.org's stance on hadith and sunna draws criticism.
July 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, June 2000
Wife beating and domestic violence lead the issue, with Fatimah Khaldoon reading Quran 4:34 as a stepwise law of talking, then deserting the bed, that protects women and leaves no room for abuse, against interpretations drawn from Hadith and Sunna. Hotlines and web resources for abused wives follow, along with readers' letters about the website and Dr. Khalifa's translation of the Quran.
June 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, May 2000
The Quran's mathematical composition based on 19 anchors this issue, from the digits of verse 72:28 to the counts and gematrical values of the Arabic word for number, read as proof that God guards every letter. A reptile series turns to crocodilians, with temperature determining the sex of their young as a sign that God makes male and female. An incarcerated brother writes thanking the community for a Quran.
May 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, April 2000
The Quran as God's final, complete message, with the mathematical code based on 19 offered as proof of its authenticity and of the falsehood of verses 9:128 and 129. Quranic verses are set beside modern science on the expanding universe, life from water, other universes and orbits. A nature feature on turtles and their shells, migration and endangered nesting presents them as God's creatures.
April 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, March 2000
God's love is conditional, according to the Quran: He loves the charitable, the righteous and the just, and does not love aggressors, the arrogant or disbelievers. Freedom of choice means people decide their own fate, with repentance always open. A second article surveys snakes and lizards, from locomotion and feeding to the Komodo dragon and chameleon, as proofs of God's creation.
March 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, February 2000
Why bad things happen to good people: God tests every believer, from Abraham and Noah to Muhammad, with hardship and with blessings, and uses the tests to expose the hypocrites. Steps for meeting adversity follow, including submission, imploring God, steadfastness, and trust in God's victory. A reader's letter and a plan to connect submitters in the same area by email close the issue.
February 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, January 2000
Jesus as a messenger of God rather than divine, with Biblical and Quranic verses challenging the trinity. The Night of Power is placed on the 27th night of Ramadan through word counts in Sura 97 and a calculation based on the code of 19. Millennium fears, moral decay, and natural disasters such as the earthquake in Turkey prompt a call to turn to God alone.
January 1, 2000
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Submitters Perspective, December 1999
Ramadan fasting for 1999 to 2000, with the Quranic rules for the fast and dates for the Americas and for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. It explains lunar months and why calculating the new moon replaces crescent sighting, then uses the code of 19 to confirm the Night of Power as the 27th night. Reader letters praise Submission.org and question hadith.
December 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, November 1999
Twelve reasons to follow the Quran alone as the source of religious law, citing verses on the messenger's sole duty and the late recording of hadith and sunnah. George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation appears alongside Quranic verses on appreciating God's blessings. Readers' letters include a former Christian's account of finding the Quran through the website.
November 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, October 1999
Quran 74:30 is read as Over it is nineteen, against Yusuf Ali's angels and Muhammad Asad's nineteen powers, presenting 19 as God's signature on the Quran and on creation, from the gematrical value of ONE to the occurrences of the word God and the bones of the body. Letters from incarcerated readers give thanks for Qurans and newsletters, with a request for sponsors.
October 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, September 1999
The lead article argues that the so called Islamic name is an innovation with no basis in the Quran, noting that Abraham, Jacob, Jesus's disciples and other submitters kept their own names. Notes follow from the 14th annual submitters' conference in Vancouver, along with a parable about a boy, a fence and words spoken in anger, and a reader's letter recalling Dr. Rashad Khalifa.
September 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, August 1999
Satan's language game keeps people from understanding the Quran: telling Arabic speakers it is too difficult, pushing non-Arabs to recite Arabic they cannot understand, and discouraging translations, while God is the teacher of the Quran in any language. A parable follows of an old man who finds peace reading the Quran, and a reader explains leaving sectarian taboos and hadiths for the Quran alone.
August 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, July 1999
God's total control over all matters and human responsibility for our own deeds, set against chance, luck, and superstition, leading into idolatry, especially idolizing Prophet Muhammad as an intercessor who brings people closer to God. A second article, part 2 of a series on food, urges believers not to waste food or water and to encourage others, with examples from restaurant meals.
