When you continue, could you then also respond to post #119?
and allow me to add mine again:
Thank you R_not
God bless you for your kind words.Agreed on all counts, friend. Hopefully Muslim Woman will get to us eventually.
But if Allah gave a command to only angels and Satan is not an angel, then Allah is unjust for blaming Satan for not obeying the command Allah gave only to angels. It will not do to invoke Tagleeb because to do so would be to commit the fallacy of false analogy; see answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/iblis.html.
St. Job, inspired by the Holy Spirit, says [Job 4:18], “In His angels He found wickedness.” It belongs to the dignity of man to have free will. The angels have more dignity than men, so they have free will too. Wherever exists an intellect there exists free will, and since angels are subsistent intelligences, they have free will. Angels, before they were confirmed in beatitude, had the ability to disobey God; i.e. an angel can sin considered in his own created nature but a good angel does not sin considering the gift of grace which God bestowed him.
It is impossible that the saints will drink wine for pleasure, because drinking wine solely for pleasure is in this life mortally sinful, and the life of the saints is more orderly than the present life. Pleasure is not the end of wine drinking, but wine drinking is the end and purpose of the pleasure of that activity.{1} The saints do not seek bodily pleasures because they are already happy; i.e. they have achieved their last end which is the vision of God as He eternally is. Affirming that the saints will drink wine for pleasure in Paradise leads to any number of absurd conclusions, e.g. that man has multiple last ends, man’s happiness consists in some bodily pleasure, man’s happiness consists in some sensitive operation, or man’s happiness consists in some created good, all of which are effectively disproved in Prima Secundæ Partis of the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas @ newadvent.org/summa/2.htm.
May God make us both humble, loving, and blessed servants of His Catholic Church. Amen.
What if the majority opinion interprets the quran as instructions from God to fight and subjugate non-muslims until the only religion is islam? What if the majority are extremists by western standards?
Yeah - my question too.
**The Muslim men are allowed to marry the christian and/or Jewish women (Al Quran 5:5) provided they marry them , give them some money (Mehr/ dowary) and keep them as wife, not as friends or mistresses/ concubines. The wife will share all rights and inherit too. She can remain steadfast on her own relgion, i.e. need not convert to Islam.Grace and Peace Muslim Woman,
Actually I’m a little disappointed that this thread call “Ask about Islam” has degenerated into an apologetic free-for-all.
I simply wanted to ask a question about what a mixed Muslim/Christian family had to share in their prayer life since I had heard that Muslim Men could marry Jewish and Christian Women.
If it is possible for Muslim Men to marry Jewish and Christian Women I would like to know what they have to share in their prayer life as a family?
From what I read from Muslim Woman was that Muslim Men “can’t” marry Jewish and Christian Women… I have always heard that this is not correct. I have always heard that Muslim Men ‘can’ marry Jewish and Christian Women. If this is so then what is life within these mixed families? What is their prayer life like? How does the Jewish or Christian Women observe her faith? I’m not talking about drinking alcohol or eating pork but religious observance and prayer. What is such a mixed family life?
Wa’salaam.
If I recall muslim women cannot marry non-muslim men. Why is that if men and women share the same rights in islam? You mention inheritance. Would the non-muslim woman fall under the sharia inheritance law where women only receive half of what men get?
Why then does it say men can ‘control’ a woman’s religious beliefs and she can worship her religion if he allows her?