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To all Christian friends:
I was just watching this thread to see how christians view Islam.
Most descriptions of the Christian members are like those five blind men’s statements who were asked to describe an elephant after touching only certain areas of an elephant. You can imagine how they would have described it. From their descriptions you will never be able to render a true picture of an elephant because none of them really had the opportunity to feel the whole elephant nor they had eyes to see it.
Same is true with you because you either are not really interested in knowing Islam from it’s perspective or like to touch certain aspects through anti-Islam sources or gather information form here and there or hearsay.
Had you examined atleast your own faith objectively and critically, you would have had a totally new attitude and a new way of looking other religions especially Islam.
Let me remind you a very important aspect of Islam. Islam is not a religion at all, in the first place in the sense/terminology of western English word “religion”.
Islam is called in Arabic Addeen (Al+Deen) which means The Way of Life. And the only Deen (way of life) acceptable in the sight of God (Allah) is Al-islam. Islam means total submission through obedience of the Divine Law.
So when people think Islam must be a religion like Christianity or Buddhaism, they are wrong. In English there is no equivalent word for Addeen (The Way of Life). The closest one is ‘religion’, so usually Muslims use it because English is defficient langauge as opposed to deep Arabic or Hebrew langauges.
Now when it is said Islam is Addeen, The Way of Life, it gives solution to every field of human life. It is not a religion that is applicable only when you pray to God or do some rituals or acts of kindness. No. It is about living every moment in the state of Islam.
Each and every particle of this Universe and our own physical existence is Muslim except the freedom (choice) of our intellect. Why? because it is this freedom (choice), though limited, which makes us responsible for the consequences of our actions in this world and in the Hereafter.
It means everything is already surrendered (Muslim) to the law of God that is placed. When God created us He did not leave us to wander in vain. He did select some people among us to Guide us. These people were the Prophets/Messengers (PBUH). They came and gave the Law and lived by the Law to set an example. They all were human being like us. The last version of Law of God (Islam) was the Holy Quran.
Now as to it’s application, as far main precepts/foundational articles are concerned, **it is must to have a perfect agreement ** but in other areas which are subject to change due to the future progress in man’s thought it is not necessary that every one should have 100% agreement and same kind of interpretation on each and every minute details.
Differences in opinions are allowed in Islam in the details. This freedom to have different opinions allowed to emerge various schools of thought in the Muslim world and they all are valid as long as they all adopt those principles that have a possibility within the framework of Islamic Shari’ah.
So when you here about Hanfi or Shafa’i or Hanbali or Maliki schools of thought, you should not get confused. They are due to the difference in opinions that are valid. But they all adhere to same basic foundation of Islam. No one will depart from the essentiality of Holy Quran and the authentic Sunnah of the last Prophet (PBUH). As such when they pray or when they gather or when they go to Hajj at Mecca, despite they all belong to different schools of thought they all are one. Because Islam allowed to have different opinions in the minor matters other than fundamentals.
Islam is not rigid. It is this aspect of Islam, that makes it dynamic and grow alongwith the progress of human thought. This is the beautiful aspect of Islam.
So there is only one Islam in the mainstream Muslim world.
Note: But as far Ahmediyyahs are concerned, they are not Muslims at all because they departed from the main precept of Islam.]
I was just watching this thread to see how christians view Islam.
Most descriptions of the Christian members are like those five blind men’s statements who were asked to describe an elephant after touching only certain areas of an elephant. You can imagine how they would have described it. From their descriptions you will never be able to render a true picture of an elephant because none of them really had the opportunity to feel the whole elephant nor they had eyes to see it.
Same is true with you because you either are not really interested in knowing Islam from it’s perspective or like to touch certain aspects through anti-Islam sources or gather information form here and there or hearsay.
Had you examined atleast your own faith objectively and critically, you would have had a totally new attitude and a new way of looking other religions especially Islam.
Let me remind you a very important aspect of Islam. Islam is not a religion at all, in the first place in the sense/terminology of western English word “religion”.
Islam is called in Arabic Addeen (Al+Deen) which means The Way of Life. And the only Deen (way of life) acceptable in the sight of God (Allah) is Al-islam. Islam means total submission through obedience of the Divine Law.
So when people think Islam must be a religion like Christianity or Buddhaism, they are wrong. In English there is no equivalent word for Addeen (The Way of Life). The closest one is ‘religion’, so usually Muslims use it because English is defficient langauge as opposed to deep Arabic or Hebrew langauges.
Now when it is said Islam is Addeen, The Way of Life, it gives solution to every field of human life. It is not a religion that is applicable only when you pray to God or do some rituals or acts of kindness. No. It is about living every moment in the state of Islam.
Each and every particle of this Universe and our own physical existence is Muslim except the freedom (choice) of our intellect. Why? because it is this freedom (choice), though limited, which makes us responsible for the consequences of our actions in this world and in the Hereafter.
It means everything is already surrendered (Muslim) to the law of God that is placed. When God created us He did not leave us to wander in vain. He did select some people among us to Guide us. These people were the Prophets/Messengers (PBUH). They came and gave the Law and lived by the Law to set an example. They all were human being like us. The last version of Law of God (Islam) was the Holy Quran.
Now as to it’s application, as far main precepts/foundational articles are concerned, **it is must to have a perfect agreement ** but in other areas which are subject to change due to the future progress in man’s thought it is not necessary that every one should have 100% agreement and same kind of interpretation on each and every minute details.
Differences in opinions are allowed in Islam in the details. This freedom to have different opinions allowed to emerge various schools of thought in the Muslim world and they all are valid as long as they all adopt those principles that have a possibility within the framework of Islamic Shari’ah.
So when you here about Hanfi or Shafa’i or Hanbali or Maliki schools of thought, you should not get confused. They are due to the difference in opinions that are valid. But they all adhere to same basic foundation of Islam. No one will depart from the essentiality of Holy Quran and the authentic Sunnah of the last Prophet (PBUH). As such when they pray or when they gather or when they go to Hajj at Mecca, despite they all belong to different schools of thought they all are one. Because Islam allowed to have different opinions in the minor matters other than fundamentals.
Islam is not rigid. It is this aspect of Islam, that makes it dynamic and grow alongwith the progress of human thought. This is the beautiful aspect of Islam.
So there is only one Islam in the mainstream Muslim world.
Note: But as far Ahmediyyahs are concerned, they are not Muslims at all because they departed from the main precept of Islam.]
anyway, the Bible says he died for all … if these people said this, it is because they know more than you or i…Jesus is not a sentence, Jesus is everything he said and did…If i believe he died willingly, it’d be absurd to believe he died for some people. the Bible is not a doctrine book, you have to read it all to understand what the authors wanted to convey in their testimony.