General Issues / Questions

You missed it all. Some error occurred, and the forum was unavailable for a time. They found a back-up that's a few weeks old, so everyone lost some posts etc. Ahh got it. Thank you!

The first thing to appreciate when it comes to "islam" is that it is a descriptive word, not a name/title. It describes an attribute many can have, i.e. more inclusive than exclusive. http//www.misconceptions-about-islam.com/more.htm And see http//misconceptions-about-islam.com/religion-science-reason-compatible.htm Interestingly, history shows that as time went on Muslims attempted to differentiate themselves from others, i.e. shift from inclusive to exclusive http//islam-and-muslims.com/Donner-Muhammad-and-Believers.pdf

Depends upon the understanding of the root Ha-Ba-Ba. But never mind, do not give the administration an excuse to ban me for thinking. It is alright, you can have your understanding to yourself. I have no use in arguing about what is right or wrong. Be well Qarael Amenuel

you are talking about a no carbs diet... What is glucose doing there being increased? nope Please, provide objective study/evidence for the red part. Fat will never be digestible into enzymes for concrete brain functions and energy release in other body functions because ALL NUTRIENTS are DIFFERENT and NEEDED. You wont have a fruit carb making the same job as a carb from meat brickwall you will need some chemistry to get that (nutrient mix). Btw and due to your pic... Meat is mostly PROTEIN! And the tomatoes around are mostly carbs! I am also pleaseee waiting to see a fat based diet menu, i am really curious and not in the bad meaning nvm...

Contradiction After some time here. I came to realize that some people over here are wierd. Honestly. I think some people are overthinking the ideas of the Quran and are too much obsessed with finding the truth. Then why do you want an honest translation? See below I have also seen posts which simply change the narrative of the Quran. Now I am afraid to read the translation by ''the monotheist group'' (from this site) because I fear the book is not honest when it comes to translation. >( Peace -\ Contradiction here again I have seen people who even discredit Muhammad and label him as a warmonger who stole the Quran from someone. Even though they do not accept the hadith (some of which do portray him as such). nope Versus I think these can't be taken as source for moral code but many of these still reflect and may truly show the life of Muhammad. confused Isn't a more objective, constuctive approach to these books. Both of you want to pick and choose. Why take away their right? Also, why is there this fanatical rebutal of the hadith and sunnah. Of course, these could be fabricated but denying all of it seems irrelevant. Answer is right inside your first few lines too much obsessed with finding the truth Those people are coming from "fanatical culture" background... They just crossed side but they still retain the 'fanatical' behavior. Pot calling the kettle black. Yep, it is sign of being all enlightened when someone spends days, months and years claiming things without proof just as Bukharians did about the Prophet! They switched idol but retained the idolatry behavior.. Like coming to this forum to attack others and then idolizing the ego used in that!

If you force someone to your standards or beliefs you violate the directives while you would seek to make others uphold them. One always have to reflect if seeking to make yourself or others uphold a directive will violate another directive. The universe was created with a purpose "in mind" and because it is decided in advance the course of its cycle this is a predetermined part of existence. Included in it are predetermined events, either made when the universe was created or on-the-fly and a determination means its subject will be made come true in the world. The knowing of such determination is a prophecy and what makes a prophet. God, including the angels, may issue determinations and therefore the storyline may be altered during the course of time. It also means something can be decided 2000 years earlier but come true in another time 2000 years later and a person fulfills the prophecies as this person is born selected to fulfill them. God has minute control. Be well Qarael Amenuel

Is that a yes or no? I answered the question in what I wrote. It is not as easy as yes or no because first one needs to know what is "Restricted Temple" and Jerusalem. Be well Qarael Amenuel

hmm its great work brother because now a days , its hard to get married due to lot of our own society made rituals of marriage and traditions of wasting money on irrelevant things.. so a marriage is really a need of human being infact everybody need a partner who can travel the journey of lfe together... its better to travel with somebody rather than walking alone.. may God bless all the brothers and sisters who are struggling to find their right partners...

I'm not an Arabic speaker either, but there's no connection. Iman is about expressing our belief (qalb) by words and islam is expressing our belief (qalb) with deeds. So, mu'min is about claiming what is our belief (qalb) with haqq (reality). If a claim is with batil (illusion) and a person knows about, that person is munafiq and if it's different then our deeds that person still can be a Muslim, but jahil for many things. If we think about what we should claim then we will know what has to be in our qalb, if He wants so. If it's not there, something's wrong with it. For example, if my belief (qalb) is that Akhiret is haqq (reality) and I'm not talking about it and for (for example, to teach others what I know) it, I'm not mu'min. If I'm talking about it I can be mu'min. If somebody's talking about that Akhiret is haqq (reality) but it's not in their belief (qalb) and they know about that, that person is munafiq. If somebody's talking about that Akhiret is haqq (reality) but their deeds are showing opposite or different, but that person didn't understand it, they still can be Muslims if their deeds reflect haqq (reality). Qalb (belief) is something which can change, but we should seek what is making us to express its reality (haqq) or illusion (batil). Amongs these things are weswesa from our nefs, from el-jinnet and en-nas, Sheytan's l.a. influence (fear is most common), forgetting haqq (reality), emotions (fu'ad) as sadness, fear again in different forms, etc. Crying makes most of these negative influences to disappear and is helping in expressing only reality (haqq). Allah swt knows best. Thank you for your response!

