General Issues / Questions

Is there anything in the Quran that mentions how fast one can become a believer and receive God's forgiveness? If one was to truly repent and turn from evil and start doing good, does His forgiveness kick in and it is just a matter of hold tight to that path and dying in it? Peace... Don't opt to misunderstand me... But all I can say is certain matters in life we should not ask from others for solution but only ourself / ourselves... Then approach God only... Coz certain things in life is only connected with self and God.. Thank you.. God bless you

Or ,perhaps you follow your own understanding after checking and studying Qoran yourself. Of course one can also study what others are saying, like does it fit with Qoran? At the end of the day, it should be your own reasoning/understanding where you are satisfied that you have used your "eyes, ears and brain" without bias or pressure and with honesty and sincerity to follow GOD s message ,if you believe in GOD. GOD will try your true conviction and effort . And it will be between you and GOD in the end. Always stay with what you understand best from your own checking. Do not rush ,even if your doubts grow. GOD bless you. Peace.

Peace Sarah. The original more detailed article is here https//submission.org/App17.html Of course one needs to check all the verses and come up with their own understanding. My view is this Qoran differentiates between the "body" and the "soul" i.e-real person- My understanding about death in this subject is that the verses are not talking about the "body" . Humans (our bodies) both believers and disbelievers shed this body at what we call "death". According to us, when the body is no longer living-breathing and functioning- we are dead. In that context ,then all of us humans die Qoran is talking about death of the "soul". Remember ,death is like sleep, a state of nothingness, until one wakes up. In my opinion,the verses are saying the following 1- life and death of believers and disbelievers souls are not the same. 2- How can we expect them to be the same, if they are opposites/in conflict? 3-The death of the soul is like sleep, The soul can go to "nothingness" like when we are fast asleep, Then wake up on resurrection day -Disbeliever_ or stay awake somewhere awaiting the resurrection day- Believer-. 4- At the end of our past life , all of us humans tasted the "sleep" version" of death . We were put in a state of "nothingness" until we were created humans , then each soul is "awakened" in its human body just before birth. That was our first death. 5- At the end of this life , some souls are put to death-sleep- Dis believers, or invited to wait somewhere -not put to sleep- Believers. All awaiting judgement day. In reality both sets will know their outcome at the end of this life.In other words judgement day is just the new creation /classification of the souls. their fate has been already decided according to their choice and outcome of how this life was led by them. i.e believed an.d grew the soul or neglected the soul. So in effect ,judgement day is just the clarification and verification that each soul has got its "justice". It is also a beginning of our next "new creation" of whatever we have deserved to be next. GOD bless you. Peace.

Peace Jafar. So we are all on different "realms" now? Or I have no idea about your reality? You are saying,quote A realm where there is an ample opportunity to dominate others, such as to enslave 72 virgins, will be heaven to those who are into those kind of things. And I didn't say that those are 'bad' or 'ugly', I just say that those are 'different'. Because the catch within those dominating realm is, they will also be dominated and enslaved. What goes around comes around." Or are they enforcing a "realm" on the 72 virgins? Or the 72 virgins have been attracted to it? In this "reality" of ours,choices are effecting others. Those that are attracted to wickedness , harming others and invading their "realm". I see this as no longer valid, quote "Like attract like, everyone has their own preference of 'heaven'." Preference and outcome are contradicting here. It seems some are ending up where they have not preferred to be. For example the 72 virgins? GOD bless you. Peace.

If God Wills

My thought is the following Could be Humans are creating their own "Haven" or "Hell" based on their deeds. Every soul shall be attracted to the realms which matches with his/her personality... Just like listening to radio station, but there is NOT ONLY 2 radio stations, there are many, hundreds, thousands, millions or perhaps unlimited. And those who like Jazz shall tune out to the jazz radio station. those who like stand up comedy will tune to the comedy station and so on... A realm where there's no chance of dominating and enslaving others, no possibility of invading or making a war with others might not be too interesting for a warlord. He / she will be tuned in to the realm where there's ample opportunity to enslave people, warring with someone and do the things he / she loved the most and experiencing the things that he / she loved the most. (#hate, #fear, #pride) A realm where there are enslavement of 72 virgins might not be considered as "Heaven" for a human rights activist. He / she will consider it as "Hell", he / she will either leave the realm or try to change the realm by trying to free all enslaved virgins. If it's actually the experience of 'freeing enslaved person' is an experience which actually he / she desire the most. In the end, everybody will get what they wish for...

