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jcaz:
WRONG. As usual, and perhaps this is to be expected from you, you have very unsuccessfully tried to twist the point I was making. **ALL OF YOU **Christians were constantly questioning the “God of Islaam” and saying, look at how violent “your God” is, look at what “your God” does. That is the theme of at least half of the threads on the Islaamic forum!

My thread, which yes, was deleted, and which will be posted again in the future, was to simply point out several places were “your God” was FAR MORE VIOLENT than the “God of Islaam” as you called it. KILLING INNOCENT INFANTS IS INFINITELY MORE VIOLENT THAN KILLING “DISBELIEVING” ADULTS. Heck, EVEN Christians admit that God has wiped out disbelievers according to Biblical stories, **and even God has ordered the killing of disbelievers ACCORDING TO YOUR HOLY BOOK. God ORDERED the killing of ALL DISBELIEVERS, and this INCLUDED INFANTS!!! **

Now, I ADMITTED that these Biblical ORDERS WERE for a specific time and place. And the point was, that if you want to scream “bloody murder” and shout at me that these Biblical orders of INSANE VIOLENCE were for only a specific time and place, the POINT BEING MADE was why can you simply not then accept that FACT that the same should be applied to the Islaamic commands. They were for a SPECIFIC TIME AND PLACE.

This, Booklover, you did not get, you do not get, and it will not surprise me if you still will not get.

The ONLY intellectual reply to this would be to finally admit your wrong thought-process, admit that yes, the Biblical verses were for a time and a place, and admit your hypocrasy in trying to say that similar (BUT FAR LESS VIOLENT) Islaamic commands were not for a specific time and place, when indeed they were! Then, a discussion can continue.

But you know, it will surprise no one when you do not do this, because as said before, your types ONLY want to hate. You do not want to discuss. You do not want to understand. You simply want to be a hater.

So we defend our beautiful religion, and in the end, to you your religion, and to us our religion.

Regards,

Jonathan
Typical Muslim response! As far as I’m concerned, you can keep your religion, but don’t try to force it on me!

You may think I’m simpleminded, but my common sense tells me that it’s not smart to stake one’s eternal salvation on anyone’s so-called “private revelations” 😃

And as for “beautiful” religions, if you really want to see one, watch some of the shows on EWTN!

Vickie
 
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Booklover:
Typical Muslim response! As far as I’m concerned, you can keep your religion, but don’t try to force it on me!
And it will not and should not be forced on you.
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Booklover:
You may think I’m simpleminded, but my common sense tells me that it’s not smart to stake one’s eternal salvation on anyone’s so-called “private revelations” 😃
If that’s not the calling the kettle black…

Your entire religion is based on “private revelations”, NOT from someone who claimed to be a Messenger, but rather, from a person who did NOT even know Jesus, Paul. :rolleyes:

If, and keyword, IF, my religious beliefs were completely unfounded and were only based on “private revelations”, I would be more confident if those private revelations were received from someone claiming to the status of prophethood and messengership, as opposed to someone who never knew Jesus, bumped his head on some road to somewhere, and then ended up authoring or influencing over half of what you call the word of God. :eek:

But yes Vickie, Allaah does say to you your religion and to us our religion. To you your deeds, and to us our deeds. Discussion Vickie, is nice and at times helpful. But we will not always come to agreement, and there is no reason for us to lose civility in our discussions. We may end up agreeing to disagree; and so be it. But the posts earlier were mainly to point out to you the flaw in your thought-process about calling the rules of God inhumane. And I was still hoping you would come forward and state that you now understand why that was wrong to say.

Regards,
Jonathan
 
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Booklover:
Typical Muslim response! As far as I’m concerned, you can keep your religion, but don’t try to force it on me!
typical response. who here has tried to force islam upon you??? all the muslims here have tried to do is clarify and refute the misconceptions and allegations made against there religion.

oh, and btw, there’s still that simple question above that’s waiting to be answered… 🙂 .
 
