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  1. Gharib

    Was the prophet Muhammad able to read and write?

    I think you are confusing yourself Firedragon. You said the hadith were not a reliable source because they were written down centuries later and I said that was untrue. You even stated yourself afterwards that there were written hadith in existence long before those centuries you first implied...
  2. Gharib

    Was the prophet Muhammad able to read and write?

    From Nasai, 'Ali said: "The Unlettered Prophet [SAW] made a covenant with me, that none but a believer would love me, and none but a hypocrite would hate me."
  3. Gharib

    Was the prophet Muhammad able to read and write?

    Muhamed alayhi salam was not literate. But at the same time he was not stupid for being illiterate. And I asked for your religion so I can know how to speak to you, at the moment I am getting mixed messages of you being a Muslim or maybe a former Muslim or a non Muslim altogether. I dont know...
  4. Gharib

    Was the prophet Muhammad able to read and write?

    @firedragon help me understand you, are you a muslim? You keep quoting a scholar/poet from Andalus. I mentioned to you the Madhhabs, a collective of Scholars and you reject this yet are so quick to "blindly" follow just a single person with an opposing view and reject the thousands. Moreover...
  5. Gharib

    Was the prophet Muhammad able to read and write?

    Not everyone was illiterate, the wealthy high class was not. Education and knowledge are highly emphasised in Islam so much so that literate prisoners of war were freed after having taught Muslims how to read and write. Ahadith being written a few centuries latter? I think you need to go...
  6. Gharib

    Extreme views.

    Wa alaykum salam. The driving force behind all of this is the exploitation of peoples ignorance to the teachings of Islam. Usually a new Muslim is very prone to this especially when the person that is doing the 'brainwashing' offers you to 'read the texts for yourself'. This 'reading the texts...
  7. Gharib

    Confused.

    Hi Joseph, Being a new muslim in todays world is very problematic and confusing. Even having been born into a Muslim family is just as problematic if not more. The advice I give people is to follow one of the 4 Madhhabs (Schools of legal thought). They are well established and come to us from...
  8. Gharib

    Regarding the 7 Heavens

    It is symbolic, the distance of 500 years is not specified at what speed as the speaker says, and it is not possible for us to go to any of the other 'universes'. It's just an example to make us understand what's there and how it is. Hope that makes sense.
  9. Gharib

    Regarding the 7 Heavens

    Hi EBM, Paradise and Hell themselves have levels, Paradise has 7 levels where the highest level is Al Firdaws, this is where the Prophets and Martyrs will be and anyone else that Allah allows, while in hell the deeper the level the more severe the punishment and Iblis-Satan will be on the lowest...
  10. Gharib

    Is it Sharia Law or the government leaders?

    Those whom you've quoted are either very ignorant and don't know anything or they are intentionally misleading people.
  11. Gharib

    Is it Sharia Law or the government leaders?

    Unfortunately is it a misconception that men force women to wear the head scarf or the burqa. I know many people personally where the wife wants to wear the head scarf but the husband doesn't allow her. Or the husband want's her to wear it and she doesn't. Or the example at the beach, I have...
  12. Gharib

    Is it Sharia Law or the government leaders?

    It is mainly an innate distinction because a man's body is not considered as attractive as that of a woman. Although women are allowed to expose the face and hands, there is still emphasis on men to lower their gaze and not look at them lustfully. While this applies to women too to lower...
  13. Gharib

    Is it Sharia Law or the government leaders?

    Realistically, all Muslim countries that exist today implement Shariah Law to an extent but not as a whole. It would be a different governing system and citizenship would be based on faith rather than race/ethnicity et. A citizen of said country would be anyone who is a Muslim and anyone who is...
  14. Gharib

    Is it Sharia Law or the government leaders?

    By Islamic law all of a woman's body is considered 'nakedness' due to it's drawing of men. However, that which is apparent the face, hands and according to another opinion the feet are not part of that nakedness and may be exposed. The aim of an Islamic country or state is to establish Islamic...
  15. Gharib

    Death in Islam

    Brother/Sister there is nothing in Islamic texts that supports this statement of yours. I haven't been around much to know anything about you but most of what you have said in this thread is doubtful if not outright incorrect.
  16. Gharib

    Death in Islam

    Hi Epic Beard Man, Welcome to the Islamic Forum. I think the brothers have confused you a little more than you were initially confused. When a person dies his soul gets taken out of the body, that is what is means by the Islamic term 'every soul will taste death'. Unfortunately it is a...
  17. Gharib

    Where is God when awful things happen?

    I think it is a mistake that people somehow think this life is meant to be without problems if taking into consideration that we are here temporarily and have the option to choose right drom wrong. People have egos, dreams, desires and this is what at times drives goodnes and at time evil. If...
  18. Gharib

    Studying Islam and considering converting.

    Hi S.F. I haven't been around lately but this is wonderful news. How has it been progresin, I hope all is well. If you need any help or anything whatsoever let us know by posting here or PM. All the best.
  19. Gharib

    Reading and writing

    Reading and writing - literacy - was not a common thing at the time. Nor were the verses mentioned a command to learn to read and write. !3 years had passed from the revelation of those verses until the migration to Madinah. When the first war occured - the battle of Badr - a number of prisoners...
  20. Gharib

    List of traditions (Hadiths) that contradict explicitly the holy Quran

    It's interesting how someone who doesn't accept or regard the hadith as having any weight to then come along and tell us that they are contradictory with the Qur'an. So what about the ones that "supposedly" don't contradict the Qur'an, should they be accepted? There is a hadith which says that...
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