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  • Unintentional murder

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    Do you have to fast for 60 consecutive days? No. And no days mentioned. Can break it and make sure you complete it? No, since it's not about fasting in a sense of not eating, drinking but restraining of talking with ones who won't free a killer of blame. Can you feed others as ransom? No. If you have paid diya to the family of the deceased do you still have to fast? You can pay only if they free you of blame, and thus you don't need to "fast".
  • Why Allah's name is so important? Why not 'Allahu Akbar'

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    Even 6118-121 are in surah called el-En'aam, I don't think that these are about consuming meat (or any material food). I see these as talking about consuming books/ideas, where is or isn't Allah mentioned by Name, ie. books/ideas associated with Him. Every food we consume becomes part of us, unless our body/soul/character reject it.
  • Opinion on intercessory prayer?

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    It's an eternal game Emre. Between separation vs unity. No, on the contrary. In your pagan belief God is limited. He cannot create a being outside of himself. , you think he cannot. Your second logical error is that you think that there is space outside of God before He created anything and that God reaches out into it. No, before God created anything there was nothing outside of Him. There was no outer space around him. You are poor thinking people who cannot comprehend nothingness, nothingness. Nothingness does not mean emptiness. There was nothing but God. Then He created existence outside Himself, that is, He created out of nothing. I have told you all this in pages and pages. But you have either ignored my explanations to you or your brain has erased this information in order to remain in your pagan belief. Also, it is unlikely that you have read a thousandth of what I have read about the Far Eastern teachings, ayurveda, and other extensions of paganism all over the world, which are derivatives of spiritualism, i.e. You are ignorant even of the teaching you are in. Peace
  • :: Gh-Fa-Ra does not mean forgive/forgiveness ::

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    Every action is an impulse which affects all around it, as we drop a solid dense object in water and it creates (concentric) circular waves. The root g-f-r describes removing effects of bad impulse we created by our action. For example, if we insult somebody whenever we meet him that action of insulting him will still have an effect on both of us, unless he "forgave us". We're doing bad things not just because we're bad persons in our nefs, but also due to not knowing better (way). We do our best but it comes out something very bad. His raHmet is needed in these situations when we can't help ourselves, and raHmet comes as His help to overcome an issue we're not able to solve. So, if we created a bad impulse, removing its effects is not the only thing we need, but we also need His raHmet to help us not to create the same or similar impulses again.
  • Is hell forever?

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    Answer 280-82 Eternity of Heaven and Hell Some have said, “Hell will not touch us, except for a limited number of days.” Say, “Have you taken such a pledge from GOD—GOD never breaks His pledge—or, are you saying about GOD what you do not know?” Indeed, those who earn sins and become surrounded by their evil work will be the dwellers of Hell; they abide in it forever. As for those who believe, and lead a righteous life, they will be the dwellers of Paradise; they abide in it forever.
  • Who is Jahovah ? And why some people call him the Angry/Jelous God?

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    I understood that the name el-Wehhaab الْوَهَّابُ is most likely YHWH, not just from similarity in the root, but also in similarities in usages I was able to understand.
  • WHY THE NIGHT SKY IS EXTREME DARK

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    Salaam.. Flat earth silliness.. Note the mountain's shadow during sunset.. https//lh5.ggpht.com/-VT0xvYor1Yw/UlLTbRd5bRI/AAAAAAAAtIQ/f6gUC-pZic8/mount-rainier-shadow-2%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800. Also, get yourself a nice telescope and find Jupiter and its moons and note over a period of time how the moons orbit Jupiter. Its hard for me to believe that people actually find the flat earth appealing or even worthy of God's creation especially seeing that our human bodies are a universe within themselves more complicated and amazing than the "global universe" itself. Fact is, if the earth were flat the people who run the world would not create a fantasy that the world is a globe to trick people away from God when it would be so beyond obvious to them that God must exist and must have created this weird flat earth when compared to all the other round and spherical celestial bodies...they would have no means of denial which would mean there really would be no test for humanity. Come on man.. Salaam. https//www.quora.com/How-does-a-flat-Earth-believer-explain-how-the-sun-manages-to-light-up-the-bottom-of-clouds-and-cast-a-shadow-of-the-horizon-on-mountains-as-it-sets-if-the-earth-is-flat-and-the-sun-rotates-around-and-above-the read the above debate.... i find flat earthers argued better than any globe head..
  • Kindly explain 07:35

