christians and shias lead me to God Alone
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Your story was interesting, and kind of unique )
Welcome to Islam based on Quran alone )
I'm so happy for you brother, that you found the path of Monotheism.
May God show us all the right path
Peace David
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What is G-d?
by Rabbi Mendy HechtA. Ever see Star Wars? Familiar with the Force? Well, the Force is for real! The Force analogy is a good way to understand what G-d is. ?The Force is everywhere. It surrounds and penetrates everyone and everything. You? me? the rock over there? it is all the Force!? Know who said that? Master Yoda. And Yoda?s right?everywhere and everything is G-d. It surrounds us like the atmosphere, and penetrates all matter and energy in the universe.
B. Some basic facts about G-d It is alive. It doesn?t change. It exists in all places and times. It existed before there was place and time. It created place and time. It is capable of doing, creating or destroying anything. (Scary thought, huh?) The word ?He? is used so we could relate to G-d. But G-d is not male, female, or neither, or both. (See Why is G-d always referred to as "He," isn't G-d genderless?) He/She/It is absolutely not an old man on a cloud flinging lightning bolts He has no physical, tangible form. He/She/It is not big, small, hot, cold, up, down, right, left, finite or infinite. He?s just? the Force. He is all of those things. He is all things. Everything. Everywhere. He is One, meaning He does not have parts and is not divisible in any way. He cannot be described. (There is a ?Dark Side? to the universe too, make no mistake, but G-d controls that too. But that?s another subject?see Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?)
?The Force is everywhere. It surrounds and penetrates everyone and everything. You... me... the rock over there... it is all the Force!? Yoda?s right?everywhere and everything is G-d!C. Science says that the universe began with a cataclysmic explosion spreading out evenly from a center point. But where did that super-condensed cubic centimeter of original matter come from? And who/what pulled the trigger to fire off that Big Bang? The answer is G-d. Here?s how it works everything has a beginning and an end; matter can neither be created nor destroyed (it only changes form). We little humans project these facts of life onto everything around us. We therefore ask ?Who created G-d?? or ?Where did G-d come from?? Ahh? this is why it?s impossible to understand G-d. Because He is the Ultimate Existence. He was always there, nobody came before Him, nobody created Him, and nobody can destroy Him. How?s that possible? This is something we can?t understand.
D. Now you're most probably more confused then when you started reading this answer. Well, the truth is that even if you were to study about G-d for an entire life-time, or a billion lifetimes, you would be no nearer to the truth anyway. The human mind is capable of understanding G-d much as a rock can understand the Theory of Relativity. The rock can't understand The Theory (or for that matter, any theory, no matter how simple), not because it didn't study long enough -- but because it doesn't have the ability. Period. However, there is a point to studying about G-d the more you study about Him, the more you realize the depth of His greatness and the totality of your reliance on Him. So, by all means, join a class on Jewish Mysticism and study about G-d until your thoughts are filled of Him all day long. Now that's a really spiritual life! Just give a ring to your nearest Chabad center and find out the time and location of your local Kabbalah class.
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salam, bung Ade_cool. Akhirnya ikut nimbrung di sini juga yah? Selamat bergabung.
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When I was a Sunnist I believed that stoning to death was part of Islam. Now somehow I feel like crying when I remember that. It pains me thinking that I used to believe God would give such a barbaric command.
Why is it barbaric? Some people may consider cutting hands as barbaric. Anyways its for a community 1,400 years ago. What is it about history and Muslims that just do not seem to get along?
Anyways stoning to death is nothing compared to hell fire.
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Peace OPF,
Peace,
Your story is eerily like mine. I went from Sunni-ism to being practically agnostic, but then I picked up a book on Shia thought, and looked further as you did (faced with exactly the same contradiction that you found!), then looked on, and just like you, the stoning hadith sealed it for me )
Eerie similarity.
Nice to hear that somebody has similar experiences )
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Salam all
Same for me. But it was short. Infact from the very start i had that website in the favourites but only 6 or 7 month after my first steps into islam did i started to read this website. The fact that i'm lazy made me stop from reading the big hadith book and instead it made me concentre on Quran. Because there is a friend at school, he says "you gotta know all the hadith books well".
It left me with a blank state in the mind.
And i was lazy studying islam.
But then i came to this site. And i found sereval other sites.
Now i read atleast one hour a day about islam. Because it's really interressting.
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Salam ade_cool,
My story is similar to yours, although I study Christianity and Judaism. And try to debate some of them (read try to convert them to Suniism). I applied the "same standard" to my Sunni beliefs...(especially the illogical shahadah) and BOOM, I'm a God Aloner...
