Hello,
Can i just say that I am a little suspicious of the intention of this sites builder. To have an interfaith banner of looking for the similarites between the monotheistic religions and to call it "Answers to Islam"...... Although I guess that it is a testimony to the stregnth of the Islamic call.
I hope that this forum is built on the intention to find the truth about this life, why we are here and what the creator wants from us all ameen. The prophet Muhammad may peace be on him said "Deeds are judged by Allah only according to the intentions" This narration is authentic and recorded by Al Bukhari Book 1 Hadith 1 of 6000. The fact that he classified it as 1st carries so much weight.
The creator knows your innermost thoughts. Allah says in the Quran ""It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for we are nearer to him than his jugular vein."
If I give charity for the sake of the reward of the creator, Allah has promised me a reward greater than it. If it is for other people to see me give charity, it is like dust. If I come on this forum for the sake of wanting with all of my heart to bring one more person to Islam and to save them and help to save myself from the hellfire, then my reward will be better than that, but if it is to debate just to get one over on someone else I am truly lost.
May Allah purify all of our intentions ameen. Allah reveals In the glorious Quran:
19. "And O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in Paradise, and eat thereof as you both wish, but approach not this tree otherwise you both will be of the Zâlimûn (unjust and wrongdoers)."
20. Then Shaitân (Satan) whispered suggestions to them both in order to uncover that which was hidden from them of their private parts (before); he said: "Your Lord did not forbid you this tree save you should become angels or become of the immortals."
21. And he [Shaitân (Satan)] swore by Allâh to them both (saying): "Verily, I am one of the sincere wellwishers for you both."
22. So he misled them with deception. Then when they tasted of the tree, that which was hidden from them of their shame (private parts) became manifest to them and they began to stick together the leaves of Paradise over themselves (in order to cover their shame). And their Lord called out to them (saying): "Did I not forbid you that tree and tell you: Verily, Shaitân (Satan) is an open enemy unto you?"
23. They said: "Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If You forgive us not, and bestow not upon us Your Mercy, we shall certainly be of the losers."
24. (Allâh) said: "Get down, one of you an enemy to the other [i.e. humans, and Shaitân]. On earth will be a dwellingplace for you and an enjoyment, - for a time."
25. He said: "Therein you shall live, and therein you shall die, and from it you shall be brought out (i.e.resurrected)."
26. O Children of Adam! We have bestowed raiment upon you to cover yourselves (screen your private parts, etc.) and as an adornment, and the raiment of righteousness, that is better. Such are among the Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allâh, that they may remember (i.e. leave falsehood and follow truth).
27. O Children of Adam! Let not Shaitân (Satan) deceive you, as he took your parents [Adam and Hawwa (Eve)] out of Paradise, stripping them of their raiments, to show them their private parts. Verily, he and Qabîluhu (his soldiers from the jinns or his tribe) see you from where you cannot see them. Verily, We made the Shayâtin protectors and helpers for those who believe not.
Shaitan will come to you askig you to do evil, with a smile and the best of reasons, even though the thing has been forbidden and you know it is wrong.
Islam Is a creed based on the inimitable truth of the Quran. It has a method of dissemination and a method of deriving answers to all of lifes problems from the personal to the political and spiritual, and all aspects are linked back to the root, the root being the revelation to Muhammad and eesa and Musa. Ths makes Islam an Ideology - the only Ideology of the creation that will be accepted by Allah on the day of judgement.
This is Monotheism guys. Allah ~Is the creator and exists outside of the creation. For how can the Creator become the created? Allah will not except your national pride, your patriotism, your racism, your worship of things other than the one who created you. In Islam this manifests itself in every action being for the creator.
It is in mans nature to worship. Allah has put this in us. We can see all around us the effects of turning your worship to the wrong thing, to some creation. People In Englend, where I am from, worship Footbal, covet their freinds wives after a few to many beers down the local church - (the pub), they worship the money in their banks, the ability to satiate their desire at the cost of the thing that they are looking for, satisfaction and tranquility. The ideology theu follow; the creed and the method of organising man, is based on satisfying desire. It is not a wonder where we are as a race.
Other people get on the track and then get lost. They end up hanging crosses around their neck to symbolise their love for am mere mortal. They praise and worship jesus, or stones, or images created by man. They become spiritual on a level which they have decided is correct for themselves, shunning their own nature.
All of these paths only lead to destruction.
Islam means to surrender yourself to the one who created you, pondering over the majesty of it/him, and through this acheiving tranquility within yourslef and your purpose. A Muslim means someone who submits themselves to the will of the creator. This is key, because the creator has given us the choice, the free will, to accept or reject. The creator has also given us the evidence all around us, and the inimitable Quran is one of the miracles of the final messenger to mankind.
This means that for me to eat is a spiritual thing, for me to kill can be a spiritual action, as the hateful disbelievers want to kill me in Iraq, my religion has an answer to how I should act. For them it is only a job, to provide them with money and their rulers with power.
Example, no one could call themselves a Muslim if they supported their countries bombing of civilian populations because the quran prohibits this. To then take their Quran and try and trade conversion for food and supplies to the then decimated population, this in Islam is forbidden, the quran states, "there is no compulsion in religion". But deeper than that, the creator has put a feeling inside us that this is wrong. But we still have been blessed with the opportunity to accept or reject both the evidence and the feeling. For the last 400 years missionaries in the name of Jesus have been joining efforts with the cruel dictators to force feed this religion of Christianity to Muslims. This is to take people away from worship of god, and be saved by Jesus, a man.
It is wrong both intellectualy and in your heart, but you still have the choice to accept or reject.
In Islam The ruling is for God, not me. How can the created decide matters which are clearly beyond the creations ability to comprehend fully the implications and reprecussions of?
Islam looks after the human on the personal an societal level. There is no erroneous idea or concept which helps satan and only feeds the desire of the human. All of the concepts and ways of worship are according to my nature.
I will end here, and look forward to you marketing this site.
