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You Have Been Warned

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    unknownuser
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    Salaam Ahmed

    Salam Samia

    Of course I believe there is hell and there is paradise. But I do not think others who believe in metaphore do not believe that hell and gennah will exist, otherwise it would mean they do not believe in JD, and this we should not conclude from their reasoning of metaphore.

    Good

    But for those who believe it exists, does it exist according to what they think it is or does exist according to what Allah said about it?

    It is easy to imagine hell, because we know what is fire;

    I believe it can be freezing cold as well, I think there is a verse in the Quran that suggest as such, I have to find it though

    we all have experienced at least a burnt finger or a tiny part of our skin, and we all do not like that.

    well, the ultimate honesty of Allah means He has to tell us what it is exactly. Fire alone is very vague if He intended all these sorts of punishments described by Him

    But the problem is to believe everything in Paradise. Should we expect literally rivers of honey and milk, fruits (even we never heard of) and beautiful virgins?

    Excluding the vigins, due to the fact the word Hoor is a tough one, yes the rivers of milk and honey is very clear descriptions and that is what I expect because that is what Allah said, anything else I will come up with from humans is CLEAR CUT SHIRK

    What would motivate a woman in this (or even a man)?

    Do you mean the rivers, or the sex?

    Just being in a beautiful place for eternity is enough of a motivation, but what I sense that you are indirectly saying that Allah is talking vain , I.e He told things that was not important to tell

    When you are hungry, would you dream of milk, honey and fruit?

    There is no hunger in Paradise as far as I?m aware, neither we will piss , I also believe there will be no sleep no dreams in paradise, it will be reality at its max

    Are they even unattained luxuries in our lives? Honestly, if I have to take hell and gennah literally, I would be very disappointed to find that after all my good deeds I will find myself surrounded by the most beautiful virgins. Even if I would be one of them, it would still be "torture" because beauty will lose its meaning (in the absense of ugliness). I personally am intolerent to milk, I hate fruits but can drink the juice for a balanced meal. So, am I left with honey to motivate me?

    Well, to be honest I never though deep in the details of Paradise, it really does not concern me because I won?t worship Allah to a reward, my reward will be His pleasure and if that is achieved then I will achieve everything I want

    For your milk problem, I believe you can ask for a totally new drink that never existed before and your wish will be granted so I guess you will be very busy thinking of all the things you can imagine and want and it will be in front of your eyes on the fly

    This understanding, I believe , is the reason why most moslems just avoid doing bad things,

    How do you know that most Muslims do that?, I found most Muslims I met in reality do the opposite actually

    but at the same time they do not really do good work.

    that was a tough call to judge, I can?t judge that really because many good deeds are done in secret

    They do commit sins,

    I agree, they are humans I guess

    but then they calculate ( one good thing = 10 points;

    well, I guess they missed that Allah can multiply it to 700 and even more than that

    one sin= 1point,

    well, it is not really points, it is an equivalent punishment to one committed sin

    therefore I can sin nine times and do good once and I will still pass and not go to hell mission accomplished).

    LOL, it does not work this way sister, I believe this is how it works

    1. I do good deed, then I will be rewarded for it
    2. I do bad deed, then I will be punished for it

    Both reward and punishment will be delivered if I do both acts, i.e. non will overwrite the other, only Allah forgiveness will overwrite the sins, i.e. if someone made a whole heap of good deeds, and one major sin all his life, he will be held accountable to his sin and he must pay his dues regardless the amount of good deeds, if Allah wants to forgive that sin then this is how the sinful will be saved.

    God says about their calculations

    18104 "Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life while they were calculating that they were acquiring good by their deeds".

    I don?t think the word calculating is the right translation, it has to be ?Thinking?, so the translation should be as follow

    18104 "Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life while they were THINKING that they were acquiring good by their deeds".

    And why was that? Because by believing literally in the description of hell and paradise, they are very "afraid" from hell but not really motivated by paradise.

    I really don?t think what you said above has any merit, sorry

    Cheers

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      Samia
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      Salaam Ahmed

      Can you please write down verse 18104 in Arabic?

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        unknownuser
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        Salaam Ahmed

        Can you please write down verse 18104 in Arabic?

        peace sister

        give me 15 munites as i need to give my son a bath

        talk to you soon

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          unknownuser
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          Hi Samia

          Here it is

          (104)

          Salam

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            Samia
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            Thanks Ahmed.

            In "lisanul 3arab", the first meaning is "to be enough", secondly "to compute". To "think" is a derived meaning, not an original one. It further says that to think is usually written as (ya7sib), as this is one of four rare letters where the past is (fa3ila) and the present is (yaf3il). It gave only one example of verse 1043 where it says some companions read it as "ya7sib).

