Questions about Islam

**The-Deist** · 02-26-2016

So this is going to be my little thread about Islam.

If you are not a new member you know I have been jumping in and out of religions.

But now since people have told me come back and what not, I have decided to "consider it". So I am ok with becoming Muslim. But, I do not believe in everything within it. So can someone be Muslim but not believe in everything?

Also what if I become Muslim but do not do the daily Fardh acts, Hajj and Ramadhan. What is my destiny?

**azc** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

Well that was the question. What if I am able to make Hajj but do not want to. Is it a sin?

but being Muslim is the condition for it

**azc** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

I don't believe in the Prophets and consider the punishment for apostasy a little bit too harsh...

Islamic laws will not ne changed for you, whether or not you agree to them

**The-Deist** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by azc

but being Muslim is the condition for it

So I can't become Muslim?

**azc** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

So I can't become Muslim?

who can stop you?

**The-Deist** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by azc

who can stop you?

The fact that I do not want to go to Makkah again.

**azc** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

The fact that I do not want to go to Makkah again.

first, becoming a Muslim is the most important issue

**The-Deist** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by azc

first, becoming a Muslim is the most important issue

I do not believe in everything so...

Do I "force" myself to believe?

**azc** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

I do not believe in everything so... Do I "force" myself to believe?

elaborate it, plz

**The-Deist** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by azc

elaborate it, plz

I do not believe in Prophets.

**azc** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

I do not believe in Prophets.

and for being a Muslim it's obligatory to believe in all prophets

**Insaanah** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

I do not believe in Prophets.

As Muslims, we believe that God was Kind and Merciful enough to His creation of humanity, since the first human, to send prophets and messengers to us, with His guidance containing His message, to show us how He wants us to live and worship Him.

The message was: to submit wholeheartedly to Allah and worship Him and Him alone, without any associates in, or parts to, His Exclusive Divinity, and to obey the prophet. The Prophets and messengers taught that people should be under no misperception that they can commit themselves to Allah as their Lord, and then combine this with accepting others as their Lord, or associating others in His Divinity, in whatever way. They taught that we should strive hard to translate our belief in the One True God into practice, by obeying Allah and the messengers He sent, who were also role models and examples for us, showing us practically how to put the guidance they were sent with into practice in our daily lives, explaining the scriptures, warning against wrong-doing, giving good tidings, and giving additional legislation from Allah.

So Islam is not a new faith, but is the same ultimate universal truth that God revealed to all the prophets, including Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus (peace be on them), and the same thing they all taught. Thus Islam is not named after a specific person (like Christianity, Buddhism), nor after a certain race or place (like Judaism, Hinduism), but is named by God Himself, the meaning loosely translating as 'submission to God', which is what every Prophet and their righteous followers did, from amongst all times, places and peoples. That in itself is one fraction of the evidence that it was the way of all the Prophets from the beginning.

With time, the message got forgotten or corrupted. So people started worshipping other gods along with Him, made idols, said that God begot a son, said that certain people were incarnations of God, some rejected belief in God altogether, while others elevated the status of some prophets to divine, or at the other end, rejected or blasphemed some of the prophets.

Whenever God's message got distorted by people, or forgotten, a new messenger was sent, not with any new or changed message, but reinforcing the actual message that God sent all the messengers with, the actual core beliefs that people were taught from the beginning of humanity, confirming the true parts of previous teachings and scriptures, and correcting wrong beliefs and misconceptions that had crept in.

God required that whenever He sent a new messenger, that messenger should be followed along with any new scripture given to him. This chain of messengers culminates in prophet Muhammad (peace on him), who is the last and final prophet and messenger. Since his prophethood, God's message is available unchanged and unadulterated, for the entire world, until the end of time. He wasn't sent as prophet and messenger for a specific group of people and specific time (e.g. as Moses and Jesus were to the Children of Israel), but he was sent for all the world, for all time, until the Day of Judgement. Thus he is the last, not first, prophet of Islam; a messenger to all mankind, for now, and for all time to come. He is the messenger who must now be followed.

Do you believe in an unjust God who would create mankind and then leave them fumbling in the dark as to what they were meant to do without any guidance?

**The-Deist** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by Insaanah

As Muslims, we believe that God was Kind and Merciful enough to His creation of humanity, since the first human, to send prophets and messengers to us, with His guidance containing His message, to show us how He wants us to live and worship Him.