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jcaz:
And it will not and should not be forced on you.

If that’s not the calling the kettle black…

Your entire religion is based on “private revelations”, NOT from someone who claimed to be a Messenger, but rather, from a person who did NOT even know Jesus, Paul. :rolleyes:

If, and keyword, IF, my religious beliefs were completely unfounded and were only based on “private revelations”, I would be more confident if those private revelations were received from someone claiming to the status of prophethood and messengership, as opposed to someone who never knew Jesus, bumped his head on some road to somewhere, and then ended up authoring or influencing over half of what you call the word of God. :eek:

But yes Vickie, Allaah does say to you your religion and to us our religion. To you your deeds, and to us our deeds. Discussion Vickie, is nice and at times helpful. But we will not always come to agreement, and there is no reason for us to lose civility in our discussions. We may end up agreeing to disagree; and so be it. But the posts earlier were mainly to point out to you the flaw in your thought-process about calling the rules of God inhumane. And I was still hoping you would come forward and state that you now understand why that was wrong to say.

Regards,
Jonathan
Why do you dislike Paul so much? What have you got against him? I don’t understand where you get the idea that our religion is based on Paul. I will say this, though, after his bump as you call it, his life made a complete turn around. But just because someone proclaims himself a prophet does not mean he is one!😃

Vickie
 
Salam Rodrigo,
“You just committed the logical fallacy of argumentum ad hominem. Therefore, rejected.”
Margoliouth says that Imaam Bukhari has stated that the sentence:

“Except that you respect the relation that exist between me and you”

“was a divine revelation through Wahy, but the commentators say that this sentence does not exist in the Glorious Qur’an (where is the proof?). Therefore, they consider this sentence as an explanatory note to the Qur’aanic Ayaah (verse 23) of Surah Ash-Shura.” (See Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics V. 1, Page 543)

This was Margoliouth claim that Bukhari didn’t know the exact verse. Compare it to Sahih Bukhari

Sahih Bukhari: 1 -CHAPTER: The saying of Allah (the Exalted and Almighty): -

«Except to be kind to me for my kinship with you (42:23)
[4818] Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that he was asked (regarding): -

«Except to be kind to me for my kinship with you. (42:23)

Sa’id bin Zubair (who was present then) said: «It means here (to show what is due for) the relatives of Muhammad (The blessing and peace of Allah be upon him)». On that Ibn Abbas said: You have hurried in giving the answer! There was no branch of the tribe of Quraish but the Prophet (The blessing and peace of Allah be upon him) had relatives therein. The Prophet (The blessing and peace of Allah be upon him) said: «(I do not want anything from you) except to be kind to me for my Kinship with you».

What Margoliouth quoted from Bukhari and claimed it’s a verse, was nothing but an explanation from the Prophet pbuh to the verse (42:23).

Anyways, I read his book “Mohammedanism”, it’s all filled with guesses and speculations, no facts, baseless. His arguments are as weak as his references. Worst of all he’s described by the Christians as having knowledge in Islam more than some Muslem scholars, yet he doesn’t know how to read the verses of the Qur’an, doesn’t know that number of the Qur’anic verses is written after the verse not before it 🙂 .

His mistakes and lack of knowledge are all over the place in his books. But the shame is on the people who quote him like parrots.

 
"And it was entirely voluntary while the Jizyah was not. There is no comparison.

What protection do the dhimmis need? Only from the Muslims. Why don’t you tell us what happens if a dhimmis refuses to pay the Jizyah?"
Again you are wrong. Please man, provide your references. I don’t want to keep answering your thoughts and imaginations. A Muslim who doesn’t pay the zakah will suffer a severe punishment in the afterlife, and here what’s gonna happen in this life:

"**Volume 3, Page 7: Judgment on the Zakah Refrainer **
As an obligation upon Muslims, zakah is one of the essential requirements of Islam. If somebody disputed its obligation, he would be outside of Islam, and could legally be killed for his unbelief unless he was a new Muslim and could be excused for his ignorance.

