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Amidst the fiercest persecution and abuse that the Muslims faced in the earliest Meccan period, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ would stand without wavering and convey to his followers God’s promise of Islam spreading all over the world. Tamīm ad-Dāri (rA) reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,:
“This matter will certainly reach every place touched by the night and day. Allah will not leave a house of mud or [even] fur except that Allah will cause this religion to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced. Allah will honor the honorable with Islam and he will disgrace the disgraceful with unbelief.”[3]
In another narration, reported by Thawbān:
(rA), “Indeed, Allah gathered up the earth for me so that I saw its east and its west; and indeed the dominion of my nation will reach what was gathered up for me from it.”
The fact that these predictions were made at a time when Muslims were a powerless handful, and Islam was expected to be buried in its cradle, is nothing short of miraculous. At that point, presuming that the faith would even survive would be considered by most nothing short of a pipe-dream. But to predict that Islam would not just survive, but grow to thrive globally, was at that point inconceivable. For us nowadays, witnessing a quarter of this planet’s population Muslims that's makes it clear that this was no presumption, but instead another prophecy inspired by the Divine.
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Well would you blame Hamas for firing those missiles?
I mean Israel violated international laws and committed every human rights abuses possible. besides that they attacked thier sacred mosque, attacked thier people, stole thier homes, evicted them from their land, imprisoned thier families, murdered their families, took away their rights, and all this in their sacred month of Ramadan.
Any person with even a small amount of dignity would be firing rockets too in this sort of situation.
We've always been told that the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" is a complicated issue but is it? In contrast a simple observation can demonstrate whose has the legitimate right. Israel have been treating Palestinians like what nazis used to treat Jews, What is happening in Palestine is a settlers colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing.
and then Israel pretend to be surprised when Hamas hit back. Obviously Those rockets are a declaration that enough is enough. what else of a crime Israel must commit to Palestinians till the world opens thier eyes?
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Well would you blame Hamas for firing those missiles?
I mean Israel violated international laws and committed every human rights abuses possible. besides that they attacked thier sacred mosque, attacked thier people, stole thier homes, evicted them from their land, imprisoned thier families, murdered their families, took away their rights, and all this in their sacred month of Ramadan.
Any person with even a small amount of dignity would be firing rockets too in this sort of situation.
We've always been told that the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" is a complicated issue but is it? In contrast a simple observation can demonstrate whose has the legitimate right. Israel have been treating Palestinians like what nazis used to treat Jews, What is happening in Palestine is a settlers colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing.
and then Israel pretend to be surprised when Hamas hit back. Obviously Those rockets are a declaration that enough is enough. what else of a crime Israel must commit to Palestinians till the world opens thier eyes?
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Islam is not a new religion because ‘submission to the will of God’, i.e. Islam, has always been the only acceptable religion in the sight of God. For this reason, Islam is the true religion’, and it is the same eternal message revealed through the ages to all of God’s prophets and messengers. The main message of all the prophets has always been that there is only One True God and He alone is to be worshipped. These prophets start with Adam and include Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, and Jesus, peace be upon them all. God says in the Holy Quran:
"True Religion, in God’s eyes, is islam: [devotion to Him alone].
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@laila645
Knowledge of God’s existence is often taken for granted by believers. The authentic religious experience—affirmed again and again in a Muslim’s daily life—makes faith in God feel so natural as to be assumed. But belief in God and the quest for existential truth is not an easy prospect for many people, especially in a social environment in which faith is derided as superstition, wishful thinking, or even as a dangerous fantasy.
In the Islamic tradition, the case for God’s existence is solid in terms of its rational foundations as well as the purpose, meaning, comfort, and guidance that it gives to our lives. The Quran inspires conviction by appealing to the aspects of the inner life of human beings, namely, to the heart and the mind. Intuition and experience work in tandem with logic and reason to arrive at a state of certainty in faith.
We have the tendency to believe in God and your feelings attest to this fact. Human beings sense the existence of God—or what they perceive as a higher power—by pure instinct, with or without a prophetic revelation to guide them. Expressions of this sensus divinitatis have appeared in cultures and religions all over the world, despite them being widely separated by time, geography, and language. In Islamic spiritual terms, this is because God took a primordial covenant with every person before the world was created that they would recognize their Creator.
It seems that you recognise the existence of the creator but your only struggle is the credibility of Islam. Therefore i assure you that if such entity exists then Islam is undoubtedly the religion which he prescribed to humankind.
And due to various reasons one of which is Islam is the most logical religion for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that all the philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments that many theists use to prove God, can only prove the monotheistic God that is preached by Islam. These arguments are more inline with the Islamic definition of God than any other definition.
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Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a [Palestinian] population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army… and calls it a war. It is not a war, it is murder.
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Indeed it is Islam. The Arabic word ‘Islam’ means ‘submission’, and is derived from a word meaning ‘peace’. As such, the religion of Islam teaches that in order to achieve true peace of mind and surety of heart, one must submit to God and live according to His Divinely revealed Law.
‘submission to the will of God’, i.e. Islam, has always been the only acceptable religion in the sight of God. For this reason, Islam is the true religion’, and it is the same eternal message revealed through the ages to all of God’s prophets and messengers. The main message of all the prophets has always been that there is only One True God and He alone is to be worshipped. These prophets start with Adam and include Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, and Jesus, Muhammad peace be upon them all.
God says in the Holy Quran:
"True Religion, in God’s eyes, is islam: [devotion to Him alone]. (Quran 3:19)
And:
“We did not send before you (O Muhammad) any messenger but We revealed to him: ‘none has the right to be worshipped except I, therefore worship Me.’” (Quran 21:25)
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Islam is not a new religion because ‘submission to the will of God’, i.e. Islam, has always been the only acceptable religion in the sight of God. For this reason, Islam is the true religion’, and it is the same eternal message revealed through the ages to all of God’s prophets and messengers. The main message of all the prophets has always been that there is only One True God and He alone is to be worshipped. These prophets start with Adam and include Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, and Jesus, peace be upon them all. God says in the Holy Quran:
"True Religion, in God’s eyes, is islam: [devotion to Him alone].
And:
“We did not send before you (O Muhammad) any messenger but We revealed to him: ‘none has the right to be worshipped except I, therefore worship Me.’” (Quran 21:25)
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@Bynasf
The question that most human beings eventually ask themselves is about the nature of existence: Why am I here? Why is there a world and a universe? Why is there something and not nothing?
The Quran addresses this question with a cosmological discourse, a reminder that it was God who created everything and caused it to be. Human beings are asked to reflect upon the nature of their existence and the universe. Is it really plausible, sensible, and intuitive that the universe appeared arbitrarily for no reason?
Allah said:
Have they not thought about their own selves? God did not create the heavens and earth and everything between them without a serious purpose and an appointed time, yet many people deny that they will meet their Lord.(3:8)
Our intuition and experience tell us that effects have causes; things come to be because something made them that way. Since the universe is one giant series of causes and effects, it is reasonable to conclude that it had an original cause that set it all in motion.
Allah said:
Were they created out of nothing? Were they the creators? Did they create the heavens and the earth? No! They do not have faith.(52:36)
The first two propositions are impossible. It could not be the case that the universe appeared from nothing without any reason, purpose, or force to inject it with its energy and direction. Everyday experience informs us that all things we witness in life, every effect we see, must have an explanation at some level. The second proposition, that people created themselves, can be dismissed on its face. As such, the only reasonable conclusion is that the universe was caused—it was created—it was made to exist by something greater and more powerful than itself.
It is said the meaning [of the verse] is: Were they created without a creator? That is impossible, as they must have a creator. If they deny the Creator, then they must have created themselves, and that proposition is even more foolish and false, for how can something without existence create anything? If they reject these two opinions [that they came to be without a creator or they created themselves], then the proof is established upon them that they were in fact created.
Scholars derive from these verses and others a logical train of thought, sometimes referred to as the cosmological argument, which determines that God, as the uncaused cause or first cause, is the most reasonable answer to the existential question.
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Amidst the fiercest persecution and abuse that the Muslims faced in the earliest Meccan period, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ would stand without wavering and convey to his followers God’s promise of Islam spreading all over the world. Tamīm ad-Dāri (rA) reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,:
“This matter will certainly reach every place touched by the night and day. Allah will not leave a house of mud or [even] fur except that Allah will cause this religion to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced. Allah will honor the honorable with Islam and he will disgrace the disgraceful with unbelief.”[3]
In another narration, reported by Thawbān:
(rA), “Indeed, Allah gathered up the earth for me so that I saw its east and its west; and indeed the dominion of my nation will reach what was gathered up for me from it.”
The fact that these predictions were made at a time when Muslims were a powerless handful, and Islam was expected to be buried in its cradle, is nothing short of miraculous. At that point, presuming that the faith would even survive would be considered by most nothing short of a pipe-dream. But to predict that Islam would not just survive, but grow to thrive globally, was at that point inconceivable. For us nowadays, witnessing a quarter of this planet’s population Muslims that's makes it clear that this was no presumption, but instead another prophecy inspired by the Divine.
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The current mainstream teaching in Christianity is that God is a coequal, coeternal, one-substance trinity, and that Jesus Christ is God. This doctrine is considered by many as the cornerstone of Christianity, but where did this doctrine come from?
Three centuries after Christ the corrupt emperor Constantine forced the minority opinion of the trinity upon the council of Nicea. The Christian church went downward from there; in fact some of the creeds and councils actually contradict each other. The council of Nicea 325 AD said that "Jesus Christ is God," the council of Constantinople 381 AD said that "the Holy Spirit is God," the council of Ephesus 431 AD said that "human beings are totally depraved," the council of Chalcedon 451 AD said that "Jesus Christ is both man and God." If you follow the logic here then first you have Jesus Christ as God, then you have man totally depraved, and then you have Jesus Christ as man and God.
During the first three centuries, Christians did not believe that Jesus Christ was coequal, and coeternal with God, or that he was God the Son, they believed that Jesus Christ was subordinate to God, and that he had a beginning, that he was born. Those that believed otherwise were the exception.
The modern doctrine of the Trinity is not found in any document or relic belonging to the Church of the first three centuries, so far as any remains or any record of them are preserved, coming down from early times, are, as regards this doctrine an absolute blank.
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The Qur’an emphasizes that in the eyes of God, there is no distinction between genders, races, or classes. In God’s eyes, women are equal to men because they are rewarded and punished exactly in equal measure, and they have equal access to God’s grace and beneficence. In principle, women have rights equal to their obligations.
The Qur’an states:
“The believers, both men and women, are guardians of one another. They encourage good and forbid evil, establish prayer and pay alms-tax, and obey Allah and His Messenger. It is they who will be shown Allah’s mercy. Surely Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.” (9:71)
Hence, according to the Qur’an, men and women are not just equal partners in building the moral fabric of society, but they must fully cooperate by supporting and aiding each other.
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The statement of Allaah in the Quran:
If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost (All spiritual good). Surah Ali 'Imran [3:85]
Many people claim there religion is true but Islamic scriptures is the only book which says it is the true religion of God when people do proper research on any religion, nothing comes more naturally acceptable to their minds than Islam.
Even today it is only the religion of Islam, where its followers have so much knowledge and dedication and so many worshiping places all around the world.
Plus the concepts of worship in those religions are vague:
Worshiping a tree? Does it make any sense?
Worshiping a Man? Does it make any sense?
Worshiping fire? Does it make any sense?
Worshiping your own hand made idol? Does it make any sense?
Not worshiping or accepting the GOD also does not make sense, because you are not by yourself nor this whole amazing universe.
Worshiping the unseen, who must be unimaginably huge and infinitely powerful than the whole visible universe DOES MAKE SENSE. The one who created this whole amazing universe, which we cannot even comprehend with Stars billions of times larger than our sun (itself 1.3 million times larger than earth) and than the zillions of zillions of zillions of galaxies which also just happen to be under the 1st of the 7 skies, than the Kursi and than the Arsh of Allaah, to which whole creation becomes incomparable, I Ask:
How can we comprehend the Creator of this colossal incomprehensible creation in this tiny puny world??? Can you even stare at the Sun for a mere 1 minute??
So Islam is true not only because it says so, because the GOD (Allaah) fulfills his words in the Holy Quran and this is the only religion you will find which is the most praised and naturally accepted and practiced by a mass majority all around the world.
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@GrandmasterTigerfist
- Muslim population is 1.57 billion people (23% of the world's population - 6.8 billion), 20% of the World's population.
- Only 15% of Muslims are Arab (Middle East)
- 62% of the World Muslim population lives in Asia and 20% in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa)
- 300 million Muslims, live in countries where Islam is not the largest religion: China (more Muslims than in Syria), India (the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide), Russia (more Muslims than in Jordan and Libya).
http://en.reingex.com/Muslim-population-countries.asp
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Also can you provide any proof from Islamic literature which allude to "Arab supremacy"? You keep repeating that claim without substantiated evidence.
