As Salaam Alaikum,

Could someone please tell me if "khamr" means wine or intoxicants?

I came across someone who said that "khamr" actually only means wine and anything else is just another person's interpertation of trying to find similarities between wine and other things and trying to include it.

As Salaam Alaikum,
Hello. I am from the United States and was raised in a Muslim family. My father is a Sunni. My mother isn't a sunni but hangs out with other sunnis and likely doesn't have a clear opinion about hadiths.

Me, I have always found something very wrong with them. For the past several years I have enjoyed this website, different groups on the internet, and other websites that advocate "Quran only".

Unfortunately, I am married to a man who believes in hadiths and many other things that are not in the Quran (Dear brothers and sisters I really encourage you to find a spouse who believse in Quran-only. Do not settle. Be patient and find someone.). This is a big issue for us in our relationship and we try to avoid this conversation as much as possible. We have a child together now, and now I am more determined to raise him in a nice Muslim home and have him understand the difference between what I believe and what his father believes. I really hope when my son is old enough to make his own decisions he will reject hadiths as well.

Like many of you, I too share that feeling of being alone in my beliefs in my own community. I rarely ever go to the mosques, socialize with other "Muslims", and neither can I relate to them. Hadiths are so sewed into their fabric of their lives it is hard to have a conversation with them. When they bring up what is "haraam", I can just raise my eyebrows and say, "Well, if that is what you believe."

I use to wear a "hijab", and I even wore skirts for about a year. Sometimes I really miss that feeling of belonging to a community... a cult. And doing all of that other "traditional" stuff people do. But when I was living that life I knew it was a lie and mostly about "image".

Anyways, I feel that it is really time for us to raise our voice even louder. Every day I think of who is going to be our own version of MARTIN LUTHER--- he was the one who called out the Catholics about all of their innovations.

Also, I am a journalism student with a small background in film. Which brings me to askyou all to please check out my post under the "Projects/Conferences/Events" tab. I would really like to do a documentary and would like ideas on topics, people to interview, etc.

Edited here is the link http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9604893.0

It's nice to meet you all.
As SAlaam Alaikum