Word: quran
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...been filled with students taking their high school diplomas, were deserted, answer sheets scattered on the floor. When the tremors hit, people rushed screaming into the street. When they found open ground, families began offering special naful prayers, while others knelt on the roadside and began reciting the Quran. Loudspeakers in the mosques urged the faithful to seek forgiveness. "I thought doomsday had fallen," said Abdur Rashid Hajjam, as he came out of prayers at a Sufi shrine. "Pray for our brethren who died today and thank Allah for we are safe," said the imam at Illahi Bagh mosque...
...affected by their stories. The First Amendment and freedom of speech notwithstanding, a journalist needs to weigh his or her zeal to right what is wrong with the world against the unintended victims of their coverage. The recent riots caused by Newsweek’s article about desecrating the Quran is a great example of insensitive reporting based on “unnamed sources...
After a speech by Gomes, several prayers—including readings from the Hebrew Bible, Hindu Scripture, the Holy Quran and the New Testament—and two anthems sung by the Commencement Choir, Summers slowly rose to deliver the keynote address...
...Emerson set foot on the Earth and wrote the same in “Self-Reliance,” which, like the writings of King, is taught in the government department’s introductory course on political theory. The freedom from compulsion in religion was written into the Quran some 1,100 years before our founding fathers thought to do the same in the Bill of Rights...
...because of my religion, then, that I am opposed to all forms of modern warfare. I am opposed to smart bombs because they make mistakes, to suicide bombings because they are indiscriminate, and to all wars that have been waged in aggression throughout history—all because the Quran says in chapter two, verse 190, “Fight in the way of God against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! God loveth not aggressors...