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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lovely saying of Muhammed:  "There is no compulsion in Islam."  But read with different vowel markings it would be translated as "There is no bachelorhood in Islam." A big difference.  And guess what the fundamentalists think the right word is?  They have destroyed Islam.  
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You are correct on the diacritical marks but that's not the saying of Muhammad. That's a direct quote from the Quran, and considering that it is followed directly by "Truth stands clear from the error," chances are, it actually does mean "compulsion."

And to be completely accurate, it doesn't mean "there is no compulsion in Islam." It means there is no compulsion in religion, la ikraha fi 'd'deen. "Deen" just means religion. It doesn't necessarily mean Islam. It's very common for someone to be asked, "ma huwa dinnak?", or "what is your religion?"  It "deen" necessarily meant Islam, that couldn't have been possible.[/quote]

+1!

The diacritical marks, are these called the tashkeel? I spoke to someone who reads Arabic and he said those diacritical marks were not used in the original Quran because Arabs can understand the meaning based on context.

For example, to illustrate in English, if tashkeel are not used, a sentence could either be
- the moon is luminescent tonight
- the min is luminescent tonight, or
- the man is luminescent tonight

Which makes the most sense? Obviously the first sentence. This is how it was explained to me. The diacritical marks did not affect the meaning.[/quote]

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