Revelation = a knowledge / information / understanding which was not known or understood before... Revealing (Verb) = the process of disseminating the knowledge / information / understanding which was not known or understood before to a specific party or group of parties. The converging point is the attitude (not the religion) of islam.. the attitude of "acceptance".. Yes it's natural for human to idolize something or someone, anything that is being regarded as 'holy' or 'sacred', site/location, statue, jewelry, non metal object, human remain, book, institution, living human being, fictional figures, football club, nationality, races, ethnicity, tradition, language etc.. That is the remedy by the first two commandments in the famous 'Ten Commandments'. Be one in God, God is One and there is no other existence, anything else is only an illusion and a contradiction made as a test. Traditional religionists stand for dualism, Creator and Creation while God is One. Be well Qarael Amenuel

Not that I care who is portrayed in those Gospels nor when, but they are Eysua who is mispronounced Isa in Islam. Roman Christianity is a joke, but the written Gospels have nothing to do with them. My own prediction is that Eysua lived around 300-100BC, i.e. circa 100-300 years before the traditional date and Herod was a Persian satrap (Orod in Persian) while Persia was still defeated after Alexander the Great and had a local ruler under the Roman Empire and Herod was not there in Jerusalem because he was seated in the former fallen palaces (except Persepolis which was burned to the ground, according to a myth due to zealotry). Be well Qarael Amenuel

Could I have some examples of some verbs through the forms?

RED may be he will become an evil slave who spread evil and probably plan to kill the master ... whats the difference then? Assuming it's a 'he' and 'powerful'... Usually we call such thing "Revolution" or "Freedom Fighter"... A bunch of slave revolting for freedom from their master.. Heck that's what the so called "Israelite and Moses" did right? And if Mr Pharaoh succeed he will be a 'hero'.. otherwise.. he will suffer a long and torturing death.. Mr Pharaoh will then be a 'good guy' as told by his follower and the progeny of his follower... just like Moses... Assuming that "Pharaoh" is borned as a 'she' and not powerful.. Then she will be raped and abused multiple times by her master... and decided to end her life (this time around) by suicide... BLUE solomon got much more than pharoah in worldy wealth as well as the company of mysterious characters who are able to do works in the glimpse of eyes... and he was the son of king too , but did he do anything wrong ? Mr. Solomon (the identity) context is different than Mr. Pharaoh, he had a dad who thought him well... A bunch of rebbe that teached him the wisdom of his people... He wasn't praised as god since little children.. and not spoiled at all.. Nobody worshipped him like a god.. And he initially wasn't supposed to be the heir of the kingdom... as he wasn't the son from his dad's first wife.. Fate turned good on him as his dad approached his death.. he fought off his competitor and 'purged' any potential rival for his power.. just like any politicians... Is he 'good' or 'bad'.. again it depends on which point of view.. But at least he didn't enslaved anyone.. Turning back to Mr Pharaoh's life context.. What will you do if you were in his shoes? A Pharaoh in ancient egyptian society context was supposed to be a 'deity'... a patron in this life and also the afterlife.. in the afterlife the pharaoh will grant his follower eternal paradise... such was the religion of ancient egyptian. Those who do not had any patron / pharaoh or the pharaoh was not happy with him during his 'earthly life' will be eaten in the afterlife by giant crocodile... One of Pharaoh role is to conquer neighboring areas, loot their belonging and capture the people as slaves... A good pharaoh are those who can bring in many slaves and booty to Egyptian citizen.. That was the social cultural values in ancient egyptian... A pharaoh who let the slave go.. or 'free' the slaves is a bad pharaoh... Mocked and ridiculed by the citizen.. and the citizen will lose the belief of the 'deitiness' of their pharaoh. THe pharaoh might run into a risk of a political coup by his enemy... If the coup is successful, the pharaoh, his family / relatives will be tortured and killed.. his entire dynasty will be destroyed.. Death on the sea while pursuing the escaping slaves is considered as a blessing compared to the death by political coup... At least he will save his reputation (heroic death while trying to conquer the enemy) and his dynasty will be saved. As similitude.. The option of "Freeing the Israelite" is viewed as bad (politically) as Xi Jinping letting Taiwan to be independent... He will be viewed as weak leader and run into the risk of a coup from a group within Chinese communist party.. If Xi Jinping (in modern china context) is faced with such options, I bet all my money that he will chose to declare war against Taiwan.. even if Taiwan had the backing of US military... thus potentially triggering the start of WW3. A decision which might caused million of deaths and suffering.... and potentially the death of Xi Jinping himself... Will then XI Jinping be remembered as 'evil man'? It depends... if China won the war.. he will be regarded as a 'hero' (just like Abe Lincoln).. if China lose it will be the opposite... the evil man Xi Jinping... who caused death of millions... "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." -- Abe Lincoln Human's belief, world view, decision and character is at least 80% being influenced by his/her life context... (culture, norm, upbringing, tradition, religion, political situation etc..)

