I am glad that you are answering his question.

Yeah that earthquake in Pakistan was very bad.

Hello Everbody!
well.... i'm new to the group n have read some other posts where i've found that some of u give a good advice keeping the religion in mind...
i'm a (sunni) muslim girl whoz in love with a guy whoz muslim as well, i havnt done nethin wrong exept for speakin to him on the phone n meetin' a few times n even whn i meet him allhamdulillah i stay in my limits... my actual problem is that my parents are strictly against all this stuff which has been considered as haram in islam (in my case keeping any kinda contact with a na-mehram) a few days before my mother came to know abt me n was really depressed n even started crying saying that ive betrayed her n said she wundt let this continue n will get me married as soon as possible without even letting me to continue my studies... i dint know what to do so i took the quran in my hand n asked her to forgive me n promised her that i wont continue this again n wont even b in any kinda contact with the guy.... almost month n a half has passed by now n my mom is still angry with me, she isnt spkin to me properly... i feel really hurt for all this n the only person with whom i can disscuss my problems is that guy whom i really love so i went against the promise i made n mailed him a few times, phoned him 2ice n met him 1ce.... whnever i mailed him or called him or met him the only thought kept going in my head was "am i doing wrong, will Allah get angry with me" n now, i simply donno what to do, i've been repenting for all the so called sins i've done... my friends have been sayin that i've done a big sin by going for all this again though swearing on the quran.... some times i feel i've done all wrong but on the other hand i even get this feelin that my 'niyyah' is clean...
is it wrong with what all i'm doing after taking a promise keepin quran in my hand? shudnt i b going for all this n wait till i get married to him (inshallah)? am i betrayin' my parents? is it wrong to keep any kinda conacts with a na-mehram?
I really want you people to advice me keepin the religion in mind.

thank you!

I did not read it all, but I think taht your mother is overprotective. Plus, as long as you keep your distance than you are not doing anything wrong. However, you should get married.

You too.

You find me interesting or the topic? I'm sorry, I'm certain what you mean.

I find you and all of these topics interesting.

Not only am I interesting, but lots of fun too!lol

Here's some topics for you to get your teeth into. It was posted by me under my former namePRIEST BOKMEI, the renegade Shaolin monk....aarrggghhhh!!x

Choose one and give us your understanding.

http//www.free-minds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4013&highlight=great+contradiction

http//www.free-minds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3725&highlight=great+contradiction

http//www.free-minds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4180&highlight=great+contradiction

http//www.free-minds.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3758&highlight=great+contradiction

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I am not much of a reader, but I will check it out.

Exactly. I feel you and maybe he will learn as well.

Well..we'll see

Are you enjoying the site? I am the resident black sheep, here, but I'm fun lol

Right. Time will tell.

You too.

You find me interesting or the topic? I'm sorry, I'm certain what you mean.

I find you and all of these topics interesting.

SaLaM KGB

KGB , when YOU tell me something, the it is YOUR responsibility to prove what you are saying. Im asking you something very specific. EXPLICITLY SPECIFIC. How does the Quran asks us to choose a constitutional. This is NOT EVEN THE BEGINNING of running a country. This does not even make up 1%. But YOU bring me the verses which EXPLICITLY address this issue.

I wish that I had an answer fo ryou.

I got nothing aginst the Jews, but I do feel sorry for them because all of trhe stuff taht they have being through. Plus, you are so right they are cursed and why do you want to be with that. I do not understand.

I feel much as you do about feeling sorry for many of them. As far as el-aziz is concerned, well, he is simply not thinking clearly at the moment, hopefully, by being here at free-minds, he will grow.

Exactly. I feel you and maybe he will learn as well.

Peace be upon you,

I have given you the image and backed it up with the very words written in stone, as well as producing a credible "scholar", whom if you will do your research, you will find many of your so called scholars rely on his work to check thier work. This is all I have for you. I am done with this discussion with you. If anyone else has any questions feel free to ask, otherwise I leave brother PB in Peace.

