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Black Belt Woman Magazine (Single Issue Magazine)

Black Belt Woman: The Magazine of Women in the Martial Arts and Self Defense Historic magazine of the women’s martial arts and self defense movement arising out of the second wave of feminism, published from 1975 to 1976. All six original magazines, long unavailable and very rare. Issues #2 and #4 sold out and are included as reprints. Includes bonus, original Olive Oyl “Spinach is a Crutch” 1975 promotional poster. Edited by Dana Densmore, Michelle Zavos, and Joan Chernock. Contributing editor, Nancy Lehmann. Articles by Beth Austin, Py Bateman, Valerie Eads, Bobbi Snyder, Alice Macpherson, Pat Turney (Banshee), Nadia Telsey, Pauline Short, Ann Stacy, Susan Murdock, Suzanne Mitten, Erica Gutman, Nancy Lehmann, Dana Densmore, and many other pioneers of the women’s self defense and martial arts movement. Issue 1 – September 1975 Includes “Karate: the Art of Not Fighting,” “Self Defense Situations: Drawing the Line of Justice,” “Self Defense is a Way of Life f (more…)

Todays Black Woman [Magazine Subscription]

Targeting modern African-American women, this lifestyle publication covers love, relationships, sex, health, careers, fashion, beauty, and other issues relevant to daily living.

Targeting modern African-American women, this lifestyle publication covers love, relationships, sex, health, careers, fashion, beauty, and other issues relevant to daily living.

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Black Framed/Matted Print 17×23, Asia Magazine: Hill Woman of Assam

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In Bible versus Quran: Wisdom will keep you away from the Foreign Woman

This is the fourth article of the series:

“The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”

Few quotes from the first article of this series are given here.

In language, the foreign or the strange woman is the alien or the exotic or the outsider woman.  However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1), the foreign or the strange woman is the non-Israelite woman.

Subsequently, all non-Israelite women are foreign or strange women.

This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreign.

Moreover, the Bible (Ezra 10:2) states that you break faith with God if you marry foreign women.

Ezra 10:2 (English Standard Version):

“…We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land…”

According to the inspired word of God (1 Kings 11:1-11), the Bible says that

The commandment is a lamp and the law is light to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman which flatters with her smooth words.  Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.  Her (the strange woman) house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.  She has cast down many wounded: many strong men have been slain by her.

Herein, there is an interesting remark:

Proverbs 22:14 Says that the mouth of the strange women is a deep pit. 

On the other hand, Proverbs 23:27 says that a prostitute is a deep pit…

Proverbs 23:27 (English Standard Version): For the prostitute is a deep pit…

(Read the second article of this series: The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (2)

Meaning-wise, does this indicate that the mouth of the strange women is equivalent to a prostitute?

—————————————————————-

On the other hand, all women are equal in Islam.

Historical backgrounds:

There were some historical events that happened before the Quran puts the Law that all men and all women are equal in their duty and responsibilities regardless of their race, color, location etc.

 (1) The first event was when Thabit ibn Qays who was hard of hearing and when he came to see the Messenger of Allah, the Companions made room for him in order for him to sit next to the Prophet so that he could hear him.  He came one day when people were already seated and started stepping over people, saying: “Make room! Make room!” One man said to him: “You have found a place, so sit down!”

Thabit stood up and said: ‘I did, O Messenger of Allah!’

The Messenger said to him: ‘Look at the faces of those present’.

And when he looked, he asked him: ‘What do you see?’

He said: ‘I see white, red and black people’.

The Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Well, you are not better than any of them unless it be through your good deed and faith and God- fearfulness and apprehension.

 (2) The second event; on the day Mecca was conquered, Muhammad ordered Bilal (a black Ethiopian slave) to climb on the roof of the Ka’bah and perform the call to prayer.

A man commented on this: ‘Praise be to Allah, that Allah has taken my father to Him and made that he did not see this day’.

Another man said: ‘Did Muhammad not find any other caller to prayer except this black raven?’

One person said: ‘O servants of Allah! How can this black slave be allowed to perform the call to prayer on top of the Ka’bah?’

Another man said: ‘If Allah is displeased, He will change him’.

(3) The third event; Safiyyah bint Huyayy ibn Akhtab (a Jewish wife of the Prophet Muhammad) went to Muhammad, and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, women revile me, saying: O Jewess, daughter of Jewish parents!’

