What is the pre requisite? Being a good human or monotheism
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Salam everyone! sun
I stumbled on this site few days ago & was quite relieved to find some refreshing & unorthodox views on Islam.
I always beleived God/Allah was All loving/most merciful rather than the stringent God portrayed by orthodox muslims who would not accept your dua if he wasnt glorified or durood wasnt recited first. yeah
I had quite a few problems in accepting Islam at face value initially...you see things like polygamy, inferior status of the women, sex slavery, no of prophet's wives etc etc..(u know where Iam going) would bother me...for me a Creator who has created everything in this entire universe would not be biased towards 1 gender or certain tribe... >( For this reason i could not connect to Allah as others in my family would or give the same reverence to the Prophet (s). I got more instrested in spirituality but felt deep down inside my heart that i was not a good muslim..u know that guilt...later i decided to actually explore Islam thoroughly but the amount of hadeeth i read only increased my dissatisfaction. Finally i decided to read the Quran Translation (yes, this was the last step, whereas it should have been the first.. ???, lol but thats the case with most of the muslims i know, they know more hadeeth than what quran actually says () so while reading the quran things became quite clear...it actually seemed easy to follow Islam... yes but i came across few brickwalls as well...u know "what the right hand possesses", "beat the wife" etc...it was then that this site proved so life saving where i got to know there could be biased translations as well...so i can tell that i feel as if my faith in the All Loving Allah has increased in leaps & bounds! yay So GREAT WORK Guys! group
Anyways, now coming to the main topic (lol, sorry for the entire 'ram kahani' ) my question, is it more important to be a great/good human being or to believe in Allah alone? i mean there so many good non muslims who are exceptional humam beings like mother theresa etc who have contributed so much to the society..would they go to 'hell' because they dont believe in the shahada?
I know you must be thinking why on earth would i be intrested etc...but i would like to hear your views on this?
Thanks! peace
welcome handshake sun
hope you've got some answers to your question by now? (i haven't read every post, so please forgive me for this)
if not maybe i could also add in here
with a note that muslims will go to heaven regardless of their aymaan(oath/creed/religion/covenant) as long as they stay true to the definition of being in peace and in good
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