Data bases to check for up to date information on Islamic studies

I am posting some great sources of good information not the usual garbage usually seen when you go looking for information on the Qu'ran and the Hadiths to accomapy it and the things you are searching for.

As any one knows accurate information is vital to learning about Islam for every one who would learn about this faith system and the people who follow it around the world.

Many come here to learn and that is of course the purpose of this, and the other sites that I and others run....to learn.

These are searchable data bases that are free to use for you and following those, are Amazon printed materials for you to pyrchase if you wish.

Searchable Qur'an and Hadith collections:
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/
Searchable Qur'an translations:
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/quran/
Searchable Hadith Translations:
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/sunnah/

Translations of the Qur'an in print:

http://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Holy-Quran-Abdullah-Yusuf/dp/1590080254/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282332329&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/Message-Quran-Muhammad-Asad/dp/1904510353/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282332367&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Sublime-Quran-Laleh-Bakhtiar/dp/1567447503/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282332387&sr=1-1


Be well friends......Rev. Bruce.........Tawodi

TAWODI!! Where have you been??!!??

Well ya see it's like this.....I got kinda discouraged back through the summer i had some health issues and conflicts with some of the members of The People of Abraham. I was limited in what and how much i could do or contribute because of those health issues and absolutely could NOT get anybody to post articles or help in any way.....What to do??

So I kinda took a vacation. Once before I closed the blog in frustration, but deceded this time I would leave it open and if the sprirt moved write something here.
Nothing moved, never mind the spirit!!

O.K. I watched others who should have known better tear into each other in cross religious disputes...disquieting indeed. Then watched them gut each other like a fish!! What are you doing people!!??

I yelled and screamed ....was ignored....cajoled and gently maneuvered...was stomped!! O.K. when it's time for a holiday...take a holiday!!

Well things have quieted down somewhat those in conflict seem to have left and those who remained in the back ground?? Well, I guess I'll see if they are still around!

So I will write something pretty quickly, probably this, or next week, and we'll see where it goes from here. By the By anyone who wishes can write here, there are after all eleven listed contributors you know....you didn't?? Well, maybe that's because they've never contributed anything!

Mayhap that will change....maybe only to chew me out for bringing it out into the open this way!

We shall see what we shall see!!

Tawodi.............Rev. Bruce

A Brief Question and Not So Brief Answer

In a discussion of The People of Abraham I was asked this question.
" So, it's God, in the human conscience?"
MY ANSWER.

W.T.;

Very close, very, very, close.

Maybe though, it would be easier to think of it as the humanity of all of us.

All normal humans have a conscience. Some have had it warped by their cultures, that is correct.
But, aside from those, we have people who don't want to see their children burn, their cities reduced to ash, entire populations literally wafting through the stratosphere as radioactive dust.

During the cold war these were possibilities. They are more possible now, because we have some, who have been twisted to believe, their version of God will preserve them, and kill every body else.

Now comes the interesting part!! Some of these are Muslims, some are Jews, some are Christians, And some are unnamed and just as NUTS!!

So is it God, or spirit, in the conscience of human beings? Or is it just the desperate desire to see our children live?? The real promise, of any future at all, our children. We can see them, we can touch them, hear their cries of pain, as they hunger, thirst, suffer from fear, or lie screaming as they die.

Or we can come together in hope. Hope that none of these things need take place. Hope that we can see them grow,in safety. Hope that others can see, that whatever it takes, the insanity MUST stop!! The choice is ours, no matter how much somebody wants to shove away the responsibility, or hand it to somebody else, it is each of us that must stand, and choose.

Do we, and they, live?? Or do we, and they, die??

Sit back in self righteous glee as it all comes apart, and say, SEE I TOLD YOU!!! Or do what you can now, and if the balloon goes up, die, knowing at least you tried!!!

Choose well!!