Because in contrary Quran seems to say otherwise in certain passages such as:
"The nomadic Arabs ˹around Medina˺ are far worse in disbelief and hypocrisy, and less likely to know the laws revealed by Allah to His Messenger. And Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. - Quran 9:97
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Many Muslims do speak against gulf war crimes in Yemen. And can you stop mentioning them I already stated earlier that I don't agree with their policies either.
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And why would it bother you if Saudi earned money from whatever they do? Are you really concerned that they are allied with Israel?
Similarly Israel are the only nation that earns benefits from Jews due to their beliefs. And churches the same with Christians. So what your point?
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"If you do research you might find many horrible facts"
the contemporary information age, it is especially important to read critically the controversial material that appears on Internet sites attacking and condemning opposed points of view. Since anyone with a few hours to spare can create a website that looks reasonably impressive, it is possible for any extremist or eccentric to present one sided and distorting material in a way that makes it look acceptable.
In the culture of the Internet, religious advocacy websites, as a category, are closer to advertising websites than any other kind. One needs to ask questions about the purposes of such websites and about the identities of their authors in order to distinguish missionaries and partisans from neutral sources of information. In light of the long history of negative portrayals and distortions of Islam by hostile outside critics, it is particularly necessary to question contemporary material that plays into this extraordinarily strong anti-Islamic bias.
Thus we must distinguish between “knowledge” and “information.” Over thirty years ago, futurist scholar John Naisbitt lamented,
“We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.”
This was the state of things before the ascendancy of the internet, smartphones, and social media, so how much more true is his statement today?
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English women did not have full property rights until the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, yet under Islamic law, Muslim women have been guaranteed inheritance and property rights since the seventh century.
English women were still chattels of their husband or father when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu traveled to Constantinople in 1716 with her husband, the British ambassador. She was amazed to meet there Ottoman women of the nobility who owned large estates and managed their own property without male interference. Lady Mary even found the veil to be a liberating device that freed women from the prying eyes of men.
Certainly misogyny and unequal rights for women are features that can be found in abundance in the societies of North Africa, the Near East, and much of Asia, but can we honestly say that America and Europe are free of these problems? It is easy and hypocritical to accuse other societies of abuses andinequities when injustices still exist in every culture.The image of the oppressed Muslim woman can all too often serve as another self righteous reason for Europeans to congratulate themselves on their superiority.
Muslims are considered to have dysfunctional roles for women, yet that emblem of Western technological superiority, the Internet, is saturated with pornographic images, and the sexualization of women is omnipresent in television, newspapers, and advertising. Is the West so confident of its relations between the sexes? Everyone needs to become educated as a media critic nowadays, because the recycling of sensational images is what the communications media love most, especially when conflict is present. Islam is a subject that most Americans and Europeans have experienced only through these negative images and stereotypes. Clearly the time has come to go beyond those images and encounter real human beings.
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Well would you blame Hamas for firing those missiles?
I mean Israel violated international laws and committed every human rights abuses possible. besides that they attacked thier sacred mosque, attacked thier people, stole thier homes, evicted them from their land, imprisoned thier families, murdered their families, took away their rights, and all this in their sacred month of Ramadan.
Any person with even a small amount of dignity would be firing rockets too in this sort of situation.
We've always been told that the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" is a complicated issue but is it? In contrast a simple observation can demonstrate whose has the legitimate right. Israel have been treating Palestinians like what nazis used to treat Jews, What is happening in Palestine is a settlers colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing.
and then Israel pretend to be surprised when Hamas hit back. Obviously Those rockets are a declaration that enough is enough. what else of a crime Israel must commit to Palestinians till the world opens thier eyes?
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet(PBUH), would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches acceptance and tolerance to other religions- it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches us to not compel someone to become a muslim, Islam believes in reason rather than blind belief, we all can live together peacefully.
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Indeed, you have not read the quran, verses like-
- "Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)..." (18:29)
- "To you be your religion and to me,my religion" (109:6)
- "There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion" (2:256)
- "So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning" (88:21)
- "you are not there to control them" (88:22)
- "And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason" (10:99-100)
- "It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance" (28:56)
- "[Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did" (6:108)
- "if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind" (5:32)
- "The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy" (49:10)
- " ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing" (12:76)
- "So obey Allah, and obey His Messenger: but if ye turn back, the duty of Our Messenger is but to proclaim (the Message) clearly and openly" (63:12)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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Incorrect. the Islamic tradition possesses extensive resources that lend themselves to concepts of religious coexistence. The Qur’an (2:256) explicitly states, “There is no compulsion inreligion.”
A well known statement of the Prophet Muhammad illustrates this concept of pluralism and is often understood as authorizing different interpretations of Islamic law: “Difference of opinionis a mercy for my community.” It would be hard to find the equivalent to this recognition of pluralism in any Christian theological doctrine.
With respect to other religions, Islamic thinkers have traditionally accepted the concept of multiple revelations, in the concept of the “peoples of the book.” The Qur’an invokes the authority of the prophets Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and many others, some of whose names are central to the texts of the Bible. Three major earlier scriptures are cited in the Qur’an: the Torah of Moses, the Psalms of David, and the Gospel of Jesus. And there were certainly indications that there may have been many other prophets who brought revelations. The Qur’an depicts this multiplicity as part of the divine plan:
“For everyone we have established a law, and a way. If God had wished, he would have made you a single community, but this was so he might test you regarding what he sent you. So try to be first in doing what is best” (Quran 5:48).
Non-Muslim commentators, who often take modern extremist Muslims to be the only true Muslims, frequently characterize Islam as an intolerant religion. Yet religious pluralism was built into the social structure of most premodern Muslim societies, in so far as they observed the principles established in Islamic law. Indeed, it is surprising that while Christian authorities eradicated paganism in Europe centuries ago, pre-Islamic pagan groups still exist in some Muslim countries.
The Mandaean community, an ancient non-Christian religious group that reveres John the Baptist, is based in Iraq and Iran and has perhaps 45,000 members worldwide. In the upper Himalayan region of Chitral in Pakistan, about 3,000 members of the Kalash trace their descent from the soldiers of Alexander the Great and practice a polytheistic religion. Unlike Christian Europe, Muslim societies had no equivalent of the Inquisition to implement a systematic policy of repression of religious minorities.
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Interestingly, the Islamic tradition possesses extensive resources that lend themselves to concepts of religious pluralism. The Qur’an (2:256) explicitly states, “There is no compulsion inreligion.”
With respect to other religions, Islamic thinkers have traditionally accepted the concept of multiple revelations, in the concept of the “peoples of the book.” The Qur’an invokes the authority of the prophets Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and many others, some of whose names are central to the texts of the Bible. Three major earlier scriptures are cited in the Qur’an: the Torah of Moses, the Psalms of David, and the Gospel of Jesus. And there were certainly indications that there may have been many other prophets who brought revelations. The Qur’an depicts this multiplicity as part of the divine plan:
“To each of you We have ordained a code of law and a way of life. If Allah had willed, He would have made you one community, but His Will is to test you with what He has given ˹each of˺ you. So compete with one another in doing good. To Allah you will all return, then He will inform you ˹of the truth˺ regarding your differences.” (Quran 5:48)
The Qur’an affirms that God has created people to be different, and they will always remain different, not only in their appearance but also in their beliefs (Quran 11:118–19) and it is up to each person whether to become abeliever or not.
"Had your Lord so willed ˹O Prophet˺, all ˹people˺ on earth would have certainly believed, every single one of them! Would you then force people to become believers?" - Quran 10:99
Non-Muslim commentators, who often take modern extremist Muslims to be the only true Muslims, frequently characterize Islam as an intolerant religion. Yet religious pluralism was built into the social structure of most premodern Muslim societies, in so far as they observed the principles established in Islamic law.
Indeed, it is surprising that while Christian authorities eradicated paganism in Europe centuries ago, pre-Islamic pagan groups still exist in some Muslim countries. The Mandaean community, an ancient non-Christian religious group that reveres John the Baptist, is based in Iraq and Iran and has perhaps 45,000 members worldwide.
In the upper Himalayan region of Chitral in Pakistan, about 3,000 members of the Kalash trace their descent from the soldiers of Alexander the Great and practice a polytheistic religion. Unlike Christian Europe, Mus-lim societies had no equivalent of the Inquisition to implement a systematic policy of repression of religious minorities.
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Well would you blame Hamas for firing those missiles?
I mean Israel violated international laws and committed every human rights abuses possible. besides that they attacked thier sacred mosque, attacked thier people, stole thier homes, evicted them from their land, imprisoned thier families, murdered their families, took away their rights, and all this in their sacred month of Ramadan.
Any person with even a small amount of dignity would be firing rockets too in this sort of situation.
We've always been told that the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" is a complicated issue but is it? In contrast a simple observation can demonstrate whose has the legitimate right. Israel have been treating Palestinians like what nazis used to treat Jews, What is happening in Palestine is a settlers colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing.
and then Israel pretend to be surprised when Hamas hit back. Obviously Those rockets are a declaration that enough is enough. what else of a crime Israel must commit to Palestinians till the world opens thier eyes?
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@Amal-ps7gj
I think most religions were initially a truth but during time people distorted the true message for their own whims and desires and later on people invented various ideologies based on their own wishes. But for a believer in God myself i don't think that God will let humans corrupt the truth and spread their lies which he didn't revealed. As a Muslim i believe that God sent another last and final message that describe the truth about him and correct whatever came before it and God took an oath to protect this last message which we call Islam.
The Arabic word ‘Islam’ means ‘submission’, and is derived from a word meaning ‘peace’. As such, the religion of Islam teaches that in order to achieve true peace of mind and surety of heart, one must submit to God and live according to His Divinely revealed Law.
Islam is not a new religion because ‘submission to the will of God’, i.e. Islam, has always been the only acceptable religion in the sight of God. For this reason, Islam is the true religion’, and it is the same eternal message revealed through the ages to all of God’s prophets and messengers. The main message of all the prophets has always been that there is only One True God and He alone is to be worshipped. These prophets start with Adam and include Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, and Jesus, peace be upon them all. God says in the Holy Quran:
"True Religion, in God’s eyes, is islam: [devotion to Him alone].
And:
“We did not send before you (O Muhammad) any messenger but We revealed to him: ‘none has the right to be worshipped except I, therefore worship Me.’” (Quran 21:25)
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@bazuin45
For example In the King James Version Bible, 1 John 5:7 reads:
"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one".
Using the writings of the early Church Fathers, the Greek and Latin manuscripts and the testimony of the first versions of the Bible, have demonstrated that the words "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one", that support the Trinity doctrine, did not appear in the original Greek Scriptures.
It is also worthy to note that the bible is not only corrupted but also lost that's why we don't have the original manuscript and language of the bible.
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@james5637
Don't get me wrong, it's not solely about Britain, I strongly oppose every western colonialism. During this period, from Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt (1798) to the end of World War I and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, the main European powers (plus Russia and China) engaged in a systematic military conquest of Muslim countries.
This process subjected nearly 90 percent of the world's Muslim population to colonial control. The only countries that were not conquered outright were Arabia, Persia, Turkey, and Afghanistan.
These Europeans overthrew native dynasties, dismantled traditional systems of education, enforced centralized authoritarian rule, and trained new localelites in the new languages of power English, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.
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Your thoughts are interesting it is for this precise reason that the beliefs based on polytheism can easily be excluded or falsified. Because if such many deities exist then we should expect the world being in chaos since every god has his own will.
God said in the Quran:
"Had there been other gods besides Allah in the heavens or the earth, both ˹realms˺ would have surely been corrupted. So Glorified is Allah, Lord of the Throne, far above what they claim." (Quran 21:22)
“Allah has never had ˹any˺ offspring, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what he created, and they would have tried to dominate one another. Glorified is Allah above what they claim!” (Qur'an 23:91)
Harmony. There are no conflicts in the laws of mechanics of the universe, as there would have surely been had the universe been put together by multiple creators following multiple visions. And if they all worked in perfect harmony, that would make no sense because one would have to broker agreements between them, or at least the wills of some would have to be subjugated to that of the others, making them non gods. For a god must necessarily be omnipotent, otherwise he would only be a tool in the hands of a greater god. A multi deity model creates more problems than it helps solve.
Therefore the belief based on monotheism is more reasonable since there cannot be more then one absolute being.
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Well would you blame Hamas for firing those missiles?
I mean Israel violated international laws and committed every human rights abuses possible. besides that they attacked thier sacred mosque, attacked thier people, stole thier homes, evicted them from their land, imprisoned thier families, murdered their families, took away their rights, and all this in their sacred month of Ramadan.
Any person with even a small amount of dignity would be firing rockets too in this sort of situation.
We've always been told that the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" is a complicated issue but is it? In contrast a simple observation can demonstrate whose has the legitimate right. Israel have been treating Palestinians like what nazis used to treat Jews, What is happening in Palestine is a settlers colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing.
and then Israel pretend to be surprised when Hamas hit back. Obviously Those rockets are a declaration that enough is enough. what else of a crime Israel must commit to Palestinians till the world opens thier eyes?
