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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]
Of course you use your brain to reason, but if you do believe in God & follow a religion, you have a book that should be your guide. If you believe you are enough to guide yourself through life, good for you, I leave all of my affairs to God and ask Him to guide me on a daily basis. It is a choice ~[/quote]

There is a difference between a guide and an instruction manual.  God may guide my path, that doesn't mean that I need specific instructions on my cleanliness, usury laws, etc.  There are so many obvious reasons for this, one of them being that the technology and economics and all kinds of different things were completely different.  What worked yesterday may not work today or tomorrow.  The most important aspects of life- how we treat one another and ourselves, are the same, but no, I don't need a guide on every trivial issue in life.  I have something better- a relationship.  God is so much bigger and better than just a book and set of laws.   I pray one day that you understand this.[/quote]

Well I also believe that God is bigger than the Quran, the Quran is His miracle that He shared with mankind, but He is not restricted or contained to this one book at all. He is infinite! But as a Muslim, the Quran is my guide, it has a complete set of rules for every aspect of my life and it is timeless.  it details all the authentic human physical and spiritual needs for all times. The God I believe in has complete and absolute knowledge of the world so of course His Book will transcend over time. Personally, I think this world is in the depths of darkness. We live in an age of unprecedented slaughter and oppression. We live in an age where the chasm between rich and poor (both people and countries) is staggeringly vast. We live in an age where this gap is exploited. Ours is an age of confusion, and moral relativism which is descending into outright moral rejectionism. In the West, our societies are crumbling from within, but our dangerous decay is masked by our affluence, the magnificent height of our buildings, the dizzying numbers on our economic balance sheet.We are becoming less human. And, like every other civilisational superpower that has lived before us, we are claiming that we are the greatest civilisation known to history, and that we are riding on an unsinkable ship.
I do not limit the above to the Western world. Most of what I've written applies globally.

Perhaps Christendom, or at least that part of it which is now called 'the West', has benefitted from putting its scripture to one side and becoming less religious. Perhaps the Bible does not have a significant role to play in Western civilisation. Perhaps it does.

Whatever the case, the Muslim world is completely different. The dark ages in which the Muslim world now finds itself are not a result of increased religiosity, or religious adherence, but rather of decreased adherence and religiosity. That social dynamic has bred religious ignorance so that anything can now be passed off as religion if you have a long-enough beard.The Muslim world right now, is going through some kind of renaissance. There are many competing ideologies, and in time one will emerge to recapture the enlightenment of the past. The Qur'an certainly has not lost its influence on human development. Rather it now has the capacity to be more positively influential than ever.The Qur'an does not need to be 'retooled into a more progressive mindset'. It is a progressive mindset. The early Muslims were progressive people. Real Muslim scholars continue to be.The Qur'an therefore, is not only relevant to the modern world, but will always be. It enunciates prinicples of guidance for humanity. Humanity does not change, though the manifestation of the human condition does. Essentially, the problems are always the same, even if the symptoms become more complex.

Ma salaama (with peace)[/quote]

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