General Issues / Questions

Perhaps this Mufti is a whistle blower. Here is a fatwa by him, not based on any hadith http//www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5719 I think they are basing it in the verse from the Quran about repentance. Yes, I agree that everybody has the right to conceal their sins but I still do not believe El Gindy and Guma' and other Azhari believe in this. They just couldn't find a hadith that forbids it so they made it permissible.

Salam. GOD will take care of him, you got nothing to worry about. GOD is the best Judge and GOD will decide. When your brother said the Shahada, he became a Muslim, tatooes don't matter, what matters is what is in his heart and GOD knows that so if the shahada came from his heart, he is in Paradise, therefore in a much better place. I'm sorry that you lost your brother but The GOD mentiones in The Quran we shouldn't say for them that they have died. They are alive, we don't know. Just because we can't see him here on Earth, doesn't mean he's completely gone. It's just that we can't notice him. We, the Earthlings. Everything will be okay, Winter White. Peace.

I apologize in advance if a lot of what I say has already been said. I wouldn't consider cannabis something relatively toxic to the user's health, so I don't know if I'd call it an "intoxicant". I've done a little research, and what I've found from a variety of mostly third-party studies, has already been stated what very little deficits there are, are completely outweighed by the benefits, smoking cannabis seems to be as unhealthy as something such as sitting too close to the TV. I've heard that, not only has cannabis been proven to encourage creative thinking, but can prevent mental disorders/deterioration, and has a chance of bolstering the user's immune system. I don't think I would ever get into cigarettes, alcohol, or a variety of other intoxicants, but since I don't consider cannabis an intoxicant, I see little problem with indulging in it once in a while. I already engage in meditative techniques that produce a similar effect self-genereted as cannabis would, and from my research of The Message, I don't see any problems as of yet. Cannabis has been used in meditation and prayer among many peoples, providing very convincing examples that advocate such use such as that with the Rastafarian movement in Jamaica or Sufi Muslims in order to relax the body and mind and enhance lucidity, allowing the mind to expand, in a sort. You can't just ignore whatever problems you may have, even if you try to ignore them, they'll always come back. I don't think getting high helps you ignore something else, if it's used at all, it should be used constructively, in prayer/meditation in a safe and controlled environment.

Salam Alen, inshaallah soon I will have a laptop! I'm very happy with my new job, and life seems in general more fufilling. I can't wait to get a computer, so I can explore more topics, its crazy using a phone! Be back soon! honor

there is nothing in the link your provided talking about muslims. http//www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1712023.php http//www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1703120.php http//www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1707671.php

I understand what you mean, but I also know Turabi since before coming to power. I was once a member of Muslim Brotherhood under his leadership. What attracted me, and many other young women then, was his moderate, reformed Islam, not very much different, in spirit, from what he is advocating now. His books reflected this. He never asked us to veil, for example, and opposed those who wanted to assign a dress code for the "muslim sisters". When he came to power, he turned into a monster, afflicting Sudanese people , and women in particular, with the worst type of Islamic state ever. His hands are stained with the blood of thousands of youth whom he mislead into a false jihad with incentives of "huris" who will be there during the departure of their Soul until JD! I do not think the movement of reform needs someone you can't trust. Who knows what he would do if he is again in power? He seems to be one of those 214 "... when they meet those who believe, they say We believe; and when they are alone with their devilish leaders they say We are with you, we were just mocking". By the way Samia, take a look at this very interesting article http//johnakecsouthsudan.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html

peace Thanks Dargento, But then I want to say "alayhi al-salam" after all the messengers names (including Mohammad)! so as not to make distictions amongst them. But i can tell you if someone hears me say "Mohammad alayhi al-salam" I'll get killed! Tongue Peace you are welcome. i would say you don't have to say anything after saying any prophet's name (keeping it simple) but i don't see anything wrong with it as long as you don't put them near the status of the God as most traditional religions do