Muhammad said to her: ‘could you not have said to them in reply: my father is Aaron, my uncle is Moses and my husband is Muhammad’.

In response to such events, Allah revealed Verse 49:11 and 13 of the Quran.

The meaning of Verse 49:11

And whoever does not repent, of such immorality, those, they are the evildoers.

In other words, do not defame one another nor backbite against each other, nor insult one another by nicknames that he or she dislikes to hear.  Bad is the name of lewdness after having accepted faith.  And whoso turned not in repentance from doing that after having accepted faith, such are those who are evil-doers and they harm themselves with punishment in the Hereafter.

The meaning of Verse 49:13

O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female from Adam and Eve, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. Lo! The noblest of you in the Hereafter, in the sight of Allah on the Day of Judgment, is the best in conduct in the life of the world Lo! Allah is Knower of your status and lineage; He is Aware of your works and standing in His sight.

In other words, the verse says:

O mankind! We have indeed created you from a male and a female, from Adam and Eve, and made you nations and tribes that you may come to know one another that you may acquire knowledge of the customs of one another and not to boast to one another of whose is the more noble lineage, for pride lies only in the extent to which you have fear of God.  Truly the noblest of you in the sight of God is the most God-fearing among you.  Beyond doubt, God is Knower of you; He is Aware of your inner thoughts.

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The Bible (King James Version)

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 6:23-24

23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:4-5 and 25-27

4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 23:33-35

33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

Proverbs 22:14

14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

==================================

The Quran (Yusuf Ali Translation):

Verse 49:11 and 13

11) O ye who believe! let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter are better than the (former): nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: and those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong.

13) O mankind! we created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. and Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

==================================

Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars honest when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

In Bible versus Quran: the Foreigner Woman’s House is the shortest way to Hell

This is the fourth article of the series:

“The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”

Few quotes from the first article of this series are given here.

In language, the foreign or the strange woman is the alien or the exotic or the outsider woman.  However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1), the foreign or the strange woman is the non-Israelite woman.

Subsequently, all non-Israelite women are foreign or strange women.

This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreign.

Moreover, the Bible (Ezra 10:2) states that you break faith with God if you marry foreign women.

Ezra 10:2 (English Standard Version):

“…We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land…”

According to the inspired word of God (1 Kings 11:1-11), the Bible says that

The commandment is a lamp and the law is light to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman which flatters with her smooth words.  Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.  Her (the strange woman) house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.  She has cast down many wounded: many strong men have been slain by her.

Herein, there is an interesting remark:

Proverbs 22:14 Says that the mouth of the strange women is a deep pit. 

On the other hand, Proverbs 23:27 says that a prostitute is a deep pit…

Proverbs 23:27 (English Standard Version): For the prostitute is a deep pit…

(Read the second article of this series: The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (2)

Meaning-wise, does this indicate that the mouth of the strange women is equivalent to a prostitute?

—————————————————————-

On the other hand, all women are equal in Islam.

Historical backgrounds:

There were some historical events that happened before the Quran puts the Law that all men and all women are equal in their duty and responsibilities regardless of their race, color, location etc.

 (1) The first event was when Thabit ibn Qays who was hard of hearing and when he came to see the Messenger of Allah, the Companions made room for him in order for him to sit next to the Prophet so that he could hear him.  He came one day when people were already seated and started stepping over people, saying: “Make room! Make room!” One man said to him: “You have found a place, so sit down!”

Thabit stood up and said: ‘I did, O Messenger of Allah!’

The Messenger said to him: ‘Look at the faces of those present’.

And when he looked, he asked him: ‘What do you see?’

He said: ‘I see white, red and black people’.

The Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Well, you are not better than any of them unless it be through your good deed and faith and God- fearfulness and apprehension.

 (2) The second event; on the day Mecca was conquered, Muhammad ordered Bilal (a black Ethiopian slave) to climb on the roof of the Ka’bah and perform the call to prayer.

A man commented on this: ‘Praise be to Allah, that Allah has taken my father to Him and made that he did not see this day’.

Another man said: ‘Did Muhammad not find any other caller to prayer except this black raven?’

One person said: ‘O servants of Allah! How can this black slave be allowed to perform the call to prayer on top of the Ka’bah?’

Another man said: ‘If Allah is displeased, He will change him’.

(3) The third event; Safiyyah bint Huyayy ibn Akhtab (a Jewish wife of the Prophet Muhammad) went to Muhammad, and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, women revile me, saying: O Jewess, daughter of Jewish parents!’

