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  • Is Quran anti- secular?

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    I mean we can also teach "men s books" like hadiths and Science and....Ya it is fine to teach your fellow humans . Definitely recommended. Of course I am all for teaching any knowledge. As for salvation/redemption , each to seek their own .Nobody can teach it really. GOD bless. Peace.
  • Bakka/Mecca

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    Google Chrome recently updated the way its browser identifies/displays website security status (I think last year). It just means the website does not have its own security certificate to verify it is the genuine/correct website and secure the data you input in it. For static pages where you dont input any data it's no big deal. You can even disable this setting in chrome if you want. In reality the chances of a website domain being spoofed/hacked is very low. I've personally never encountered it and usually only happens if one visits unknown links found in spam emails etc. Thanks for replying. So hopefully it will be secure then (not that I think you're a hacker but you know, just making sure why it said not secure).
  • Can Messengers be killed or not?

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    Salam, Yes, messengers and prophets can be killed. There is no contradiction - 10103 speaks about God�s wrath/punishment and that He saves the believes from such act (nothing withstanding human ability to kill, else why punish the murderer if it�s is God�s will!) Salam, yeah that's kind of what I was thinking I just updated my question.
  • MARRIAGE WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

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    peace, 2143 ...And We did not make the qibla that you were on it except that We may know who is following the messenger from those who will turn on their two heels. It was a great thing indeed except for those whom God had guided... I.e. those who are guided by God follow the prophet’s qibla. Do they (today’s Jews and Christians) follow the prophet’s qibla?
  • Those their right hands possess verses

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    2562 وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱلَّيۡلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ خِلۡفَةً۬ لِّمَنۡ أَرَادَ أَن يَذَّڪَّرَ أَوۡ أَرَادَ شُڪُورً۬ا Is there a choice between "yazzakara" and "shukura" in this ayat? Salaam It is not a matter of choice or not choice, two different things, are two different things, whether you choose or not choose or whether it is possible for any parituclar individual to choose or it is not possible to choose or it occurs to him or her even that you have or can choose. Salaam
  • Why did God create us?

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    to test ones true nature.
  • How would you respond to the following article?

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    Maybe women are just naturally closer to God because of how they're made. Being closer to creation because of childbirth etc makes us closer to a creator therefore we need less instruction. We can already sense how to submit to the creator. Men are further removed from creation and therefore maybe less inclined to believe and/or submit to a creator. They need to be dictated to directly by the creator. A lot of men ruin it though. They accept they're subservient to God so as a compensation to themselves they make women subservient to them. Man's god is God and woman's god is Man. This constitutes the vast majority of men on earth I reckon. Yes, that is what I calle de ibliisation of males. They behave as Ibliis but ake it a little further they won't be helpful to women, they will own women, since women have the capacity to reproduce which they lack the way to have that capacity an be omnipotent is to own women. Ibliis all right. To the iblisiced male, not to have this power kills him. Being looses its meaning if they do not have that. Of course, nothing to do with the prophets, like Lut and Nuh, for instance, who had wives who did not follow them as prophets, and what did they do? Get mad? No, carry on their mission and follow God, not their own personal delusions. Salaam
  • For justice: The Eternal is our Justice, are they any hearers among you?

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    The global warming is a recurring event, temperature fluctuate in a cycle within this planet. http//blogs.edf.org/climate411/wp-content/files/2007/06/last_400000_years.png Thus it's not due to 'human morality' although specific human behavior of burning fossil fuel might have some correlation to the increase of temperature. Solution find alternative and cleaner energy, migrate away from fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas. Human morality and common sense nowadays, in relatively average comparison to 7th century middle east or other era in history, is much better. The frequency of burning people to death, torture, war / invasion, enslavement, religion persecution and oppression has decreased albeit not yet eradicated in entirely. Society, nation and empire does rise and fall following it's cycle. The meek and humble will rise while the proud will fall. It has been a recurring pattern throughout history and no society are immune to the law. Those who were initially meek will became proud and they will experience a decline, due to their pride they refuse to accept the decline and amend accordingly but put forth a false image of their glory and superiority over others. Be humble and smart. None of you are superior compared to others, and none of you are preferred over others, everyone abide to the same rule.
  • Has anyone on here ever met another quran only believer in real life

