A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Mark Twain said, “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Mark Twain said, “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   Mark Twain aptly said, “Heaven goes by Favour; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, said that to get the full value of joy, one needs someone to share it with, and confessed he had been wrong about Eve — it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.  Twain wrote that as a joke about marriage.  He stumbled, by accident, onto something closer to Islamic theology than most sermons manage.  The Apple That Never Existed, and the Woman Who Never Took the Blame Let us deal with the apple first, because it is not in the Qur’an.  Nowhere does the text name the fruit.  More importantly, nowhere does the Qur’an make Hawa’ the sole author of the fall.  Surah al-A’raf is explicit: Shaythan whispered to both of them, and both of them ate.  Compare that to the Genesis account, where Eve is handed the fruit, hands it to Adam, and the entire weight of original sin gets pinned on her descendants for the rest of recorded history.  Two different scriptures, two ver...