Yes! and do go beyond that answer ... as He knows and we know not.

The four forbidden months are the months of Ramadan and the three following it. The Quran came down in ten nights of One of the Months of Ramadan. It has to have been AFTER the return to Mecca of Mohammad and his followers, and after the victory of the Romans AFTER their defeat earlier during Mohammd's Prophethood. History has only one such documented case from 600 - 635 AD ....... around 617AD the Romans were defeated and around 627-629 AD they were victorious. So the Quran must have been sent down after that victory and before Mohammad's death.

In that year the Spirit and the Angels came down to deliver the Quran to Mohammad and his followers ... much like the Torah was delivered to Moses .... but in Moses's case it was the meeting with God Himself that Moses attended alone ..... and the "Tablets" were delivered to him during the 40 night meeting with God and His forces with Moses.

The four forbidden months must follow the Lunar calender and thus will move through the seasons of the year over 2 1/2 decades .... and as believers we are all forbidden from "Hunting" land animals during those four months, and also from fighting and wronging ourselves unless we are fought against. This gives ALL land animals the time to replenish their populations, while we hunt other types of animals. The system is perfect if we follow what God tells us ... when we start inventing our own reasons ... that's when we reach where we have reached as Mankind.

First of all .. any attempt to change or remake the Quran will not succeed, so I am not really bothered by these idiots who think they can come up with a book better than GOD and can change the Quran in any way, shape or form.

When God has taken the protection of the Quran in His own Hands ... who do you think will be able to "change" it? I laugh at these fools and what they try to achieve by becoming GOD themselves .. to hell with them and their followers.

Try and change it and see what happens to those that change it and those that aid and abet in their endeavor .... destruction will be sent on them from directions they and we CANNOT perceive .......... you people are stupid even to discuss that the Quran can be changed! or that it has to come in line with the "reality" you see in this world which will soon be engulfed by the Wrath of GOD.

Peace

God is life constant .. the rest are given "life" by GOD .. and it will be taken away from them when HE Wishes.

He is an idiot and I see him making money from the signs of GOD .. and if he is doing that ... GOD will not talk to him nor look at him nor purify him on the DAY.

I have listened to some of his talks and I see him as a liar and inventor and a follower of the Garbage Hadith outside the Quran ....... so to hell with him as far as I am concerned.

Peace

There is no Shahadah ...... it means to witness .. can you witness GOD?? ... you can witness for GOD .. but you CANNOT witness Him .... look at the words, they are the same but the meaning is different.

Can you witness Mohammad?? where do you see him?? ... I do not see him or GOD or any other messengers today.

So ..... you believe with GOD alone .. to be Muslim.

you Believe with GOD and ALL His Angels and ALL HIS Books and ALL HIS Messengers and the Day of Judgement and "Listen and Obey the Quran" and ask for forgiveness from God .... to be a BELIEVER!

PEACE

Peace Sirohey,

The shrine in Mecca isn't safe either. Just try to proclaim the following over there

You will quickly see how safe it is in Mecca when you get arrested and tortured or beaten up by the angry crowd of pious garbage followers around you. This is reality.

Saudi Arabia and Mecca is not "the land of security" by any measure.

Peace,

Ayman

Compare the battles fought in Jerusalem to the battles fought around the Sacred Mosque recorded in history ..... all is relative ... "fight them not at the Sacred mosque .. till they fight you" ... its all relative my friends ... Masjid-al-Haram .. is Kaaba and the surrounding Mosque. Both the Houses are the Houses of GOD ..... actually every house belongs to GOD ...... He's just trying to tell Mankind that He is multifaceted .. but we are so single minded and foolish that we cannot see that ..... with our hearts!!

