I'm FREE! My story and intro ^^
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Salaam Madiha and welcome to the forum handshake
What I found amazing in your story is that it took you only a week to see the light.
I hope you will enjoy your stay here.
Salaam,
BenderWa aleykom asalam , thanks )
Yeah, pretty short time, eh? Although I'm not making any 100% conclusions until I read the quran cover to cover. Yes I'm a born sunni who hasn't read the entire quran o.o. I suppose I'm normal! hehe
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and oh yeah, i know about Sleep paralysis. I took a Psychology Course. I liked it.
How nice it is to know and understand how your body works.
No superstitious drama here.Evil eye, fatima hand, khamsa w khmeesa, wearing blue, bokhoor/incense... not for me
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and oh yeah, i know about Sleep paralysis. I took a Psychology Course. I liked it.
How nice it is to know and understand how your body works.
No superstitious drama here.Evil eye, fatima hand, khamsa w khmeesa, wearing blue, bokhoor/incense... not for me )
Hehe me neither D.
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and oh yeah, i know about Sleep paralysis. I took a Psychology Course. I liked it.
How nice it is to know and understand how your body works.
No superstitious drama here.Evil eye, fatima hand, khamsa w khmeesa, wearing blue, bokhoor/incense... not for me )
Peace Youssef,
I think we should start a thread on all of the superstitions practiced based from hadith teaching...if that doesn't deter anyone from following hadith, I don't know what will. Seriously...they all seem so silly now that I know the truth. I wonder what people would think if they saw me praying and spitting over my left shoulder three times to rid myself of shaitan. )
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Peace Youssef,
I think we should start a thread on all of the superstitions practiced based from hadith teaching...if that doesn't deter anyone from following hadith, I don't know what will. Seriously...they all seem so silly now that I know the truth. I wonder what people would think if they saw me praying and spitting over my left shoulder three times to rid myself of shaitan. )
Since it's mentioned in the quran that shaytan will come to us from all directions...according to hadith, does that mean I spit everywhere? Just wonderin'.
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Since it's mentioned in the quran that shaytan will come to us from all directions...according to hadith, does that mean I spit everywhere? Just wonderin'.
rotfl That's using your head right there...I never even thought of that!!!
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yes, 717 says that Satan will come from basically every direction. It alludes that he wants to make us unappreciative. Satan is unappreciative 1727
Satan is a deceiver. He deceived Adam and his wife even after God told them that he was their enemy 722.
i would say that traditionalists hold too much superstitious beliefs and have exaggerated fear about jinss/shaytaan.
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yes, 717 says that Satan will come from basically every direction. It alludes that he wants to make us unappreciative. Satan is unappreciative 1727
Satan is a deceiver. He deceived Adam and his wife even after God told them that he was their enemy 722.
i would say that traditionalists hold too much superstitious beliefs and have exaggerated fear about jinss/shaytaan.
You are absolutely right. It fueled my jinn/alien fear. Didn't help with the anxiety disorder I once had lol. My biggest fear were 'jinns' that in my mind looked like the aliens from the movie Signs. Omoo that as scary O.O.
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Peace and blessings be upon all of you
I also have this overwhelming feeling of the absence of shaytan. I don't know how to explain it...but it's as if he doesn't exist to me! I can't hear his whispers...I dunno why but whatever voice is in my head...it feels like my own. Anyone else feel this?
Thanks for going through my really long intro, but I just had to get it out there! I want the whole world to know I will no longer worship anything but Him, and that I bear witness there is no God but Allah!
) ) ) ) )Salamz!
Ahlan wa sahlan sister,
Congrats dear for your new founding.
The only place where Satan cannot and has no chance to exist is within the Rooh; the only "place" of total purity and awareness in our being. Satan is burnt if it attempts to get near it. However, Satan resides squarely in our minds.. in our thoughts, wrapping us around pointless and fruitless matters. Satan never disappears from our existence. It cannot be. It is its job. What it does is that it disguises itself as ones own self. In your mind, you would hear all sorts of voices, dialogues, thoughts and ideas and think they are absolutely yours when in fact a big sum of them are Satan's. Being in Rooh, aka salat, a place that is beyond thoughts, will teach you to recognize that disguise and so be able to filter the difference. A simple awareness exposes Satan. So try to be in salat, in Rooh, all the time that you are awake. That is the way to live; continuously connected to the Creator, continuously holding on to the rope of 3issmah .
peace
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I'd like to give you all an update )
Well obviously I took off hijab. I wanted to take it off, whether it was required or not. I just needed a break.
My husband has now accepted the Quran Only, as well! And my in laws are now convinced hadith is fabricated. Mostly, anyway. Till now my husband and I are the only ones trying to make an effort to apply the Quran Alone in practice (not including muhammad in prayers..etc). The rest of my in laws...not sure they're there yet. afterall, we are telling them everything they learned about islam is mostly incorrect...
Just thought you should know! I'm so happy . al hamd lilah.
My best friend still wants nothing to do with my beliefs and she freaked out when I took hijab off but she's back to normal now and just doesn't bring it up.
May Allah guide me and everyone insha Allah, always.
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Peace PixelAngelBaby
Welcome, with members of your family ,to the "believers" circle.
The Lord will protect His believers.
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Peace and blessings be upon all of you
My name is Madiha and I'm an american egyptian living in cairo,egypt.
