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Submitters PerspectiveDecember 1999Ramadan 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveNovember 1999Twelve 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveOctober 1999Quran 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveSeptember 1999The 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveAugust 1999Satan'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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJuly 1999God'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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJune 1999Freedom 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMay 1999Submitters' 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveApril 1999Submitters' 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveMarch 1999Killing 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveFebruary 1999Prophet 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.ICS

Submitters PerspectiveJanuary 1999God'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.ICS

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