The blessed land surrounding the bait ul ateeq has been written by God to the Progeny of Israel .. the chosen people above those that know for the Grace of GOD. Do not argue with this point, you will fall further into schism. The land was taken away from them at the coming of the "first promise" ... when pharaoh enslaved the progeny of Israel ... until God Himself sent Moses and Aaron with clear authority to take them out form the punishment that was on them.

when the second "promise" comes "We will bring you all together" (i.e. the progeny of Israel (Jacob)) ... that has already happened when they regained the land in 1948 ..... now we wait for the promise of God .. and His punishment .. and for the Messiah to return. Stop your quibbling over this issue, God has chosen the Progeny of Israel (Jacob) above all those that know for His Grace, God has favorites ... just like you and I. Not all are equal in the eyes of GOD ... if you want the truth ... the believers are His loved ones .. the Spirit and the Angels are His closest ones .... Jesus is one of the closest to God .... the only one specifically stated to be of the closest in the Quran from Mankind.

Go and try and dispute with me ... you will fail ....... go and read the Quran .. and stop listening to me and the others .... listen to the Quran .. and nothing else for guidance to GOD .. and confirm it by reading the Torah and the Bible.

Peace!!

Prejudice is when you impose your own view on what God has written to turn it your own way ....... prejudice is when you hear a view that does not correspond to your own view even if the Quran states clearly that you are wrong.

Prejudice is not whether you like black, white, brown, yellow, green, Chinese, American, Arab, European, Honey, sugar, water, food, running, jogging , walking, animals, birds, the sea, the sun, the moon, the stars, your children, your wealth, your work, your friends, your family, your neighbor ... or NOT!
thats your choice as long as you do no harm intentionally and be just with them. "JUST" does NOT mean good all the time ..... as GOD has shown us several times in the past and will show us again very soon ...... so wait with patience and repel the unbelievers and the Mushrikeen with good arguments.

So, should we stop reasoning when we read the Quran; should we stop asking the people who might have a good answer, when we do not have one; should we stop debating in order to reach the truth; or should all of us ignor good advices from people who have good knowledge in Quran.

Please, clear your post.
Thanks

I do not mean at all that we should stop thinking, reasoning or questioning .. just that each of us is at a different level of understanding and if we reach a point that we cannot figure out, we should move on and return afterwards. Keep reading the Quran and it will eventually come ot us as Wills God.

I have now read the Quran over a 100-110 times (with thought, reasoning and the universe around me in my mind) and I can see much more than others .. so some may understand more than me and some less. I can only understand what God lets me and that applies to every created thing, including the Angels, the closest ones of God.

Peace

Those who discuss the affairs around them and make a decision .. but there is always a leader who makes the final decision .... when the Messenger is there .. it is he who makes it and when there is no messenger then one has to make the final decision after due discussion .. for me it means discussion not consensus. After the arguments have been made some one has to decide. When we speak of the Quran, there can not be anything that denies anything else in the Quran, if we are overriding one verse by another than we are going to oblivion. The mutal discussion is for everyday issues and whats at hand ... and whenever we are in dispute the decision goes back to the Judgement of GOD ... i.e the Quran.

Peace

salat .. Prayer connection with GOD
zakat ... Purity
hajj -- contention
kaaba .... The house in Mecca construced by my father Abraham and Ismail
majidul haram .. mosque around the kaaba exactly "the disallowed or sanctified Mosque"
safa ..... the lining of the animals for sacrifice at the bait al ateeq ... in jerusalem

marva ... don't know .. but I believe it is the place where Abraham tried to sacrifice one of his sons to GOD .. maybe the rock under the dome in Jerusalem

What is the true Qiblah? The First house of God is Aqsa/dome of the rock .. i.e the first Qibla ... the second house of God is Masjid al haram .. i.e. second Qibla ... Qibla is just direction ....... anyway you point directs to GOD ... He's everywhere

Where should we make Pilgramige to? Pilgrimmage is to the bait al ateeq (Old House .. i.e. Aqsa/dome of the rock)

What is the Sacred Mosque and what is the Fartherst Mosque? Haram is Qaba or MAsjid al haram, Aqsa is the Dome of the rock.Aqsa mosque

Aren't we splitting into sects (and therefore going against the teachings of the Qur'an) if we change our Qiblah and Site of Pilgramige from ~99.999% of Muslims? Muslims today follow garbage ... i.e the so called hadith of Mohammed which are ALL lies .. the only hadith we must follwo is Quran and go to the torah and bible to confirm it.