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@Fissan_Poulsen
As Muslim, we believe that Allah listens to, and is aware of everything we say and do. So, if you have asked Him for something,then you believe that He heard you. God said in the Quran:
{ Your Lord says, ‘Call on Me and I will answer you; } (40:60)
and in the hadith ( which is the prophetic sayings of prophet Mohammed peace be upon him)
Yahya related to me from Malik that Zayd ibn Aslam used to say, “No-one makes a dua (prayer) without one of three things happening. Either it is answered, or it is stored up for him, or wrong actions are atoned for by it.” (Muwatta Imam Malik)
All these three scenarios are a favor for every person. It means that even if you didn’t get the exact thing that you wanted, you know that you got something good in return. We can’t know whether whatever we prayed for is good for us, so we have to trust that the outcome of our dua is whatever Allah (ta’ala) knows that is best for us.
The Prophet said: “There is nothing more honorable with Allah [Most High] than supplication.” (Tirmidhi)
If you want to know does God exist or what religion is the true religion of God you simply must ask him personally ask him for example if Islam is true then give me a sign or if Christianity is true give me a sign there are many people reverted back to Islam because of this prayer for example watch this man talking about his experience
https://youtu.be/CcxzIE4xxrI
And God bless you
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@Bynasf
God - a necessary being, the uncaused cause, the first mover, who is also eternal, immaterial, spaceless, and powerful. We are all contingent beings [we do not have to necessarily exist], and we owe our existence from our parents, who owed their existence from their parents, and so on. We are all contingent beings and everything had a beginning except one - one necessary being who had no beginning. If God had a beginning or a cause, who or what can that be? If everything is contingent, then we enter into an infinite regress; we will ask infinitely, “who created who?” There has to be one being who was there forever and necessarily exists. It is like pieces of dominoes - if all that happened in the past are like dominoes falling one piece after the other, there must the first one being who necessarily existed who pushed the first piece of dominoes into action. That first being was not created; it necessarily exists. So God had no beginning.
We exist, right? Either we came from 'something' or we came from nothing. We exist because of 'something', or we came from nothingness. But we know, nothing produces nothing. Therefore we must have come from 'something'. Now that 'something' is either eternal or temporal, but all temporal things have a beginning. So this 'something' must be eternal - having no beginning or end.
"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed"
Note: The concept that an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event; also written cause-effect, cause/effect.
'God' is 'something' uncaused, cause of everything. If you ask "Who created the energy?", it's downright ridiculous!
If you ask "Who created the creator?" - you end up with infinite regress, and therefore nothing would ever have been created.
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@Bynasf
your actually scientifically wrong the universe had a beginning today the scientists estimated the age of universe as 13 billion years From a scientific point of view, the self-origination of matter is impossible; the theory that the material world is constantly evolving and advancing toward higher states is clearly contradictory to scientific data and the realities of nature. All development and motion in the mineral realm is due either to the intervention of a will external to matter or to attraction, interchange, and compounding with other bodies.
When we speak of the first cause and simultaneously assert that God is free of all need for a cause, we do not mean that He generally shares with created beings the need for a cause but was once, as it were, granted an exemption from the law of causality. God is not an effect in order that He might need a cause; He is not a phenomenon in order that He might need a creator. On the contrary, all manifestations and phenomena of being derive from Him, the eternal source of being. The law of causality applies uniquely to the sphere of those things whose non-existence preceded their existence.
If a being, by virtue of the perfection and freedom from need of its essence, stands in no need of a cause, it follows that no cause has fixed it at a given degree of being and that no cause can intervene in it. The chain of causality cannot be extended indefinitely backwards, and an absence of connection is inherent in the very concept of the first cause. The question, "Whence did the first cause arise?" does not, therefore, arise; questions such as this apply only to the origins of phenomena and their dependency.
Also your argument carries you to the illogical fallacy (wrong assumption) of infinite regression.
The last one who began the creation, is God.
If you found a dollar bill in the street, do you think it happened to be there in pure coincidence? No one made it, carry it or drop it? It is impossible to think it infinitely resided there.
Besides, immagine you needed a dollar, and you asked someone and he did not have; he then asked another man for a dollar. He in turn deny having it……….then rolling millions, billions, and zillions asked, until ultimately you had one. That one is the cause of having it.That defies logic and common sense.
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@Bynasf
You need to realize that the universe is scientifically proven to have a beginning infact everything that has a cause have a beginning everything that's starts in time have a beginning
But God on the other hand is the one who created the universe, so we will assume that the time is created by god same like other dimensions. So for god there is no "before" or "after".
the time is passing only on the creatures who live in the 4th dimensions or less.
but for anyone who lives above the 4th dimensions he can see the time as we see a picture on the wall. He can see the after and before as same as right and left.
And this what the god said about himself " he is the first and the last, the ascendant and the intimate, and he is, of all things knowing"
You need to distinguish between a thing and it's maker. The characteristics are different and not necessarily the same. You can't see a wooden door then say "from which wood type the carpenter was made from and from which wood type the wood that made the carpenter!?". the wooden door is made from wood but the carpenter isn't related to the same characteristics.
Same goes to the Creator and His creations. Creator has no beginning or cause but the creation has a beginning therefore have a cause and eventually a Creator.
Similar to my above argument, we also find that in this world, nothing happens without a cause. Every effect has its cause, and every cause also has a cause that preceded it. This logically necessitates that the chain of causes and effects can be traced back to an original, first cause. Unless there is a first cause to set all other causes and effects in motion, no causes and effects could exist. What could this first cause of all causes then be? You guessed it. God. God is the first cause of all causes and He sets all other causes and effects into motion. Now, a disbeliever may object and say, “well, who created God then?” Well, God is by nature the cause of all causes. If someone created God, then that thing that created God would have to be God. God by nature, requires no cause outside of Himself to exist. Our logic also only applies in the realm of matter. It is logically possible to say that there has to be a first cause in this world because we’re still talking about the realm of matter. Because God is all-powerful, He can create the first material cause. However, because God is Himself spiritual and outside the realm of matter, we can not apply the condition that He Himself must have a cause onto Him.
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Indeed, you have not read the quran, verses like-
- "Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)..." (18:29)
- "To you be your religion and to me,my religion" (109:6)
- "There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion" (2:256)
- "So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning" (88:21)
- "you are not there to control them" (88:22)
- "And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason" (10:99-100)
- "It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance" (28:56)
- "[Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did" (6:108)
- "if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind" (5:32)
- "The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy" (49:10)
- " ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing" (12:76)
- "So obey Allah, and obey His Messenger: but if ye turn back, the duty of Our Messenger is but to proclaim (the Message) clearly and openly" (63:12)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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Islam is the most logical religion for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that all the philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments that many theists use to prove God, can only prove the monotheistic God that is preached by Islam. These arguments are more inline with the Islamic definition of God than any other definition.
The Islamic God, which we refer to in Arabic as “Allah”, the root word being “Ilaha” in Aramaic and Hebrew. This unique name of Allah basically refers to a deity that exists, eternal, knowledgeable, one, unique that no creation or vision can grasp. Nothing can encompass it, but it encompasses everything, not bound by any time and space, and the creator of everything.
Keeping in mind this, Islam is the single strongest monotheistic religion. This is not the “God of Islam” necessarily as many like to argue. This is unlike the version of God as preached by Christianity, Hinduism, or any other ism you can think of.
This message was preached by all Prophets, the last Prophet being Muhammad s.a.w. We know 25 Prophets by name, others we do not. But we believe there were many Prophets who came with the same messages with differing covenants. Hence why as a Muslim, you are technically a better follower of Jesus, Moses, Abraham (since Jesus preached to worship one God alone, refer to the first commandment). We affirm all the Prophets and all the books. So if we argue in terms of probability, that what if Christianity (or Judaism, etc) turns out to be true after we die, we as Muslims will affirm the teachings of Jesus based on what was ACTUALLY revealed to him and not what was indoctrinated 150 years after him or more by the likes of Paul, Mark, etc.
It is simply your safest bet.
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@lumarrburwell5989
Your the one who should convert. Islam is the most logical religion for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that all the philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments that many theists use to prove God, can only prove the monotheistic God that is preached by Islam. These arguments are more inline with the Islamic definition of God than any other definition.
The Islamic God, which we refer to in Arabic as “Allah”, the root word being “Ilaha” in Aramaic and Hebrew. This unique name of Allah basically refers to a deity that exists, eternal, knowledgeable, one, unique that no creation or vision can grasp. Nothing can encompass it, but it encompasses everything, not bound by any time and space, and the creator of everything.
Keeping in mind this, Islam is the single strongest monotheistic religion. This is not the “God of Islam” necessarily as many like to argue. This is unlike the version of God as preached by Christianity, Hinduism, or any other ism you can think of.
This message was preached by all Prophets, the last Prophet being Muhammad s.a.w. We know 25 Prophets by name, others we do not. But we believe there were many Prophets who came with the same messages with differing covenants.
Therefore we Muslims call you towards ISLAM
It is simply your safest bet.
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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English women did not have full property rights until the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, yet under Islamic law, Muslim women have been guaranteed inheritance and property rights since the seventh century.
English women were still chattels of their husband or father when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu traveled to Constantinople in 1716 with her husband, the British ambassador. She was amazed to meet there Ottoman women of the nobility who owned large estates and managed their own property without male interference. Lady Mary even found the veil to be a liberating device that freed women from the prying eyes of men.
Certainly misogyny and unequal rights for women are features that can be found in abundance in the societies of North Africa, the Near East, and much of Asia, but can we honestly say that America and Europe are free of these problems? It is easy and hypocritical to accuse other societies of abuses andinequities when injustices still exist in every culture.The image of the oppressed Muslim woman can all too often serve as another self righteous reason for Europeans to congratulate themselves on their superiority.
Muslims are considered to have dysfunctional roles for women, yet that emblem of Western technological superiority, the Internet, is saturated with pornographic images, and the sexualization of women is omnipresent in television, newspapers, and advertising. Is the West so confident of its relations between the sexes? Everyone needs to become educated as a media critic nowadays, because the recycling of sensational images is what the communications media love most, especially when conflict is present. Islam is a subject that most Americans and Europeans have experienced only through these negative images and stereotypes. Clearly the time has come to go beyond those images and encounter real human beings.
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance to other religions- it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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@sudeepjoseph69
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
The verse 9:29 is a command to fight the Byzantine Romans and other hostile powers who were planning an invasion against the Muslims in Arabia. In context, it is a distinct response to aggression, in particular the assassination of one of the Prophet’s ambassadors.
Allah said:
Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not acknowledge the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture, until they give the tribute willingly while they are humbled.
Surah At-Tawba 9:29
On the surface, this appears to be an open-ended command to fight non-Muslims until they are conquered. However, a fundamental principle of Quranic exegesis (tafseer) is that the verses must be understood in the context in which they were revealed (asbab an-nuzul) and in conjunction with other verses delineating the rules of warfare.
At-Tabari and other commentators record that this verse was revealed concerning the expedition of Tabuk.
At-Tabari records:
Mujahid reported concerning the verse, “Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day…” that it was revealed when Muhammad and his companions were commanded with the expedition of Tabuk.
Source: Tafseer At-Tabari 9:29
The expedition of Tabuk was preceded by the battle of Mu’tah which began when the emissary of the Prophet was assassinated while delivering a letter to a Roman ally.
Ibn Al-Qayyim writes:
The cause of the battle was that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent Harith ibn Umair Al-Azdi of the tribe of Lihb with his letter to Syria for the Roman king or Busra. He presented it to Sharhabeel ibn Amr Al-Ghassani and he bound him and struck his neck. Never had an ambassador of the Messenger of Allah been killed besides him. The Prophet was upset by that when news reached him and he dispatched an expedition.
Source: Zaad Al-Ma’ad 336
Safiur Rahman writes:
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had sent Al-Harith ibn Umair Al-Azdi on an errand to carry a letter to the ruler of Busra. On his way, he was intercepted by Sharhabeel ibn Amr Al-Ghassani, the governor of Al-Balqa and a close ally to Caesar, the Byzantine Emperor. Al-Harith was tied and beheaded by Al-Ghassani.
Source: The Sealed Nectar p. 245
This was the first act of Roman aggression that further led to the expedition of Tabuk concerning which the verse 9:29 was revealed. The verse describes the aggressors as those “who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day,” because they committed this act of treachery. Executing emissaries from other countries is a war crime that could never be committed by those who sincerely believe in God.
Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
There is no faith for one who cannot be trusted. There is no religion for one who cannot uphold a covenant.