As for the one who refrains from paying it without denying its obligation, he would be guilty of committing a sin. Yet, this act does not place him outside of Islam. It is the ruler’s duty to take zakah from the defaulter by force and rebuke him, provided he does not collect more than the stipulated amount. However, in the views of Ahmad and ash-Shaf’i (in his earlier opinion) the ruler could take half of the defaulter’s money, in addition to the calculated amount of zakah, as a punishment. This view is based on what Ahmad, anNasa’i, Abu Dawud, al-Hakim, and al-Baihaqi have recorded from Bahz ibn Hakim all the way back to his grandfather who said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah, upon whom be peace, say: ‘Whether the camels of the zakah payer are grown or baby camels, it makes no difference in his reward if he gave them willingly. (However,) if someone refrains from paying it, it will be taken from him along with half his property, for it is a right of our Lord, the Blessed and the Exalted, not a right of the house of Muhammad.’” "………

If you wanna read the rest of the punishments and what he’ll suffer on the Day of Judgment be my guest: usc.edu/dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/fus3_40.html

Volume 3, Page 4: Punishment in the Qur’an for the Delinquents of Zakah

Volume 3, Page 4a: Punishment in the Hadith for the Delinquents of Zakah


As for the protection needed by dhimmis, maybe you want to do some history readings on what the Crusaders did to the Jews and Christians living in Muslim countries. Or maybe you can go look for a Forum on the internet for Christian Assyrians and ask them what happened to them.
" Let me make this clear:
  1. The Quran itself says to exact the Jizyah to humiliate the dhimmis.
  2. The Jizyah is also the doubling of the other taxes like land and commercial taxes.
  3. The Jizyah is the humiliation which the dhimmis had to endure like ‘spitting into the mouths’, the ‘hitting of the nape of the neck’ etc.
  4. The Jizyah has not minimum limit like the nisab so the poor have to pay regardless. There is evidence that some dhimmis had to sell their women and children to pay the Jizyah."
TEXT DELETED. The only scholar who mentions something related to this is Umar Zamakhshari, this man is not the Prophet pbuh, not a companion, and not even close to the hadith scribes, and he’s well known as Mutazalite, and as I expected he’s Iranian (Shiite) from the Mu’tazila who abandoned the true teachings of Islam.
“The zakat is generally less than the Jizyah because the Jizyah includes the doubling of other taxes. In fact, there was a Christian tribe who preferred to pay double zakat than to pay the Jizyah.”
Again let’s define Jizyah: “a tax paid by non-Muslims living in a Muslim State. Since the non-Muslims are exempt from military service and taxes imposed on Muslims, they must pay this tax to compensate. It guarentees them security and protection. If the State cannot protect those who paid jizyah, then the amount they paid is returned to them.”
I want to know from where did you get the “doubling of other taxes”.

Also like the Zakah it’s calculated as a percentage. So even IF there was no nisab on Jizyah, it keeps decreasing as the wealth decreases, and it’s paid yearly not monthly. So if a rich man pays 2.5% on 1million dinar that’s 25000; lets assume a poor non-muslim has only 50dinar then the Jizyah is 1.25dinars (1.25/year). So it’s not that dramatic as you’re claiming (selling his children and wife 🙂 ). On the contrary as I explained previously poor non-muslims are eligible for the zakat (i.e. muslims give zakat money to poor non-muslims).

