Comments on: Happy Ashura Everyone

By: Radhwan ul Hasan

Radhwan ul Hasan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:46:42 +0000

Bismillah Ar Rahman Ar Rahim,
(In the name of God, the most Beneficent & the most Merciful.)

Deal gently with a people, and be not harsh; cheer them and condemn not. Holy Prophet (PBUH)

One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal. Ali bin Abutalib (A.S.)

If I cut a faithful Muslim into pieces to make him hate me, he will not turn into my enemy and if I give all the wealth of this world to a hypocrite to make him my friend he will not befriend me. It is so because the Holy Prophet has said: ” O Ali! No faithful Muslim will ever be your enemy and no hypocrite will ever be your friend. ” Ali bin Abutalib (A.S.)

A bedouin came to the holy prophet Muhammad (s) and asked him some questions.
Bedouin: I wish to be the richest person in the world.

Prophet: Be content and you will be the richest person in the world.

Bedouin: I would like to be the most learned of people.

Prophet: Fear Allah and you will be the most learned of people.

Bedouin: I would like to be the most just of people.

Prophet: Desire for others what you would like for yourself and you would be the most just of people.

Bedouin: I would like to be the best of people.

Prophet: Be good to others and you will be the best of people.

Bedouin: I would like to be the most honorable of people.

Prophet: If you do not complain to any fellow humans you will be the most honorable of people.

Bedouin: I wish to be safe from Allah’s Wrath on the Day of Judgment.

Prophet: If you do not lose your temper with any of your fellow humans, you will be safe from Allah’s wrath on the Day of Judgment.

Bedouin: What are the worst evils in the sight of Allah?

Prophet: Hot temper and miserliness (i.e. selfishness with money).

Wassalam.

By: rida ahmed

rida ahmed — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:11:50 +0000

hi im a muslim im not a shia im a sunni i think these people are very stupid , donkeys in other words they do things that should’t be done , this is the kinda stuff that makes islam look bad everyone shud be (muslim) no shia or sunni or everyone shud be sunni cause shais are crazy people and kill and bomb people

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:08:18 +0000

And no one can be a bad person if they offer tea and biscuits . . . how very Bedouin of you (a high compliment, I assure you)! :)

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:57:54 +0000

Muslim boy —
I don’t mean to fry synapses during exams ;) and I am well aware that you are a teenager. Let me share a favorite saying (I’m full of them; one might say that I live my life by sayings and quotations) from my most honored “holy” book, “Stranger in a Strange Land”: “I will wait until waiting in fullness is.” In other words, patience is my watchword (and a very hard-won one at that, I freely admit). I am very happy to hear that your mind is not closed to new ideas; it is one of the wonders of adolescence that all to often ossifies into hard-line thinking with no flexibility. I myself try to be open to new modes of thought, even though I have some hard-wired responses to certain ideas I have heard again and again (for example, the concept of original sin, which seems to me the greatest evil ever propogated upon humanity after due and careful consideration: there is no logical reason whatsoever to blame and punish a one-day old unbabtized baby for the crimes of remote ancestors!).
I could go into the root religions which fed into the Abrahamic ones, but I am a firm believer that self-actualization requires one to do research and study on one’s one. Still, I’ll give you a hint: archeological history indicates that Abraham was in Egypt at the exact same time as the initial concept of a monotheistic god was posited by Ahnkesenaten (father of Tutahnkamen, the only pharoah with an intact treasure found from the 20th century on) . . . which says volumes.

By: muslim boy

muslim boy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:16:54 +0000

kurt..

a very interesting point,
i dont know if i speak for all abrahamic religions, but for islam it is neccessery for both the good and the bad to be present within one’s self…
the whole idea is that are you able to control your anger, and prevent say anger from clouding your ability to act logically at times..
we want this freewill, we dont want to be puppets and have no control over our destiny..
the whole idea is god is merciful enough to have given us life and to have allowed us to choose what actions to carry out and ultimately if we are worthy of heaven and hell.. the good and the bad must be seperated (i.e punishment and reward) otherwise, the whole idea of morality would collapse..

yesterday, these 2 christian ladies from a local church came knocking on my door.. i opened the door, saw the bibles in their hands and understood the situation immidiatly.. i decided rather than to tell them to go away as most people usually do, i told them i was al ears and willing to listen to what they had to say.. i told them i was muslim and we had a discussion. since im still busy with exams i asked if they could come back when id finished and we could have a proper discussion (with tea and biscuits), because this is not only an oppurtunity for them to try and influence me to embrace christianity, but for me to express my beliefs and hopefully have a significant effect upon them…

kurt i really dont think ive got the right knowledge to deal with those sorts of question, i only just about know my religion enough to be able to understand its basic beauty.. but theres far more i still have to learn. i got a free bible off those ladies, gonna read through it and compare it to the holy quaran. hopefully sooner or later, ill be able to properly answer your questions mate, for now your dealin with a teenager.

my lord is merciful..

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:16:27 +0000

Muslim boy –
Hope you did well on your exams, and welcome back!
Actually, that point was one that I have heard, and it goes along nicely with what Irish was pointing out. My actual thoughts on the matter go something like this: *all* of our emotions serve an evolutionary purpose. Lust aids in the mating process, anger is useful for defending oneself, etc.; all through the release of hormones. As a scientific agnostic, I tend most towards deism as a proper model for what is seen to occur in this Universe, with a dash of Buddhism and Taoism thrown in. I don’t see any evidence that any “god” which inititated the Universal processes has intervened at all since initiation (the Big Bang).
These things must be balanced: cooperation is good for many things, but has its limits; the same can be said for competition. To actively forbid any emotion we have as completely “evil” is a manichean view of the Universe — black vs. white — when it is in fact made of shades of gray.
And yet the Abrahamic religions *do* posit a black vs. white view, and promise punishment for *thought* as well as action. I just can’t subscribe to that.
As far as free will, I do believe it exists, but there is something to be said for the argument that from outside, everything looks deterministic; from the inside it looks like free will.
Hope all is well with you and yours.

By: muslim boy

muslim boy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:17:12 +0000

im a good 2 months late..
had exams..

kurt, so u are saying you would rather god didnt put this lust and whatever, and that you didnt have the freewill to refrain from sinning, but rather for god to control your life..

that is what you are suggesting is it not?

you dont want these bad qualities because you think its unfair…

but without them you would be ‘all good’ with no freewill to be bad, and hence youd just be a puppet…

think about it

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:21:43 +0000

Irish —
I’m surprised you didn’t bring up one of the most cogent arguments concerning this aspect I’ve ever heard: if we have been created, we were created with all our emotions, flaws, and urges. So here we have a god who *makes* man lustful, jealous, and violent, and then says “don’t do that!” Makes one wonder, that little theological point, doesn’t it?
By the way, no offense Muslim boy, but that is something which the Abrahamic religions have some serious explaining to do. One of the reasons I am not an adherent.

By: irishthunder

irishthunder — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:25:54 +0000

“islam as a religion, encourages the performance of the good deeds and prohibits the morally bad.”

What does that imply about us as humans? So we would all be robbing, murdering, and raping if it weren’t for someone telling us those things are wrong? Thats the most pessimistic view of mankind I have ever heard.

By the way, I truly LOATHE all things that have caused death and destruction at any time in history. It just so happens religion falls into that category.

By: boris

boris — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:50:40 +0000

@muslimboy

let’s start with the creation account, as stated in the quran. it’s quite similar to genesis, maybe even more vague. that kind of creationism is proven to be inaccurate.