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Thanks everyone!!!! Hey anyone that lives in the PNW or Oregon feel free to message me. Maybe we can organize a gathering of like minded individuals. sun

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Salaam, My apologies sister. Although I think Ssj might be just another clone. God bless you

Thank you for the encouraging comments and caveats about the members on free-minds forum. I respect everyone point of views and my main goal is to seek guidance from the Quran.

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Salaam, welcome I like your avatar ;D May God bless you pr Regards, Yuliana

peace, I think Quran advocates for the mumineen, a minimum of two daily regular/timed salat/bond. At the time, or shortly after the prophet's death, there likely was variance in practice, not only in the method but also the number. The Quran never strictly formalised it. Thus, with all this variance, there was likely a push by later leaders and religious scholars towards orthodoxy, to make this practice more formalised, uniform etc hence the fixing of five. There are various theories as to the fixing of five, see http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9600954.msg259782#msg259782 Peace Wakas, Thanks, that's helpful. I agree. The more I have studied Quran the more I have realised this. What I guess I'd also add here to what I already included before is that the most important thing seems to be to know our relationship with God. To seek to further that relationship and follow the moral compass God has blessed us all with. So all the concerns over rituals in hadith etc go against the essence of the Quran. God cares that we are just, decent, show compassion to all living things not just human being etc, and these are things He has already imbued in us, as well as the ability to choose between right and wrong. Maybe that is why the punishments in the past were that way, because the message of morality - not rituals - was already so clear and so straightforwardly put for people both within themselves and from a Messenger among them.

welcome sist! i also new in this forum although not new in quran-only idea. the braveness to question our faith is indeed the door of the truth. congrats!

welcome welcome Quran is complete, but some people were lazy to solved the puzzles in the Quran instead only depending some fabricated hadith for knowing how to salat.zakat etc.

Sweet! I'm pretty into tattooing and body mod. I mean, not excessively so, but I have a few pieces done. Last Ramadan I got the shahada tattooed on my upper arm wrapping around. Probably my favorite so far. ) Let me know if you get inked. I'd love to see it.

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Salam Sister! It's so nice to meet you! sun I wish I could afford to feed my kitty a raw food diet. I totally agree with treating all animals the best we can. About the worry of marring a Sunni man I can only tell you my experience with it. I married my husband when I was following the sunni way so my husband and I were on the same page. I just started my journey just following the hadith. I've introduced my husband to some some different ideas. At first he was very negative. It was hard for him to have all his previous ideas questioned. Which is totally understanding. Now he a little bit more understanding. It's taken alot of patience and showing him things very slowly and kindly and alot of respect. It's very hard and it can be very frustrating at times. I'm pregnant and due in 3 months so it is very scary about what we're going to be teaching our kids. I can tell you if I had started this path before I got married I wouldn't have married my husband even though he is a wonderful man. Instead I would have looked for some one that follows the Quran only as well. Simply for the reason that we'd be on the same page, we'd be able to teach our children the same thing and it would save us from a lot of disagreements. You know what is right for you. peace

Peace, Muhammad Asad's translation is quite good for a mainstream one. If I look for something non-sectarian I read Reformist, Monotheist or Rashad Khalifa's translation (except that the latter is filled with lots of nonsense parentheses and footnotes, although easy to read). I think the translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali is decent due to the reason it is often literal but is not an easy-reading due to archaic language (his translation is from the 1930's). However sometimes I like reading old-fashioned English so I pick up this one or the old King James Bible I have -) Like someone mentioned, Mohsen Khan's is among the worst translations available due to its heavy bias. It is filled with information of preconceived nature often based on his own understanding derived from hadith and tradition. Very literal translations can be good if you try to learn Arabic which may be good for someone who wants to see the Truth for himself. However, I think one does not really have to learn Arabic just to worship/serve God. Some people even mock others due to their lack of knowledge of this language like as if God's religion is limited to a certain people who know God's "holy" language. "Thinking with the heart" is the best way of serving God through living by His system. God bless you

you guys crack me up rotfl peace r

Assalamu alaykum I am the only muslim in a isolated christian region.I have a jewish-christian-atheist family back ground and more than 10 years ago I stumbled over a romanian version of the noble Qur'an.As a result I have become a muslim revert,I taught myself standard arabic through the saudi and kuweiti radio. Yet I reject some of the sunna and various hadith,I don't trust it so far and I will never be circumcised.I thank God there are muslims who believe in the holy Qur'an alone.Even today my only connection with the muslim world is this holy scripture,the salat and the sawm.I think everybody who confess the shahaadah has the right to be considered muslim.Even the Sufi ,Shia ,Ibadi,ahmadi,etc Although I do not share all their beliefs,I discovered the qawwali music and I am a big fan of it.I do not think dhikr is a sin, let Allah judge this innovation.For me the essence of Islam is the confession and the coran.The rest does not matter so much and separates people rather then uniting them. I am definitely a secularist. Baraka Allah fikum Salaam alfarwq, welcome to this forum. Yeah I am also a secularist handshake So you are a Romanian? Hmmmm if you want to learn the Qur'an meaning and be able read Qur'an without translation, I recommend you to learn Classical Arabic. Yeah sectarians are often intolerant. They often think that they are the only true Muslims and believe that others will go to hell voodoo I think most Quran-only muslims only accept and follow the Quran as the source of Islamic law and Fiqh. It's saddening that many translations of Quran especially in English are erroneous and make Quran look like a book of hate '( . It's because the translators use traditional sources to translate Quran. Have you ever tried Quran translations on Free Minds (Quran- Monotheist Translation)? May God bless you. pr Kind regards, Yuliana

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thank you all for the welcome! That it can take time to come to understand the Quran and this is a learning process. So there is nothing to worry about if we get something wrong just as long as we are open to learning and moving on by Allah's swt leave. Hope this helps! That's a great way to look at things. Thanks for the advice