 
“It is still barbaric however you look at it. If someone doesn’t believe why not let them go in peace? Why force people to pretend to believe just so as to save their lives. Islam is just tribalism gone mad. You can never make the apostacy law seem even remotely humane.”
That’s your personal opinion, I respect it. Thanks for sharing it with us. And as I mentioned in a previous post, if one doesn’t like the Islamic laws, then please DO NOT convert to Islam.
" PS: good post raceland. I enjoyed answering it."
Thanks. And Good answers from your side, but there is still more room for improvement.
“PPS: your 20% zakat example is meaningless as it only applies to mining and buried treasure. How many Muslims get that? Not many at all. So, it’s only 2.5% in most cases. My point exactly.”
Go back to post #79,

" • Zakah of cultivated land crops is paid once the crop has ripened and has been harvested. Its Nisab is 612 kilos, which equals 1,346.40 lb. There is no Zakah on production that is less than this amount. If the production depends only on rainwater, or without any human labor or irrigation, the due Zakah is one-tenth of the total. If equipment and tools are used for irrigation, then the Zakah due is half of one-tenth of the total production."

😃 sorry for using fractions. 1/10 = 10 % and half of that…… (I guess you can calculate it by your self).

And this is on Farms, which many Muslims do have. So, it’s not 2.5% in most cases as you keep suggesting. Revise your point.
 
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raceland:
And this is on Farms, which many Muslims do have. So, it’s not 2.5% in most cases as you keep suggesting. Revise your point.
It is 2.5% as my muslims friend told me. 😛 . No need to revise Bivar!. You are on the right path 👍
 
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raceland:
Salam Rodrigo,
Hello to you too.
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raceland:
Margoliouth says that Imaam Bukhari has stated that the sentence:

“Except that you respect the relation that exist between me and you”

“was a divine revelation through Wahy, but the commentators say that this sentence does not exist in the Glorious Qur’an (where is the proof?). Therefore, they consider this sentence as an explanatory note to the Qur’aanic Ayaah (verse 23) of Surah Ash-Shura.” (See Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics V. 1, Page 543)

This was Margoliouth claim that Bukhari didn’t know the exact verse. Compare it to Sahih Bukhari

Sahih Bukhari: 1 -CHAPTER: The saying of Allah (the Exalted and Almighty): -

«Except to be kind to me for my kinship with you (42:23)
[4818] Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that he was asked (regarding): -

«Except to be kind to me for my kinship with you. (42:23)

Sa’id bin Zubair (who was present then) said: «It means here (to show what is due for) the relatives of Muhammad (The blessing and peace of Allah be upon him)». On that Ibn Abbas said: You have hurried in giving the answer! There was no branch of the tribe of Quraish but the Prophet (The blessing and peace of Allah be upon him) had relatives therein. The Prophet (The blessing and peace of Allah be upon him) said: «(I do not want anything from you) except to be kind to me for my Kinship with you».

What Margoliouth quoted from Bukhari and claimed it’s a verse, was nothing but an explanation from the Prophet pbuh to the verse (42:23).

Anyways, I read his book “Mohammedanism”, it’s all filled with guesses and speculations, no facts, baseless. His arguments are as weak as his references. Worst of all he’s described by the Christians as having knowledge in Islam more than some Muslem scholars, yet he doesn’t know how to read the verses of the Qur’an, doesn’t know that number of the Qur’anic verses is written after the verse not before it 🙂 .

His mistakes and lack of knowledge are all over the place in his books. But the shame is on the people who quote him like parrots.

Rejected – this is nothing more than the logical fallacy of argumentum ad hominem circumstantial. When you have learnt what logical fallacies are and how to avoid committing them, perhaps we might have a discussion.

I asked you to prove Margouliath wrong – in what I quoted him to say. You went and prove he was wrong in some other issue. That, is nothing more than an logical fallacy. Nobody is perfect. Just because someone is wrong in one issue doesn’t make him wrong in everything else.

You might very well be right about Margouliath being wrong in my quote of him. I don’t know but I do know that you haven’t disproved his point regarding the Jews of Aila. This is what he is supposed to have said:

According to D.S. Margoliouth, the Jews of Aila had to pay a higher rate - one-quarter of their produce. Margoliouth contrasts this rate with the rate of zakãt (=alms or poor-due) imposed on Muslims and says that “twenty-five percent of the produce means ten times the amount imposed on the Muslims as alms”.

