Thanks for the links. I must say that any debate over God's existence based on science and scientists' opinion is pretty pointless and comical. Science gets many things wrong. This applies to research done on his existence and that is only if someone can put him in the "test tube". Today scientists may get "irrefutable proof", but after several years, someone else may end up showing they were wrong.

This guy is still missing.

Nothing wrong with this host, it's pretty decent I'd say and almost supports the latest version of PHP (PHP 7 , not many hosts do this) and has surprisingly pretty good ratings as well. Its policy states that they should be making a backup of the db of what I assume is everyday so it's odd and bad of them that they didin't give a much more recent backup of the db and unproffessional too. I think his host does have something similar to a 'cloud' type save feature itself but not sure since that's what their support article seems to indicate so I'd talk with them about it. I don't think Layth should get a new host, rather I think he should try to upgrade from PHP 5 to 7 (this is a major upgrade and will make the Forum twice as fast and will most likely deal with all the performance issues on the Forum as PHP 7 swallows much less memory than PHP 5) and push the host to do more about saving the database more frequently. Something interesting to read http//www.techrepublic.com/article/php-7-0-boosts-speed-and-security-what-you-need-to-know/ https//blog.appdynamics.com/engineering/everything-you-need-to-know-about-php-7/ I just read this on one of Stablehost's articles, not sure what they mean with the last line but they don't sound so reliable sometimes "The easiest way to backup your website is by doing so via CPanel. By logging into CPanel, you will have an Icon that says Backup. Once you start the backup, it runs in the background and will email you when it's ready and you can FTP in and grab the backup. We strongly encourage you to backup your site on your own servers and not rely on our backup methods." https//billing.stablehost.com/knowledgebase/13/How-do-I-backup-my-website.html In MySQL it's possible to create something called a 'schedule event' that can create a backup of your database automatically for you every minute, day, week or month so the Admins don't have to do it. Personally I think the code of SMF-made forums are badly written too and I'd compress the HTML, CSS and Javascript code if I was Layth since this would reduce the file size of the pages and therefor make the pages load faster. Compressing the files can increase the speed up to 70% making the Forum much faster. This is another good way to improve the Forum https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minification_(programming)

Look,we have to stop with political correctness, we have to get down to creating a forum that's not going to have the kind of problems that we've had with people trying to...Look,I just left another thread and it was filled with a TREMENDOUS amount of Trolls! We have to find out what's going on! I said temporarily,i didn't say permanently,I said temporarily And i have many GREAT friends who are trolls and some of them,i would say not all,have called me and said Andrewsarchus, Thank you very much you're exposing an UNBELIEVABLE problem and we have to get to the bottom of it And unlike Jafar, where he refuses to even to use the term of what's going on,he can't use the term for whatever reason and if you can't use the term you're never gonna solve the problem. My troll friends some said,Thank you very much! we'll get to the bottom of it,we have a very serious problem and we can't be the stupid forum anymore,we're laughed at all over the internet! Troll terrorism is eating up large portions of this forum. They're becoming rich,i'm in competition with them. They just took over a thread in just the past 2 hours. Can you believe that? Mr.Jafar here came out of nowhere,he came out of nowhere,infact i'd go a step further,the people that went to school with him,they don't even..they don't even know him,they never saw him,they don't know who he is. They have no record,nothing to criticize. Look i get along with everybody,i get along with the trolls,people think i don't like trolls,i just helped them troll a sunni forum a few days back. I DON'T BELIEVE IN HETEROSEXUALITY. I think it's a big scam for a lot of people to make lot of money. BELIEVE ME! Why the losers and hater always say i wear a "wig" when they know i don't,like it or not it's all mine just ask Salin palin. My comments aren't really represented properly in the threads, They never discuss the real message,they never show my fanbase or enthusiasm. Crooked Man of Faith is protected by this forum,he's not a future messiah or politician.This dishonest forum refuses to expose! very very disrespectful! IT IS SO NICE THAT THE SHACKLES HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF ME, You're FANTASTIC.. It will be you on my next wedding.. Our wedding will be HUUUGEE...