The short version then is...you could not back up your claim that you know for a fact that Set, is represented by the pig. I thought as much wink
Good point.

Peace.

Salaam Jaxal

Please read carefully Islamic Constituion by Layth. Also read G. A. Pervaiz article on tolueislam.com or tolueislam.org. Selection of Constition committee must be done by the head of the state consists of Qur'an scholars. There must be very well qualified scholars of the book sincere and honest.

They mus be, but I would have to check it out.

First of all, it is no secret that I'm planning on converting to judaism.

My question is...what are you converting to?? Is Judaism from Allah?, if so, please post the ayat or Torah verse where Allah or Moses says that, they brought Judaism as a Deen. Thanks.

Listen man, that you'd have to ask someone that makes such a stupid claim that judaism is a deen from God. 'Cause I don't.
I answered the question out of zenjes curiousity where upon he split the thread in order to discuss the subject on another thread.

Hmmm...it seemed pretty stupid to me that, given that Allah has cursed the Jews, that you would want to be apart of that...in any degree. wink

Btw, take it easy.

I got nothing aginst the Jews, but I do feel sorry for them because all of trhe stuff taht they have being through. Plus, you are so right they are coursed and why do you want to be with that. I do not understand.

peace All,

I am pleased to announce the launch of

www.studyquran.co.uk

It is an organisation/network dedicated to providing quality resources to help all those who wish to study 'al quran' (the reading).

Some of its resources include

upto 27 English translations
many non-English translations (about 25)
word search facility for multiple translations
Learn Arabic words/grammar
PRL online
word-for-word recitation software (this is superb)
Search by roots
Quran translation with built-in cross-reference

If anyone has any links they want added or if anyone has problems using it let me know.

Spread the word...

Wakas

That is a great idea.

PEACE, FATIMA,

Interesting

What do you find interesting, Fatima?

You too.

Sorry. I do not have my Qu'ran on me and I do not bring it to scgool. However, I do not know where in the Holy Qu'ran, but I am about sure it is there.

Salaam and welcome )

Thank you.

Holloween is a satanic holiday

Hello everyone my name is Amanda and i am am American girl who has always searched for God. I went to church alot as a child and lvoed it since it took me away from fighting at home and everyone there was kind and hugged me and seemed to really care and listen.

After my parents divorce at age ten I was very mixed up emotionally i neded God but my mom worked 2 jobs and could not take me to church anymore. after 2 years I lived with my dad who never really went to church except on Christmas and Easter I think becasue of my Grandma. so I begged to go to church so my aunt took me then after a year or so I got older and started questioning things and found no answers at my church so i stopped going to my home church and searched for the true church.

I explored almost every denomination and never felt satisfied. untill I found a non denominational church. I stayed untill 17 there at that church when i decided I wanted to be a minister. I started studying the bible hard and decided to give up tv secular music and anything against God. I was very active and carried my bible with me in my car always. I then was out of high school and got a summer job before college where i met a black guy who one day whore a hat that said allah in arabic on the front as soon as i saw it i felt i knew it so i asked him what it meant he said it said God in arabic.

i looked surprised and exclaimed your not arabic then he explained he was msulim he converted four years prior i was interested in his story only to figure out why he left christianity and how he could abandon Jesus our "savior" i quoted bible from my car and argued he never got angry like other christians did when we discussed so he intrigued me and gave me brochures i was trying toread them to find a way to disprove it and bring him back to Christ.