Have you disproven this? No.
 
Rodrigo Bivar:
According to D.S. Margoliouth, the Jews of Aila had to pay a higher rate - one-quarter of their produce. Margoliouth contrasts this rate with the rate of zakãt (=alms or poor-due) imposed on Muslims and says that “twenty-five percent of the produce means ten times the amount imposed on the Muslims as alms”.
off topic, but if you’re going to quote an article, you should at least make it apparent that you’re quoting it… :tsktsk:

india.indymedia.org/en/2003/03/3829.shtml
 
Rodrigo Bivar:
you know, some would consider that to be plagiarism, which is basically lying since you’re trying to pass off someone else’s writings as your own.
 
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raceland:
Again you are wrong. Please man, provide your references. I don’t want to keep answering your thoughts and imaginations. A Muslim who doesn’t pay the zakah will suffer a severe punishment in the afterlife, and here what’s gonna happen in this life:

"**Volume 3, Page 7: Judgment on the Zakah Refrainer **
As an obligation upon Muslims, zakah is one of the essential requirements of Islam. If somebody disputed its obligation blah blah blah deleted due to 5,000 char limit
You misunderstand me. Read my post again. I did point out that some rulers do punish Muslims who don’t pay the zakat. My point about the zakat being voluntary is that in my cases people don’t get killed for not paying the zakat. I ask you: in Muslim countries today, do people get killed for not paying the zakat?

It’s a self-assessment thing, isn’t it? If you underdeclare your wealth, you don’t have to pay.
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raceland:
As for the one who refrains from paying it without denying its obligation, he would be guilty of committing a sin…
I already know some Muslim rulers punish non-payers. Move right along.
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raceland:
If you wanna read the rest of the punishments and what he’ll suffer on the Day of Judgment be my guest: usc.edu/dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/fus3_40.html

Volume 3, Page 4: Punishment in the Qur’an for the Delinquents of Zakah

Volume 3, Page 4a: Punishment in the Hadith for the Delinquents of Zakah
I wasn’t talking about Allah burning people in hell.
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raceland:
As for the protection needed by dhimmis, maybe you want to do some history readings on what the Crusaders did to the Jews and Christians living in Muslim countries. Or maybe you can go look for a Forum on the internet for Christian Assyrians and ask them what happened to them.
The Crusades happened 400 hundred years AFTER Islam was created, in 1096. How come the non-Muslims needed protected from Crusaders that didn’t exist?

The Crusades finished in 1270 – how come the non-Muslims needed protection from the Crusaders that don’t exist any more?

In short, your answer is ludicrous. The Crusades only lasted less than 180 years – yet the Jizyah has been mandated forever.
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raceland:
The only scholar who mentions something related to this is Umar Zamakhshari, this man is not the Prophet pbuh, not a companion, and not even close to the hadith scribes, and he’s well known as Mutazalite, and as I expected he’s Iranian (Shiite) from the Mu’tazila who abandoned the true teachings of Islam.
Wrong. I mentioned other scholars as well.

Every Muslim sect has its scholars. Just because you don’t belog to the Mutazila doesn’t give you the right to disparage him. He is still considered a Muslim – just from a different sect to you.
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raceland:
Again let’s define Jizyah: “a tax paid by non-Muslims living in a Muslim State. Since the non-Muslims are exempt from military service and taxes imposed on Muslims, they must pay this tax to compensate. It guarentees them security and protection. If the State cannot protect those who paid jizyah, then the amount they paid is returned to them.”
The point is: the only people who were going to attack these dhimmis were the Muslims. So, your answer is wrong.
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raceland:
I want to know from where did you get the “doubling of other taxes”…
Firstly, the definition of a poor non-Muslim is only wealth of less than 200 dirham. He has to pay the 1 dinar even if he has no money at all. Some rulers exempt the poor but that is merely their prerogative. There is nothing in the Quran to say they should. Many rulers like Aurangzeb force even the dirham-less to pay. That is why some kafirs had to sell their women and children.