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    735 O CHILDREN of Adam! Whenever there come unto you apostles of your own, conveying My messages unto you, then all who are conscious of Me and live righteously - no fear need they have, and neither shall they grieve; There're a few issues with this translation rusul is a quasi-passive in plural, as kutub or Hurum; rusul is not a plural for resool; it stands for all those who're under risala of Allah, under His message; yes, all of er-resool are rusul, but not only them, all the people who're mediums for the message are rusul... for example, we can be rusul if we're conveying His message to others who forgot, never heard, etc. verb yequSSoone is about telling stories in short, what is most important, without details 'aleykum can mean "against you", not just "on you" there's a change in verb tense, at the start it's imperfect then perfect, and this should be translated as in original. Since rusul are plural and a subject to the verb yequSSoone then we should understand that 3 or more of them should relate Allah's aayaat against/on us. If we feared for ourselves and corrected ourselves and things we done wrong then nothing bad will happen to us. But, in next aayet we can read, if we tried to get out of aayaat and were arrogant then it'll be bad for us. Even I haven't found anything against the idea that Allah is still sending His message through some people, I don't see that this aayet is talking about that. I think this is about people relating stories from the Qur'an to mistakes we do neglecting the Qur'an for any reason. When we're told about that by 3 or more people who're conveying Allah's aayaat against what we do, then we should rethink about our deeds and fear for ourselves and correct our errs. These people should be of "us", not some strangers we know nothing about their intentions.
  • Special Full body washing "Ghusl" in the Quran? No.

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    We should first re-think about translations. There're many issues, but I'll start with one in 56. إِذَا قُمْتُمْ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ This is translated in a provided translation as "when you rise up for the Prayer". Time adverb idhaa is translated same as idh, which is not correct. Idh means "when", but "idhaa" means "after", both are time adverbs but slightly different. Verb with a pronoun qum-tum is in perfect tense describing action of standing, not moving/changing position. Just by changing time adverb the whole meaning could be changed with a little change of other words. I'll take this as "you stood", not "stand" nor "stand up" nor "rise up". Preposition ilaa means to/towards. Translated as "for" is wrong. A potential definitive feminine noun eS-Salaat can name only a potential of an action, not an action itself. Even if the root S-l-w means "to pray" (and it doesn't) then this noun should describe something that potentially can be praying, not praying itself. This could be translated as follows "After you stood to/towards Salaat". Just time adverb can show that this has nothing with a prayer of Persian buddists called "nimas" and that an imperative igsuloo and all other words should mean something else then we were told. If you accept that idhaa is same as idh I think it would be very hard for you to find the answer you're searching for. I'm glad you're questioning this topic and, if I can, I should advice to you to start from the noun used in 6936. Also verb and participle in form VIII were used, and this form is a reflexive of main form, so they can also help with understanding that imperative verb.
  • Choose happiness not misery

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    The Quran answers to vegans, and enemies of sweet 1668 Your Lord inspired to the bee "You shall take homes of the mountains and of the trees and of what they erect." 1669 "Then you shall eat from every fruit, so seek the path your Lord has made easy." From its belly will emerge a liquid that has different colors, in it is a healing for the people. In that is a sign for a people who will think.
  • Mesjid-ul-Haraam

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    I recommend https//mypercept.co.uk/articles/meaning-masjid-al-haram-Quran.html
  • The Qur'an's narration of events

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    In many other examples, direct expression is provided without the use of expressions such as "they said", "he said", "say" or "say that". This, as I said, not only adds fluency to the narrative but also provides the mathematical miracle of the Qur'an. For example, "say" (kul) and "said" (kalu) occur 332 times each in the entire Qur'an. "Say" 332 times... "They said" 332 times... peace (merhaba) -- why has to be equal? what if they're not equal like most words? 250 قالوا qālū/said they of 61 وقالوا waqālū/and said they of 18 فقالوا faqālū/so said they of 3 لقالوا laqālū/surely said they of 332 total 293 قل qul/say 1 214 قل qul/say (if قال qāla/said -- who said?) 1 21112 قل qul/say (if قال qāla/said -- out of context who said?) 21 وقل waqul/and say 18 فقل faqul/so say 334 total 364 قول total with ya ىقول 1 تقولن taqulanna/thou speak it 4 سىقولون sayaquluna/shall speaketh 4 فسىقولون fasayaquluna/so shall speaketh being 13 فىقول fayaqūlu/so speaketh 2 فىقولوا fayaqūlū/so speaketh they of 1 فىقولون fayaquluna/so speaketh being 1 قولنا qawluna/speak/speech/word ours 1 لنقولن lanaqulanna/surely we speak we 13 لىقولن layaqulunna/surely speaketh they 2 لىقولن layaqulanna/surely speaketh he 1 لىقولوا liyaqulu/to speaketh they of 4 لىقولون layaquluna/surely speaketh being 1 ولىقول waliyaqūla/and to speaketh 1 ولىقولوا waliyaqulu/and to speaketh they of 1 ولىقولوا walyaqulu/and let speaketh they of 8 وىقول wayaqulu/and speaketh (pl.) 3 وىقول wayaqulu/and speaketh (sing.) 2 وىقولوا wayaqulu/and speaketh they of 28 وىقولون wayaquluna/and speaketh being 39 ىقول yaqulu/speaketh 1 ىقولا yaqula/speaketh dual 11 ىقولوا yaqulu/speaketh they of 51 ىقولون yaquluna/speaketh being 193 total
  • Prophet marriages

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    peace, To wakas Thanks for sharing your links. I would like to ask for your understanding of the verse quoted your referred links. I recommend re-reading the links, and translations carefully, as it seems you have misunderstood even the basics in them https//www.misconceptions-about-islam.com/misconception.php?id=31 https//www.misconceptions-about-islam.com/misconception.php?id=40
  • Why does it feel like the bad guys always win

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    https//www.answering-christianity.com/blog/index.php?topic=3825.0 Peace
  • Discussion with supposed ruling bloodline priest, Hidden Hand.