Peace huruf, Being a successor is a status. Imraan

Muhsana is the woman that to whom legal capacity of consent for marriage or sex is ackknowledged. That is why in 24.4 it is spoken of those who acuse the "muhsanaat". Because if a woman is not acknowledged the capacity of consent then she cannot be accused of anything. Also, in several ayas men are told to marry muhsineen, that is acknowledging first the woman's capacity of consent, that is not to marry them if they do not consent, and that is also why married women are considered muhsanaat, because they are acknowledged on marriage the capacity of consent. Salaam

I still think the English word fear is very inappropriate for use in the context. Fear is when you feel uneasy and afraid of doing things to the extent that you become impaired because so much mental capacity goes on thinking on what fears you. To be mindful is the possible word to use in that case. One should be mindful of what will happen to oneself, but to walk around in fear is only going to be disabling. Fear is an instinct and emotional state, and I would urge people to refrain from fear and just do what is required. If people rely on fear in behaving properly in servitude to God they are surely spiritually inadequate. Mindfulness of the obligations to God would be a logical parameter of someone's life. Be well Amenuel

Use quranix.org I believe all translations from corpus.quran have a sunni background. It's about having word for word translations Quranix lacks that as well I only give sincerest advice for serious studying. Unless you are able to look at each word and see how it is being translated you are not studying the Quran, you are merely allowing another person to force feed you their interpretation

Eastern religions talk about ego as something bad. However, One's Ego makes one an individual. The fatalistic view of everything as absolute Good and Bad actually started by ancient persian (Zoroastrianism)... which then serve as foundation of future religion/tradition to come on the region under Persian domain which then become the prominent religion / tradition on western hemisphere... The eastern view doesn't hold such absolute good and bad on things.. as it merely a 'perception'.. "When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created. When people see things as good, evil is created." Death can be good or bad.. it depends.. and so does Birth.... Ego can be good or bad.. it depends.... Hard to grasp concept for common westerner... But kudos to George Lucas who managed to somehow introduce the concept on his popular saga called "Star Wars" series.. A 'metaphoric' example Cancer cells... Cancer cells are cells who refused to 'die' when it supposed time of death are due, it went awol and 'strive' for prolong existence, and some cancer cells even go as far of trying "To Conquer The Entire World" by duplicating itself as many as possible trying to outnumber the 'kuffar'/'infidel'/'unenlightened' normal cells... This effort is obviously fruitless, as the 'host' will eventually die as cancer cells spread and caused 'disharmony' on the entire body function... When the host dies.. so does all of it's cells, cancer or non-cancer cells.. Cancer cells seems to be 'evil' on this story.. but are they really? Even 'evil' cancer cells has their purposes.. it causes 'death' to the entire host marking the end of the host's lifetime... as the host itself also has it's own purposes of being alive and then die... Who would find the idea of one losing himself And merging into a shared consciousness as something attractive? Those who understand... those who has managed to conquer his/her ego.. as ego strive for continuous existence.. But in any case, any ego / identity will die, it just a matter of time... whether it's individual identity or group identity..(Religion, Nationality, Ethnicity, Race etc..) What's then the appropriate attitude? Acceptance... Inner Peace can be as simple as letting go, and resting under the shade of an old tree.

There is a specific mount on earth named Mount Zion it's near Jerusalem. You can google it on your map to find the location (and also the route to reach there if you want) The mountain is revered by the israelites, in similar manner as mount Olympus revered by the Greeks or mount Fuji is revered by the Japanese.. Thus they sometimes attached myth and also use it as 'allegory'.. Pazuzu had another idea, of another mount, by the same name. It can be found in his articles.

?If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.? -- Tao The Ching Sounds like the words of an insightful man. It also is in line with Jesus words when he says "care also for your enemy". Be well Amenuel