Muhammad said to her: ‘could you not have said to them in reply: my father is Aaron, my uncle is Moses and my husband is Muhammad’.

In response to such events, Allah revealed Verse 49:11 and 13 of the Quran.

The meaning of Verse 49:11

And whoever does not repent, of such immorality, those, they are the evildoers.

In other words, do not defame one another nor backbite against each other, nor insult one another by nicknames that he or she dislikes to hear.  Bad is the name of lewdness after having accepted faith.  And whoso turned not in repentance from doing that after having accepted faith, such are those who are evil-doers and they harm themselves with punishment in the Hereafter.

The meaning of Verse 49:13

O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female from Adam and Eve, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. Lo! The noblest of you in the Hereafter, in the sight of Allah on the Day of Judgment, is the best in conduct in the life of the world Lo! Allah is Knower of your status and lineage; He is Aware of your works and standing in His sight.

In other words, the verse says:

O mankind! We have indeed created you from a male and a female, from Adam and Eve, and made you nations and tribes that you may come to know one another that you may acquire knowledge of the customs of one another and not to boast to one another of whose is the more noble lineage, for pride lies only in the extent to which you have fear of God.  Truly the noblest of you in the sight of God is the most God-fearing among you.  Beyond doubt, God is Knower of you; He is Aware of your inner thoughts.

===================================

The Bible (King James Version)

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 6:23-24

23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:4-5 and 25-27

4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 23:33-35

33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

Proverbs 22:14

14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

==================================

The Quran (Yusuf Ali Translation):

Verse 49:11 and 13

11) O ye who believe! let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter are better than the (former): nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: and those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong.

13) O mankind! we created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. and Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

==================================

Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars honest when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

In Bible versus Quran: the understanding will keep you from the Foreign Woman

This is the fourth article of the series:

“The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”

Few quotes from the first article of this series are given here.

In language, the foreign or the strange woman is the alien or the exotic or the outsider woman.  However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1), the foreign or the strange woman is the non-Israelite woman.

Subsequently, all non-Israelite women are foreign or strange women.

This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreign.

Moreover, the Bible (Ezra 10:2) states that you break faith with God if you marry foreign women.

Ezra 10:2 (English Standard Version):

“…We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land…”

According to the inspired word of God (1 Kings 11:1-11), the Bible says that

The commandment is a lamp and the law is light to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman which flatters with her smooth words.  Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.  Her (the strange woman) house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.  She has cast down many wounded: many strong men have been slain by her.

Herein, there is an interesting remark:

Proverbs 22:14 Says that the mouth of the strange women is a deep pit. 

On the other hand, Proverbs 23:27 says that a prostitute is a deep pit…

Proverbs 23:27 (English Standard Version): For the prostitute is a deep pit…

(Read the second article of this series: The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (2)

Meaning-wise, does this indicate that the mouth of the strange women is equivalent to a prostitute?

—————————————————————-

On the other hand, all women are equal in Islam.

Historical backgrounds:

There were some historical events that happened before the Quran puts the Law that all men and all women are equal in their duty and responsibilities regardless of their race, color, location etc.

 (1) The first event was when Thabit ibn Qays who was hard of hearing and when he came to see the Messenger of Allah, the Companions made room for him in order for him to sit next to the Prophet so that he could hear him.  He came one day when people were already seated and started stepping over people, saying: “Make room! Make room!” One man said to him: “You have found a place, so sit down!”

Thabit stood up and said: ‘I did, O Messenger of Allah!’

The Messenger said to him: ‘Look at the faces of those present’.

And when he looked, he asked him: ‘What do you see?’

He said: ‘I see white, red and black people’.

The Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Well, you are not better than any of them unless it be through your good deed and faith and God- fearfulness and apprehension.

 (2) The second event; on the day Mecca was conquered, Muhammad ordered Bilal (a black Ethiopian slave) to climb on the roof of the Ka’bah and perform the call to prayer.

A man commented on this: ‘Praise be to Allah, that Allah has taken my father to Him and made that he did not see this day’.

Another man said: ‘Did Muhammad not find any other caller to prayer except this black raven?’

One person said: ‘O servants of Allah! How can this black slave be allowed to perform the call to prayer on top of the Ka’bah?’

Another man said: ‘If Allah is displeased, He will change him’.