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    Thank you brother Imran. I will provide my take on who came up with the contents of the Arabic Qoran - As writing something and coming up with its contents/author... can be different). Only an Arabic speaking entity could have authored and wrote Qoran or like the book claims Allah authored it. With that in mind, we're left with three choices 1 - the Arabs wrote it (One or a group) 2 - Mohammad authored and wrote it or dictated it for a scribe to write it. 3 - Allah authored it -(If the other two choices above can be illuminated from authorship then the book mentions the author clearly) 1,2 and 3 need to be researched and analysed along with the contents of the book to see the possibilities and their certainty or probabilities. Briefly I give my findings on each 1-No one in the history of the world has EVER claimed to have authored/ written the Quran, nor anyone's name ever appeared in front of the Qoran as being the 'author'. This is one of very few books in the world without a human author. No one in the world has ever been accused of authoring and writing the Holy Quran, except the Prophet Mohammad , by non-muslims. 2- If one is a honest truth seeker and not just just another argumentative person, then the contents are a powerful evidence that it is impossible for the prophet to choose the direction and way of life he led and stay consistent with the theme of Qoran to consistently give true statements that he could not possibly know and lead a nation with this book and not put even a hint in there that he authored it. By analysing both the content of Qoran and the history available of Mohammed, it is logical to deduce that he did not and could not come up with the contents of Qoran. All logical evidence leads to "revelation" from other than the ideas of the prophet. 3- A revelation from a knowledgeable and able being beyond a human capability. who? if others have evidence of a human author of the Qoran, please give your evidence. GOD bless. Peace.
  • The Mysterious Two Seas

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    As of now; there is no strong evidence that the mass migration (exodus) and the parting of the sea (whichever sea) did happened. But if the event was happening around 1250 BC, there are strong and abundant evidences of 'something big' happened around that time. We call such phenomenon as "Bronze Age Collapse". What is Bronze Age collapse? It was combination of multiple big events; Massive invasion from unknown sources (only labelled as "sea people" as those people suddenly coming out from the sea, not literally coming out from the sea though like mermaid, but disembark using massive amount of ships, similar to viking raids) Plague / Economic hardship Insurgency / Rebellion If we view the story of "Moses led migration" as "rebellion of slaves against their own master" then it fits the category #3. What is it? It is a massive revolution happening around middle east, similar to "Arab Springs" yet on steroid and unlike the Arab springs, it was a massive 'success'. An intersection of events happened with evidence found in Jericho. While Moses legend told stories that the Jericho wall was destroyed due to raid by israelites ('miraculously' through the sound of the trumpet). The evidence pointed out different story, the evidence shows that the Jericho wall was destroyed from the inside, which means destroyed by it's own populace. A strong evidence of massive unrest / rebellion happening from inside the city. Thus the destruction of Jericho's wall did happened, during such era, but not due to 'miraculous' sound of the trumpet as told by Moses legend, but due to unrest within the city. The hypothesis supported by another evidence of pottery found around Jericho, pottery found prior to 1250 BC were decorated with massive and complex decoration while pottery found after 1250 BC were plain without any decoration. This shows that after the events, it seems that there the tradition evolves into more of practicality and egalitarian societies. (decorated pottery is expensive and functional, plain pottery is cheap and yet functional) This again match with Moses legend, it was told that the Israelites after their escape, built a classless and socialist society without any royalty / king. The land belong collectively to the people, in the legend it was told that they divide the management of the land in accordance to the tribes. They appointed judges to resolve any conflicts but there was no king / royalty. It's plausible that the Moses legend did happened (the slave rebellion towards Egyptian royalty) but the details of the event might not exactly 100% to be true. Or in other words, the Moses legend was based on the true events and true story with embellishments.. The successful rebellion of Moses, might inspire slaves / lower class in other area to rebel against their own master, just like an unrest in Tunisia inspire unrest against their respective dictatorial regimes in other areas during Arab springs. In overall The "Bronze Age Collapse" resulted in the demise of the old super power empires (Egyptian and Hittites) and mark the beginning of new "Iron Age Era" where new empire slowly grow to power (Assyrian, Persian, Greek /Macedon and then Roman Empire) Similar to how World War II resulted in the demise of British and French empire and mark the beginning of "cold war era" where many new countries rebelled / sprung up due to demise of their european colonial master and USA and Soviet Union contested for global power... You can google "Bronze Age Collapse" for the details, if you're curious...
  • How do you manage to get up for Fajr everyday

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    I'm not convinced it's necessary. I believe it's optional. If you live far north it causes hardship anyway getting up again only a few hours after it just went dark. Don't force it.
  • A Christian dishonesty on 9:62.