Source: Musnad Ahmad 11975, Grade: Hasan
Safiur Rahman further describes the reason the conflict took place:
Safiur Rahman further describes the reason the conflict took place:
The Byzantine power, which was considered the greatest military force on earth at that time, showed an unjustifiable opposition towards Muslims. As we have already mentioned, their opposition started at killing the ambassador of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, Al-Harith ibn Umair Al-Azdi, by Sharhabeel ibn Amr Al-Ghassani. The ambassador was then carrying a message from the Prophet to the ruler of Busra. We have also stated that the Prophet consequently dispatched a brigade under the command of Zaid bin Haritha, who had a fierce fight against the Byzantines at Mu’tah. Although Muslim forces could not have revenge on those haughty overproud tyrants, the confrontation itself had a great impression on the Arabs all over Arabia.
Caesar, who could neither ignore the great benefit that the battle of Mu’tah had brought to Muslims, nor could he disregard the Arab tribes’ expectations of independence and their hopes of getting free from his influence and reign, nor he could ignore their alliance to the Muslims. Realizing all that, Caesar was aware of the progressive danger threatening his borders, especially the fronts of Syria which were neighboring Arab lands. So he concluded that demolition of the Muslims’ power had grown an urgent necessity. This decision of his should, in his opinion, be achieved before the Muslims become too powerful to conquer and raise troubles and unrest in the adjacent Arab territories.
To meet these exigencies, Caesar mustered a huge army of the Byzantines and pro-Roman Ghassanite tribes to launch a decisive bloody battle against the Muslims.
Source: The Sealed Nectar p. 272
Therefore, this context must be understood when reading verse 9:29 so that we clearly know whoshould be fought, specifically the aggressors among the Jews and Christians and not all of them. Rather, many other verses of the Quran make clear that it is unlawful to initiate hostilities against other nations.
Allah said:
Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Verily, Allah does not love transgressors.
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@sudeepjoseph69
By contrast, this is what the bible says about unbelievers:
“Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be killed. (Exodus 22:19)
“Everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13)“
“If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or your intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12)
Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshipping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5
“Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, “Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. “Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!” So they went throughout the city and did as they were told.” (Ezekiel 9:5-7)
Now that is specific.
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@boog_01
The nature of God is undoubtedly the most fundamental aspect of a religion. Scripture should provide a clear picture of who our Creator is, otherwise how can we be expected to properly worship that which we don’t understand?
If God wanted humanity to believe in His Triune nature, then why isn’t it clearly and explicitly defined anywhere in Scripture? There is no statement to be found anywhere in the Bible where God is described as being three co-equal persons, Father Son and Holy Ghost. This is in spite of the fact that there were numerous opportunities that were presented to Jesus where he could have spelled this out in detail:
"One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
“Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbour as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” [Mark 12:29-33]
It’s important to note that the Jewish understanding of the commandments rejects all notions of God being a Trinity. So in the passages above, by simply repeating the commandment about God being One, Jesus is re-affirming the Jewish understanding of God’s nature and therefore rejecting the Trinitarian understanding. This was the perfect opportunity for Jesus to correct the Jew’s misconceptions about God and give him the Trinitarian understanding of God being three co-equal persons, Father Son and Holy Ghost. As we have seen the exact opposite is the case, his answers provides ammunition to use against the Trinity.
Because there is a lack of a clear, explicit statement in support of the Trinity, what we find is that in order to support the doctrine of the Trinity using the Bible, Trinitarians have to cobble together bits and pieces of unrelated scripture in order to try and form a picture of a Triune God. Is the Bible a book of guidance or a Da Vinci code?
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“When your lord brought out their offspring from the children of Adam, from their backs, and made them testify to themselves: ‘Am I not your lord?’ They said,‘Yes, we have borne witness.’ (Qur’an 7:172):
It was in this pre-worldly life that the destinies of all humanity were sealed, and the standard commentators view this as a statement of divine predestination. Those who answered “yes” would be the obedient servants of God, and those who did not reply would be rebels. This primordial scene becomes the charter both for ethics, as an acknowledgment of divine authority, and for spirituality, as a testimony to the intimate relationship between God and humanity.
predestination is that we make our own choices. Yes, God has given us the freedom to make decisions which is a great courtesy from Him. We have the right to choose our own paths by accepting what we want and rejecting what we don’t want. God has bestowed every individual with many gifts and talents, and it is up to us how we make use of it. Whether we will be grateful towards our Lord or unappreciative, it is totally up to us.
Definitely God knows what will happen to everyone. He knows which of us will choose guidance and which of us will go astray. However, this does not mean that we live our life with our eyes shut. God has sent His Messengers, His Books, and His guidance for a purpose. This purpose should give us a strong reason in life, which is to submit, obey and worship the One and Only God. It's about time to accept it.
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@aria7083 The creation of the universe is explained by astrophysicists in a widely
accepted phenomenon, popularly known as the ‘Big Bang’. It is supported by
observational and experimental data gathered by astronomers and
astrophysicists for decades. According to the ‘Big Bang’, the whole universe
was initially one big mass (Primary Nebula). Then there was a ‘Big Bang’
(Secondary Separation) which resulted in the formation of Galaxies. These
then divided to form stars, planets, the sun, the moon, etc. The origin of the
universe was unique and the probability of it occurring by ‘chance’ is zero.
The Qur’aan contains the following verse, regarding the origin of the
universe: “Do not the Unbelievers see That the heavens and the earth
Were joined together (as one Unit of Creation), before We clove them
asunder?” [Al-Qur’aan 21:30]
The striking congruence between the Qur’aanic verse and the ‘Big Bang’ is
inescapable! How could a book, which first appeared in the deserts of Arabia
1400 years ago, contain this profound scientific truth?
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@almightybunny3320
Imagine you entered an amazing palace. As you walk through the hallway, you are struck by the size of the building and decide to explore by opening the nearest door. As you enter the room, you see hundreds of chairs and tables arranged like a classroom. Suddenly you lose any motivation to explore the other rooms. You decide to leave the palace and head off to meet your friend at a local coffee shop. As you drink coffee with your friend he asks you, “So what did you see in the palace?” You reply, “Just a room full of tables and chairs arranged like a classroom”. Your friend then asks, “Why didn’t you see the other rooms?” You reply by saying, “There’s no point, there was nothing to see. If this room was full of chairs and tables, then the other rooms will have nothing in them.”
Is this reply rational? Does it logically follow that just because there is something in one room, there will be nothing in the other rooms? Of course it does not. Atheists who claim that science has disproved God follow a similar logic.
Science focuses its attention on only what observations can solve. However, God, by definition, is a Being who is outside the physical realm. Therefore, any direct observation of Him is impossible.
The fact that science does not lead to atheism is attested by the majority of the philosophers of science. For example, Hugh Gauch rightly concludes that to
“insist that… science supports atheism is to get high marks for enthusiasm but low marks for logic.”
Gauch makes perfect sense because the method of thinking that relies on observation cannot deny what cannot be observed. What science can do, however, is stay silent on that matter or provide evidence that philosophers can use to formulate a philosophical argument that God exists. Notwithstanding, there are arguments that use scientific evidence that conclude God’s existence is unlikely. These are known as evidential arguments; they are philosophical in nature and not physically scientific conclusions.
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@almightybunny3320
There are other alternatives. Your assuming that Science is the only way to establish the truth about reality, and it can answer all questions. The assertion, known as scientism, claims that a statement is not true if it cannot be scientifically proven. atheists In general, constantly presume this assertion.
However science is not the only way to acquire truth about the world. The limitations of the scientific method demonstrate that science cannot answer all questions. Some of its main limitations include that it:
• is limited to observation
• is morally neutral
• cannot delve into the personal
• cannot answer why things happen
• cannot address some metaphysical questions
• cannot prove necessary truths
Also it is worth to note that scientism is self-defeating. Scientism claims that a proposition is not true if it cannot be scientifically proven. Yet the this statement itself cannot be scientifically proven. It is like saying, “There are no sentences in the English language longer than three words”, which is self-defeating because that sentence is longer than three words.
There are other evidential arguments. philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments
There is a whole host of evidence that supports the existence of God. While it’s difficult to prove or disprove the existence of God through material means, one can at least show that the possibility of God’s existence is highly probable. When the facts are laid out in front of someone, they can make the decision for themselves whether or not they think God exists. However, when you look at everything, the possibility of God existing makes far, far, more sense then the possibility that He doesn’t exist.
logical train of thought, sometimes referred to as the cosmological argument, which determines that God, as the uncaused cause or first cause, is the most reasonable answer to the existential question.
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@almightybunny3320
If science is the only method to explain reality, then can it explain consciousness?
the existence of consciousness can only be explained by a non-materialist worldview. Other explanations fail from the onset—for instance, a cold, materialistic view on the universe offers no hope for a solution to the problem. Imagine in the beginning of the universe all you had were simple arrangements of matter, and after a long period of time, they rearranged themselves into human beings to form consciousness. This sounds like magic, because matter is cold, blind and non-conscious, so how can it be responsible for such a phenomenon? It cannot.
For example, I cannot give you £10 if I do not have it. Likewise, matter cannot give rise to consciousness if it does not contain it or have the potential to give rise to it.
As I said earlier science cannot explain the metaphysical. Science can address some metaphysical questions. However, these are the questions that can be empirically addressed. For example, science has been able to address the beginning of the universe via its field known as cosmology. Nevertheless, some valid questions cannot be answered scientifically. These include:
Why do conclusions in deductive reasoning necessarily follow from the previous premises? Is there an afterlife? Do souls exist? What is it like for a conscious organism to experience a subjective conscious experience? Why is there something rather than nothing?
The reason that science cannot address these questions is because they refer to things that go beyond the physical, observable world.
If matter and consciousness are distinct, it follows that consciousness could not have emerged from matter. However, if matter contains conscious properties, then how did these properties arise? We need to ask this ontological question because consciousness is very different from material stuff. In order to explain the fact that subjective conscious experiences exist, God must have created consciousness. It is far more coherent to postulate an All-Aware conscious agent to explain consciousness. From this point of view, theism offers a far richer explanation.
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English women did not have full property rights until the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, yet under Islamic law, Muslim women have been guaranteed inheritance and property rights since the seventh century.
English women were still chattels of their husband or father when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu traveled to Constantinople in 1716 with her husband, the British ambassador. She was amazed to meet there Ottoman women of the nobility who owned large estates and managed their own property without male interference. Lady Mary even found the veil to be a liberating device that freed women from the prying eyes of men.
Certainly misogyny and unequal rights for women are features that can be found in abundance in the societies of North Africa, the Near East, and much of Asia, but can we honestly say that America and Europe are free of these problems? It is easy and hypocritical to accuse other societies of abuses andinequities when injustices still exist in every culture.The image of the oppressed Muslim woman can all too often serve as another self righteous reason for Europeans to congratulate themselves on their superiority.
Muslims are considered to have dysfunctional roles for women, yet that emblem of Western technological superiority, the Internet, is saturated with pornographic images, and the sexualization of women is omnipresent in television, newspapers, and advertising. Is the West so confident of its relations between the sexes? Everyone needs to become educated as a media critic nowadays, because the recycling of sensational images is what the communications media love most, especially when conflict is present. Islam is a subject that most Americans and Europeans have experienced only through these negative images and stereotypes. Clearly the time has come to go beyond those images and encounter real human beings.
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People of the Book, do not go to excess in your religion, and do not say anything about God except the truth: the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was nothing more than a messenger of God, His word, directed to Mary, a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not speak of a ‘Trinity’- stop [this], that is better for you- God is only one God, He is far above having a son, everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him and He is the best one to trust.(Quran 4:171)
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“And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.” (Al Quran 9:5)
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! OK, so here is what I need to inform you about this verse. First, to understand a Quranic verse, you need also to be acquainted with the history of the time when Islam came. This verse was revealed unto Prophet PBUH while the Islamic followers were engaged in the Battle of Tabuk. The battle was fought as a retaliation against the buildup attack on the city of Madinah by Byzantine Empire in the year 629.
It was also one of the first successful expansions of Islam in what is supposed to become a series of capturing major Arabian cities. Now, coming to the central aspect of the verse. The verse orders Muslims to fight those idolaters (and also those hypocrites who are the enemy within) when the sacred month is passed because fighting in a holy month is not allowed.
The Byzentiniam force consists of many Arabian allies in those regions that were pagan or either some people of the book as well (Christian, Jews) who are fighting alongside the forces of King Heraclius of Rome to demolish growing Muslim influence in Arabia. So, God ordered Muslims to fight those people so that Muslims may not be outdone and be killed or their tribe eliminated along with the prophet. The fight was a defensive one.
Now, in the last focus of this ayah, God also orders Muslims that if among the enemy, anyone who repents and eliminate the intention to assault Muslims, and better if they pray and give zakah (charity to poor), then the Muslims are not allowed to have any evil intentions against them as well and or find means to fight them at all. God is without a doubt merciful and loves forgiveness.
