Peace be upon you.
I am a Muslim. It is unfortunate many of you here lack
understanding of Islam and spread misinterpreted thoughts without
doing your homework first. You guys simply copy and paste
links/articles blindly from the internet but how are you sure they
are 100% reliable? Therefore, you are not in the the position to
judge Muslims based on your "findings".
I am a 17 year old Muslim. Probably way younger than all the
posters in this forum. However, I respect everyone here regardless
of your age/race/religion. And I feel that "respect" is something
most of you here lack. Even though I was born a Muslim, I did not
simply perform Islamic rituals without asking myself "Why am I
doing this and this etc...". Unfortunately, this is not the case
for all the Muslims here as they merely perform the religious
rituals because their parents ask them to do so. They do not know
why they are doing it thus their faith will gradually weaken and do
not know much about their own faith. Thus, let me begin by
explaining to you guys what is Islam.
Islam is the monotheistic religion articulated by the Qur’an, a text considered by its adherents to be
the verbatim word of God (Arabic:
الله, Allah), and by the teachings and normative example
(called the Sunnah and composed of
Hadith) of Muhammad, considered by them to be the last prophet of God. In addition to
referring to the religion itself, the word Islam means
'submission to
God','peace', 'surrender', and 'way to
peace'. An adherent of Islam is called a Muslim.
Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable. Muslims also believe that Islam is the
complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was
revealed at many times and places before, including through
Abraham, Moses and Jesus, whom they consider prophets . Muslims maintain that previous messages
and revelations have been partially changed or corrupted over time, but consider the Qur'an to be both the unaltered and the final
revelation of God (the Final Testament, following the Old and New Testaments). Religious concepts and practices include the
five pillars of Islam,
which are basic concepts and obligatory acts of worship, and
following Islamic law, which touches on
virtually every aspect of life and society, providing guidance on
multifarious topics from banking, politics, and welfare, to warfare and
the environment.
The graciousness of adherents of any religion is also the non
imposition, especially violent ones, of one's own belief onto
others, especially non believers, unfortunately, this has not been
enforced and even abused in the name of religion. It is most
unfortunate that peoples and nations of monetheistic beliefs have
done that.
This posting has been made in regard to the different aspects of
a religion, original thread starter. on one hand, one aspect of a
religion, and I counter balanced the interpretation by some,
violent acts committed by some in the name of religion. The
different facets of a belief practised by many.Also the the
acceptance of a belief, lock, stock and barrel.
I do not understand the intentions of the thread starter as the
person disappeared after the first post.
If a non violability of challenging of basic tenets,aspects,
indoctrination and personal conduct and practice, then a
meaningful discussion will not take place. You should also
understand that others do not hold or are obliged to hold the same
views.Calling non believers names does'nt help, does it? You could
constructively rebut point but point if there are indeed any
misrepresentations or falsehoods wrongly
percieved by others. Please put us to shame our
ignorance.
A good religion will have lofty aspirations of love and
compassion even to those not of the same creed or belief. It is
therefore very important for everybody to have these two important
values, also something I feel everybody should capable of. We
always make excuses for not being so, being selfish, unkind, and
cruel but religion should never be used to explain away bad
acts.
I highly value compassion and loving as aspirations, because it
is also a vehicle of practice.I hope to aim to end my suffering,
also hope the same for others. Personally, I judge this
an effective measure of a good practitioner of any good religion, a
good person.
I have seen gracious and dignified Islam practised here, and
this is to be much applauded. There also seems to be confusion in
communal and religious identity perception held by
others of different faiths . However, there seemed to be a
lot of angry "Muslims" elsewhere, this is where tolerance and
peace are seen not to be practised. But again,there are a lot
unhappy people around. .