July 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, June 1999
Freedom to believe or disbelieve in God, and how God's foreknowledge of every soul's fate leaves each person fully responsible for choosing Him alone. A second article, from Mumbai, urges believers to feed the poor and to advocate feeding others, citing the Quran's warning in 107:1 to 3 and 74:40 to 41. Readers' comments praise the community's internet site.
June 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, May 1999
Submitters' dress, in a second part that reads 24:30, 24:31, 33:59 and 24:60 as commands for modesty, covering the chest, and showing only the parts washed for the contact prayer. A second article asks how submitters know the rites God decreed but left undetailed in the Quran, and answers through Abraham and the messengers. A reader in Ontario writes about finding Dr. Khalifa's translation.
May 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, April 1999
Submitters' dress, examined through the six Quranic uses of hijab and the three uses of awraat, refuting the claims that women must cover fully, stay home, or be treated as men's property. A second article, written around Eid ul Adha, argues from the Quran that God never ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son; Abraham believed a dream, and God ransomed Ismail with an animal.
April 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, March 1999
Killing the ego, as Moses commanded in 2:54, leads this issue: Lisa Spray traces ego to the heavenly feud and to Cain, Joseph's tempter, and those whose god is their ego, and urges humility, repentance, and accepting criticism. Letters from readers follow, describing how submission.org and the Quran alone freed them from hadith and tradition, along with mailing requests, including from incarcerated brothers.
March 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, February 1999
Prophet Muhammad as the example of following the Quran alone, arguing that today's scholars would condemn him as a liberal and that the Hadith and Sunnah, written 200 years after his death, created the oppressive laws now imposed on Muslim women. A second article explains God's conditional protection and how believers seek it through the contact prayers, the Quran, and prayers of refuge from Satan.
February 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, January 1999
God's infinite variety in creation, from desert birds, animals, plants and clouds to human colors and languages, as proofs calling for knowledge, reverence and appreciation, drawn from Quranic verses. A physician's excerpt describes the medical benefits of Ramadan fasting. Readers' comments on the website follow, including a Christian seeking to understand Ramadan amid the air strike against Iraq.
January 1, 1999
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Submitters Perspective, December 1998
Fasting in the Bible, excerpted from Thomas McElwain's Islam in the Bible, argues that fasting was a complete daylight abstention during the ninth lunar month, joined with prayer, charity, and justice, as practiced by Moses, Elijah, and Jesus. The issue also carries Sam Levenson's beauty tips for his grandchild and points Young Enlightened Submitters to reading materials online.
December 1, 1998
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Submitters Perspective, November 1998
Remembering God at all times without withdrawing into hermitism, through awareness that God witnesses everything, gratitude for His blessings, the contact prayer, and saying God willing. A second article explains the fast of Ramadan, how to set its start and end from new moon and sunset times, and how to find the Night of Power, with dates for Ramadan 1998 to 1999.
November 1, 1998
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Submitters Perspective, October 1998
Righteousness as the Quran presents it, traced through the real prohibitions of Sura 6, the changing of the qiblah, one religion of Submission with different rites, the Hajj pilgrimage, and the dress code, which the article argues requires covering the chest rather than the head or face. Notes follow from the thirteenth annual conference of submitters in Seattle, September 1998.
October 1, 1998
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Submitters Perspective, September 1998
God's title Possessor of the Highest Degree, found only once in the Quran at 40:15, and the gematrical value of the Arabic word rafii equaling 360, tied to the number 19 and its purposes in 74:31. Masjid Tucson's interfaith soup kitchen and scripture study group are reported, followed by 40 guiding principles of life drawn from the Quran by the Quranic Society of Malaysia.
September 1, 1998
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Submitters Perspective, August 1998
Islam, or Submission, practiced by the Quran alone is presented as a religion of peace, justice, and freedom, with Quranic conditions for fighting only in self defense and for amicable relations with disbelievers. A group of incarcerated Muslims at Avenal State Prison describes persecution by a traditionalist chaplain for rejecting hadith. The issue closes by defining a Submitter and the minimum criteria from Quran 2:62.
August 1, 1998
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Submitters Perspective, July 1998
Unity among believers comes from following God's laws, treating each other kindly, and setting aside ego, with God as first priority and the Quran as the one source. A mealtime story shows how the tongue reveals the heart. Readers' letters respond to the website and Dr. Khalifa's translation, and details follow for the 1998 United Submitters International Conference in Seattle.
July 1, 1998
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