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    Also if he wanted this way brother the Sardar, then" Allah Wa Rasoolahu" is not Allah and Muhammed the man . It is Allah and His Message. When Muhammed is acting as Rasool he is conveying only Qoran, -GOD s words-. Hence Allah and his message is only one source. So you could say "Allah and His word" is singular. Remember Qoran is also a "messenger" . i.e GOD Alone is "Ahaqu An Tarduhu". GOD is saying there is only one source that should be "Turduhu". GOD and His message. Qoran also serves to show off "the human knowledge" of those who have the wrong understanding and refuse to dig deep for why?!!! GOD bless you. Peace
  • Lower your gaze meaning

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    The lower the gaze or veil the gaze is for each one to keep in command it hom or herself always. The aztecs used to have the procedure of marriage so that the married couple had to keep the first six (I thin it as six) days living together without touching each other, so they would learn and practise self restrain. In fact they were very pragmatic con it, they did understand that sex is very tempting BUT that men (of both sexes) as self-conscious cretures of God had the need and the duty to keep always command over themselves. Therefore, while it was understandable that sexual desire were powerful, it was inadmissible that people give in to them loosing command of themselves. Teh state of dressing of any other person of either sex was no mitigating circumstance. Lossing self command was an insult to God's mercy who made us the way we are and made us conscious that we owe our existince to God. No excuse for it. Salaam
  • Are humans naturally drawn to evil?

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    upon asking from my grandfather many many years ago he told a story how they converted to sunni islam, they belong to HINDU royal family and mistakenly/accidently my great great grandfather killed a cow so according to the law he sentenced for death penalty, but a twist happened in story when there was a person in the same cell who was muslim and advised him to accept islam so that punishment no longer applicable as muslims sacrifice cow every single day.. when he did this the royal family disowned him from royal title and give him no money and status. the muslim person advised him to do {(11th peer) khatam/offering} on every eleventh of the month AKA ( abdul qadir jilani )= 11th peer. Your grandpa prison mate gave out a very smart advice.. bravo But back to the topic of our previous discussion... The above story only explain why you (in current lifetime) somehow have negative opinion about hindu and anything associated with it, such as India. You haven't really learn on 'how things are' from the perspective of a hindu and / or those with India as nationality. Thus a 'life experience' of having such identity as your own might be a good lesson for you.. And perhaps with additional background of (but this time around) having a history of your own family members being persecuted by a 'Muslim'. i m still on a path (unknown) lol but good thing the factor of fear is getting less and less.. that was the only factor what disturbed my reason so many times.. still a part of it is going on somewhere in my mind.. Fear, just like Hate, is a very strong emotion.. thus definitely will disturb your own reasoning.. But I'm glad to hear that you manage to control your own fear better now...
  • "unread posts since last visit"

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    The link is back.
  • Modest dressing

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    I don't believe in modest dressing anymore. I believe in modest mindset. I've learnt a lot in the last months enough to resolve modest dressing is exaggeration and can be toxic. If you go look Google images at indigenous tribes dwelling outside of civilization, you can't help but note how naked they are, sometimes baring everything safe for the groins. Our forefathers did not bother with 'modest dressing', for them clothing was luxury for beauty and protection from weather. How come these two categories manage with so much bare skin? It is all about the mind. Our society have been polluted with toxic ideas on sexuality. And this has lead to two extremes, modesty culture and sexualization.
  • Is Mcdonalds really haram as a lot of Sunnis say

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    Peace I eat it occasionally. I usually order the fish burger and fries with ketchup... I understand that Mcdonalds fries their meat in the same oil and I understand some of that meat is from pig's meat but it's not as if I'm literally eating pig's meat, I eat the fish...is this really so bad? Is this really so wrong/ haram? Or an exaggeration? As a strict vegetarian and animal rights supporter I can't share my experience much but what I have read is that only pig's meat is forbidden alongside some other points. Oil contamination is not considered flesh (at least that's what it seems like). With regard to the nityy-gritty it's a good idea to check how Macdo operate to conclude whether they're breaking any rules mentioned in the koran or not. Though Sunnis speak from sources other than the koran so if you want God's words, go to the actual words. You'll hopefully find the verses eventually. God Bless, TheHinaterians
  • Is it possible for someone to have a God given gift of seeing into future?

