Tell me about Islam
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That is a mole hill. I am pinning down the mountain. |
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Islam? Read the Koran. Islam is like Protestantism. You only need the book, not "pope" or other men to tell you what's right/wrong.
Like any religion, focus on what the good book tells you to improve yourself in relationship with yourself, with your family, neighbors, and with God. People who judge and hide behind Islam are trying to cover up their shortcomings (or swindle you) by pointing out alleged faults before they're accused. |
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| I'm 12:49 and I have read the Quran, although that was many years ago in college and I've forgotten some details. That's how I knew, however, that Muslima wasn't being straight with us about the "asylum" issue. |
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please clarify what is the trash and what is the erroneous judgement? I think these are facts not judgements. Was Mohammed a pedophile - yes Was Mohammed a murderer, excuse me, a warrior - yes And yet you don't understand why people that follow this type of example, think they can kill non-muslims? political correctness to the extreme. but this is reality today, and what your children and grandchildren will be fighting. - judgement |
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There are no marches and no protests by Sunni Muslims of ISIS because ISIS behavior is Sunnah. And, Sunnah means living as Mohammed lived. Islam teaches that Sunnah should be the goal of every Muslim. ISIS behavior is perfectly correct in terms of the teaching of Sunni Islam as defined in the Islamic Trilogy of writings called the Hadith, the Sira, and the Quran. Respectively, short stories of Mohammed's life, the biography of Mohammed's life, and the revelations of Allah as given to the prophet Mohammed first in Mecca and then in Medina. The revelations of Allah given to Mohammed in Medina abrogate, or repeal, the revelations of Allah given to Mohammed in Mecca. Islam clearly teaches that people are divided into two groups; Kafirs or Muslims. Anything can be done to Kafirs. Beheading, rape, slavery, humiliation, misleading, lying to, et cetera. are each and all approved and promoted for Kafir in the Hadith, the Sira, and the Quran. If you are not Muslim, then you are Kafir. Islam teaches that all of the above and MORE can be done to you not only with Allah's approval but also with the approval of other Muslims. Islam also clearly teaches that the world is divided into two parts; Dar al Islam or it is Dar al Harb. Respectively, the land of Islam and the land of War. Anything can be done to advance Islam in Dar al Harb. Therefore, Sunni Muslims are not marching against ISIS because ISIS is killing Kafirs (Shia Muslims are Kafir) and ISIS is doing it in Dar al Harb to spread Sunni Islam. Therefore, there are no protests against ISIS by Sunni Muslims because ISIS actions are perfectly Sunnah. |
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Nothing ISIS is doing is condoned by Islamic teachings. And many Sunnis are speaking out against them.
Here's just one recent one. http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/08/26/muslims-condemn-isis-as-enemies-of-humanity-at-michigan-rally-141341 |
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Here are more Muslims speaking out against ISIS.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/08/muslims-condemn-isis.html |
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Here are British Muslims speaking out against ISIS:
http://www.mintpressnews.com/uks-sunni-shia-religous-leaders-unite-isis/195283/ |
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And more muslims from Iraq, Indonesia, North America. Speaking out against ISIS.
http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/5715563 |
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Again. More Sunni (and other) Muslims speaking out against ISIS. Egypt's grand mufti from Al-Ahzar a leading Sunni scholar and leader, Turkey, Saudi, and other groups.
http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/commonwordcommonlord/2014/08/think-muslims-havent-condemned-isis-think-again.html So stop with the lies. |
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In the medieval ages the average girl from a dignified family gave birth to her first child around the age of 16-17. Since the average life expectancy was 35 at the time, you can see why. It was deemed that when a girl began menstruation, she was ready to be married. Aisha was Muhammad's youngest wife, married by age 14. Muhammad was born around 570 AD. Are you judging his life according to today's definition of pedophilia? That wouldn't make much sense now, would it? Was Muhammad a murderer? Of course not. He only fought those who threatened to kill Muslims or prevent Muslims from practicing their faith. You clearly have no knowledge of history. |
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Some Muslim apologists have recently claimed that Aisha was actually older than nine lunar years at time of the consummation of her marriage to Prophet Muhammad. They have attempted to explain that Aisha was in fact not nine-years-old as the Sahih hadiths of her own testimony claim, but some other ages derived from misquotations, indirect sources, fuzzy dating techniques and slander. These dubious research techniques have led to several conflicting ages to be proposed for Aisha at the time of consummation, including 12, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 21 years. This article analyzes every single argument put forward by these apologists, and provides additional information on the origins and history of the "Aisha was older" apologetic arguments, and the only logical purpose behind making them. On closer inspection of these polemics you will discover that the various claims can be broadly categorized into these categories; unjustified slanders against Hisham ibn Urwah and the Iraqi narrators, the use of non-sahih information to refute otherwise sahih hadiths, the use of secondary and indirect sources in preference of direct testimonies, the use of ‘imprecise’ dating in preference to specific dates and statements of age, the use of misquoted references and erroneous information, the use of incorrect logic, and personal opinion. Aisha was nine lunar years old at the time her marriage to the Islamic prophet was consummated and there is simply no valid evidence that suggests otherwise. The majority of Muslims today, including both scholars and the general Muslim population, agree. This has been the mainstream Muslim understanding throughout Islam's 1,400 year history, and many of these honest Muslims take offense to these lies propagated by Muslim apologists who are embarrassed by their own prophet's actions. |