I do not think the text is counting times, but describing an attitude whih is not serious. If you go into something or believe in something like something you do today and tomorrow you change your mind and then change again and then you mood is different and change again, etc. etc., that is not serious. Think you do that with a person you love and intend to marry. Yu cannot do that, not because God, gets angry or because your beloved get angry, but because you are not trustable, you are ot faithful and you feel that changing on a serious undertaking is nothing. Salaam

Thanks Wakas I know these sites but I thought who would have a better (hidden) one. It is maybe time for FM do have his own, could be a nice project. Peace

I don't think you're 100% honest and authentic here, it is very much what you see lacking in you or things which you've identify or associate yourself with and how will you provide such lacking. This is like saying that anyone who relate the relevance of Keto diet is looking to benefit from the diet. Just because I enunciate the essence and relevance of exclusive club doesn't mean I'm looking to acquire something I see lacking in me from such club. Like I said, all I'm doing is relating reality however self serving I might seem. Even by mentioning an 'exclusive club' you are focusing on what you think is best for 'some' one and not 'every' one. You were the first to use the term 'exclusive club'. I never thought people with a common view or interest organizing themselves as exclusive any more than I think family reunion or Medical Doctor Associations to be exclusive. Worked for what purpose? Perseverance of an 'identity'? More than that. Building communities and societies, developing civilizations etc. Test of time? Ok, Let's talk about time. Compare How many time has there been until to date? 2, Among that time how many time has there been human presence? 3, Among that time how many time has there been religion that, by name, still survive until today? If we mark time since the beginning of this universe, it has been 13.7 billion years. Earliest human remain ever been found, 300,000 years Hinduism, 4000 years Hinduism so far only being tested over 2.1 * 10^-10 % of the time. The number hard to digest isn't it? Let's convert it to human life as reference so it can be easily digestible, let's take 60 years. If age of the universe is the regular lifespan of time available for an individual human, 60 years. Then the oldest surviving religion by name (Hinduism) only exist in 0.4 seconds. You want to take Islam? 1400 years ago. Then religion and identity of Islam only exist in 0,14 seconds in comparison if it's human's lifetime. Will you able to recognize something in front of your eye if it appears only in 0.14 seconds? OK. Here is a pinch test. Compared to organized religions and exclusive clubs, how long have the alternatives lasted? Can you mention even moment in human history and civilization where exclusive club or organized religion didn't predominate. Any moment of "inclusive club", if there is such a term?

TIME and SPACE is difficult To understand. To make someone understand. Go into it and u will find dozen of new questions every single time. TIME may appear different at different places but even in subjective terms scientists did not make it clear what is the actual defination of time. When we ask what is time before TIME? It's actually easy to understand and very very simple. Time before no time, NOTIME-NESS. Same goes for SPACE, we are unable to understand its very nature, for example in which(---) space is expanding in to? Simple isn't it? NOSPACE-NESS And when we combine NOTIME-NESS and NOSPACE-NESS it became... NOTHING-NESS Black hole is an observable phenomenon of NOTHING-NESS. If we see black hole as an 'object' it's a 2 Dimensional object (width, length and no height) with infinite mass and time from our perspective stop right at the 'border' of the black hole. Thus NOTIME-NESS. Black hole is sucking the fabric of space and time (back) towards NOTHING-NESS. Back to ZERO state, scientist calls it Singularity state. See how ancient philosopher / spiritualist and today's scientist is saying the same thing with different language. Singularity = Unity and Expansion = Polarity Ponder how everything came out from nothing, then it will be easy for you to realize how powerful nothing-ness really is. And eventually to nothing-ness we all shall eventually return, back to singularity, back to unity, back to God. There is only one consciousness, and our personal identification with individual existence separated from others is merely an illusion. Even time and space is also an illusion. And it's actually the same one infinite consciousness that 'fractionize' and identify itself with many finite things. Dissolve your identity that you're attaching yourself to and you will be back to unity. By becoming nothing you will become everything (again). That's what it actually mean by "God is within each and every one of you" or "You are created in the image of God". Thus the easiest way to find the evidence for the existence of God is to find the evidence of your own non-existence. "The Law of One, may be approximated by stating that all things are one, that there is no polarity, no right or wrong, no disharmony, but only identity. All is one, and that one is love/light, light/love, the Infinite Creator." -- Ra, Law Of One "I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy" -- Jim Carrey. The interesting thing is the creator/designer of cosmos itself require the factor of TIME. It doesnt matter if he created one or one million universes what matter is how TIME factor applied on him? In start somewhere when there was NOTHING there was SOMETHING was about to come in DUE time. Time and space is among the 'thing' that was created by the infinite creator, a stage for the drama to be unfolded and eventually shall be folded back to unity / singularity. The infinite creator doesn't require time and space to exist.. to Him (or to Us, depending on your identification perspective) there is no time and space. Everything happened at the same time and at the same space.

Peace TellMeTheTruth. Yes, thanks brother. Also I will put the question like this Who is sincerely and honestly seeking to be guided by Allah after hearing/learning about Allah s message? Of course this will require to be tested by ALLAH to bring out the true conviction. i.e to distinguish if the person is lying or truthful about seeking the guidance. GOD s promise ,if one stays the course of the journey is certainty. At the end one can only know about themselves. (Good trees give good fruits) GOD bless you. Peace.