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    just joking, why it always has to be "an old man with a white beard"? rotfl lol that was in my dream what my vision interpret me... now i m feeling i ll see a PIC of YOU with glasses and moustaches in my next dream... and i can confidently say i had a dream and messenger came in my dream with glasses and moustaches rotfl messengers now a days are modern and stylish who look after their hairs and getup.. times changed yay
  • Genetic evidence proves Muhammad and destroys alternative theories

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    Wow. I am very intrigued by this discovery. I would love to read your publication as soon as it comes out. Will it be open source? I am a masters student in Bioinformatics (mostly to learn all of the programming aspects before moving on) and I did my undergraduate in genetics. I also worked for a professor who studied population genetics in fig wasps as an undergraduate student. So Everything you've said makes a lot of sense to me. we studied the divergence of the cytochrome oxidase gene in mitochondria to determine relatedness in different fig wasps populations. I'm assuming you probably used similar methods to determine the haplotype variability within the y chromosome. I would enjoy hearing more about it. Peace, I am happy that someone here can have the proper knowledge to understand just how big and meaningful this is. Although I am no ''scientist'' in the formal sense of the term, I am qualified enough in haploid markers to be able to act as an authoritative source on the matter, actually even more so than the ''scientists'' themselves. Not trying to sound arrogant or anything, it's just that after so many years spent on this particular field on my own and looking through the endeavors of researchers, I can safely say that most of them are clueless when it comes to interpreting their own data, mainly because they are too linear in their thinking and while this may sound counterintuitive given that we're talking about haploid markers (which are transmitted in a linear fashion), you have to keep in mind that genetic markers are only that and thus cannot act independantly and discriminate between themselves, at the end of the day humans are social beings and when they move, these same genetic markers are in fact only a byproduct of this movement. My point is that we should treat even linear markers in groups and not as sentient-like entities. A common behavior observed in the popualtion genetics community is the idea that a particular haplogroup spoke this or that language, looked like this or that, or whatever. For example, it is not uncommon to hear things such as ''R1a brought indo-european languages to Europe''. The truth is that the bringers of indo-european belonged to R1a and other lines as well, and only happened to have been so almost haphazardly because of various founding events caused by population bottlenecking. To understand migrations, one has to look at the broadest possible picture, and this requires a very wide analytical approach, a thing that most researchers seem to lack, hence why it took them forever to figure out things that could have been easily spotted if everything was considered with due attention. The most flagrant example of this is the story of R1b, the main haplogroup in Western Europe bore by some 70% of the men on the atlantic fringe. In less than two decades, a countless number of theories have been proposed to explain it and it took scientists the arrival of ancient DNA (extracting DNA from ancient remains) to finally be able to really grasp this ''big mystery'', which in fact shouldn't have been a mystery if they had considered it with care in the first place, as it was in fact perfectly possible to deduce the truth concerning R1b almost as soon as it was discovered !!! So what do I do then? I thoroughly analyse the data made readily available for anyone interested in an extensive way to draw logical conclusions about various traceable human migrations. Having a firm understanding of the interrelated dynamics of haploid markers is what enable me to make these discoveries, while most of the others are trapped in a never-ending rambling obscured by severe misunderstanding and delusional thinking often driven by specific agendas and confiramtion bias, much like what we see here in free-minds... Feel free to PM me if you want me to elaborate on any given point.
  • know of any free quranic text with no diacritics?

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    anyone know of any free quran text without diacritics.. im trying to utilize searching with regular expressions, but they get in the way. Salam! Hope this would be helpful https//stackoverflow.com/questions/5224267/javascriptremove-arabic-text-diacritic-dynamically Peace!