You can read more on this Battle and the time of the revelation on these links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tabouk
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Amidst the fiercest persecution and abuse that the Muslims faced in the earliest Meccan period, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ would stand without wavering and convey to his followers God’s promise of Islam spreading all over the world. Tamīm ad-Dāri (rA) reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,:
“This matter will certainly reach every place touched by the night and day. Allah will not leave a house of mud or [even] fur except that Allah will cause this religion to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced. Allah will honor the honorable with Islam and he will disgrace the disgraceful with unbelief.”[3]
In another narration, reported by Thawbān:
(rA), “Indeed, Allah gathered up the earth for me so that I saw its east and its west; and indeed the dominion of my nation will reach what was gathered up for me from it.”
The fact that these predictions were made at a time when Muslims were a powerless handful, and Islam was expected to be buried in its cradle, is nothing short of miraculous. At that point, presuming that the faith would even survive would be considered by most nothing short of a pipe-dream. But to predict that Islam would not just survive, but grow to thrive globally, was at that point inconceivable. For us nowadays, witnessing a quarter of this planet’s population Muslims that's makes it clear that this was no presumption, but instead another prophecy inspired by the Divine.
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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@mariangelabaker3718
“O Humankind, verily We created you from male and female and made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another. Verily, the noblest amongst you in the sight of God is the most pious. Indeed, God is All-Knowing, All-Aware” (Qur’an 49:13).
The Qur’an is rather explicit that God does not discriminate between genders:
“I will not lose sight of any who labors in My Way, whether male or female, you are of one another” (Qur’an 3:195).
As explained by the classical exegetes, the phrase “you are of one another” indicates that men and women have an equal rank before God and receive the same reward for their deeds. The Prophet Muhammad stated, “God does not look at your external appearances or your physical bodies, but rather He looks at the condition of your hearts and your deeds.”
Moreover, the Prophet Muhammad’s statement, “Women are the equal partners of men.”
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The Qur’an and hadith has been subject to many distortions by critics and orientalist and even by some Muslim writers. These are due either to misconceptions about certain terminologies or above all using Quranic quotations taken out of context.
However those critics often ignore the clear Quranic teachings such as:
- "Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)..." (18:29)
- "To you be your religion and to me,my religion" (109:6)
- "There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion" (2:256)
- "So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning" (88:21)
- "you are not there to control them" (88:22)
- "And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason" (10:99-100)
- "It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance" (28:56)
- "[Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did" (6:108)
- "if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind" (5:32)
- "The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy" (49:10)
- " ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing" (12:76)
- "So obey Allah, and obey His Messenger: but if ye turn back, the duty of Our Messenger is but to proclaim (the Message) clearly and openly" (63:12)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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English women did not have full property rights until the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, yet under Islamic law, Muslim women have been guaranteed inheritance and property rights since the seventh century.
English women were still chattels of their husband or father when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu traveled to Constantinople in 1716 with her husband, the British ambassador. She was amazed to meet there Ottoman women of the nobility who owned large estates and managed their own property without male interference. Lady Mary even found the veil to be a liberating device that freed women from the prying eyes of men.
Certainly misogyny and unequal rights for women are features that can be found in abundance in the societies of North Africa, the Near East, and much of Asia, but can we honestly say that America and Europe are free of these problems? It is easy and hypocritical to accuse other societies of abuses andinequities when injustices still exist in every culture.The image of the oppressed Muslim woman can all too often serve as another self righteous reason for Europeans to congratulate themselves on their superiority.
Muslims are considered to have dysfunctional roles for women, yet that emblem of Western technological superiority, the Internet, is saturated with pornographic images, and the sexualization of women is omnipresent in television, newspapers, and advertising. Is the West so confident of its relations between the sexes? Everyone needs to become educated as a media critic nowadays, because the recycling of sensational images is what the communications media love most, especially when conflict is present. Islam is a subject that most Americans and Europeans have experienced only through these negative images and stereotypes. Clearly the time has come to go beyond those images and encounter real human beings.
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English women did not have full property rights until the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, yet under Islamic law, Muslim women have been guaranteed inheritance and property rights since the seventh century.
English women were still chattels of their husband or father when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu traveled to Constantinople in 1716 with her husband, the British ambassador. She was amazed to meet there Ottoman women of the nobility who owned large estates and managed their own property without male interference. Lady Mary even found the veil to be a liberating device that freed women from the prying eyes of men.
Certainly misogyny and unequal rights for women are features that can be found in abundance in the societies of North Africa, the Near East, and much of Asia, but can we honestly say that America and Europe are free of these problems? It is easy and hypocritical to accuse other societies of abuses andinequities when injustices still exist in every culture.The image of the oppressed Muslim woman can all too often serve as another self righteous reason for Europeans to congratulate themselves on their superiority.
Muslims are considered to have dysfunctional roles for women, yet that emblem of Western technological superiority, the Internet, is saturated with pornographic images, and the sexualization of women is omnipresent in television, newspapers, and advertising. Is the West so confident of its relations between the sexes? Everyone needs to become educated as a media critic nowadays, because the recycling of sensational images is what the communications media love most, especially when conflict is present. Islam is a subject that most Americans and Europeans have experienced only through these negative images and stereotypes. Clearly the time has come to go beyond those images and encounter real human beings.
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@イエスは神ではありません
Those who claim that Allah is a pagan deity, most notably the moon god, often base their claims on the fact that a symbol of the crescent moon adorns the tops of many mosques and is widely used as a symbol of Islam. It is in fact true that before the coming of Islam many "gods" and idols were worshipped in the Middle East, but the name of the moon god was Sîn, not Allah, and he was not particularly popular in Arabia, the birth place of Islam. The most prominent idol in Mecca was a god called Hubal, and there is no proof that he was a moon god. It is sometimes claimed that there is a temple to the moon god at Hazor in Palestine. This is based on a representation there of a supplicant wearing a crescent-like pendant. It is not clear, however, that the pendant symbolizes a moon god, and in any case this is not an Arab religious site but an ancient Canaanite site, which was destroyed by Joshua in about 1250 BC. ... If the ancient Arabs worshipped hundreds of idols, then no doubt the moon god Sîn was included, for even the Hebrews were prone to worship the sun and the moon and the stars, but there is no clear evidence that moon-worship was prominent among the Arabs in any way or that the crescent was used as the symbol of a moon god, and Allah was certainly not the moon god's name.
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People of the Book, do not go to excess in your religion, and do not say anything about God except the truth: the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was nothing more than a messenger of God, His word, directed to Mary, a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not speak of a ‘Trinity’- stop [this], that is better for you- God is only one God, He is far above having a son, everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him and He is the best one to trust.(Quran 3:171)
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@lavion219
Well The fact that i breathe is enough evidence for me but if you're sincerely seeking to know whither God exists or not then i will try to to give you a compelling reason or in otherwords "evidence" that supports his presence.
First and foremost we find that in this world, nothing happens without a cause. Every effect has its cause, and every cause also has a cause that preceded it. This logically necessitates that the chain of causes and effects can be traced back to an original, first cause. Unless there is a first cause to set all other causes and effects in motion, no causes and effects could exist. What could this first cause of all causes then be? You guessed it. God. God is the first cause of all causes and He sets all other causes and effects into motion. Now, a disbeliever may object and say, “well, who created God then?” Well, God is by nature the cause of all causes. If someone created God, then that thing that created God would have to be God. God by nature, requires no cause outside of Himself to exist. Our logic also only applies in the realm of matter. It is logically possible to say that there has to be a first cause in this world because we’re still talking about the realm of matter. Because God is all-powerful, He can create the first material cause. However, because God is Himself spiritual and outside the realm of matter, we can not apply the condition that He Himself must have a cause onto Him.
In conclusion the evidence of God is as clear as our surroundings since everything has an origin which is traced back to the first cause.
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Because Islam is the first and only religion from God.
The word “Islam” is the verbal noun of the verb aslama. This verb is defined as, “He resigned or submitted himself.” When used with respect to God, it means, “He became submissive to God.”Thus, Islam is about an individual recognizing who his Lord is and recognizing that his attitude toward his Lord and Creator should be one of submission and worship.
In other words, Islam is not simply about the recognition of the Oneness of God or the fact that the Creator exists, for example. Islam is about something much greater than that.
Islam denotes self-surrender or to give oneself up to someone and accept his overlordship in the fullest sense of the term. The religion sent down by God and brought into the world by His Apostles has been called Islam for the simple reason that, in it, the bondsman yields completely to the power and control of the Lord and makes the rendering of whole-hearted obedience to Him the cardinal principle of his life. This is the sum and substance of the Islamic creed.
Perhaps it should be noted that the word “Islam” does not mean “peace.” It is true that the Arabic word for “peace” (salaam) comes from the same root as the word Islam. It is also very true that true peace—both internally and externally—can only be the result of the correct implementation of Islam.
At the same time, though, it should be very clear in the minds of every Muslim that his religion being Islam represents his commitment and devotion to worshipping and submitting to Allah alone. This should become the essence of what the individual Muslim is all about.
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@abhisheksrivastava4236
You spoke about evidences and credibility so i will assume that you apply the same to your argument.
To do that I would like to see you bringing evidence from the Quran itself that Islam is a religion which began in the 7th century CE or before 1400 years can you?
I doubt you can because the Quran is in contrary to your claim because Quran mentioned many times that people whoever submit to him is a Muslim including the past civilisations.
Quran says:
Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed to us and that which was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we have surrendered. [Arabic "Muslimoon"] (Quraan 2:136)
The word “Islam” is the verbal noun of the verb aslama. This verb is defined as, “He resigned or submitted himself.” When used with respect to God, it means, “He became submissive to God.”Thus, Islam is about an individual recognizing who his Lord is and recognizing that his attitude toward his Lord and Creator should be one of submission and worship.
Also Islam is a universal religion in that its Prophet was sent to all peoples of the world, regardless of their race, colour, culture, traditions and geographical location, as the Qur’an states, “We have only sent you (O Muhammad) as a mercy to all the worlds.” (Soorat Al-Anbiyaa’, 21:107)
God was not only present before 1400 years but he was existed since time immemorial therefore his religion was preached not only by Muhammad peace be upon him but by his previous prophets and messengers.
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Islam – which seems to be the only religion that is not named after a race of people, like Judaism and Hinduism, or after any single person like Buddhism or Christianity. ‘Islam’, the name given to the religion in the Qur’an is by God Himself, God, in Islam, is not the Lord of the Arabs or the Muslims but the Lord of all human beings and all the worlds, who states in the Qur’an, ‘We have honoured the Children of Adam’ (17:70) – all the Children of Adam are ‘chosen’ by God to be honoured.
The Arabic word ‘Islam’ means ‘submission’, and is derived from a word meaning ‘peace’. As such, the religion of Islam teaches that in order to achieve true peace of mind and surety of heart, one must submit to God and live according to His Divinely revealed Law.
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@ahmedbassam1668
Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
18:29- So whoever wills- let him believe; and whoever wills- let him disbelieve.
109:6- To you be your religion and to me,my religion.
2:256- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion.
10:99-100- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet(PBUH), would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason.
28:56- Indeed, O Prophet(PBUH), you do not guide whom you like, but GOD guides whom he wills.
6:108- And do not insult and mock those (other gods) they(non-muslims) invoke other than [your-muslim] GOD.
5:32- Whoever kills a innocent man unjustly- it is as if he had slain the whole mankind. And whoever saves one- it is as if he had saved the whole mankind(life is holy/sacred).
49:10- Humanity is a single brotherhood(equal) so make peace with your brothers!
12:76- Thus did I (GOD) planned for Joseph(PBUH), he could not have taken his brother within Islam(religion of the King) except by GOD's will. I(GOD) raise in degrees whom I(GOD) will
Islam teaches pluralism and acceptance and tolerance to other religions- it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches us to not compel someone to become a muslim, forceful conversions are a NO-NO!, Islam believes in reason and logic rather than blind belief, it us teaches all the humankind is a single community(brotherhood), we all can live together peacefully and with love
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance to other religions- it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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Where does the Bible mention Prophet Saleh?
- Where does the Bible mention Prophet Huud?
- Where does the Bible mention Prophet Shu'ayb?
- Where does the Bible refer to Al-Khidr?
- Where does the Bible mention Luqmaan?
- Why doesn't the Bible mention the story of the Cow that happened between Moses and the Jews?
- Where do you find in the Quran any reference to Hosea, Malachi, Micha, Jude, Nahum, Nehemiah, Obadaiah, Esther, Joel, Ruth, etc.?
- Why doesn't the Bible mention the story of Thul-Qarnayn?
- Why doesn't the Bible mention the story of the People of the Cave?
- Why doesn't the Bible mention the story of Antioch in Surat Yasin?
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People of the Book, do not go to excess in your religion, and do not say anything about God except the truth: the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was nothing more than a messenger of God, His word, directed to Mary, a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not speak of a ‘Trinity’- stop [this], that is better for you- God is only one God, He is far above having a son, everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him and He is the best one to trust.