The Arabic root verb ka-fa-ra means to ?cover?. The essence of kufr in Qur?an becomes fairly clear if the below verses are analyzed. This are the first verses (in the current order of Qur?an) to use the root ka-fa-ra 26 Indeed those who repress - it is same for them whether you warn them or don?t warn them, they won?t put faith. 27 God has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing and on their vision a veil ? and for them - a great suffering. (My personal translation, cross checking is recommended, highlight added.) It is evident that Kafir is someone who is repressing / covering his faith (Iman). What is Iman, faith? Iman/Faith is not merely ?believing?. Iman/Faith is accepting our relationship with another, which would lead us to act in conformity to that relationship. A faithful (mu?min) shopkeeper does not cheat his customer ? not because he believes his customer exists but because he accepts his relationship of trust with his customer and thereby is led to act in conformity to that relationship. Same can be said about a faithful husband, or a faithful servant. Similarly, a person faithful to Allah accepts his relationship of subordination to Allah and thereby is led to act in conformity to that relationship ? which is righteous behavior. The hallmark of iman, contrary to common perception, is not pronouncement of kalima / shahada, rather it is the righteous behavior. (That is why in Qur?an Amalu salehin is frequently associated with Iman). This urge to accept our relationship with the One who has caused us to be and upon acceptance of such relationship acting righteously to all that is created ? is an inherent aptitude of every conscious soul. Not everyone would articulate this urge using these same words ? but no matter from which background, school of thought or nationality one comes out this fundamental urge is there ? which some would define religiously while others secularly (as morality). A significant number of us, while acknowledging ourselves as ?faithful? / ?moral? - would find it convenient to repress / cover this urge. Such faith repression is the root of every immoral act that is performed willfully. Such faith repression is kufr. No wonder Qur?an says nothing positive about the kafirs. Going back to verses 26-7, the people who actively repress their faith, it does not matter what the messenger brings to them, they won?t put faith. However if we translate kufr as merely ?disbelieving? the verse loses its essence ? if people who disbelieve would never believe then there is no point of books and messengers. Also empirically it is frequently observed that atheists turn to believers. In the same vain, when Iblis started to disobey Allah, he did not suddenly start to disbelieve in Allah, he started to repress his faith that he has to accept his obligation to Allah and obey His order. And thus he was among the "kafireen". So, to summarize, Kafir are faith repressors. A close translation can be ?ungrateful? or ?unfaithful? ? but disbeliever is a big misnomer. This is my 2 cents to the discussion of meaning of the word ?kafir?. May Allah guide us to the straight way. Regards, Arman

Salam Bender, I understand your doubts about grammar books and grammar of alquran, as I also see some differences between the two. For the bolded part above in your post, if we consider what you say as true, then we end up with a logical problem with the next verb (taghrobo and tatlo3o) in both verses Until when he reaches the sun-set he found it (the sun-set) setting in... Until when he reaches the sun-rise he found it (the sun-rise) rising ... It sound a bit like " I found the sun-rise rising in the sky"; is the sun rising in the sky? or is the sun-rise rising in the sky? Peace, Mohamed Salaam Mohamed, This has puzzled me also when I was researching this the first time. But like always the quran is very exact. I wil try to explain my view. A couple of years ago I was living on the 10th floor, I had a nice view of the sunset. I could see from my balcony every day that the sun was setting in The Hague (I could see The Hague from my balcony). This is of course a false statement. The sun does not set in The Hague. Thee AlQarnayni discovered/found out that the movement of the sun was moving into the direction of something. Not the sun herself was moving to a place, but her movement. If the sun was an arrow which could land somewhere on earth then it is correct to say that the sun herself is moving to that place, but the sun is not such an arrow. But her movement can be seen as an arrow which land somewhere. I am sorry for my very bad English, I hope you understand what I was trying to say. --- btw I want to highlight 2 things that probably some people also misunderstand. 1886 RED I think a lot read this as "reached" as "a point in space". This is per my understanding not true. Per my understanding it's "a point in time". A nice example to understand the word is in 1222 And when he BALAGHA his independence, We gave him judgement and knowledge. It is thus that We reward the good doers. BLUE A lot translate this as a literal "FINDING", like I found my wallet under my seat. In the quran it is per my understanding used like "DISCOVERING", maybe not the best word choice but I have nothing better. Here the FM translation with some modifications how I understand it. 1886 Until he reached the point in time of the setting (a movement) of the sun; he discovered that the setting (a movement) of the sun was setting (a movement) in..." Salaam, Bender ps. I have still no idea what maghrib, matli3 and mashrik mean.

Thank you Bender for the mention I hope that you will rebound quickly and rejoin your family here... group

I agree, my Dear Carrot! I also agree with her.

