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followers to cherish their families, to venerate literal interpretation on the sacred text, unaniwomen, to treat strangers kindly, to obey the law mously adopted the doctrine that the return of the of any country they are in (yes, yes, it really does), prophet Elias to this earth was absolutely necesand to give generously. One recent poll found that sary and essential; and it was in accordance with British Muslims donate more money to charity this belief that they could not accept Jesus (peace than any other religious group. Much is written be on him), and queried how Jesus could come about the need for Muslims to integrate better into when Elias had not as yet returned to this earth a English society, although second time as promI’m sure 99 per cent of ised. This literalism them already do. But I landed them in great hope they retain as trouble. It was, in reality, much of their religious the root-cause of all identity as possible – it their misfortune and is vastly superior to the adversity that they immaterialist, secular posed a literal interpremess that they’re being tation on a metaphorical compelled to become a statement of the Sacred part of. Scripture, and that all I’m not one of those their divines subscribed New Labour metropoliwith one voice to the tan types who wants to view that before the adHamilton Pool, Texas, USA create a rainbow nation vent of the Messiah the of hippies – I’m a cultural conservative, a Catholic coming of Elias to this world for a second visit was chauvinist and a defender of everything worth absolutely necessary, and laughed at and ridiculed venerating. But it’s precisely because I’m a tradithe interpretation that by Elias was meant John the tionalist that I look at Islam and see much to adBaptist (whom the Muslims call Yahya), who had mire – ordered, sensitive to the sacred, civilised…. come in the spirit and power of Elias, and queried why, if it was meant that not Elias himself but his (Editor’s Note: The above is a short extract from likeness would return to this world, God Most High Tim Stanley’s original online article on the blogs did not say so in the prophecy that the likeness of pages of The Telegraph. For the full article see Elias would appear prior to the advent of the Meshttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ siah. In this way, their hearts became hardened timstanley/100230090/islam-is-way-more-englishand obdurate, and they branded a righteous man a than-the-edf/.) heretic and a liar.

Islam is Way More English Than the EDL
by Tim Stanley
…. Today our meetings with foreign cultures are awkward precisely because we lack a solid sense of who we are. A lot of the fear shown towards Islam comes from the death of the Christian soul – we see a people who actually believe in something and we are intimidated. By contrast, most Muslims cling on to values that were once definitively English and that we could do with rediscovering. Islam instructs its

The Origin and Growth of Hadith Literature
by Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali
Sunnah or Hadith is admittedly the second source – and undoubtedly a secondary one – from which the teachings of Islam are drawn. Sunnah literally means a way or rule or manner of acting or mode of life, and Hadith literally means a saying conveyed to man either through hearing or through revelation.1 In its original sense, therefore, Sunnah indicates the practice, and Hadith the sayings, of the Holy Prophet; but practically both cover the same