Word: prophetizer
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...true that India was in trouble in the '60s and '70s. But a prophet?or even a man engaged in standard, well-balanced journalism?might also have observed significant flashes of hope: that India was opening engineering colleges that would soon become the world's best, that it was solving its food-shortage problems, that it was even launching a space program. Its free press and parliamentary system?far from having collapsed, as Naipaul said?re-emerged triumphantly in 1977, when democracy was re-established. Yet Naipaul, who is praised for seeing things so clearly, saw none of India...
...concept of jihad, too, would have kept the killers from committing their murder if they had understood it properly. Jihad literally means “struggle,” not holy war. Prophet Muhammed said that the most important (“greater”) jihad is an internal struggle for perfection, while the less important (“lesser”) jihad is the physical struggle against an enemy. This greater jihad is the struggle to conduct oneself in the way that God would want humans to conduct themselves. Achieving this requires waging a jihad against one?...
...earth won't move if Latham wins, nor will the lights go out all over Australia. Latham has narrowed the gap between himself and Howard. But in doing so, he has surrendered more than a few points of difference. Along the way, while climbing the campaign ladder, the westie prophet has lost some of his early magic...
Those of us pushing for reforms are not seeking to change Islam. We are questioning defective doctrine from an intellectual and theological position, using the Koran, the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and ijtihad, or critical reasoning, as ideological weapons in the war over how Muslim communities define themselves. Islamic scholar Amina Wadud notes that we are emboldened to take public action to reject the way extremists have defined Islam since 9/11. We are in the midst of jihad li tajdid al-ruh al-Islami, a struggle for the soul of Islam...
...dilemma facing most Muslims is that this war pits us against ourselves. For guidance, we need look no further than the lessons from the time of the Prophet Muhammad. In Mecca in the 7th century, the Prophet faced off against his own tribe, the Quraysh, for worshipping false idols. In much the same way, modern Muslims are pitted against people worshipping false idols of hatred, violence and intolerance. After he fled Mecca, the Prophet heard a chapter of the Koran called Al-Nisa (The Women), which said, "O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for justice as witnesses...