Dosen't the Qur'an say that we will be protected in his Mosque (Jerusalem dosen't seem very safe!!!)? Masjid-al haraam is the secure mosque in the land of security as was requested by Abraham to GOD to make is safe and secure.

Hope this answers you quesitons

Do you people just say that "God is enough for me" when GOD has told us He has forgotten nothing in the Book ... why must we read the crap mere humans write to understand faith. Go read what the mere humans write about electricity, Physics, Gravity, Matha ........ but if you are ture beleivers read NOTHING but the Quran for Faith and the Torah and Bible tp make certain what youa re reading is the truth and .... think, understand, ponder and know.

Are they not going to ponder over the Quran or are their hearts under locks???

"But which Hadith will they be believing with after it"

Every single hadith outside the Quran attributed to Mohammed the Prophet is false and is a LIE, and those that follow them and those that propagate them and those that invent them will go to HELL. I will be a witness to that as wishes my LORD.

Wakas,

How do you say that you do not agree that salat means Prayer

How many times have you read "Aqamas salata wa atawuzakata" in the Quran .... go and read it if you have any doubts.

GOD tells us "Be firm in Prayer and bring purity" that is our salvation after we believe with GOD.

Read Bayyanah verse 5 ... that clearly states what our Religion is ......

"and not were they ordered except to serve GOD, exclusively to HIM is the way (Religion) true and that they be firm in prayer and bring purity, and that is the way standing"

The way of my father Abraham the true, and he was not of the mushrikeen.

I am not just confident about what I say ... I KNOW, and very few that I meet have a clue of what I tell them.

I have surely been guided by my Lord to the way standing, the nation of Abraham the true, and he was not of the mushrikeen. Most of mankind is in schism ... and the so called "Muslims" are the worst of the three with the book of God in their hands. But wait ...... the promise comes ..... all we can do is wait .... I too wait .. so you keep waiting and do not argue with one who knows before you have wisdom and knowledge of the book.

I can explain the whole book to you word by word and verse by verse and the hidden meanings behind them ........ not my accomplishment ... God choses whosoever HE wishes and guides ...... I just happen to be one of them ......

No one except GOD can create a surah like one in the Quran ......... EVER. Not even the likes of "Ikhlas" or "Nasr" or "Asr" ...... none!! and HE will show you and me why on the Day we stand in front of HIM to be judged.

stay away from what you cannot understand .. GOD gives understanding of what HE wishes to who HE wishes. If you doubt something in the Quran ... you truly do not understand why it is there .... so just turn away from it ..... till GOD brings you back to make you understand. Do not destroy your faith with GOD by some of the things which you cannot understand in the Quran. God warns us Himself, every act of thought, sight and hearing will be questioned, so don't go where your wisdom cannot lead you.

Peace

How was Adam born?? that must have been pretty miraculous ... don't you think ....... ??

God can do whatever He wants .... if He can create the Heavens and the Earth, what makes you think He cannot create a mere human without the act of copulation -))

How mankind deludes itself ... we are nothing ... and GOD can make much more than nothing out of thin air -))

Jesus was born without a father ... his fathers are Abraham (as a believer) and Adam (as one form mankind) ......... the spirit Gabriel descended from GOD to deliver Jesus to Mary ....... without a mans penis going into her ...... period ..... take it or leave it .... either you accept all the book or non of it ..... there is no middle ground .. and if you don't believe there is a Creator .. nothing really matters anyways whether you accept or reject

Peace

The Quran is the narration of the the Holy Spirit Gabriel ... he is the one narrating it. It is all the Words of God spoken by whosoever GOD choses and He Himself also speaks to us .. you have to figure out where ... some places it is very evident .. others it takes understanding and concentration. Not for the light hearted though -)