The message was: to submit wholeheartedly to Allah and worship Him and Him alone, without any associates in, or parts to, His Exclusive Divinity, and to obey the prophet. The Prophets and messengers taught that people should be under no misperception that they can commit themselves to Allah as their Lord, and then combine this with accepting others as their Lord, or associating others in His Divinity, in whatever way. They taught that we should strive hard to translate our belief in the One True God into practice, by obeying Allah and the messengers He sent, who were also role models and examples for us, showing us practically how to put the guidance they were sent with into practice in our daily lives, explaining the scriptures, warning against wrong-doing, giving good tidings, and giving additional legislation from Allah.

So Islam is not a new faith, but is the same ultimate universal truth that God revealed to all the prophets, including Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus (peace be on them), and the same thing they all taught. Thus Islam is not named after a specific person (like Christianity, Buddhism), nor after a certain race or place (like Judaism, Hinduism), but is named by God Himself, the meaning loosely translating as 'submission to God', which is what every Prophet and their righteous followers did, from amongst all times, places and peoples. That in itself is one fraction of the evidence that it was the way of all the Prophets from the beginning.

With time, the message got forgotten or corrupted. So people started worshipping other gods along with Him, made idols, said that God begot a son, said that certain people were incarnations of God, some rejected belief in God altogether, while others elevated the status of some prophets to divine, or at the other end, rejected or blasphemed some of the prophets.

Whenever God's message got distorted by people, or forgotten, a new messenger was sent, not with any new or changed message, but reinforcing the actual message that God sent all the messengers with, the actual core beliefs that people were taught from the beginning of humanity, confirming the true parts of previous teachings and scriptures, and correcting wrong beliefs and misconceptions that had crept in.

God required that whenever He sent a new messenger, that messenger should be followed along with any new scripture given to him. This chain of messengers culminates in prophet Muhammad (peace on him), who is the last and final prophet and messenger. Since his prophethood, God's message is available unchanged and unadulterated, for the entire world, until the end of time. He wasn't sent as prophet and messenger for a specific group of people and specific time (e.g. as Moses and Jesus were to the Children of Israel), but he was sent for all the world, for all time, until the Day of Judgement. Thus he is the last, not first, prophet of Islam; a messenger to all mankind, for now, and for all time to come. He is the messenger who must now be followed.

Do you believe in an unjust God who would create mankind and then leave them fumbling in the dark as to what they were meant to do without any guidance?

I do not believe in their miracles

**Insaanah** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

I do not believe in their miracles

So you believe in prophets and messengers but do not believe they performed miracles as bestowed on them by Allah? Or you don't believe in prophets and messengers at all?

**The-Deist** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by Insaanah

So you believe in prophets and messengers but do not believe they performed miracles as bestowed on them by Allah? Or you don't believe in prophets and messengers at all?

I do not believe in the miracles and thar makes me consider thrm all made up.

**Insaanah** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

I do not believe in the miracles and thar makes me consider thrm all made up.

Who do you consider made them up? The prophets (peace be on them), or their followers?

**The-Deist** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by Insaanah

Who made them up? The prophets (peace be on them), or their followers?

I meant I consider the existence of Prophets as fairytales.

**Insaanah** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

I meant I consider the existence of Prophets as fairytales.

So, in that case, please answer the question I asked you earlier:

Do you believe in an unjust God who would create mankind and then leave them fumbling in the dark as to what they were meant to do without any guidance?

**The-Deist** · 02-27-2016

Originally Posted by Insaanah

So, in that case, please answer the question I asked you earlier:

I am sure God wouldn't. I feel like the stories have been just made more "miracoulous". I don't really doubt the existence of Muhammed since I have seen his grave.

**Umm Abed** · 02-28-2016

Originally Posted by StrivingforDeen

Well that was the question. What if I am able to make Hajj but do not want to. Is it a sin?

If youve done your fard hajj then it is not compulsory to do hajj again.

**hisnameiszzz** · 02-28-2016

You really would be best approaching an Imam, Aalim or a Mufti. Do it over the phone if you can't do it in person.

It seems like you have a lot of questions. I am not sure any of us are qualified to fully answer your questions. Well I am sure there are some, but I can't answer them.

Good luck.