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Submitters PerspectiveDecember 1986Believers are invited to help author a new God-authorized English translation of the Quran by reviewing ten pages at a time, with examples such as the corrected reading of 2:9 and the straight path in Al Faatihah. Responses to the October issue on Ismail Farooqi argue that adding Muhammad's name to the declaration of faith is idol worship. Subscriber letters on the mathematical miracle follow.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveNovember 1986Arab scholars meeting in Riyadh under Saudi Mufti Abdul Aziz Ben Baz reject the Quran's mathematical miracle by denying the Basmalah has 19 letters and four words, which Dr. Khalifa reads as God sealing Arab minds per Sura 6:44 to 46. He cites contradictory letters from Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf and Dr. Ahmad Sakr's 786 chapter, and lists lectures from the First International Conference.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveOctober 1986Ismail Farooqi's death on Ramadan 19, 1406 is presented as God's retribution for his ten years of opposing the Quran's 19 based mathematical miracle, with his address, zip code, phone number and date of death cited as multiples of 19. The issue also reports on the first conference of the United Islamic Nation near San Francisco, where participants upheld the Quran alone and rejected Hadith and Sunna.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveSeptember 1986Objections to removing the last two verses of Sura 9 are answered through the mathematical code and the principle that a law is known only when violated, as with preservation of the Quran and the angels' freedom of choice. A dated list of world disasters and upheavals is presented as birth pangs of a new era beginning in 1407 AH. The first international conference near San Francisco is also reported.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveAugust 1986Kassim Ahmad's article from Malaysia's Sunday Star argues that Muslims must turn away from Hadith and return to the Quran as the sole teaching of Prophet Muhammad, tracing Hadith as law to Imam Shafi'i. Malay newspaper editorials urge the ulama to debate his book openly rather than ban it. The issue also announces the San Francisco conference of the United Islamic Nation and the New Era beginning Muharram 1407.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJuly 1986Muslim unity, argued to depend on upholding the Quran alone as the only source of religious guidance and abandoning Hadith, Sunna, scholarly consensus, and analogy, which the lead article blames for the sects. The issue corrects verse citations for the five daily contact prayers and gives the final program of the First International Conference of the United Islamic Nation in San Francisco, August 1986.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJune 1986The accusation of adultery against Aisha is argued to be a fabrication of early Shi'a hatred for Abu Bakr, with Sura 24:11 to 20 applying to believers now. The issue also explains why the Quran omits the number of units in each contact prayer, presents Chernobyl as a fulfilled sign of the end of the world, lists four Masjid Tucson television programs, and invites readers to a San Francisco conference.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMay 1986Salat as the contact prayer, with the argument that Al Fatihah alone belongs in the standing position and that adding other Quranic verses breaks the contact with God. A reader in Singapore answers a Muslim World League article claiming the Sunnah is like the Quran, calling it acceptance of God's challenge in 52:34 and questioning hadith counts and abrogation. A notice announces the August 1986 San Francisco conference.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveApril 1986Muhammad's literacy leads the issue, with arguments that the merchant prophet wrote God's revelations by his own hand and that ummy means gentile, not illiterate. A continued article on Satan as the master hypnotist ties hypnosis to idol worship and the Quran's mathematical code. Also included are Dr. Ahmad Subhy Mansour's declarations against Al Azhar and the program for the San Francisco conference of the United Islamic Nation.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMarch 1986Satan as the master hypnotist is the theme of Dr. A. Rashid Hamed's article, which explains why most people, including Muslims, reject the Quran alone and its miraculous code. He compares descriptions of hypnotized subjects with Quranic verses about disbelievers, arguing that anyone breaks the trance by deciding to worship God alone. The issue also announces an Al-Azhar professor joining the community.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveFebruary 1986The Iran Iraq war is condemned as Muslims squandering God's gift of oil wealth on weapons to kill each other, with a call to unite behind the Quran alone. The issue then sets out the mathematical requirements for an accepted contact prayer: no name but God's, only Al Fatihah in Arabic, no Ameen, and a Tashahhud to God alone. Qamaruddin Khan blames fossilized religious education for Muslim ignorance.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJanuary 1986South Yemen's bloody coup, presented as the first fall of a government that rejected the United Islamic Nation declaration after the four month reprieve of Quran 9:2, with a warning to other regional governments and the number 19 behind the year 1406. Also a Bukhari hadith shown as blasphemy against the Prophet, and notices of the first UIN convention and an imam training course in Tucson.ICS

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