Secondly, here’s something for your education:
Tritton in The Caliphs and Their Non-Muslim Subjects equates the two: “Hafs, another governor of Egypt, announced that all dhimmis who abandoned their religion would be free from kharaj, which is jizya” (pp. 35-6). It is important to remember the two names because while the jizya was generally set at a fixed amount by the jurists (although this was highly adjustable), the kharaj was another matter. In the Hedaya, an Islamic legal manual, in a discussion about the purchase of land by a dhimmi, it declares: “it is lawful to require twice as much of a Zimmee [dhimmi] as of a Mussulman [Muslim], whence it is that, if such an one were to come before the collector with merchandise, twice as much would be exacted of him as of a Mussulman” (Hedaya I.vi).
jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/003260.php
 
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r.gonzales:
you know, some would consider that to be plagiarism, which is basically lying since you’re trying to pass off someone else’s writings as your own.
Like I said – sue me. If you want the reference you know where to find me.

BTW: you haven’t answered my yes or no question about ‘is it okay to kill apostates’?
 
Rodrigo Bivar:
BTW: you haven’t answered my yes or no question about ‘is it okay to kill apostates’?
try the search feature on the site for “apostate”.

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raceland:
Go back to post #79,

" • Zakah of cultivated land crops is paid once the crop has ripened and has been harvested. Its Nisab is 612 kilos, which equals 1,346.40 lb. There is no Zakah on production that is less than this amount. If the production depends only on rainwater, or without any human labor or irrigation, the due Zakah is one-tenth of the total. If equipment and tools are used for irrigation, then the Zakah due is half of one-tenth of the total production."

😃 sorry for using fractions. 1/10 = 10 % and half of that…… (I guess you can calculate it by your self).

And this is on Farms, which many Muslims do have. So, it’s not 2.5% in most cases as you keep suggesting. Revise your point.
Hey, you got to do the sums right for everything. What is excluded from this calculation of nisab?
Let’s see what is excluded:
Deduction for debts – the zakat is based only on the net amount after debt.
612 kg of crops as you say.
5 camels
5 uqiya of silver.
Horse
Slave

The scale for zakat is very complicated – see the zakat for sheep. But what is clear is that 2.5% is for silver and that is the general amount.

What is clear is that the rate could be anywhere from 2.5% to 20% after all these deductions. I already told you that. I said that the general case in the old days was about 2.5%. TEXT DELETED

What is the percentage after all these deductions? I think it is clear that the intended rate is 2.5% but more was charge for certain situations because of these deductions. Otherwise, you’re saying that Allah is being unfair between Muslims. Are you saying that? Is your god unfair?

I only say this because a blacksmith who earns only dirhams must pay 2.5%. But a farmer gets taxed 10%? You call that fair? It is only fair if you take into consideration the whole picture and not just the headline rate.
 
Rodrigo Bivar:
Accidental plagiarism hardly constitutes dishonesty. If we want to compare propriety, why don’t we go back to your case where you passed off the ibn abbass story as being in sahih bukhari kitab as-sawm? Is that not dishonest?
accidental huh? :hmmm: sure, i’ll take your word for it 😉 . as for my mistake referencing the ibn 'abbaas statement to saheeh al-bukhaaree, sur, we can go back there… and you can also take a look at the post i made clarifying the mistake i made when i realised it.
 
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r.gonzales:
accidental huh? :hmmm: sure, i’ll take your word for it 😉 . as for my mistake referencing the ibn 'abbaas statement to saheeh al-bukhaaree, sur, we can go back there… and you can also take a look at the post i made clarifying the mistake i made when i realised it.
I will have to be extra careful when we discuss. I didn’t think this is an academic discussion forum. I thought we were having a friendly discussion. But no matter.

So when are you going to answer my question:
“Is killing apostates right?” yes or no.
 
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