(3) The third event; Safiyyah bint Huyayy ibn Akhtab (a Jewish wife of the Prophet Muhammad) went to Muhammad, and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, women revile me, saying: O Jewess, daughter of Jewish parents!’

Muhammad said to her: ‘could you not have said to them in reply: my father is Aaron, my uncle is Moses and my husband is Muhammad’.

In response to such events, Allah revealed Verse 49:11 and 13 of the Quran.

The meaning of Verse 49:11

And whoever does not repent, of such immorality, those, they are the evildoers.

In other words, do not defame one another nor backbite against each other, nor insult one another by nicknames that he or she dislikes to hear.  Bad is the name of lewdness after having accepted faith.  And whoso turned not in repentance from doing that after having accepted faith, such are those who are evil-doers and they harm themselves with punishment in the Hereafter.

The meaning of Verse 49:13

O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female from Adam and Eve, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. Lo! The noblest of you in the Hereafter, in the sight of Allah on the Day of Judgment, is the best in conduct in the life of the world Lo! Allah is Knower of your status and lineage; He is Aware of your works and standing in His sight.

In other words, the verse says:

O mankind! We have indeed created you from a male and a female, from Adam and Eve, and made you nations and tribes that you may come to know one another that you may acquire knowledge of the customs of one another and not to boast to one another of whose is the more noble lineage, for pride lies only in the extent to which you have fear of God.  Truly the noblest of you in the sight of God is the most God-fearing among you.  Beyond doubt, God is Knower of you; He is Aware of your inner thoughts.

===================================

The Bible (King James Version)

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 6:23-24

23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:4-5 and 25-27

4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 23:33-35

33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

Proverbs 22:14

14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

==================================

The Quran (Yusuf Ali Translation):

Verse 49:11 and 13

11) O ye who believe! let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter are better than the (former): nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: and those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong.

13) O mankind! we created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. and Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

==================================

Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars honest when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

In Bible versus Quran: many strong men are slain by the foreign woman

This is the fourth article of the series:

“The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”

Few quotes from the previous articles of this series are given here.

In language, the foreign or the strange woman is the alien or the exotic or the outsider woman.  However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1), the foreign or the strange woman is the non-Israelite woman.

Subsequently, all non-Israelite women are foreign or strange women.

This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreign.

Moreover, the Bible (Ezra 10:2) states that you break faith with God if you marry foreign women.

Ezra 10:2 (English Standard Version):

“…We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land…”

According to the inspired word of God (1 Kings 11:1-11), the Bible says that

The commandment is a lamp and the law is light to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman which flatters with her smooth words.  Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.  Her (the strange woman) house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.  She has cast down many wounded: many strong men have been slain by her.

Herein, there is an interesting remark:

Proverbs 22:14 Says that the mouth of the strange women is a deep pit. 

On the other hand, Proverbs 23:27 says that a prostitute is a deep pit…

Proverbs 23:27 (English Standard Version): For the prostitute is a deep pit…

(Read the second article of this series: The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (2)

Meaning-wise, does this indicate that the mouth of the strange women is equivalent to a prostitute?

—————————————————————-

On the other hand, all women are equal in Islam.

Historical backgrounds:

There were some historical events that happened before the Quran puts the Law that all men and all women are equal in their duty and responsibilities regardless of their race, color, location etc.

 (1) The first event was when Thabit ibn Qays who was hard of hearing and when he came to see the Messenger of Allah, the Companions made room for him in order for him to sit next to the Prophet so that he could hear him.  He came one day when people were already seated and started stepping over people, saying: “Make room! Make room!” One man said to him: “You have found a place, so sit down!”

Thabit stood up and said: ‘I did, O Messenger of Allah!’

The Messenger said to him: ‘Look at the faces of those present’.

And when he looked, he asked him: ‘What do you see?’

He said: ‘I see white, red and black people’.

The Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Well, you are not better than any of them unless it be through your good deed and faith and God- fearfulness and apprehension.

 (2) The second event; on the day Mecca was conquered, Muhammad ordered Bilal (a black Ethiopian slave) to climb on the roof of the Ka’bah and perform the call to prayer.

A man commented on this: ‘Praise be to Allah, that Allah has taken my father to Him and made that he did not see this day’.

Another man said: ‘Did Muhammad not find any other caller to prayer except this black raven?’

One person said: ‘O servants of Allah! How can this black slave be allowed to perform the call to prayer on top of the Ka’bah?’

Another man said: ‘If Allah is displeased, He will change him’.

