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I also need to address one more thing - not for you, but for the benefit of others reading this.  The institution of scholars in contemporary Muslim world, to the degree it has developed, is a complete scam born out of nothing but the desire for job security.  Islam was revealed to a largely illiterate population.  It was meant to be a code of simple rules that can be understood by anyone, not exclusively King Abdulaziz University graduates. If a rule in the Quran sounds simple, then no matter how awful it sounds to a non-Muslim, guess what, it really says what it means to say, and no amount of scholarly commentary can change that. It can tell you why Muslims think it has to be that way, but if it doesn't make sense to you, then then reason is that it really doesn't make any sense.   Scholars are unnecessary to understand most of the Quran, and it's a great credit to the skill and sophistication of the scholar marketing machine that some scholars out there have jobs and TV shows because women aren't capable of deciding whether they are allowed to change clothes in the room where they think a male jinn lives. [/quote]

Different poster here. Yes, I had heard this myself. Islam prides itself on NOT needing a cadre of priests and theologians to interpret the religion, precisely because the Quran is supposed to be so simple and self-evident. The Shiites with their ayatollahs obviously take a different view, but the Sunni view is that the Quran is accessible to everybody, or at least to those who read Arabic.

So when one of the posters here keeps saying that you need to call up scholars and study up on history to understand the Quran, this doesn't gel with the idea of immediate accessibility. [/quote]

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