            If they (think) they are doing good, then this could be out of ignorance, problem with comprehension, genetic distortion..etc and they could be forgiven for that. But when they (calculate), they know and they are trying to fool around. You get what I mean?

            Since God used the verb (yathun &#1606, I would believe that this verb (ya7sib) has a differece embedded in it. Remember that perfect synonyms do not exist.

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              unknownuser
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              Thanks Ahmed.

              No worries, but please not again

              In "lisanul 3arab", the first meaning is "to be enough", secondly "to compute". To "think" is a derived meaning, not an original one.

              Far out sister, well, I will shove that lisan Al arab inside the toilet if you don't mind, sorry i'm just frustrated a bit, so you work it out by the order, hey?

              It further says that to think is usually written as (ya7sib), as this is one of four rare letters where the past is (fa3ila) and the present is (yaf3il). It gave only one example of verse 1043 where it says some companions read it as "ya7sib).

              Sister the above is total non sesne, sorry

              please respond to this verse

              Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, "We believe", and that they will not be tested?

              (2)

              If they (think) they are doing good, then this could be out of ignorance, problem with comprehension, genetic distortion..etc and they could be forgiven for that. But when they (calculate), they know and they are trying to fool around. You get what I mean?

              Sister, you are wasting your time and mine, Hasab is very common on Arabivc to mean "Think", no doubt about it, yes it also means calculate but you need the mafool bihi so we know what is being caculated exactly

              Since God used the verb (yathun &#1606, I would believe that this verb (ya7sib) has a differece embedded in it. Remember that perfect synonyms do not exist.

              He also used the word hasab as to think 292

              Cheers

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                noble
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                Peace
                Bro Ahmed, Sis Samia,
                You both have good points and weak points. Generally you are both right.
                Ahmed, good deeds wipe out bad deeds...
                and Hell will also be freezing cold...
                Take care
                Noble
                PS Let us not exagerate in our Deen like sunnists/shi'st/hadithists and christian priesthoods, Allah made the Deen easy

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                  unknownuser
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                  Peace
                  Bro Ahmed, Sis Samia,
                  You both have good points and weak points. Generally you are both right.
                  Ahmed, good deeds wipe out bad deeds...
                  and Hell will also be freezing cold...
                  Take care
                  Noble
                  PS Let us not exagerate in our Deen like sunnists/shi'st/hadithists and christian priesthoods, Allah made the Deen easy

                  Peace Noble

                  Can you please show me a verse where it says good deeds wipe bad deeds please?

                  btw we are not exagerateing our deen, we are trying to understand it using the Quran, so if anything I said that does not exist in the Quran, I apologose to all

                  salam

                  Salam

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                    noble
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                    Salam Ahmed
                    Apologies accepted
                    It is in Quran, I think around an ayat that talks about Salat. I will find it eventually. Look for the keyword yamhuha.
                    Btw look also for the surah Almuzzamil or Almuddathir, where you can see that the Prophet prayed more than the other Sahaba, even if some of them followed his lead, but Allah told them that they did not have to, so this is proof that in some cases the Prophet was asked to do more than the other muslims...
                    Take care Bro
                    PS My way of remembering the Quran is quite peculiar as I read it thousands of times, but never managed to learn it by heart, however I learnt a few surahs by heart such as Almulk, and Arrahman, and many small surahs... But usually when I remember that something was mentioned I am rarely wrong that it was mentioned, only the context and interpretation can be faulty...
                    PPS I suffer from a mental disorder that makes it for me hard to learn by heart at the moment

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                      unknownuser
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                      Salam Ahmed
                      Apologies accepted )

                      Peace bro

                      Cheers

                      It is in Quran, I think around an ayat that talks about Salat. I will find it eventually. Look for the keyword yamhuha.

                      I will be interested to see it bro, if it exists as you said, i will concede.

                      Btw look also for the surah Almuzzamil or Almuddathir, where you can see that the Prophet prayed more than the other Sahaba, even if some of them followed his lead, but Allah told them that they did not have to, so this is proof that in some cases the Prophet was asked to do more than the other muslims...

                      Please bro bring the verses that you think means the above so we discuss it here, take your time though, no rush

                      I say that most of the verses talking in singualr "Mukhatab" "Speech to someone" has to be taken by the believers as a message for them, otherwise the whole concept will fall in many locations, this Quran is actually for mankind NOT to the prophet explicitly, while it was delivered by him and that is a great honor on its own, as well while it was talking about the prophet a lot, the whole thing is directed to us, we can't be the judge and say this is suppose to be for the prophet and this is for us, if you will classify the prophet as a BELIEVER then all the orders to him "unless explicit to his personal affairs" must be taken by all other believers as being orders to them as well, even the things that were explicit to the prophet, the lessons in it must be taken by all other believers

                      Therefore I don't think Allah tells the prophet explicitly to humble himself in fear of Him, and for us to humble ourselves period., it makes no sense bro, in fact if we talk sense then the prophets are the least to FEAR Allah, because they are His chosen elite of the best of all humans and paradise for them is sort of gurranteed, they sure knew that as we know it now, in fact they even communicated with Allah.

