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[QUOTE]Originally posted by homing pigeon: [QB] I really feel guilty for not adding my contribution to the main question in this thread.... If anybody's interested, there's my understanding of it: Many of the quran's verses were revealed at times in response to certain incidents occuring among Mohammad's (PBUH) people. There are three basic situations where the warning against asking many questions applies: First, it was directed at people who came to the prophet asking him such silly questions, you wont even believe it.... History has it that a man came asking the prophet about the Islamic ruling regarding a man who carries a sac of ...whatyacallit...wind (meaning trumps, flatulence)....You see how stupid. Now, contrary to your beliefs, Mohammad usually tried to be nice to his people and found it difficult to say "bugger off , you idiot!" Another situation which this warning refers to is the insistence of some people to keep asking for rulings on this and that imagining all sorts of variation of circumstances and trying to get rulings for them....which would increase the burden on them for obeying... so the verses are actually telling them to be kind to themselves and dont ask because in effect, if they dont know about something they're not liable for it. It's actually trying to give them some leeway unlike what you think. Another incident in the same context was on the morning of a battle day, the prophet named the man who would lead the army and named two people who would lead if the first was killed in battle. A Jewish man resident in Medina at the time, who was present at the nomination addressed him saying, "According to my religion,I know that prophets dont speak in vain and if a prophet names one person, a second and a third to replace each other in order, it means that they will most definitely be killed in battle even if you name 99 of them...is that not in your religion, too?" The prophet did not reply to this question but the Jew was so sure of his interpretation of the situation (and he was actually right) that he ran to one of the men asking for payment of an old debt. When the man asked him to wait till after the battle, the Jew said, "Do you still think you'll be coming back? you wont be here after the battle". Of course, people wanted to know....and it would have not been good for them to know, would it? These are the three situations in which asking too many questions is not encouraged. On the other hand, asking questions in order to seek knowledge is most positively encouraged by Islam. There are many proofs of this in Quran and hadith. I would pull them out for you....but I am sure that you are capable of finding them yourself just like you find the other things you keep pointing out as negatives. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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