(3) The third event; Safiyyah bint Huyayy ibn Akhtab (a Jewish wife of the Prophet Muhammad) went to Muhammad, and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, women revile me, saying: O Jewess, daughter of Jewish parents!’

Muhammad said to her: ‘could you not have said to them in reply: my father is Aaron, my uncle is Moses and my husband is Muhammad’.

In response to such events, Allah revealed Verse 49:11 and 13 of the Quran.

The meaning of Verse 49:11

And whoever does not repent, of such immorality, those, they are the evildoers.

In other words, do not defame one another nor backbite against each other, nor insult one another by nicknames that he or she dislikes to hear.  Bad is the name of lewdness after having accepted faith.  And whoso turned not in repentance from doing that after having accepted faith, such are those who are evil-doers and they harm themselves with punishment in the Hereafter.

The meaning of Verse 49:13

O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female from Adam and Eve, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. Lo! The noblest of you in the Hereafter, in the sight of Allah on the Day of Judgment, is the best in conduct in the life of the world Lo! Allah is Knower of your status and lineage; He is Aware of your works and standing in His sight.

In other words, the verse says:

O mankind! We have indeed created you from a male and a female, from Adam and Eve, and made you nations and tribes that you may come to know one another that you may acquire knowledge of the customs of one another and not to boast to one another of whose is the more noble lineage, for pride lies only in the extent to which you have fear of God.  Truly the noblest of you in the sight of God is the most God-fearing among you.  Beyond doubt, God is Knower of you; He is Aware of your inner thoughts.

===================================

The Bible (King James Version)

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 6:23-24

23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:4-5 and 25-27

4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 23:33-35

33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

Proverbs 22:14

14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

==================================

The Quran (Yusuf Ali Translation):

Verse 49:11 and 13

11) O ye who believe! let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter are better than the (former): nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: and those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong.

13) O mankind! we created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. and Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars honest when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

In Quran: the honor of a black Ethiopian slave, Bilal?

This is the fourth article of the series:

“The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”

Few quotes from the previous articles of this series are given here.

In language, the foreign or the strange woman is the alien or the exotic or the outsider woman.  However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1), the foreign or the strange woman is the non-Israelite woman.

Subsequently, all non-Israelite women are foreign or strange women.

This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreign.

Moreover, the Bible (Ezra 10:2) states that you break faith with God if you marry foreign women.

Ezra 10:2 (English Standard Version):

“…We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land…”

According to the inspired word of God (1 Kings 11:1-11), the Bible says that

The commandment is a lamp and the law is light to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman which flatters with her smooth words.  Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.  Her (the strange woman) house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.  She has cast down many wounded: many strong men have been slain by her.

Herein, there is an interesting remark:

Proverbs 22:14 Says that the mouth of the strange women is a deep pit. 

On the other hand, Proverbs 23:27 says that a prostitute is a deep pit…

Proverbs 23:27 (English Standard Version): For the prostitute is a deep pit…

(Read the second article of this series: The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (2)

Meaning-wise, does this indicate that the mouth of the strange women is equivalent to a prostitute?

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On the other hand, all women are equal in Islam.

Historical backgrounds:

There were some historical events that happened before the Quran puts the Law that all men and all women are equal in their duty and responsibilities regardless of their race, color, location etc.

 (1) The first event was when Thabit ibn Qays who was hard of hearing and when he came to see the Messenger of Allah, the Companions made room for him in order for him to sit next to the Prophet so that he could hear him.  He came one day when people were already seated and started stepping over people, saying: “Make room! Make room!” One man said to him: “You have found a place, so sit down!”

Thabit stood up and said: ‘I did, O Messenger of Allah!’

The Messenger said to him: ‘Look at the faces of those present’.

And when he looked, he asked him: ‘What do you see?’

He said: ‘I see white, red and black people’.

The Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Well, you are not better than any of them unless it be through your good deed and faith and God- fearfulness and apprehension.

 (2) The second event; on the day Mecca was conquered, Muhammad ordered Bilal (a black Ethiopian slave) to climb on the roof of the Ka’bah and perform the call to prayer.

A man commented on this: ‘Praise be to Allah, that Allah has taken my father to Him and made that he did not see this day’.

Another man said: ‘Did Muhammad not find any other caller to prayer except this black raven?’

One person said: ‘O servants of Allah! How can this black slave be allowed to perform the call to prayer on top of the Ka’bah?’

