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I will keep my experiences to myself. But I will talk about somethings generally.
In ethics, morality, and human rights, you have to accept certain moral truths in a properly basic way. That is without reduction. Seeing a straight line is the shortest distance between two points can be...
Yet what does Quran and hadiths actually say about relying on middlemen not from God but leaders from (reputation) in eyes of people? That is a whole subject that you should explore.
Fine in terms of what standards? A person can be happy without Islam, sure. But if we were created for happiness of that type, this world should not exist. Suffering would not exist. We are being tested and tried with each other. We need guidance from each other but also God. God has to be...
To me, it's opposite. It's not useful for proselytizing, but for peaceful co-existence, some patching of unity where there is disunity, and a basis to move forward from all sides.
For proselytizing, you should use the other angle, that we don't worship the same God because your God is...
Islam provides for everything it teaches, a means to see it's wisdom and proof for it. Most Muslims have not realized that about Islam because they rely on scholars to think and study for them. Yet, there are ways to approach the sent ones, and come to the truth and with plenty and plenty of...
The beauty of life and the next world is all about seeing God through vision of the soul. To make it about Nubuwa or Resalah is to become blind to one of the greatest teachings of Nubuwa and Resalah.
And this is the words of Imam Ali (a) when asked if he seen God, he says "will I worship what I do not see?"
The Ahlulbayt (a) view is that God cannot be fully seen, but he should be seen still to a great degree with the Soul's vision. The unseen signs and the utmost limit place where...
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Precision is what I find unique to Quran. The words picked are precisely chosen to the extent it's mind boggling. This includes it's musical tone in Arabic, but I can't prove that here.
One of these precisions I noticed, is the mention of Lut (a) where Ibrahim (a) is not mentioned...
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On this topic, doesn't Elijah mean "My God is Yahweh"? The Quran mentions that he said "Do you pray to Baal and leave the best of Creators?"
Baal was a name for the Creator in a different culture. The same God. But the concepts varied drastically, that Elyas (a) was named and sent to...
But they didn’t mean saints among humans is the point. So when they said why don’t angels come down to them they didn’t mean humans. And so when Quran says they will see them on day of judgement then it didn’t mean humans either. It’s talking about the same concept as they are.
Them not agreeing believers are saints is a guarantee. Otherwise, they would not be disbelievers. The objection is more "if Mohammad (s) is true and his God exists then why not... this and that".
That doesn't make sense to be about believers being good or bad. And how would that change on the...
The Quran describes it, the earth is flattened (no mountains means it will be totally flat), and per Quran, disbelievers won't be allowed to offer excuses or lead astray, they can whisper to each other but that's about it, and so the signs in terms of miracles when manifested with the...
If paradise stays stagnant, it would be too boring over time. But it's a place of return to God and everything helps manifest God there and make him more known. And the tastes and everything there gets augmented.
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Amount of original believers compared to majority of "Muslims" at time of Prophet (s) end
The original believers were a minority of the final amount of Muslims at the end of Prophet (s) life. What I mean by this, is that most of "Muslims" by end of Prophet (s) life, were people who had...
There's also the perspective that paradise would not be meaningful if not a reward. So this world serves as a way to make it a reward. And the restraints in this world make sense since resources here are limited and justice should take priority.
It shows also they won't be seen by disbelievers till day of judgment. But you neither care for what Angels are nor day of judgment, you worship your religion and don't care for truth.