Damn right he is.
I did a lot of thinking, asked a lot of questions, and studied the quran to know why the god hates idolatry and I think the reason why the god has a problem with idol worship is that it's irrational. People who believe in irrational things are also irrational and therefore base their moral beliefs on irrational ideas and this makes them very prone to cause a lot of suffering. Every despicable ideology that's caused a lot of suffering is based on irrational ideas. Socialism, Orthodox Islam, Fascism, etc. are impossible to justify rationally and look what they've done and continue to do. Stupid people do stupid things...
Very good!
I know a bunch of Sunnis as well and they also pray a lot and try really hard to please their despotic god, but does that make them good people? They think it's okay to hate Jews, gays and Americans and to treat women like shit all because their god tells them to. Good intentions can pave the way to Hell.
211-12 And if they are told ?Do not make evil in the land,? they say ?But we are the reformers!? No, they are the evildoers, but they do not perceive.
It's not enough to have good intentions. People can do good things only when their good intentions are coupled with good sense and the god has given everyone the ability to be sensible. Every human being has a human brain, which is a marvelous thing so no human has any excuse for not being sensible. In addition to encoding morality in our genes, the god has also given us the quran.
I don't think fearing the god is enough. I think obeying the god's commands to be humble, open-minded and kind are what allow people to be good.
Well, I personally don't consider someone who does something evil to have good intentions, even if it's in a hadith. Quran is Quran and you will find no evil commandment in it. However, a true believer, if he's part of the Sunni sect will critically examine ANY hadith knowing that it did not come from God, and will act accordingly to it if and only if it goes with the Quran (for instance growing a beard isn't against the Quran, so he can do this if he wishes). He will examine it and if it goes against his/her pure heart or the Quran, then he/she should reject it at all costs, despite what the scholars tell them or threaten them with. Scholars spend more time reading/studying hadith than Quran, anyway.
And if it goes against Quran, it can only come from Satan, and many muslims today adopt the hadith over the Quran (for instance the issue with zakah) and are either IGNORANT or think "hey! Muhammad allowed us to give it once a year so screw the Quran!!!" In this case you are committing idol-worship that is flagrant because you are disobeying God (not like Muhammad said this shit). You can't obey Muhammad while disobeying God, not that you are supposed to obey Muhammad in the first place. Whenever Muhammad is given the title "messenger" he is only reciting God's message. People take this as "believe God's words and Muhammad's words" unfortunately and, to be honest, despite God writing "obey the messenger" several times in the Quran, he gives clear proofs, left and right that the Quran IS THE ONLY MESSAGE Muhammad came with and that any other source of religious guidance is an evil innovation. They seem to be forgetting God will not show himself to us so HE HAS to tell us his words through a messenger, so it's no wonder that he would tell us to obey the messenger. The early Jews told Moses to show God to them, but God killed them as a result. There is a reason God calls us the "believers" several times in his book. I was listening to Yusuf Estes' khutbah (speech) two Fridays ago and not suprisingly, it was filled with bs here and there. You can expect that from a sunni. He was saying a believer is no different than Shaitan because he believes in God, completely ignorant of the fact Satan has no choice but to believe in God. Satan then is considered an acknowledger because he's been looking right at him before. This is not the case with us because we have not seen God, so no, a believer cannot be the same as Satan. A believer can sin one day after another, but I find it hard for a believer to end up in hell if he's truly a believer. How do you sin when you think you're going to gain nothing but everlasting torment after you die...this doesn't seem like very good belief in God and the hereafter to me.
Everything else that came out of Muhammad's mouth can be considered insensical garbage by God's standards because they are not the message that is supposed to come to us. Sunnis nonetheless think everything that came out his mouth is divine revelation. I guess when he said **** in Arabic when he slammed the door on his foot is a revelation from Allah as well. However, the "hadith" are mostly fabrications and stupid political/cultural bull$. Very few of them seem to be from Muhammad or relatively similar to his statements. It's amazing however that the Sunni's like to disregard the hadith where Muhammad condemned any hadith besides the Quran. It shouldn't be surprising though, because had they believed in this hadith they would turn into us, the God-worshippers. Oh noez, can't have that can we. We will stick to being one big stupid cult. Even if this hadith was "sahih" they would still reject it like the unparalleled hypocrites that they are.
Peace,
Respectfully.
Hvala Bogu, Thank God, AlhamdilAllah.
May The Exalted God bless you and reward you with The Best in Paradise.
Peace.
Thanks but...wut ;D