Another man said: ‘If Allah is displeased, He will change him’.

(3) The third event; Safiyyah bint Huyayy ibn Akhtab (a Jewish wife of the Prophet Muhammad) went to Muhammad, and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, women revile me, saying: O Jewess, daughter of Jewish parents!’

Muhammad said to her: ‘could you not have said to them in reply: my father is Aaron, my uncle is Moses and my husband is Muhammad’.

In response to such events, Allah revealed Verse 49:11 and 13 of the Quran.

The meaning of Verse 49:11

And whoever does not repent, of such immorality, those, they are the evildoers.

In other words, do not defame one another nor backbite against each other, nor insult one another by nicknames that he or she dislikes to hear.  Bad is the name of lewdness after having accepted faith.  And whoso turned not in repentance from doing that after having accepted faith, such are those who are evil-doers and they harm themselves with punishment in the Hereafter.

The meaning of Verse 49:13

O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female from Adam and Eve, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. Lo! The noblest of you in the Hereafter, in the sight of Allah on the Day of Judgment, is the best in conduct in the life of the world Lo! Allah is Knower of your status and lineage; He is Aware of your works and standing in His sight.

In other words, the verse says:

O mankind! We have indeed created you from a male and a female, from Adam and Eve, and made you nations and tribes that you may come to know one another that you may acquire knowledge of the customs of one another and not to boast to one another of whose is the more noble lineage, for pride lies only in the extent to which you have fear of God.  Truly the noblest of you in the sight of God is the most God-fearing among you.  Beyond doubt, God is Knower of you; He is Aware of your inner thoughts.

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The Bible (King James Version)

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 6:23-24

23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:4-5 and 25-27

4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 23:33-35

33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

Proverbs 22:14

14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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The Quran (Yusuf Ali Translation):

Verse 49:11 and 13

11) O ye who believe! let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter are better than the (former): nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: and those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong.

13) O mankind! we created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. and Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars honest when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

You’re Beautiful, Woman event return in 2009

 After holding a highly successful event at the Imperial War Museum in 2008, this year the event will be held at the Highgate Newton Centre in North London this year to accommodate even higher numbers.  The event is still fun and fabulous with the focus on education and motivation.  The self-proclaimed dream team is made up of award-winning entrepreneurs, high-flying professionals and well-established business women – truly a force to be reckoned with.

Join us on the 15th August 2009 at The Highgate Newtown Centre, Highgate

Tickets: £5 (Email registration is ESSENTIAL) Free raffle ticket with entry

In August  2009 – 7 successful businesswomen will be holding the 2nd annual “You’re Beautiful, Woman” event,  an exciting and formidable event honouring black beauty and black women.  “You’re Beautiful, Woman!” is a fun yet constructive & educational event celebrating black female beauty in all its forms – fashion, hair, beauty, fitness and more!

After holding a highly successful event at the Imperial War Museum in 2008 the event will be held at the Highgate Newton Centre in North London this year to accommodate even higher numbers.  The event is still fun and fabulous with the focus on education and motivation.  The self-proclaimed dream team is made up of award-winning entrepreneurs, high-flying professionals and well-established business women – truly a force to be reckoned with.

Ronke Adeyemi is a marketing consultant with a background in B2B and B2C sectors. She has worked on various events such as the Commonwealth Film Festival and the Streatham Festival. She also has a huge passion for fashion as well as magazines and plans to launch a publication in the near future.

Sophia Jackson is a communications professional with event management experience. Sophia is also a freelance entertainment journalist. She is the editor of the annual Screen Nation awards magazine. Sophia is the editor and founder of Afridiziak Theatre News, a website dedicated to African-Caribbean theatre.

Angel Smith,  is the founder of two businesses,  Shoe Lagoon Ltd, (www.shoelagoon.com)  an online shoes & accessories boutique, based in London UK and the brand new Conscious Club (www.consciousclub.co.uk) a loyalty card scheme aimed at black businesses.  She also is a review writer for New Nation and Afridiziak Theatre reviews.  

Born in Haiti, raised in New York and having lived in Berlin, Geneva and London for the past 4 years, Angie Brice-Hessbruegge A.K.A The Hairoine is a true international citizen.  Although she has a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish, and an MA in Applied Linguistics, her true passion is hair; natural hair to be exact.  Since May 2003, The Hairoine has been on a campaign of educating, empowering and engaging individuals into the world of natural beauty. Along with making natural hair and beauty products, The Hairoine makes how-to video tutorials on hair and natural alternatives to harmful chemicals.