Actually yes.. God IS Separation is merely a temporary illusion. This entire universe is an illusion. Just like the universe of this webforum is an illusion. The separation of "muqeem" an avatar on this forum and the persona who created "muqeem" is an illusion, muqeem the avatar and the persona is always in unity. Another metaphor for this, is let's take a novel, The "Lord Of The Rings" by Tolkien There's the hobbits Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Sam Baggins The human Gandalf, Saruman, Aragorn, The elves Legolas, The Dark Forces Sauron, Orcs, Nazgul There's conflict, war, somebody murdered somebody etc.. within the novel. But when asked Where is Tolkien in the Lord Of The Rings? Well we can say that 'his manifestation' is on all things within the Lord Of The Rings universe, all hobbits, all elves, all human, all dark forces, all the forest, all the caverns, jungle everything. As all things within the Lord Of The Rings was created from Tolkien's thought. Does Tolkien's created The Dark Forces in Lord of the Rings? Answer is yes, Sauron, Orcs, Nazgul, Saruman who transformed from white to black are all the product of his thought. So there is no such thing as conflict between Tolkien vs The Dark Forces. If Tolkien's so will, the dark forces can easily be deleted instantly. Why then not Tolkien just removed the Dark Forces? Answer is how do you find the story of a bunch of hobbits living peacefully within the Shire? No conflicts, no challenges. "Once upon a time there were Hobbits living peacefully in the Shire. The End". Will you be interested to even read the book? In the Lord Of The Rings it's told that Bilbo Baggins authored a book titled "Hobbits" and so does Sauron who authored "Book of Dark Magic", does that mean that those books were actually authored by Tolkien? Answer is yes since everything within Lord Of The Rings were product of Tolkien's imagination. Thus there is no such thing as a 'conflict' between Tolkien books vs Sauron books. From Tolkien's perspective how does the event within Lord Of The Rings took place? All the events took place at the same time, Tolkien (or LOTR book reader) can easily turn the pages to focus on certain timeline and jump around the timeline if he / she wishes to. This is it! handshake hail

Salam! You cannot change words of Allah. Peace!

Salam/Peace and Allah (SWTAY) bless you dear sister Sarah. I am okay with feminism, i am though against the extremist view of feminism which is misandric but i will not go hating feminism as a whole though. Feminism do fight for equality for women, the extremist is more to disregard men's rights. This is from my experience so far with extremist view of feminism.

There is nothing wrong or Haram about treating people with justice. Your behaviour towards these people is in a way serving justice for their bad treatment and injustice toward you. I would further suggest considering switching jobs if possible, to eliminate the toxic environment and to fully go 'no contact' with these people as you mentioned. I understand that this is not always simple to do, but sometimes it is the only solution.

I refer to it countless times a day.

Wassalam Spodacus, cool I never thought anyone would take what I say so positively )

There are two countries with opposite contrast in Korean peninsula. A. Democratic People's Republic of Korea B. Republic of Korea When asked which one is democratic country? If merely by name, then one will quickly judge A is the democratic country in Korean peninsula. And outlawed B as the 'bad guy', despot, tyranny and autocratic. That is why before answering "Which one is democratic country" one better asked the more fundamental questions. What is a democratic country? What are the characteristics? How does it works? Based on the answer, we should then use the understanding to evaluate which one is the more democratic country in Korean peninsula. Country A is also known as "North Korea" while Country B is also known as "South Korea". Certainly country B is more democratic than country A although it has no label of "Democratic" in it's name. Country A although contain the label of "Democratic" in it's official name, it actually has no characteristics of being democratic whatsoever. That's the reason why I asked "What is Black Magic", thus we are not trapped merely into 'labeling' but get the real characteristic of "Black Magic" before proceeding further. If FEAR/THREAT, FRAUD/LIES, PRIDE, DOMINATION, ENVY, HATE, RAGE, GREED, AGGRESSIVE are among the key characteristics of "Black Magic" then certainly we can also see the manifestation of such characteristic elsewhere although it appears using "DIFFERENT LABELS". (among those label is "Religion&quot But there is one of my question left that has not been answered here. How about the opposite of "Black Magic"? ("White Magic&quot Does it exist? If it does what are it's characteristics? Understanding characteristics is more important than the label.

Thanks Good logic and Wakas for the links. Whitout no doubt one of the best Quran translation in English with comments to meditate. (Mazhar's also) Peace.

Doubt s the culprit in our changing situation regarding our salvation. Doubt about GOD and His message is a killer of the soul. Doubt kills the enthusiasm. Doubt makes us go backwards. We have been showered with all means and proofs to recognize God, choose His path, pursue His knowledge and move up from one stage to another towards true belief. Qoran is available to us as a source of guidance. It is our perseverance in studying Qoran that is key. This will lead us to following God s message and redeeming & strengthening our souls which will let us eventually achieve certainty, when we can never go backward, or waver. This is when we feel overjoyed by our real liberation. This will lead to the real life. This will kill doubt and revive the soul. Best of luck to those who want to grow their soul. GOD bless. Peace.