In my reading i discovered the truth i just knew it from my soul that it was true thus began my journey for truth. I had to find what this islam was ans how it turned people from Christ. was this the anti christ the bible referred to thats what my chrusch said. so i tried to call him and go to his meeting to not learn but to show them they are wrong. i argued with an imam and he never got angry but i neevr talked to that guy again. later.....

months later i met a guy... me and my friend met him and his cousin and they told us they were of hispanic descent since they were tan so we assumed they were christian untill one day we were out to eat and they reufsed to eat our pork? we wondered why then we found out they were not hispanic but arabs and muslims i never even met and arab or a muslim besides that guy ron who was waymore "religous" than these 2

i was curious i asked questions and got no answers they were not trying to show me there religion actually told me that i was chrisitan and i should stay christian and not to try to be muslim or arab like them and be myself.

this lingered in my mind why they had not tried to turn me to there side was i not good enough to be like them. ???

so i began to study about islam out of curiousity...

that year i accepted islam but never knew alot of "real muslims"

i fought with my family about arabs and islam and eventually was told to leave the home

i lived in my car and in hotels untill i found a helper at a shia mosque
i began to get my life togher and got an apartment with the mosque help but with the condition i had to wear jilbob and hijob so i did i didnt want to live in the streets again
i went to the mosque everyday almost and began to see myself as prey for old muslim guys and even was asked by the sheikh to meet a 40 year old man to possibley marry so i didmeet him just to please the imam but said no to the marriage

i did not like him i was 19 he was 40 no attraction at all

i felt the shias so sexual it was all about temporay marriage and hierarchy and money and how i could help their muslims get green cards i felt so used

also i hated the culture and the lowered status of women in the house only and the "clicks" and the beating urself up in ashura i did not understand it
and did not cry when the others cried for imam hussein i didnot feel a thing and people stared at me liek i was a traitor i didnot fit in i did not like it
i felt ripped off this was not the islam read about

so i left islam and eventually became a christian again

i was a christian again for almost 2 years

then i married a palestinian man i loved so much he was soo kind

he was not religious so he was not like "them" i thought
i thought i could change himinto christian and itired and even got an arabic bible

his family found out and we almost divorced

i was devastated so i agreed to stop the campaign

then i discovered sunni islam

actually selafis and they were so mean and strict and actually tried to convince me to divorce my husband since he was not praying
i almost did.....
but thank God showed me they were wrong

i left them and tried the "regular" sunnis they were less strict and mean but very judgemental calling shias non believers and selafis extremists i felt no unity in isalm and became confused i read islam ws universal and i feklt no universality amongst muslims themselves and the islamic politics i studied and began to hate the islamic sharia and felt it was wrong i lost alot of friends liek this
i was now alienated from theislamic community forspeakingmy mind and i was so isolated i felt so alone
i began to goonlineto islamic chat and was evenmore confused i began to hate arabs and muslims for there way which i thoughtwas islamic but later found out was really culture inspired by hadeeth. i began to hate the prophet fromthe hadeeth and began to question my faith again

i thought what a sick man muhamamd from what i read about him why should he be from god i thought after reading alot of hadeeth
then i was disgusted by the rituals that ruled our lives as a hdeeth following muslims i was confused and full of anxiety

did i use my right foot? did i say that right? jinns are in the bathroom looking at me in a sick way i was paranoid and stressed i could not keep up with the rituals i thought how can God want us to live like this full of meaningless rituals and hatred

several different mosques i attented and found many people trying to convicne me suicide bombing was halal and american was evil and conspired toget the arabs they tried to convince me jews were evil etc

i began to hate everyone

deep inside i felt this is not the way i God i jsut did not feel right in my soul

so again i became an apostate...

and tried to go back to christianity but iknew toomuch now and could not beleive in trinity anymore

so i became a unitarian christian who beleive in God alone but not trinity but held to jesus was saviour

then God began to show me through my life the right way

slowly i came back to islam but decided to stay away from muslims

i just thought about the hadeeth that even if this is true i will have to rely on Gods mercy that i can not follow it

then i some how came across quran alone teachings subhan allah

i read and read and i know now this is true this what i have always beleived

i thank God for finally showing me the truth i have been searching for since i was 10 years old ~ 15 years finally foubnd the truth~

my eyes fill with tears of joy

but i now have to again start islam all over again i still find myself doing or saying meaningless ritualsitic things and it is hard to break thiose habits