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Look, I am not here to deny or approve of anything according to your liking. I am here to share the true teachings of the Quran through how it was taught to me for years that I spent studying and my understandings as a Muslim and my life as a perpetual islamic Student. I am not just an ignorant anonymous googling random verses that they don't know anything about, no context, not the reason why the verse was revealed, when it was revealed, what the tafseer of the verse is and spreading lies on the internet. Whether you like it or not, Islam doesn't condone slavery especially not slavery in the barbaric way it was practiced in the WEST. In short, it is not only the institution of slavery that causes revulsion in the human heart, it is the attitudes of inhumanity which sustain it. And the truth is, if the institution no longer formally exists but the attitudes persist, then humanity has not gained much, if at all. That is why colonial exploitation replaced slavery, and why the chains of unbearable, unrepayable international debt have replaced colonial exploitation: only slavery has gone, its structures of inhumanity and barbarism are still securely in place. Before we turn to the Islamic perspective on slavery, let us recall a name famous even among Western Europeans, that of Harun al-Rashid, and let us recall that this man who enjoyed such authority and power over all Muslims was the son of a slave. Nor is he the only such example; slaves and their children enjoyed enormous prestige, authority, respect and (shall we say it) freedom, within the Islamic system, in all areas of life, cultural as well as political. How could this have come about? Islam amended and educated the institution of slavery and the attitudes of masters to slaves. The Qur’an taught in many verses that all human beings are descended from a single ancestor, that none has an intrinsic right of superiority over another, whatever his race or his nation or his social standing. And from the Prophet’s teaching, upon him be peace, the Muslims learnt these principles, which they applied both as laws and as social norms: "Whosoever kills his slave: he shall be killed. Whosoever imprisons his slave and starves him, he shall be imprisoned and starved himself, and whosoever castrates his slave shall himself be castrated." (Abu Dawud, Diyat, 70; Tirmidhi, Diyat, 17; Al-Nasa’i, Qasama, 10, 16). For this reason ‘Umar and his servant took it in turns to ride on the camel from Madina to Jerusalem on their journey to take control of Masjid al-Aqsa. While he was the head of the state, ‘Uthman had his servant pull his own ears in front of the people since he had pulled his. Abu Dharr, applying the hadith literally, made his servant wear one half of his suit while he himself wore the other half. From these instances, it was being demonstrated to succeeding generations of Muslims, and a pattern of conduct established, that a slave is fully a human being, not different from other people in his need for respect and dignity and justice. Muslims were encouraged by their faith to enter into agreements and contracts which enabled slaves to earn or be granted their freedom at the expiry of a certain term or, most typically, on the death of the owner. Unconditional emancipation was, naturally, regarded as the most meritorious kind, and worthiest of recognition in the life hereafter. There were occasions when whole groups of people, acting together, would buy and set free large numbers of slaves in order to obtain thereby the favour of God. There is not a single verse in the Quran that says "Slavery is forbidden" just like there isn't a verse in the Quran that says "Alcolhol is forbidden" but all Muslims know that alcohol is haram and forbidden in Islam. However, there are several verses which refer to the freeing of slaves as an act of righteouness and for the purification of sins, this means that eventually the slave industry ( in the context of what it was back then ) would have died out. If every religion or culture had the right to enslave another because it was not forbidden to do so then that would lead to chaos and revolts.....it is human conciousness that has made the practise redundant ( that is in the form in which it was formally practised and not the economic slavery that exists today ie Vulture Capitalism ) ..and this human conciousness is consistent with the Quranic verses on FREEING slaves. The Quran aknowledged the practise but did not encourage it but rather the freeing of slaves and equated the freeing of slaves as a righteous act....now ask yourself that question...why do you think Allah has encouraged the Freeing of slaves?????think about it!.and then think again! As there is NOT A SINGLE statement in the Qur’an, whereby believers are commanded to enslave other human beings, and as the Qur’an has called for freeing of slaves as a meritorious act, alleviated their status by way of marriage as well as economic support, and declared that servitude is due to God alone (51:56) and no human being, no matter how high a status he may occupy, has the right to say to people ‘be my slaves’ (3:79), it is wrong to suggest that the Book sanctions slavery. The great genius of our religion, and one of the great truths of our Prophet saw is that he came as a mercy to everyone. He created multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies. He had all types of people: Persians, Romans, Africans, Arabs from different tribes and he brought them into a fraternity of mercy. He had Jews and Christians and he honored them, and spoke to them kindly. He was not a harsh person, he was a gentle person. He created an open society. Our religion honors people and treats them with dignity and that is something you can not change! |