Salaamun alaykum, Huwa (He is) Al-Lahu Al-Rrahmanu Al-Hayyu Al-Awwalu Al-Akhiru Al-Ththahiru Al-Batinu Al-3aleemu Al-Hakeemu Al-3aliyyu Al3atheemu Al-3aliyyu Al-Kabeeru Al-3azeezu Al3aleemu Al-3azeezu Al-Ghaffaru Al-3azeezu Al-Hakeemu Al-3azeezu Al-Rraheemu Al-Barru Al-Rraheemu Al-Fattahu Al-3aleemu Al-Ghafooru Al-Rraheemu Al-Ghafooru Al-Wadoodu Al-Ghaniyyu Al-Hameedu Al-Hakeemu Al-3aleemu Al-Hakeemu Al-Khabeeru Al-Haqqu Al-Mubeenu Al-Hayyu Al-Qayyoomu Al-Khallaqu Al-3aleemu Al-Lahu Al-3azeezu Al-Hakeemu Al-Lahu Al-Khaliqu Al-Bario Al-Musawwiru Al-Lahu Al-Maliku Al-Haqqu Al-Lahu Al-Ssamadu Al-Lahu Al-Wahidu Al-Qahharu Al-Lateefu Al-Khabeeru Al-Maliku Al-Quddoosu Al-Ssalamu Al-Muminu Al-Muhayminu Al-3azeezu Al-Jabbaru Al-Mutakabbiru Al-Qawiyyu Al-3azeezu Al-Rraheemu Al-Ghafooru Al-Rrahmanu Al-Rraheemu Al-Ssamee3u Al-3aleemu Al-Ssamee3u Al-Baseeru Al-Ttawwabu Al-Rraheemu Al-Wahidu Al-Qahharu Al-Waliyyu Al-Hameedu hail Huwa (He is) Rabbee Rabbakum Rabbu abaikumu alawwaleena Rabbi alnnasi Rabbu al3alameena Rabbu kulli shayin Rabbi alardi Rabbu alssamawati alssab3i Rabbi alssamawati Rabbu alssamawati waalardi Rabbu alssamawati waalardi wama baynahuma Rabbi al3arshi Rabbu al3arshi al3atheemi Rabbu al3arshi alkareemi Rabbu almashriqayni Rabbu almaghribayni Rabbu almashariqi Rabbu almashriqi waalmaghribi Rabbu almashriqi waalmaghribi wama baynahuma Rabbi alfalaqi Rabbu alshshi3ra Rabbi al3izzati hail Salaam and may Allah guides us to Him pr Bender To be continued inshaAllah.

We may consider that Plural feminine pronoun is referring back to total four gardens mentioned in 5546 and 5562. And it is object pronoun of preposition; prepositional phrase relating to elided fronted predicate of the nominal sentence. Next word is the subject of sentence and third word is adjectival description of preceding word. Salaam, I will have to look at it again, thanks for the suggestion! I will inshaAllah reply again when I see something interesting. Beautiful and good natured wives shall be their companion in those gardens. Not so sure about this. Salaam, Bender

Let us turn to Allah for Guidance and learn more and more from Him, by the day. salam bender.

Salaam, to the mods this topic can go to the trash section were it belongs )

New user here, group Since this is my first post, I guess I can vote yet ) but I would say more than two, but around 5 (maybe more). I pretty much read the Quran everyday and I keep a English translation app on my phone. In case theres the odd moment I feel like looking up random topics peace I'm a classic lurker! ssshhhh Salaam -Mariam, welcome to free-minds. Sorry Bender for using your thread to welcome -M fftopic May Allah guide us all to His true path pr mmKhan

"You taste it. You are indeed the Excellency Magnificent King/Monarch". I have posted an article about it. Salaam, thank you, inshaAllah I will do my best to understand it

Peace good logic, Ok

Peace Bender and welcome to the community. Salaam Ervin, thank you ) and from reading your story welcome back as Ervin group interesting history you have, but don?t despair brother 7570 (Pickthall) Save him who repenteth and believeth and doth righteous work; as for such, Allah will change their evil deeds to good deeds. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful. I can't talk for others but I have also done much what God forbade in the past, but Alhamdullilah Allah is The Forgiver, The One who changes our evil deeds in good deeds if we "repenteth and believeth and doth righteous work".