slowly i am and i am starting to finally feel free

i never knew how great it feels to be trutly guided

it is amazing so many billions of muslsim and many converts on the wrong path
woow
how did i ever deserve the truth when so many others are astray
God must have saw somehting in me i neevr saw inmyself

i feel very lucky that i found the truth and am here to tell yuo about it

even when i debate other msulims they seem to talk in circles and am not fooled by there lies

i now understand alot moe
i have now become to really open my eyes to things that were right in front of me before but i never really saw

its like i was blind and now i can see the truth for the first time ever

reminds me of my christian days

amazing grace how sweet the sound i was once lost but now i am found
was once blind but now i see

thank you God for lifting the veil for me and showing me the way

i thank you fromt he bottom of my heart and the depth of my being

ilove you God
plese show everyone else the truth inshallah

Thank you for your time and reading my story

"Allah guides whom he chooses"
Thank you for choosing me...
Quran alone is the only way...
The truth shall set you free

Humbly yours,
Amanda

I wish the best for you as well.

I think that in the fatiha you will find your answer. If that was what you are qouting and then you have to keep reading.

Hi, my name is Zaynah and I'm a 17 yr old girl from Bermuda. Though prdemoninantly a so-called "Christian" society, We have a very very small so-called "muslim" community (sunni). I really didn't have much problems with it until I got older and little things started to not make sense to me (like why did we all have to change our names when converting to "Islam"?).
and when I asked how is this true or where is the proof of this, my father would get angry and tell me not to question anything in Islam, if you here it just do it! Since My father was taught "Islam" abroad everyone believed he was so knowledgeable and went to him for answers, and I believed the same.

So from then on(In fear of disappointing God, and being condemned to hell)Everything i heard, i took as truth. I tried not to wear bright colours, I had the biggest headpiece you ever seen, I didn't wear any gold, since I heard the prophet forbade his daguters to wear gold. Everytime someone asked me a question about something that they heard muslims did, I'll try my hardest to defend it, even though it didn't actually seem right to me (but i was told not to question, os it must've been the truth.). Then oneday i realised though i was doing all this, and following Islam righteously, according to the Hadith and the Sunnah, I was really miserable! And iused to always here other sunni muslims say, that Islam is the most easy religion, and i used to wonder, if it is sooo easy, why am i having such a hard time?

Then i started to realise that i wasn't doing all this to please God, I was doing this to please my father. I feared my father more than i feared God.

My introduction to true Islam came quite coincidentally (or was it a coincidense?). One morning early September, I was looking for Ramadan dates, and some dates came up on a site called submission.org. While on the site I saw a picture of a girl who didn't have on a headpiece, so i was thinking, "Is this a muslim site?". Then I saw an article called "Women's dresscode in Islam" after that, I started to look for more sites talkinng about monotheism and came across moslem.org and free-minds.org and i've been a True muslim eversince. So, much questions that i've had has been answered since then, I feel like a heavy weight has been lifted off of me.

I've not taken off the headpiece yet, not because i feel any ties to it or anything, it's just that since i'm still pretty new to real Islam, it's just that since the Muslim community is very tiny here, I know pretty much for a fact that I am the only one with my views, and still fear some of the ridicule I WILL get from others, espacially my father, who will more than likely disown me. I'm just going to give myself a little more time to get mentally prepared for that. I've been sending, articles from places like moslem.org, and free-minds.org around to others by e-mail (I find it easier then doing it face to face). Most of the people, which I expected reject it, giving me some nonsense on how thw Sunnah and hadith is the rightway etc., and some have acted like I've never even sent it to them, to avoid the topic (like my mother). but hopefully, in God's will ,i will be able (or already have) to shine some light on those who've recieved the information ,and inshallah they'll realise and accept true Islam.

Well, that's all I have to say for now! I hope I wasn't rambling too much! Salam (peace)! wink

Yeah. That is great and I wish you luck.

SaLaM KGB

Dear brother, YOU are the one who is sure Quran has it all. So give me the verses from the Quran which show how to select a constitutional body.

Interesting. I think and I do not know.