(Quran 4:171)
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@eternallove6847
Thanks for not dealing with the point. Your deviating from the topic because you got embarrassed to addresse the biblical verse above.
Non-Muslim, who often take modern extremist Muslims to be the only true Muslims, frequently characterize Islam as an intolerant religion. Yet religious pluralism was built into the social structure of most premodern Muslim societies, in so far as they observed the principles established in Islamic law.
You keep barking that Islam was spread by the sword, yet Quran never mentioned that word while the bible had hundreds of sword passages. No wonder that the crusades got so barbaric.
The Dark Ages were the dark ages of Europe, In fact. at the time when Europeans were preoccupied with burning witches and disembowelling heretics, Islamic civilization was at its brilliant best.
In comparing Islamic political history to that of Europe, one is immediately confronted by the radically different way in which religion entered the sphere of politics. The Christian Church was an all powerful institution which commanded the total allegiance of its subjects and which, from the centre of the papacy in Rome, made and unmade kingships as far away as England and France. The tyranny exercised by the Church left, no room for dissent. The inquisitions it instituted against suspected heretics form one of the most dreadful chapters of human history. Only after the Lutheran Reformation was its authority tempered.
Indeed, it is surprising that while Christian authorities eradicated paganism in Europe centuries ago, pre-Islamic pagan groups still exist in some Muslim countries. The Mandaean community, an ancient non-Christian religious group that reveres John the Baptist, is based in Iraq and Iran and has perhaps 45,000 members worldwide. In the upper Himalayan region of Chitral in Pakistan, about 3,000 members of the Kalash trace their descent from the soldiers of Alexander the Great and practice a polytheistic religion. Unlike Christian Europe, Muslim societies had no equivalent of the Inquisition to implement a systematic policy of repression of religious minorities.
Another proof Islam was not spread by the sword is Egypt. Muslims were the lords of Arabia for 1400 years. For a few years the British ruled, and for a few years the French ruled. Overall, the Muslims ruled Arabia for 1400 years. Yet today, there are 14 million Arabs who are Coptic Christians i.e. Christians since generations. If the Muslims had used the sword there would not have been a single Arab who would have remained a Christian.
Similarly Indonesia is a country that has the maximum number of Muslims in the world. The majority of people in Malaysia are Muslims. May one ask, “Which Muslim army went to Indonesia and Malaysia?”
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Well you're incorrect in two aspects. Firstly jesus was crucified unwillingly, he begged his God to be saved.
"And He went a little farther, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.” (Matthew 26:39)
Secondly the bible states: "In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." (James 2:17) Therefore good work is required.
What is truly disappointing is that Christians don't read thier bible.
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@warrior9326
Israel violated international laws and committed every human rights abuses possible. besides that they attacked thier sacred mosque, attacked thier people, stole thier homes, evicted them from their land, imprisoned thier families, murdered their families, took away their rights, and all this in their sacred month of Ramadan.
Any person with even a small amount of dignity would be firing rockets too in this sort of situation.
We've always been told that the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" is a complicated issue but is it? In contrast a simple observation can demonstrate whose has the legitimate right. Israel have been treating Palestinians like what nazis used to treat Jews, What is happening in Palestine is a settlers colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing.
and then Israel pretend to be surprised when Hamas hit back. Obviously Those rockets are a declaration that enough is enough. what else of a crime Israel must commit to Palestinians till the world opens thier eyes?
Also Israel has repeatedly used the civilian-human-shield argument to unleash its US-backed airpower on Gaza where even basic necessities have to be smuggled in because of the Israeli blockade, which has affected more than 1.8 million people for 14 years.
Under such a blockade is Hamas really to blame for civilian casualties? There are no bomb shelters or protective facilities for Gaza’s 1.8 million people, and no place in the Strip was truly safe during the hostilities,
It is worth noting here that since Israeli occupying state have purposely expelled Palestinians to Gaza strip it became densely populated, Gaza City, a favourite target of Israeli strikes, by all accounts, is the most densely populated city in the world.
In conclusion to Israel there are no such thing as civilians in Gaza. they are either militants or human shields.
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People of the Book, do not go to excess in your religion, and do not say anything about God except the truth: the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was nothing more than a messenger of God, His word, directed to Mary, a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not speak of a ‘Trinity’- stop [this], that is better for you- God is only one God, He is far above having a son, everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him and He is the best one to trust.(Quran 3:171)
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance to other religions- it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124) all our problems will be settled at the end.
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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@bashirjoseph5261
It doesn't matter where you've been born or what are your cousins. That's irrelevant and doesn't gives you any credibility of knowing Islam. Someone as vicious as abu-lahab was born in the midst of holy city of mecca and a relative to the Prophet of God himself. Yet he failed miserably to know and comply to Islam. So don't think you have any privileges of knowing Islam by merely having Muslim relatives. You're simply on equal footage with abu-lahab. The commonalities between you both are quite apparent: know Arabic, born in middle east, have Muslim relatives, but yet know little about Islam.
Moreover if you're knowledgeable as you so claim you wouldn't make the mistake of stating Muslims are "a group of people". Muslims are not bound by a particular race, culture, or language.
If you truly know Islam you wouldn't claim Quran never existed during the Prophet's life. Also I'm aware of the process of Quranic transmission. I'm aware that it was initially revealed orally to the Prophet. But Quran is both; verbal and textual.
the Qur’an has been preserved in both the oral as well as written form in a way no other religious book in history has. The Qur'an we have with us today is the very one word for word which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It was collected both in the form of a book and learnt by heart by many companions of the Prophet (pbuh) during his own life time and then transferred verbally as well as in the written form to the next generations. Such is the monumental nature of this transmission that the inerrancy of the Qur'anic text is an incontestable reality.
Furthermore Upon receiving revelation, the Prophet pbuh engaged himself in the duty of conveying the message to his Companions through reciting the exact words he heard in their exact order. Since Literacy was not widespread among the Arabs Quran was initially memorized orally In ancient times, when writing was scarcely used, memory and oral transmission was exercised and strengthened to a high degree.
And the tradition of memorizing the Quran was taken by numerous of individuals from the first Muslim community and continued till this day. Indeed, memorization of the Qur’an emerged into a continuous tradition across the centuries, with schools for memorization being established across the Muslim world. In these schools, students learn and memorize the Qur’an at the feet of a master who in turn acquired the knowledge from his teacher, an ‘un-broken chain’ going all the way back to the Prophet of God. And surprisingly the Quran itself explains that it was made to be easy to memorize:
"And We have certainly made the Quran easy to remember. So is there anyone who will be mindful? - Quran 54:17
Thus no wonder that The Qur’an is perhaps the only book, religious or secular, that has been memorized completely by millions of people.
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@garyhooton4810
What you said is completely false. Your ignorance regarding the history of Quran is very evident from your statement. If you want a long response then know that The Qur'an we have with us today is the very one word for word which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It was collected both in the form of a book and learnt by heart by many companions of the Prophet (pbuh) during his own life time and then transferred verbally as well as in the written form to the next generations. Such is the monumental nature of this transmission that the inerrancy of the Qur'anic text is an incontestable reality.
Upon receiving revelation, the Prophet pbuh engaged himself in the duty of conveying the message to his Companions through reciting the exact words he heard in their exact order. Since Literacy was not widespread among the Arabs Quran was initially memorized orally In ancient times, when writing was scarcely used, memory and oral transmission was exercised and strengthened to a high degree.
And the tradition of memorizing the Quran was taken by numerous of individuals from the first Muslim community and continued till this day. Indeed, memorization of the Qur’an emerged into a continuous tradition across the centuries, with schools for memorization being established across the Muslim world. In these schools, students learn and memorize the Qur’an at the feet of a master who in turn acquired the knowledge from his teacher, an ‘un-broken chain’ going all the way back to the Prophet of God. And surprisingly the Quran itself explains that it was made to be easy to memorize:
"And We have certainly made the Quran easy to remember. So is there anyone who will be mindful? - Quran 54:17
Thus no wonder that The Qur’an is perhaps the only book, religious or secular, that has been memorized completely by millions of people.
Look at this video, Brimingham University founded the oldest Quran that dates back to 1300+ years and when it was matched not even a single word was changed!
https://youtu.be/jowQond7_UE
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@thepilgrim1581
Umar ibn al-Khattab (companion of the prophet) reported: "We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, one day when a man appeared with very white clothes and very black hair. There were no signs of travel on him and we did not recognize him. He sat down in front of the Prophet and rested his knees by his knees and placed his hands on his thighs. The man said, “O Muhammad, tell me about Islam.”
The Prophet said, “Islam is to testify there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, to establish prayer, to give charity, to fast the month of Ramadan, and to perform pilgrimage to the House if a way is possible.”
Then The man said, “You have spoken truthfully.”
Omar wondered and said: "We were surprised that he asked him and said he was truthful."
He said, “Tell me about faith.” The Prophet said, “Faith is to believe in Allah, His angels, his books, His messengers, the Last Day, and to believe in providence, its good and its evil.”
Then The man said, “You have spoken truthfully. Tell me about excellence.” The Prophet said, “Excellence is to worship Allah as if you see Him, for if you do not see Him, He surely sees you.” The man said, “Tell me about the final hour.” The Prophet said, “The one asked does not know more than the one asking.” The man said, “Tell me about its signs.” The Prophet said, “The slave girl will give birth to her mistress and you will see barefoot, naked, and dependent shepherds compete in the construction of tall buildings.”
Then, the man returned and I remained. The Prophet said to me, “O Umar, do you know who he was?” I said, “Allah and his messenger know best.”
The Prophet said, “Verily, he was Gabriel who came to teach you your religion.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 8
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Amidst the fiercest persecution and abuse that the Muslims faced in the earliest Meccan period, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ would stand without wavering and convey to his followers God’s promise of Islam spreading all over the world. Tamīm ad-Dāri (rA) reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “This matter will certainly reach every place touched by the night and day. Allah will not leave a house of mud or [even] fur except that Allah will cause this religion to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced. Allah will honor the honorable with Islam and he will disgrace the disgraceful with unbelief.”[3] In another narration, reported by Thawbān (rA), “Indeed, Allah gathered up the earth for me so that I saw its east and its west; and indeed the dominion of my nation will reach what was gathered up for me from it.”[4]
The fact that these predictions were made at a time when Muslims were a powerless handful, and Islam was expected to be buried in its cradle, is nothing short of miraculous. At that point, presuming that the faith would even survive would be considered by most nothing short of a pipe-dream. But to predict that Islam would not just survive, but grow to thrive globally, was at that point inconceivable. For us nowadays, witnessing a quarter of this planet’s population as subscribers to Islam makes it clear that this was no presumption, but instead another prophecy inspired by the Divine.
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This quote is when the early persecuted muslims have migrated to ethiopia and later introduced Islam to the abyssinian king who eventually embraced it.
“O King! we were plunged in the depth of ignorance and barbarism; we adored idols, we lived in unchastity, we ate the dead bodies, and we spoke abominations, we disregarded every feeling of humanity, and the duties of hospitality and neighborhood were neglected; we knew no law but that of the strong, when Allah raised among us a man, of whose birth, truthfulness, honesty, and purity we were aware; and he called to the Oneness of Allah, and taught us not to associate anything with Him.
“He forbade us the worship of idols; and he enjoined us to speak the truth, to be faithful to our trusts, to be merciful and to regard the rights of the neighbors and kith and kin; he forbade us to speak evil of women, or to eat the substance of orphans; he ordered us to flee from the vices, and to abstain from evil; to offer prayers, to render alms, and to observe fast.
“We have believed in him, we have accepted his teachings and his injunctions to worship Allah, and not to associate anything with Him, and we have allowed what He has allowed, and prohibited what He has prohibited.
“For this reason, our people have risen against us, have persecuted us in order to make us forsake the worship of Allah and return to the worship of idols and other abominations. They have tortured and injured us, until finding no safety among them; we have come to your country, and hope you will protect us from oppression.”
“Thereupon, O King, our people attacked us, visited the severest punishment on us, to make us renounce our religion and take us back to the old immorality and the worship of idols.”
“They oppressed us, made life intolerable for us, and obstructed us from observing our religion. So we left for your country, choosing you before anyone else, desiring your protection and hoping to live in Justice and in peace in your midst.”
[Reference: Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum - sealed nectar]
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This speech is from jafar bin abi talib (the prophet's cousin) addressing the abyssinian king when the Muslims migrated to avoid the cruel treatment of quraish. (a tribe in makkah)
The speech was delivered in the fifth year of Muhammad’s Prophethood. As we recall from the early days of Islam when Muslims were tortured, persecuted, and humiliated in many ways, a few Muslims emigrated to take refuge in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) that was ruled by Ashamah Negus (also known as al-Najashi), a Christian king. The prophet had known him as a fair ruler and thus had permitted the followers of Islam to take refuge in his kingdom. Makkah’s Quraish, who at the time were amongst the foremost in persecuting the new Muslims could not tolerate the Muslims living peacefully in the Christian kingdom. Hence, they made a last ditch effort to get those Muslims extradited to Makkah and sent two of their strongest envoys to demand their extradition.