                      PS My way of remembering the Quran is quite peculiar as I read it thousands of times, but never managed to learn it by heart, however I learnt a few surahs by heart such as Almulk, and Arrahman, and many small surahs... But usually when I remember that something was mentioned I am rarely wrong that it was mentioned, only the context and interpretation can be faulty...
                      PPS I suffer from a mental disorder that makes it for me hard to learn by heart at the moment (

                      I actually memorise about 4 small suras only, however i read the whole Quran in Arabic about 30 times or about, many of these times were very slow indeed cross referencing, looking for info, trying to understand and even trying to find a contradiction, and this enabled me to remind many WORDS from it by heart, so when i need to find a verse i have to remember ONE WORD from that verse, and i type this in an arabic search engine and wola all verses appear, sometime i get hundreds of verses as a result of fewer letter in the word I'm searching for and this is great because it allows me to go through it all and pick the ones that are relevent and while doing so I keep adding to the words I memorise by heart, it feels great bro, that is why I have the stamina because I enjoy it

                      Take care

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                        noble
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                        Peace Bro Ahmed
                        I am very stubborn man, so I stand by what I said.
                        In the Quran Allah also said that the ones who fear Him the most are the Ulamahs (or ones endowed with knowledge), so there is a gradation... (yakhsha Allah min ibadihy alulamah)
                        Cheers Bro
                        PS I am glad you enjoy the process of tafaquh fi addeen, it is a sign of iman...

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                          zenje
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                          Peace AB,

                          Peace Noble

                          Can you please show me a verse where it says good deeds wipe bad deeds please?

                          I think noble meant this verse... but I could be wrong.

                          1. And you shall hold the salat at both ends of the daylight, and the near part of the night. The good deeds take away the bad. This is a reminder to those who remember.
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                            unknownuser
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                            Peace AB,

                            Peace Noble

                            Can you please show me a verse where it says good deeds wipe bad deeds please?

                            I think noble meant this verse... but I could be wrong.

                            1. And you shall hold the salat at both ends of the daylight, and the near part of the night. The good deeds take away the bad. This is a reminder to those who remember.

                            Thanks bro

                            I'm glad you are not stuborn

                            While 11.114 can be understood as such by some basing it that the Hasanat mentioned is general, I see it that only Salat will do that because that was the consequence of the order given to pray at the two ends of the night and part of the night, i really can't take it that good deeds will overwrite small bad deeds, for me 11.114 means ONLY SALAT will do that

                            Cheers Zenje

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                              unknownuser
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                              Peace Bro Ahmed
                              I am very stubborn man, so I stand by what I said.
                              In the Quran Allah also said that the ones who fear Him the most are the Ulamahs (or ones endowed with knowledge), so there is a gradation... (yakhsha Allah min ibadihy alulamah)
                              Cheers Bro
                              PS I am glad you enjoy the process of tafaquh fi addeen, it is a sign of iman...

                              Thank bro

                              can you please tell me what knowldge exactly the verse you mentioned is talking about?

                              Cheers

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                                noble
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                                Peace Bro Ahmed
                                It must be knowledge embedded within Deen as sanctioned by Allah...
                                Salam

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                                  noble
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                                  Peace Bro Ahmed
                                  A good deed is a good deed. Salat is salat...

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                                    unknownuser
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                                    Peace Bro Ahmed
                                    It must be knowledge embedded within Deen as sanctioned by Allah...
                                    Salam

                                    Cheers bro

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                                      noble
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                                      Peace
                                      I have now to reflect more on this, as you have entered a doubt in my mind, my beloved brother

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                                        unknownuser
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                                        Peace
                                        I have now to reflect more on this, as you have entered a doubt in my mind, my beloved brother

                                        I hope I don't lead you to hell though bro, however if I do, remember you can only blame yourself and not balme me

                                        cheers

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                                          noble
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                                          Peace Bro
                                          I trust in Allah's Mercy, as far as I do not indulge in idolatry, and I have repented from that, and hopefully stay like that until I die.
                                          OK here it is I hope Salat is a good deed too, even if compulsory, and extra salat is definitely a good deed. A good deed is a good deed (as explained in the Quran). A bad deed is a bad deed (as explained in the Quran).
                                          So my understanding is that the good deed of Salat wipes out bad deeds.
                                          You are allowed to comment on this (just kidding) ... ;D
                                          PS Of course there are restrictions, as specified about Kabair, Qassas, etc...

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