ASHURA

[Marge]

My boss is shi'a muslim. He is always looking for parallels between us "7 Days Christians" and his beliefs of the Koran.

Today he excitedly told me that REV chpt 4-10 "the part where the prophet John writes prophecy" is a predicition of ASHURA

Hussain was killed on the battlefield as he did Sajdah. His head was removed from his body on the plains of Kerbala, mounted on a spear, and paraded through villages and towns as it was taken to Damascus and presented at the feet of Yazid.

MY QUESTION: IS there a correlation between Rev 4--10 and this observance? Read more about ASHURA at: http://www.ashura.com/

Please help me...HE IS AWAITING MY RESEARCH.....

[Nan]

Hi Marje. I am giving your post to my husband, who is a retired SDA minister. He is of Indonesian

background and has worked a lot with Muslims. I will pass his comments on.

[John317]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Ashura

According to the book Great Controversy,pp. 334, 335, Rev. 9 deals with Islam and specifically with the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire.

[Nan]

Marge, I have sent you a private message, could you check it please.

Thanks

Nan

[phkrause]

I don't have a direct answer for you but Steve Wohlberg is doing a series on Islam. He has a 13 part series on DVD. Go to his web site www.whitehorsemedia.com But I think John317 has hit on what Steve was mentioning on his program. Also there is a good friend who's married to my wife's cousin. John McGhee. He has work with and was born in Pakistan. He father was a missionary. He used to do seminars for working with muslims. If you need his email let me know.

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