Salam, I like this thread. I am Muslim because I realise that I am only human (a weak creature). I only do my best and the rest is upto God. I can't save the world or help the world but I can only do my best. I could get sick or die anytime. If God wants to get rid of me He can. If He wants to make me poor or sick He can. But if He wants to make me happy and well He also can. I therefore submit myself & all circumstances to Him and realise that He can do anything and everything (I can't do anything and everything - So I killed my ego and became very humble). I can only try my best, but if I ask Him for help, he helps me- I realise His absolute power and authority over everything. Being muslim to me means that when things are not in my hands and I can't help myself or others, I ask Him for help because He's the only one who can do it. So to Him I belong and to Him I will return. I completely give up/surrender/submit to the will of God and that's when I realise his powers and what it means to be muslim. Serving Him means living by what the Quran says. I have more than 100% faith and trust in God. Again, if I have a problem and I can't solve it, I would look towards Mecca and say to God that I submit this situation/circumstance to Him. I then trust Him and wait faithfully and God sends a way / or a means by which to help me. Realising His total control, absolute power and authority and that He is One God is very important. If I wasn't Muslim (in a state of submission to God alone) all the time, then my ego or the devil may be driving me and that's not what I want. I want to be a servant of God because this is a temporary life to test us and see if we can realise God's absolute power and authority over everything. When people who worship their ego lose their money or something bad happens to them or their children, this is their chance to realise that they're not in control, God is! so give up to His will & do what He says- that's what Islam is! salam = peace (N) sallem = give peace/ give (V) Islam = submission (N) aslem= submit (V-singular) aslamt=submitted (v-singular-past tense) salem= whole/complete/perfect (N) muslim= submitter (N) musalem= peaceful (Adj) estaslem = surrender (V) Islam means different things to different people. Maybe it's even related to the word (salalem, sullam -which means laddar --> indicating climbing your way spiritually or going up to heaven step by step -because we don't learn everything in one go!). I'd like to see more people discuss what it means (for you) to be Muslim and why are you Muslim? Peace, Rida peace

how about God aloner

Correct, but there may be a time when the "revelation time" is forgotten P.

I'd say for the shameful deeds when you mock someone seriously, when you abuse of somekind of superiority, when you hurt while knowing it, when you take someone like shit.

Hajirfm makes a compelling point. The Quran does not mention any specific organisational structure, however. What we have is the whole legislative branch of a republic stuffed into one book. As for atheism, Samia There is no compulsion in deen Nuff said.

peace Genteel, "Seeing is believing" is not faith but fact and the word faith is not a proof of anything be it true or blind. True faith can very well be blind. Faith, not in facts, but faith that those facts can be trusted. For example, we make mistakes, and we learn from that mistake and the next time we have faith that if we do it another way, that mistake won't happen again. When I turn the key in my car, I have faith that it will start. I do that everyday and I'm never anxious about whether it'll work or not. I don't have that faith because some book told me to, but because I've seen it work again and again. Of course, I don't KNOW that the car will start when I turn the key, but I have faith that it will. My car, unlike the universe, is a bit inconsistent. We shouldn't have faith in god's existence, we should know that. The only place faith can apply is when we pray to God, when we are grateful to god and do good things, we should have faith that god will make everything alright for us, that what goes around comes around. There are things we just can't know, and that's where we need to have faith in what we do know. If faith is part of religion, then they must be mutually inclusive and not individual or independent things as you suggest. I didn't mean individual as in seperate, but I meant that both together are personal, not communal. they apply to everyone but how you get to them and how you apply them are up to the individual.

i think 2pac would be rolling in his grave... if he wasn't a) a bag of bones by now or b) hiding out in

peace Tay, very well explained.

Not everyone will get the right answers in math tests even when they know the formulas and math laws involved in the problem. Now imagine the "Does God exist?" problem where many of the pieces are missing. Do you honestly expect everyone to come to the same conclusion? Peace nerspi,Quran contains many verses which state that non believers will go to hell. What is unfair is that they didn't have to go through the hardest test for normal people; believing. Why do you have to go through that test while they don't? There were always plenty of honorable humans. Only few were selected. Actually, if you use your brain in a math test, you will either get the answer, not get an answer due to lack of knowledge, or get an error answer - where something went wrong in your calculations. I presume that is what you meant. If so, thisi s why we group up, is it not? "Quran contains many verses which state that non believers will go to hell." And you know who these non-believers are? "What is unfair is that they didn't have to go through the hardest test for normal people; believing. Why do you have to go through that test while they don't? There were always plenty of honorable humans. Only few were selected." No, they went through the hardest tests instead.

well according to them i am clearly in the wrong... haha i remember what they think and said, but i don't care that much... those people are long out of my life and i am better for it

Rashad Khalifa. hehehe.... see I knew it!

The truth is not hidden, the answer is that we were, at one point, too blind to see our hands in front of our faces.

i believe the quran requires both public and private muslims. But not publicly to show off. 1431 Say to My servants who believe, that they should honor the connection, and spend from what provisions We granted them secretly and publicly, before a Day comes when there is no trade therein, nor will there be any friends 755 Call on your Lord in humility and in secret. He does not like the aggressors.