How I came to GOD Alone
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Greetings & Peace,
I read many stories of others which I really appreciated, now let me share my story with all of you here.
Only God could've guided me to the creed of God alone.
I was brought up (in a moderate sunni family) in South East Asia. I remember when I was younger I started thinking about the existence of God, verifying that there must be God. (That was a prototype thought which now developed and came to be http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=14951.msg141325#msg141325
and http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=14951.msg142271#msg142271). However, I didn't think of verifying all the things people told me that God wants us to do yet. (I was taking "authority as truth instead of truth as authority"...)Then, one day sitting at a mosque after a ritual prayer, a preacher said something roughly like "nothing would be accepted from your deeds unless it's the prophet's way" (about the rituals, living, etc.) - BUT there were so many many stories of how the prophet did something and NO sincere way to verify, their excuse was saying how great the science of keeping the narrations were - which can't be verified that it really ever happened like that also. Other than that, many preachers talk of stories about the prophet and "great believers" that were told on and on among them even without any reference to evidence. I became confused in all the conflicting things people say, and what about the other people/sects that I wasn't born into? Everyone would say what they're born into is the ultimate truth to uphold.
I then prayed/asked to God many times ( and once at a quiet & peaceful graveyard alone - after the ritual "esha" that "God, I really don't know exactly what you want me to do to please you, PLEASE guide/tell me and I'm willing to use my efforts to do it..." (something like that)
Then, one day, a person came to talk about this free-minds.org idea/site to me - firstly I objected since it's too much change and strange! - but he said something like just go to the site and read/verify for yourself, so I went, the next day I came back to him and told him that the evidence is too clear to deny the God Alone way. I kept on reading+thinking much more and seeing a great light/peacefulness coming into my life that God allowed and fulfil my prayers.
After that, I came to clean my old beliefs and started sincerely verifying everything I used to believe from scratch
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God's existence This was quite natural and I came to understand that only the One God is the true Nature (like in http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=14951.msg142271#msg142271), I should only worship God.
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The Quran This took quite some time... (at one point I left it) and came to be something like http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=15610.msg150954#msg150954 and I came to realize that the true creed for me is God alone - not Quran alone. I came to verify that many many of its verses can be verified as true (and many scientifically true) AND the fact that it's preserved as a whole (and explaining each other as a whole) is really a sign from the Creator himself. If a thing is true, it means that it's consistent with fact/reality/Nature which means that going along with God's law. Therefore, I believed in it as it leads to what is correct, as the beings in 722, this is the nartural reason to believe something.
Many people in the world don't even know or have access to the Quran and many, like me, don't understand it's original language. However, it's naturally easy to understand the natural message of "only worshipping our one true Creator/Nature" and doing good - and this is the Quran's "message" directed to mandkind as I see now from having access to its translations. People are born into different environments with different access to different things. But there's always different choices for different circumstances and I am sure God is the best to judge each and every choice a person takes. I am now as sure that God is standing with justice, as I am sure that if you push something, it would push yourself in the opposite direction in the same amount of force (Newton's 3rd law = consistent with nature = God's law happening live!). Therefore, I learned that it's better for me to respect and be good to all people no matter how different they are. I learned that it's my duty worship only God and do good. The guidance is from God, not the quran, not from people, not books, paper, ink, etc.
We are created and forced into this world (controlling the body that God made for our real self” and we will be forced out of this world. We can be a success only if we do what the Creator wants us to do. So we ask Him to guide us and we do our best sincerely.
I would still NOT consider myself as "guided" because I need God's guidance all my life - "Guide us to the straight path" would not be sincere if you think you are guided. For me, this makes us humble/kneel to God, willing to seek his guidance.
All praise be to God.
May God Guide,
Zidane. -
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Great story Zidane. bravo
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..............Therefore, I learned that it's better for me to respect and be good to all people no matter how different they are. I learned that it's my duty worship only God and do good. The guidance is from God, not the quran, not from people, not books, paper, ink, etc.
We are created and forced into this world (controlling the ?body? that God made for our real ?self?) and we will be forced out of this world. We can be a success only if we do what the Creator wants us to do. So we ask Him to guide us and we do our best sincerely.
I would still NOT consider myself as "guided" because I need God's guidance all my life - "Guide us to the straight path" would not be sincere if you think you are guided. For me, this makes us humble/kneel to God, willing to seek his guidance.
All praise be to God.
May God Guide,
Zidane.Peace Zidane,
This is a good reminder for me... Thank you brother for reminding us... may God bless us... i felt like i wanna cry... ...
All praise to Him. Our Creator, the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
Salam handshake
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Peace.
I was banned by God Alone moderators and this topic left orphan. rotfl
Wondering when moderators start mocking my question in absence of me when they knew I can not response. rotfl
Praise be to God Lord of universe that these people have control only of this forum ??? .
How ever I read your story and then you wroteGlory be to God!
All praise be to God!Which God?
Do you have proof for existence of your God?
What is your belief now?
Peace.