My story...
It started last week I happened to be saying prayers to Allah out loud with my husband, to guide me and him and bless us and many other things. I was very calm and sincere about it. It was a very intimate moment between us as I prayed (my husband I mean)...
The next day, I was searching on google about the permissibility of wearing a wig in Islam (for fashion and only to mahram), when out of nowhere I came upon a wikipedia article called "Criticism of Hadith" and it intrigued me. I learned that there were various scholars and maybe even caliphs that apposed and rejected the collection of hadith, and this was the first time I ever knew anyone had rejected it entirely. I'm not sure but I think it mentioned a type of Muslim that follows the quran only and from there I did more research.
Days went by in turmoil, insomnia, emotional breakdowns and intellectual debates. My brain hurt so bad from thinking back and forth, checking verse by verse cited by "Quranists" about how Allah mentions in the Quran not to follow hadith and how doing so is enjoining partners with Allah. I would fall asleep forcibly with my iphone still in my hand sometimes, trying to stay up and verify everything I was reading, and praying to Allah to guide me on the straight path and please don't let me go astray and be like the ones you have veiled and blinded.
I became obsessed. And very upset. "No..I couldn't have been wrong all my life..verily I was a Muslim..my parents couldn't have raised me wrong? I couldn't have possibly been lied to all my life, that was the "unbelievers" that live that life. That life of shirk. I'm sure I'm on the right path...all I do is follow Allah and his Messenger! What's wrong with that?" I thought.
Every time I had questions I begged Allah to guide me and keep me straight and not to let me go astray. And after each time I discovered new sources of information pertaining the fabrication of hadith and how Allah warned us of doing the same as the people of the previous scriptures. It was when I bumped into a video of Teddy3indc on youtube, who recommended everyone watch 3 videos by a user named Humblservant, because she cited from the Quran the entire time, supporting the permissibility of following hadith other than Allah's. Her videos are called "Hadith...is it islam?" if you want to look it up.
I admit I first looked into so called Quranism with a skeptic eye, but that's what anyone with any sense would do. I was SO SCARED. I was TERRIFIED that I might be doing something wrong or that I was going astray,...or even worse..that this IS the truth and that I've been lied to since I was born and never knew islam for what it really is.
I am at part to blame. I called myself a muslim since birth yet I had never ONCE read the entire quran from cover to cover. I never completed it. Not even in ramadan. And whatever it is I had read, it wasn't significant, and I do realise I may have emphasized the hadith too much. For some reason I didn't understand why Allah would keep repeating the same warnings over and over again in the Quran, especially aimed at a people that were before the Quran....so hadith seemed more "detailed" and tailored to tell me specifically right from wrong. Although I didn't like hadith most of the time, I bit my tongue and took it, not all the time of course, but I believed that I couldn't say a hadith is false, because I wouldn't really know and if I was wrong I would suffer for assuming. And that if one was wrong, then the rest don't hold water and I didn't want to disobey Allah, thinking to myself "Who am I to question Allah's will and wisdom?". Little did I know I wasn't following Allah's will and words at all..........
Anyways..I have to tell you how I felt after watching Humblservant's video. I felt FREE! I felt like I finally got the answers I was looking for all my life. And that Allah answered my prayers. And that every doubt I had about hadith in the past was absolutely right, but I hadn't dared to act on it! I felt like the hugest weight was lifted off my shoulders. My constant feeling of guilt, shame and worthlessness was GONE. You know, how you feel for not doing every little thing required in "Islam" and giving up entirely out of frustration and the inability to maintain it.
I was worried at first if this was the feeling of emptiness I had when I left islam as an early teen (13 yrs) and converted to Christianity due to my lack of knowledge in Islam...but it wasn't. I felt totally and utterly free!
I felt free of the prejudice and opinions of the clergies and scholars!
I felt free from the "responsibility/burden" to carry out every hadith, or at least believe in them, however twisted they sounded.
I felt free in knowing the Creator guided me and answered my prayers! Insha Allah
I felt free and at awe at the inconceivable mercy Allah has bestowed on his worshippers. That Islam DOESN'T have to be SO HARD.
I felt free knowing that there IS HOPE FOR MY SOUL! That If I just did the basics Allah asks in the Quran..THAT I STAND A CHANCE!! Insha Allah!
I felt free and not so guilty and heavy hearted!I thank Allah for guiding me, al hamd lilah! I hope Allah always guides me to the straight path, whatever that may be, till the day I die..
Having said all that up there...anyone else experiencing a loss of "guilt" and shame? For some reason I feel like that was the only thing that connected me to Allah. That constant fear, guilt and shame for not meeting up to Allah's commands. I know Allah says you should fear him...but I can't help but just LOVE him and revere him and praise him...somehow I feel that Allah isn't "there" when I feel this liberation and burden-lifted after supposedly finding the truth. Why is that? Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
I also have this overwhelming feeling of the absence of shaytan. I don't know how to explain it...but it's as if he doesn't exist to me! I can't hear his whispers...I dunno why but whatever voice is in my head...it feels like my own. Anyone else feel this?
Thanks for going through my really long intro, but I just had to get it out there! I want the whole world to know I will no longer worship anything but Him, and that I bear witness there is no God but Allah!
) ) ) ) )Salamz!
Salam and welcome
Great introduction . God blees you
Peace )