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English women did not have full property rights until the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, yet under Islamic law, Muslim women have been guaranteed inheritance and property rights since the seventh century.
English women were still chattels of their husband or father when Lady Mary Wortley Montagu traveled to Constantinople in 1716 with her husband, the British ambassador. She was amazed to meet there Ottoman women of the nobility who owned large estates and managed their own property without male interference. Lady Mary even found the veil to be a liberating device that freed women from the prying eyes of men.
Certainly misogyny and unequal rights for women are features that can be found in abundance in the societies of North Africa, the Near East, and much of Asia, but can we honestly say that America and Europe are free of these problems? It is easy and hypocritical to accuse other societies of abuses andinequities when injustices still exist in every culture.The image of the oppressed Muslim woman can all too often serve as another self righteous reason for Europeans to congratulate themselves on their superiority.
Muslims are considered to have dysfunctional roles for women, yet that emblem of Western technological superiority, the Internet, is saturated with pornographic images, and the sexualization of women is omnipresent in television, newspapers, and advertising. Is the West so confident of its relations between the sexes? Everyone needs to become educated as a media critic nowadays, because the recycling of sensational images is what the communications media love most, especially when conflict is present. Islam is a subject that most Americans and Europeans have experienced only through these negative images and stereotypes. Clearly the time has come to go beyond those images and encounter real human beings.
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I will demonstrate to you how we can arrive to a conclusion that the existence of God is highly probable using an intellectual discourse and a rational arguments. Thus my "proof" that I will going to present is not engaged to a holy scripture since you seem to dislike it or find it doubtful.
First and foremost we find that in this world, nothing happens without a cause. Every effect has its cause, and every cause also has a cause that preceded it. This logically necessitates that the chain of causes and effects can be traced back to an original, first cause. Unless there is a first cause to set all other causes and effects in motion, no causes and effects could exist. What could this first cause of all causes then be? You guessed it. God. God is the first cause of all causes and He sets all other causes and effects into motion. Now, a disbeliever may object and say, “well, who created God then?” Well, God is by nature the cause of all causes. If someone created God, then that thing that created God would have to be God.
God by nature, requires no cause outside of Himself to exist. Our logic also only applies in the realm of matter. It is logically possible to say that there has to be a first cause in this world because we’re still talking about the realm of matter. Because God is all-powerful, He can create the first material cause. However, because God is Himself spiritual and outside the realm of matter, we can not apply the condition that He Himself must have a cause onto Him.
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With respect to other religions, only Islam have traditionally accepted the concept of multiple revelations, in the concept of the “peoples of the book.” The Qur’an invokes the authority of the prophets Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and many others, some of whose names are central to the texts of the Bible. Three major earlier scriptures are cited in the Qur’an: the Torah of Moses, the Psalms of David, and the Gospel of Jesus. And there were certainly indications that there may have been many other prophets who brought revelations. The Qur’an depicts this multiplicity as part of the divine plan:
“To each of you We have ordained a code of law and a way of life. If Allah had willed, He would have made you one community, but His Will is to test you with what He has given ˹each of˺ you. So compete with one another in doing good. To Allah you will all return, then He will inform you ˹of the truth˺ regarding your differences.” (Quran 5:48)
The Qur’an affirms that God has created people to be different, and they will always remain different, not only in their appearance but also in their beliefs (Quran 11:118–19) and it is up to each person whether to become abeliever or not.
"Had your Lord so willed ˹O Prophet˺, all ˹people˺ on earth would have certainly believed, every single one of them! Would you then force people to become believers?" - Quran 10:99
Interestingly, the Islamic tradition possesses extensive resources that lend themselves to concepts of religious pluralism. The Qur’an (2:256) explicitly states, “There is no compulsion inreligion.”
Religious dogma plays a much smaller role for Muslims than it does for Christians, who in various periods of history have been much more absorbed with questions of orthodoxy and heresy.
A well known statement of the Prophet Muhammad illustrates this concept of pluralism and is often understood as authorizing different interpretations of Islamic law: “Difference of opinionis a mercy for my community.” It would be hard to find the equivalent to this recognition of pluralism in any Christian theological doctrine.
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Well would you blame Hamas for firing those missiles?
I mean Israel violated international laws and committed every human rights abuses possible. besides that they attacked thier sacred mosque, attacked thier people, stole thier homes, evicted them from their land, imprisoned thier families, murdered their families, took away their rights, and all this in their sacred month of Ramadan.
Any person with even a small amount of dignity would be firing rockets too in this sort of situation.
We've always been told that the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" is a complicated issue but is it? In contrast a simple observation can demonstrate whose has the legitimate right. Israel have been treating Palestinians like what nazis used to treat Jews, What is happening in Palestine is a settlers colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing.
and then Israel pretend to be surprised when Hamas hit back. Obviously Those rockets are a declaration that enough is enough. what else of a crime Israel must commit to Palestinians till the world opens thier eyes?
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Islam is the most logical religion for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that all the philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments that many theists use to prove God, can only prove the monotheistic God that is preached by Islam. These arguments are more inline with the Islamic definition of God than any other definition.
The Islamic God, which we refer to in Arabic as “Allah”, the root word being “Ilaha” in Aramaic and Hebrew. This unique name of Allah basically refers to a deity that exists, eternal, knowledgeable, one, unique that no creation or vision can grasp. Nothing can encompass it, but it encompasses everything, not bound by any time and space, and the creator of everything.
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Keeping in mind this, Islam is the single strongest monotheistic religion. This is not the “God of Islam” necessarily as many like to argue. This is unlike the version of God as preached by Christianity, Hinduism, or any other ism you can think of.
This message was preached by all Prophets, the last Prophet being Muhammad s.a.w. We know 25 Prophets by name, others we do not. But we believe there were many Prophets who came with the same messages with differing covenants. Hence why as a Muslim, you are technically a better follower of Jesus, Moses, Abraham (since Jesus preached to worship one God alone, refer to the first commandment). We affirm all the Prophets and all the books. So if we argue in terms of probability, that what if Christianity (or Judaism, etc) turns out to be true after we die, we as Muslims will affirm the teachings of Jesus based on what was ACTUALLY revealed to him and not what was indoctrinated 150 years after him or more by the likes of Paul, Mark, etc.
Therefore we Muslims call you towards ISLAM
It is simply your safest bet.
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@renge9909
Ok i will try to elaborate why Islam is the most logical religion. Firstly you need to know The question that most human beings eventually ask themselves is about the nature of existence: Why am I here? Why is there a world and a universe? Why is there something and not nothing?
The Quran addresses this question with a cosmological discourse, a reminder of a logical manner.
that it was God who created everything and caused it to be. Human beings are asked to reflect upon the nature of their existence and the universe. Is it really plausible, sensible, and intuitive that the universe appeared arbitrarily for no reason?
Allah said:
"Have they not thought about their own selves? God did not create the heavens and earth and everything between them without a serious purpose and an appointed time, yet many people deny that they will meet their Lord.(3:8)
Our intuition and experience tell us that effects have causes; things come to be because something made them that way. Since the universe is one giant series of causes and effects, it is reasonable to conclude that it had an original cause that set it all in motion.
Allah said:
"Were they created out of nothing? Were they the creators? Did they create the heavens and the earth? No! They do not have faith.(52:37)
The first two propositions are impossible. It could not be the case that the universe appeared from nothing without any reason, purpose, or force to inject it with its energy and direction. Everyday experience informs us that all things we witness in life, every effect we see, must have an explanation at some level. The second proposition, that people created themselves, can be dismissed on its face. As such, the only reasonable conclusion is that the universe was caused—it was created—it was made to exist by something greater and more powerful than itself.
It is said the meaning [of the verse] is: Were they created without a creator? That is impossible, as they must have a creator. If they deny the Creator, then they must have created themselves, and that proposition is even more foolish and false, for how can something without existence create anything? If they reject these two opinions [that they came to be without a creator or they created themselves], then the proof is established upon them that they were in fact created.
Scholars derive from these verses and others a logical train of thought, sometimes referred to as the cosmological argument, which determines that God, as the uncaused cause or first cause, is the most reasonable answer to the existential question.
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Islam is the most logical religion for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that all the philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments that many theists use to prove God, can only prove the monotheistic God that is preached by Islam. These arguments are more inline with the Islamic definition of God than any other definition.
The Islamic God, which we refer to in Arabic as “Allah”, the root word being “Ilaha” in Aramaic and Hebrew. This unique name of Allah basically refers to a deity that exists, eternal, knowledgeable, one, unique that no creation or vision can grasp. Nothing can encompass it, but it encompasses everything, not bound by any time and space, and the creator of everything.
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Keeping in mind this, Islam is the single strongest monotheistic religion. This is not the “God of Islam” necessarily as many like to argue. This is unlike the version of God as preached by Christianity, Hinduism, or any other ism you can think of.
This message was preached by all Prophets, the last Prophet being Muhammad s.a.w. We know 25 Prophets by name, others we do not. But we believe there were many Prophets who came with the same messages with differing covenants. Hence why as a Muslim, you are technically a better follower of Jesus, Moses, Abraham (since Jesus preached to worship one God alone, refer to the first commandment). We affirm all the Prophets and all the books. So if we argue in terms of probability, that what if Christianity (or Judaism, etc) turns out to be true after we die, we as Muslims will affirm the teachings of Jesus based on what was ACTUALLY revealed to him and not what was indoctrinated 150 years after him or more by the likes of Paul, Mark, etc.
Therefore we Muslims call you towards ISLAM
It is simply your safest bet.
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@_iam1533
The ideology which is now called Hinduism is not true and it's false and that's mainly because of the wrong teachings within the ideology you need to realize that any polytheistic religion can easily be falsified.
through simple logical arguments i can demonstrate how false Hinduism is. firstly God - a necessary being, the uncaused cause, the first mover, who is also eternal, immaterial, spaceless, and powerful - We are all contingent beings [we do not have to necessarily exist], and we owe our existence from our parents, who owed their existence from their parents, and so on. We are all contingent beings and everything had a beginning except one - one necessary being who had no beginning. If God had a beginning or a cause, who or what can that be? If everything is contingent, then we enter into an infinite regress; we will ask infinitely, “who created who?” There has to be one being who was there forever and necessarily exists. It is like pieces of dominoes - if all that happened in the past are like dominoes falling one piece after the other, there must the first one being who necessarily existed who pushed the first piece of dominoes into action. That first being was not created; it necessarily exists. So God had no beginning.
Why only one God? Again, it is the principle of the one necessary being. There has to be one necessary being, not many. If there are multiple Gods, how does one relate to the other? Did one God create the others?
God said in the Quran:
“Allah has not taken any son, nor has there ever been with Him any other deity. For had there been, then each deity would have taken away what it created, and some of them would have sought to overcome others. Exalted is Allah above what they describe concerning Him.
Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, so high is He above what they associate with Him.”
(Qur'an 23:91/92)
Harmony. There are no conflicts in the laws of mechanics of the universe, as there would have surely been had the universe been put together by multiple creators following multiple visions. And if they all worked in perfect harmony, that would make no sense because one would have to broker agreements between them, or at least the wills of some would have to be subjugated to that of the others, making them non gods. For a god must necessarily be omnipotent, otherwise he would only be a tool in the hands of a greater god. A multi deity model creates more problems than it helps solve.
Therefore Islam is the most logical religion for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that all the philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments that many theists use to prove God, can only prove the monotheistic God that is preached by Islam. These arguments are more inline with the Islamic definition of God than any other definition.Therefore we Muslims call you towards ISLAM
It is simply your safest bet.
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance to other religions- it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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tart70 btw makah is mentioned in the bible is mentioned in the Book of Psalms Chapter 84, in the following passage:
(How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.)
So there are a mention of it in the previous books
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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Interestingly, the Islamic religion possesses extensive resources that lend themselves to concepts of religious tolerance. The Qur’an (2:256) explicitly states, “There is no compulsion in religion.”
With respect to other religions, only Islamic have traditionally accepted the concept of multiple revelations, in the concept of the “peoples of the book.” The Qur’an invokes the authority of the prophets Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and many others, some of whose names are central to the texts of the Bible. Three major earlier scriptures are cited in the Qur’an: the Torah of Moses, the Psalms of David, and the Gospel of Jesus. And there were certainly indications that there may have been many other prophets who brought revelations. The Qur’an depicts this multiplicity as part of the divine plan:
“To each of you We have ordained a code of law and a way of life. If Allah had willed, He would have made you one community, but His Will is to test you with what He has given ˹each of˺ you. So compete with one another in doing good. To Allah you will all return, then He will inform you ˹of the truth˺ regarding your differences.” (Quran 5:48)
The Qur’an affirms that God has created people to be different, and they will always remain different, not only in their appearance but also in their beliefs (Quran 11:118–19) and it is up to each person whether to become a believer or not.
