Pictures and photographs are allowed because they aren't the creation of human beings, they're merely a reflection of light, which is created by God. Perhaps he could explain it a bit better...
Icehorse, I cannot help but have mixed feelings about what you said.
Having roots from Sub-Saharan Africa I know for a fact that even Muslim majority countries below the Sahara are often treated as 2nd rate citizens, mostly because government and high positions are given to the Christian...
I think I've realized what icehorse seems to be getting at.
His criticism doesn't seem to be directed toward the Quran so much like the thread topic or even the flow of the debate is going, but toward Muslim polititians today since mahmoud has done well in refuting his claims.
Well, I...
I'm afraid I could use this same argument against you, thus making it pointless.
Knowing violence in the world around you, and what you know to be violent, you use what you thought was a violent book, the Quran I presume, and use verses you found to be promoting violence to support what you...
In fact, I would have to say that it's kind of like that, but it's not as extreme as you're making it to be.
I have a feeling that perhaps your copy of the Quran says something like 'This is the perfect, final, unalterable word of God', and then you decided to add 'you humans wouldn't have...
The Quran doesn't claim to have been something new. It's just a reminder for us.
Say: "We believe in God, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Ibraheem [Abraham], Isma'il [Ishmael], Ishaaq [Isaac], Ayuub [Jacob], and the Tribes, and in the (the Books) Given to Musa...
If I remember correctly, isn't Bukhari considered the most authentic of Hadith? If so, at the very least Bukhari shouldn't have anything that contradicts the Quran. Although I am no Hadith expert, in all my times looking at Hadith, I haven't really come across some that have contradicted the...
Personally I greatly dislike Quranism mostly because it is quite contradictory to Islam itself. Throughout the Quran we are commanded by God to do many things, but many times we aren't told in which manner or how we are supposed to do them.
I would highly suggest looking at this.
Qur'an Only...
The title of this thread has got me thinking.
It says, "The only acceptable religion to Allah is Islam"
This in fact is very false. Throughout the Quran one will find that it often talks about the 'people of the book', and how Muslims should have close relationships with them because of the...