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Actually, I will encourage every person curious about Islam to take their copy of the Quran to any mosque, go ask to talk to the Imam, ask about their credentials, sit down with them and ask all of your questions about any passage, chapter, story, ect that you are confused about. We Muslims don't have anything to hide. Islam is not a religion you learn through Google or Sheikh Wikipedia. Scholars spend years and years to study every piece, section and verse of the Quran, its tafseer, meaning, year it was revealed and reason behind the revelation. To understand the Quran as a Non-Muslim you would have to understand or Know the life of the prophet Muhammad saw to even understand what some verses are referring to. The Qur'an is not arranged chronologically. Chapters come in groups joined by similarity or identity of the first verse, similarities of verse structure or length, and sometimes similarities of subject matter. Another point to be taken note of is that, as hinted above, the methodical nature of the Quran is not just an incidental matter in the study of the Quran, it is integral to the meaning of the Quran. In plain terms, since the Quran has an organic structure, every verse or group of verses and every surah has a definitive context and interpretation of any portion of the Quran must be based on a correct understanding of that context. It is unfortunate how some people misuse the Quran. Too often its verses have been torn out of context to prove some particular juristical opinion or sectarian notion. Frequently its terms and phrases have been misconstrued by those who come to it seeking, in some odd verse, support for views they have already formed on other than Quranic grounds. It is indeed a great irony that all heresies have been claimed by their propounders to have their basis in the Quran. And if these heresies looked plausible to many, it was because the context of the verses constituting the so-called 'basis in the Quran' was not properly understood. As Mawlana Islahi has shown, contextualization gives to countless verses a construction different from the one usually placed on them; it throws new light not only on the doctrinal and creedal aspects of the Quranic message but also on the methodological aspects of the message; it lends new significance not only to the moral and legal injunctions of the Quran but also to the stories and parables narrated by the Quran; and it affords a deep insight not only into the continually changing style and tone of the Quran but also into the varied patterns of logic it employs. |
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The Myth:
The Quran places men and women on equal foundation before Allah. Each person is judged according to his or her own deeds. Women have equal rights under Islamic law. The Truth: Merely stating that individuals will be judged as such by Allah does not mean that they have equal rights and roles, or that they are judged by the same standards. There is no ambiguity in the Quran, the life of Muhammad, or Islamic law as to the inferiority of women to men despite the efforts of modern-day apologists to salvage Western-style feminism from scraps and fragments of verses that have historically held no such progressive interpretation. After military conquests, Muhammad would dole out captured women as war prizes to his men. In at least one case, he advocated that they be raped in front of their husbands. Captured women were made into sex slaves by the very men who killed their husbands and brothers. There are four Quranic verses in which "Allah" makes clear that a Muslim master has full sexual access to his female slaves, yet there is not one that prohibits rape. The Recent Facts: ISIS and Yazidi Women Hundreds of Yazidi women abducted by ISIS have either been sold or handed out to members of the Sunni extremist group, according to an organization that monitors the crisis. In the past few weeks, ISIS has "distributed" to its rank and file about 300 female members of the persecuted religious minority, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group aligned with the opposition in Syria. Those women were initially kidnapped in Iraq before being taken to Syria. In ISIS' eyes, the girls and women are "captives of the spoils of war with the infidels," the Syria monitors said, claiming that some had converted to Islam so ISIS fighters can marry them. SOHR says it could confirm at least 27 cases in which women were "sold and married" for about $1,000 each to ISIS militants in Aleppo and Raqqa suburbs and Al-Hassakah. Boko Haram and Nigerian Girls Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls turned even more nightmarish Monday when the leader of the Islamist militant group that kidnapped them announced plans to sell them. "I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah," a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video first obtained by Agence France-Presse. "There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women," he continued, according to a CNN translation from the local Hausa language. Boko Haram is a terrorist group receiving training from al Qaeda affiliates, according to U.S. officials. Its name means "Western education is sin." In his nearly hourlong, rambling video, Shekau repeatedly called for Western education to end. Iman Huwaini and Spoils of War According to Huwaini, after Muslims invade and conquer a non-Muslim nation—in the course of waging an offensive jihad—the properties and persons of those infidels who refuse to convert or pay jizya and live as subjugated dhimmis, are to be seized as ghanima or “spoils of war.” Huwaini cited the Koran as his authority—boasting that it has an entire chapter named “spoils”—and the sunna of Muhammad, specifically as recorded in the famous Sahih Muslim hadith wherein the prophet ordered the Muslim armies to offer non-Muslims three choices: conversion, subjugation, or death/enslavement. Huwaini said that infidel captives, the “spoils of war,” are to be distributed among the Muslim combatants (i.e., jihadists) and taken to “the slave market, where slave-girls and concubines are sold.” He referred to these latter by their dehumanizing name in the Koran, ma malakat aymanukum—“what your right hands possess”—in this context, sex-slaves: “You go to the market and buy her, and she becomes like your legal mate—though without a contract, a guardian, or any of that stuff—and this is agreed upon by the ulema.” “In other words,” Huwaini concluded, “when I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her.” |