"Had your Lord so willed ˹O Prophet˺, all ˹people˺ on earth would have certainly believed, every single one of them! Would you then force people to become believers?" - Quran 10:99
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Islam is the most logical religion for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that all the philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments that many theists use to prove God, can only prove the monotheistic God that is preached by Islam. These arguments are more inline with the Islamic definition of God than any other definition.
The Arabic word ‘Islam’ means ‘submission’, and is derived from a word meaning ‘peace’. As such, the religion of Islam teaches that in order to achieve true peace of mind and surety of heart, one must submit to God and live according to His Divinely revealed Law.
Islam is not a new religion because ‘submission to the will of God’, i.e. Islam, has always been the only acceptable religion in the sight of God. For this reason, Islam is the true religion’, and it is the same eternal message revealed through the ages to all of God’s prophets and messengers. The main message of all the prophets has always been that there is only One True God and He alone is to be worshipped. These prophets start with Adam and include Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, and Jesus, Muhammad peace be upon them all.
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance to other religions- it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124) all our problems will be settled at the end.
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@celtoroma4013
"Surely ˹for˺ Muslim men and women, believing men and women, devout men and women, truthful men and women, patient men and women, humble men and women, charitable men and women, fasting men and women, men and women who guard their chastity, and men and women who remember Allah often—for ˹all of˺ them Allah has prepared forgiveness and a great reward." - Quran 33:36
"Allah has promised the believers, both men and women, Gardens under which rivers flow, to stay there forever, and splendid homes in the Gardens of Eternity, and—above all—the pleasure of Allah. That is ˹truly˺ the ultimate triumph." - Quran 9:72
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
18:29- So whoever wills- let him believe; and whoever wills- let him disbelieve.
109:6- To you be your religion and to me,my religion.
2:256- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion.
10:99-100- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet(PBUH), would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason.
28:56- Indeed, O Prophet(PBUH), you do not guide whom you like, but GOD guides whom he wills.
6:108- And do not insult and mock those (other gods) they(non-muslims) invoke other than [your-muslim] GOD.
5:32- Whoever kills a innocent man unjustly- it is as if he had slain the whole mankind. And whoever saves one- it is as if he had saved the whole mankind(life is holy/sacred).
49:10- Humanity is a single brotherhood(equal) so make peace with your brothers!
12:76- Thus did I (GOD) planned for Joseph(PBUH), he could not have taken his brother within Islam(religion of the King) except by GOD's will. I(GOD) raise in degrees whom I(GOD) will
Islam teaches acceptance and tolerance to other religions- it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches us to not compel someone to become a muslim, forceful conversions are a NO-NO!, Islam believes in reason and logic rather than blind belief, we all can live together peacefully.
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@pilgrimonanarrowway2034
When a Muslim happens to engage in discussion with a non-Muslim, especially one taught to hate or fear Islam, a familiar pattern is likely to emerge that entails questions or confrontation related to some verses in the Qur’an. If you have had some of these discussions, you find that, almost always, the questions revolve around the same verses, such as:
2:191 - 4:34 - 5:51 - 8:12 - 9:5 - 9:14 - 9:29 - 25:52 - 47:4
These verses are what I term “The Usual Suspects.” They comprise those verses that some in the West extract out of context as “proof” that Islam is a violent and oppressive religion.
It should be easy to see why these ayah are so popular with those who like to bash Islam.
Taken alone, without the rest of the Qur’an, they do appear to paint a warlike and oppressive picture.
But we, as believers, are called upon to invite to the way of our Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching. And clearly these ayah, misunderstood and out of context, do not correctly convey “the way of our Lord”. Especially not to those whose opinion already has been tainted from other sources.
So, we need to familiarize ourselves with “The Usual Suspects” and the context in which they appear in the Qur’an. We also need to be able to quote preceding or subsequent ayah that clarifies their true meanings. And, in some cases, we need to acquaint ourselves with the artifacts that are due to translation and culture. The most important thing is that we learn and have knowledge of the truth of Islam.
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@pilgrimonanarrowway2034
The thing which is very common in Christians is their double standards while they talk about the violence of Qur'an they try to hide or ignore the fact that biblical violence is far more explicitly barbaric.
this is what the bible says about unbelievers:
“Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be killed. (Exodus 22:19)
“Everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13)“
“If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or your intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12)
Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshipping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5
“Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, “Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. “Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!” So they went throughout the city and did as they were told.” (Ezekiel 9:5-7)
Now that is specific.
“While we’ve only scratched the surface here, it appears safe to conclude that some commonly-held assumptions about and perceptions of Qur'an For instance, those who have not read or are not fairly familiar with the content of Qur'an might be surprised to learn that the content in the Quran is not more violent than that of the Bible”
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@Crikey DM
The verse 9:29 is a command to fight the Byzantine Romans and other hostile powers who were planning an invasion against the Muslims in Arabia. In context, it is a distinct response to aggression, in particular the assassination of one of the Prophet’s ambassadors.
Allah said:
Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not acknowledge the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture, until they give the tribute willingly while they are humbled.
Surah At-Tawba 9:29
On the surface, this appears to be an open-ended command to fight non-Muslims until they are conquered. However, a fundamental principle of Quranic exegesis (tafseer) is that the verses must be understood in the context in which they were revealed (asbab an-nuzul) and in conjunction with other verses delineating the rules of warfare.
Mujahid reported concerning the verse, “Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day…” that it was revealed when Muhammad and his companions were commanded with the expedition of Tabuk.
The expedition of Tabuk was preceded by the battle of Mu’tah which began when the emissary of the Prophet was assassinated while delivering a letter to a Roman ally.
The cause of the battle was that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent Harith ibn Umair Al-Azdi of the tribe of Lihb with his letter to Syria for the Roman king or Busra. He presented it to Sharhabeel ibn Amr Al-Ghassani and he bound him and struck his neck. Never had an ambassador of the Messenger of Allah been killed besides him. The Prophet was upset by that when news reached him and he dispatched an expedition.
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had sent Al-Harith ibn Umair Al-Azdi on an errand to carry a letter to the ruler of Busra. On his way, he was intercepted by Sharhabeel ibn Amr Al-Ghassani, the governor of Al-Balqa and a close ally to Caesar, the Byzantine Emperor. Al-Harith was tied and beheaded by Al-Ghassani.
This was the first act of Roman aggression that further led to the expedition of Tabuk concerning which the verse 9:29 was revealed. The verse describes the aggressors as those “who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day,” because they committed this act of treachery. Executing emissaries from other countries is a war crime that could never be committed by those who sincerely believe in God.
Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
There is no faith for one who cannot be trusted. There is no religion for one who cannot uphold a covenant.
Source: Musnad Ahmad 11975, Grade: Hasan
The Byzantine power, which was considered the greatest military force on earth at that time, showed an unjustifiable opposition towards Muslims. As we have already mentioned, their opposition started at killing the ambassador of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, Al-Harith ibn Umair Al-Azdi, by Sharhabeel ibn Amr Al-Ghassani. The ambassador was then carrying a message from the Prophet to the ruler of Busra. We have also stated that the Prophet consequently dispatched a brigade under the command of Zaid bin Haritha, who had a fierce fight against the Byzantines at Mu’tah. Although Muslim forces could not have revenge on those haughty overproud tyrants, the confrontation itself had a great impression on the Arabs all over Arabia.
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@sayitasitis246
Well i don't care what the Shaikh says because the Quran is far superior:
- "Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)..." (18:29)
- "To you be your religion and to me,my religion" (109:6)
- "There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion" (2:256)
- "So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning" (88:21)
- "you are not there to control them" (88:22)
- "And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason" (10:99-100)
- "It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance" (28:56)
- "[Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did" (6:108)
- "if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind" (5:32)
- "The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy" (49:10)
- " ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing" (12:76)
- "So obey Allah, and obey His Messenger: but if ye turn back, the duty of Our Messenger is but to proclaim (the Message) clearly and openly" (63:12)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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During his career as a prophet and leader, his friends accompanied him and the generation of Muslims who lived with the Prophet, known as the Companions (Arabic: Sahāba), sought to preserve Muhammad’s words and deeds either in their memories or through some means of writing, passing these recollections on to others. These reports were passed on from generation to generation, in oral and/or written form, until scholars compiled them inpermanent collections.
And this collections formed the hadīth, a reports describing the words, actions, or habits of the Prophet. And Unlike the Quran,the hadiths were not quickly and concisely fully compiled during and immediately after Muhammad’s life. those who spent a great deal of intimate time with the Prophet Muhammad pbuh were the major sources of hadiths
Each hadith, or report about the Prophet, consists of a text (matn) describinghis words or actions, and a chain of transmission (isnād) by which this report was communicated.
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ꤱꥀꤻ
"Reason" i agree that's a good method to convince someone therefore i will try to have a conversation with you if my argument seemed rational and compelling i would expect you to accept it with open mind.
First and foremost There is a whole host of evidence that supports the existence of God. While it’s difficult to prove or disprove the existence of God through material means, one can at least show that the possibility of God’s existence is highly probable. When the facts are are laid out in front of someone, they can make the decision for themselves whether or not they think God exists. However, when you look at everything, the possibility of God existing makes far, far, more sense then the possibility that He doesn’t exist.
Let's start with a Cosmological Discourse. The question that most human beings eventually ask themselves is about the nature of existence: Why am I here? Why is there a world and a universe? Why is there something and not nothing?
The Quran addresses this question with a cosmological discourse, a reminder that it was God who created everything and caused it to be. Human beings are asked to reflect upon the nature of their existence and the universe. Is it really plausible, sensible, and intuitive that the universe appeared arbitrarily for no reason?
"Have they not thought about their own selves? God did not create the heavens and earth and everything between them without a serious purpose and an appointed time, yet many people deny that they will meet their Lord.(3:8)
Our intuition and experience tell us that effects have causes; things come to be because something made them that way. Since the universe is one giant series of causes and effects, it is reasonable to conclude that it had an original cause that set it all in motion.
"Were they created out of nothing? Were they the creators? Did they create the heavens and the earth? No! They do not have faith.(52:36)
The first two propositions are impossible. It could not be the case that the universe appeared from nothing without any reason, purpose, or force to inject it with its energy and direction. Everyday experience informs us that all things we witness in life, every effect we see, must have an explanation at some level. The second proposition, that people created themselves, can be dismissed on its face. As such, the only reasonable conclusion is that the universe was caused—it was created—it was made to exist by something greater and more powerful than itself.
It is said the meaning [of the verse] is: Were they created without a creator? That is impossible, as they must have a creator. If they deny the Creator, then they must have created themselves, and that proposition is even more foolish and false, for how can something without existence create anything? If they reject these two opinions [that they came to be without a creator or they created themselves], then the proof is established upon them that they were in fact created.
Scholars derive from these verses and others a logical train of thought, sometimes referred to as the cosmological argument, which determines that God, as the uncaused cause or first cause, is the most reasonable answer to the existential question.
Everything in the universe that has a beginning must have a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore the beginning of the existence of the universe must have been caused by something. And thus the conclusion is The only such cause must be an uncaused cause, or God.
And if you willing to reply please keep the conversation decent and if you found any flaws in my argument point it out and counter it with a better one and if you have any objections on my thoughts then state your reasons or perhaps state any alternative theories you think is right.
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ꤱꥀꤻ
I will say Islam. Because Islam is the most logical religion for several reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that all the philosophical and logical deductive arguments for God such as the cosmological argument or the ontological arguments that many theists use to prove God, can only prove the monotheistic God that is preached by Islam. These arguments are more inline with the Islamic definition of God than any other definition.
The Islamic God, which we refer to in Arabic as “Allah”, the root word is similar to “Ilaha” in Aramaic and Hebrew. This unique name of Allah basically refers to a deity that exists, eternal, knowledgeable, one, unique that no creation or vision can grasp. Nothing can encompass it, but it encompasses everything, not bound by any time and space, and the creator of everything.
Keeping in mind this, Islam is the single strongest monotheistic religion. This is not the “God of Islam” necessarily as many like to argue. This is unlike the version of God as preached by Christianity, Hinduism, or any other ism you can think of.
This message was preached by all Prophets, the last Prophet being Muhammad s.a.w. We know 25 Prophets by name, others we do not. But we believe there were many Prophets who came with the same messages with differing covenants. Hence why as a Muslim, you are technically a better follower of Jesus, Moses, Abraham (since Jesus preached to worship one God alone, refer to the first commandment). We affirm all the Prophets and all the books. So if we argue in terms of probability, that what if Christianity (or Judaism, etc) turns out to be true after we die, we as Muslims will affirm the teachings of Jesus based on what was ACTUALLY revealed to him and not what was indoctrinated 150 years after him or more by the likes of Paul, Mark, etc.
Therefore we Muslims call you towards ISLAM
It is simply your safest bet.
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