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    I agree with this. "This is because without the choice of evil it is impossible for souls to progress spiritually, they must intentionally choose good over evil for spiritual progress. Thus, his group soul and their creation of negativity act as the catalyst for our souls to progress spiritually as it provides an option for humans to choose good or evil." Without "Evil", "Good" cannot be recognized. Without "Pride", "Humility" cannot be recognized. Without "Selfishness", "Selfless" cannot be recognized. Without "Revenge", "Forgiveness" cannot be recognized. Without "Hatred", "Love" cannot be recognized. Without "Separation", "Unity" cannot be recognized. Without "Is Not", "Is" cannot be recognized. Just like in a good movie, somebody need to play the "villain" / "antagonist" role. But it's merely a 'role' that he need to play, behind the role lies a very good actor with a very good heart. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. -- Shakespeare An 'enlightened entity / soul' will definitely came into a realization that there's actually only one person who plays many parts.
  • What is the name of your God?

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    YHWH is el-Wehhaab in the Qur'an.
  • Are there Female prophetess

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    We should notice that resool and nebiyy are not same, even the same person could be both. Resool is a medium from bringing Allah's message (answer) to the people; resool is a verbal message itself and one(s) through which it came (human, melek). Nebiyy is one with some news or something new, for example something new in the Law of Allah. A correct translation of resool is a messenger, and I couldn't understand that Meryem or any woman was a messenger of Allah, meaning she didn't bring any message as a response/reply from Allah to her people. She was told to "fast" and not to talk, but to let her son talk for her. Was she a nebiyy? Probably, as I can understand. She was told "irke'ii me'a-r-raaki'oon" (343). These words' root means "to speak/express publicly/open". It was not normal for a woman in her (Egyptian) society to talk among men, only royal women were allowed to in special situations. Women were "women of el-'aalemoon" and they could talk to their men (el-'aalemoon) and learn what they know, but they didn't take place in public speeches. Meryem was first one, and she was known as Miriam the Prophetess. Was she a prophet - yes! If this word "prophet" means same as qur'anic "nebiyy" then she was nebiyy also. Zekeriyya was chosen to look after her, but whenever he had some problem (Harb حرب) he would come to her to get an answer, she was getting them from the presence of Allah (min 'indAllahi). He was always able to find a provision (rizq رزق) at her (337).
  • For those who thought psychedelics was a good thing.

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    I stand with "Adem got high", but I'll add his wife also. I don't think an event took place anywhere out of the place we live, ie. the Earth, and most likely it took place in Ancient Egypt at the start of literacy, circa 4th millennium BC. They are not "first humans", but they're first at the start of history, which starts from literacy. If we take a look at "Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge and writing" Seshat we can see something weird over the top of her head. https//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Seshat.svg I think they both got high from hemp or something alike. There's also a male counterpart for Seshat. Sufi's used to use many hemp-like plants to make their "magical instruments" which took them to other dimensions. I agree with Paradox Uncreated about animism and shamanism (sort of) practice at the start of the history. A principal sanctuary for Seshat was in Heliopolis, where Ibrahim had his Temple.
  • verse 2:178 ? "the free for the free the slave for the

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    I think we misunderstood word qiSaaS. It's a verbal noun form III and for it to mean "recompense" it should be in form VI (reciprocal verb). Its root is talking about cutting unnecessarily pieces from something, so we have it as qaSaS for a story w/o details, just what is most important, it's "a short story". We have same meaning of the verb, as well as "going by shorter path" (taking a shortcut), as in 1864 or in 2811. There's no more word forms, besides qiSaaS, from this root. If we look at its passive maqSooS or a noun of tool meqaSS, we can see that they talk about trimming, clipping, for example hair. In my language hair is called "kosa" from the same root, and scissors are "makaze" from meqaSS, and "kus" is a shorten animal tail (or no tail). Slightly different root q-S-b gives qaSSaab for a butcher, who cuts pieces of flesh. I understood that qiSaaS means "(the) exception" from a civil norm of a society where Qur'an came. I understood that they had a rule "free man by free man, slave by slave, woman by woman" (I think a proposition bi- matches English by in most cases). So, believers were ordered to leave this norm and to forgive (or better "to pardon&quot instead. Those who understand the essence/heart/core (oolu-l-elbaab) can take care of themselves and qiSaaS will give them life.
  • Book recommendation seeked

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    Peace shakeel I am sure there will be books out there. I do not recommend any at first why? 1- From my experience, it led me to more "hadiths" from men and confusion. 2- I had to start from scratch and see for myself / study Qoran and try to understand it Yes, with translations that are available in most other languages on the internet if one does not know Arabic 3-GOD knows your needs and capacity . As long as your intention and motif are sincere, GOD will respond to you. Trust in GOD. 4- try it this way and see , but there is no harm in looking at other views/books at the same time as long as you refer back to Qoran and check them. Best of luck. GOD bless you. Peace.