Ronke Lawal was born in Hackney, East London of Nigerian parentage.   Having graduated with honours from Lancaster University with a degree in International Business she started her own business in 2004. At 27 years old, she is a passionate business woman running RSL Management Services and the Simone Williams label.  Apart from business her passions including food, travel, music, literature and most importantly living a life she loves. 

Lillian Ogbogoh is also a partner in the events management company Vivid Occasions. Her background was within International Relations, whilst studying at university she spent a lot of time playing at being an event planner for friends and family. So it seems like a natural progression to go from playing at being an event planner. To becoming a partner in the events management company Vivid Occasions.  This encompasses wedding planning, business networking functions and retreats.  She has organised a range of successful events across the capital and is excited about this latest project.

To register email: urbeautifulwoman@gmail.com or log on to www.yourebeautifulwoman.com

You’re Beautiful, Woman event return in 2009

 After holding a highly successful event at the Imperial War Museum in 2008, this year the event will be held at the Highgate Newton Centre in North London this year to accommodate even higher numbers.  The event is still fun and fabulous with the focus on education and motivation.  The self-proclaimed dream team is made up of award-winning entrepreneurs, high-flying professionals and well-established business women – truly a force to be reckoned with.

Join us on the 15th August 2009 at The Highgate Newtown Centre, Highgate

Tickets: £5 (Email registration is ESSENTIAL) Free raffle ticket with entry

In August  2009 – 7 successful businesswomen will be holding the 2nd annual “You’re Beautiful, Woman” event,  an exciting and formidable event honouring black beauty and black women.  “You’re Beautiful, Woman!” is a fun yet constructive & educational event celebrating black female beauty in all its forms – fashion, hair, beauty, fitness and more!

After holding a highly successful event at the Imperial War Museum in 2008 the event will be held at the Highgate Newton Centre in North London this year to accommodate even higher numbers.  The event is still fun and fabulous with the focus on education and motivation.  The self-proclaimed dream team is made up of award-winning entrepreneurs, high-flying professionals and well-established business women – truly a force to be reckoned with.

Ronke Adeyemi is a marketing consultant with a background in B2B and B2C sectors. She has worked on various events such as the Commonwealth Film Festival and the Streatham Festival. She also has a huge passion for fashion as well as magazines and plans to launch a publication in the near future.

Sophia Jackson is a communications professional with event management experience. Sophia is also a freelance entertainment journalist. She is the editor of the annual Screen Nation awards magazine. Sophia is the editor and founder of Afridiziak Theatre News, a website dedicated to African-Caribbean theatre.

Angel Smith,  is the founder of two businesses,  Shoe Lagoon Ltd, (www.shoelagoon.com)  an online shoes & accessories boutique, based in London UK and the brand new Conscious Club (www.consciousclub.co.uk) a loyalty card scheme aimed at black businesses.  She also is a review writer for New Nation and Afridiziak Theatre reviews.  

Born in Haiti, raised in New York and having lived in Berlin, Geneva and London for the past 4 years, Angie Brice-Hessbruegge A.K.A The Hairoine is a true international citizen.  Although she has a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish, and an MA in Applied Linguistics, her true passion is hair; natural hair to be exact.  Since May 2003, The Hairoine has been on a campaign of educating, empowering and engaging individuals into the world of natural beauty. Along with making natural hair and beauty products, The Hairoine makes how-to video tutorials on hair and natural alternatives to harmful chemicals.

Ronke Lawal was born in Hackney, East London of Nigerian parentage.   Having graduated with honours from Lancaster University with a degree in International Business she started her own business in 2004. At 27 years old, she is a passionate business woman running RSL Management Services and the Simone Williams label.  Apart from business her passions including food, travel, music, literature and most importantly living a life she loves. 

Lillian Ogbogoh is also a partner in the events management company Vivid Occasions. Her background was within International Relations, whilst studying at university she spent a lot of time playing at being an event planner for friends and family. So it seems like a natural progression to go from playing at being an event planner. To becoming a partner in the events management company Vivid Occasions.  This encompasses wedding planning, business networking functions and retreats.  She has organised a range of successful events across the capital and is excited about this latest project.

To register email: urbeautifulwoman@gmail.com or log on to www.yourebeautifulwoman.com