Wa alaykum salam
1) How islam was formed [dates as well]
Read any sirah. That would be the best way for your friend to learn the answer to this.
2) what proceeded before prophet Mohammed. islam has been around since 10th century or even earlier, however human civilisation has been around before man made religions was even formed, so if we're all muslims by birth and soul, then i suppose people were praying to the prophet mohammed before he was even born?
Allah sent Prophets and Messengers to mankind since the time of Adam AS. Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was the last of all Prophets. The fact that Prophethood has ended implies that judgement day is near.
Secondly, we don't pray to Prophet Muhammad. He is not God. We only pray to Allah.
3) do non believers go to hell ?? wat about if they've never done anything wrong but arent muslim?? do only muslims go to jannah ?
If we establish that Allah is real and Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, was indeed a Prophet, then the biggest sin lies in denying the existence of Allah. Allah also creates the definition of what is good and bad.
Good = any action that goes according to that commands of Allah and bad = anything that goes against what Allah has said.
In the absence of God, good and bad behaviour is subjective based on the culture of the people. Some people would consider one thing good while others would consider it evil. For example people living in a ghetto might consider killing people to be good and couragous behaviour whereas others will consider ritual killing to be good. Where do we get our defintions of what is good and bad?
4) I think it's even more far fetched to believe we're all born muslims,cos the reason i'm here and my family are here, is cos sikhs fought auragzebs army, his army forced us to convert and killed and tortured thousands of indian people,because they didn't want to be forecfully converted,so really am i a muslim?that was when the indians were forced to convert, but i dont think many muslim scholars agree with the mughals ways back then, but would be interesting to hear other peoples perspective on it.
We are all born in a state of fitrah. A natural inclination toward good and belief in Allah. This state later becomes either corrupted or enhanced based on our environment.
However, it is not enough to be a muslim just because we were born one. We have to believe the message of Islam wholeheartedly.
5) Sikshism was formed with good,honest,clear principles to protect ourselves against forceful conversions. So in that way, i'm proud to be a sikh cos of what my ancestors fought for,and i still hold my hands together in praise for the guru's that fought for our freedom.
Where's the question here?
6) God created all the religions right ?? so which one is right ?
Islam and Islam alone. Christianity/Judaism came before Islam. In their original form, they were true religions, however later they were corrupted.
When Islam came, it abrogated all previous religions and is the religion all mankind must follow.
Since Prophet Muhammad is the last of all Prophets, all other religions that came after are fakes.
7) I don't believe the non believers will be punished for something they don't understand or particularly want to follow,and tbh i don't blame them when you see what religion has done to the world. It's very wrong to assume who wil go to hell and who wont, this is not our place to say or even think, this is gods decision and it's not written anywhere valid or proven, that he will send athiests/agnostics to hell. A lot of faiths do alot of scaremongering and assume too much. In jesus's case being the messenger of god, he reckoned there was no hell...and the guy that was crucified on the cross next to him for stealing or murdering...jesus said they would together dine in paradise,as he saw everyone equal and all elegible for forgiveness,and that even judas himself ,would still be loved by jesus despite what he did. If jesus represented the voice of god,and as a sikh i believe he did, then who am i to argue with that.
8) what has god asked us to do? how can he be dissapointed in us, if he doesn't say so himself, directly to us. If he expects us to read the hundreds of holy scriptures in the world-in order to find out, how to we dicipher which is the true 1 to follow?. Muslims say theirs is the 1 to follow, chrisitans say theirs, jews the same...yet the only people on the planet that don't tell people what to do are hindu's and sikhs...and might i say buddhists. Yet we slander agnostics and athiests cos they're confused out of their asses cos they don't what the hell is going on, and can you blame them?.
God has asked us to worship him. He has told us via Messengers and Prophets throughout history.
One important thing you are not taking into account is if you believe in a God, you have the opportunity to
ask for guidance. With conviction in your request. Wholeheartedly believe that you will be guided. As long as you are sincere in your request, there is no reason for you to not receive true guidance.
If a person has not received the message of Islam, he is not held accountable on the day of judgement for not believing in it, according to scholars. He would be accountable for his deeds or tested on the day of judgement in some other form. Allah knows best.
9) Is self pleasuring a sin ?? its only come about in the last century, helped unfortunately by porno's and online crap. So yep we haven't always done it, but is it wrong ? as it harms nobody.You can't defy biology or the creation of the human body,and say self pleasuring is a sin, when that's how we are designed to be. What does islam say about this ? is it not better to do this than go out and sleep around ? especially given that our bodies were built to enjoy it,so why are some faiths led to believe it's a sin to utilise a part of your body,god apparently has given to us to enjoy.
1. We believe in Allah.
2. We believe in the Prophethood of Muhammad, peace be upon him.
3. We believe in the Qur'aan as being the word of Allah. A book, which along with the documented words and actions of the Prophet pbuh form the rules by which we are to lead our lives.
4. Scholars of Islam, after having studied the primary sources of Quran and ahadith, have deduced that this act is a sin.
5. It is not up to us to decide what constitutes a sin and what does not. Our rational and understanding is extremely measly compared to what Allah knows in his infinite wisdom. It's stupid to claim belief in a God, his messengers, his books, yet to think 'well, I think this shouldn't be a sin really' based on nothing but our own whims and desires.
10) When poor innocent childen are harmed by paedophiles in such a way, how can anyone connect with god and keep faith?
According to Islamic theology, this life is meant to be a test. It is a drop in an ocean compared to the life of the next world. Every single little aspect of life is a test. Allah will try people from childhood till old age.
We are not here to have fun or build a happy life. People will be thoroughly tested and shaken. The more beloved a person is to Allah, the more he is tested. Experiencing hardship wipes away sin so such a person would meet Allah on the day of judgement with less sins on his scale.
However, it is said that Allah does not burden a soul more than it can bear. So that's why people who commit suicide are punished in hell because they gave up on the mercy of Allah, despite having been given the ability to cope with the test they were given.
It goes without saying that the rewards for being severely tested in this world are extremely great in the hearafter.
If a child under the age of accountability dies, he goes straight to jannah. A blind person is not held accountable either. So this (apparent) unfairness is fully compensated.
An important principle that needs to be understood is that Allah is Most Wise. This means there is always a purpose behind everything that happens. Good or bad. As an example, a person might be on his way to a once-in-lifetime tryout session for football but he could trip over something and fall requiring an immediate hospital check-up. At the check-up, the doctors might find this person has a serious illness that if left unchecked would result in that person dying soon. I hope you can now see the wisdom behind that guy tripping in the first place? He may have missed his football practice, but is able to take precautions against the unknown serious illness.
In this way, there is always a reason for everything to happen. Divine wisdom is always at work. A boy's parents could die in an earthquake and leave him behind to be raised by the local mosque run orphanage, exposing him to Islamic knowledge and inculcating in him the yearning to become a great Islamic scholar with the desire to change the world.
A victim of paedophilia could later grow up and dedicate his life to helping other victims of paedophilia come to terms with their experience. Had he not been a victim, those others would not have had the help coming to them.
I hope these examples are enough to show that we shouldn't think only of the short term effects. Islam means to submit. What does that mean? It means to resign yourself to Allah's will. You accept the conditions Allah places on you while acknowledging that there is benefit in whatever has happened becasue Allah is indeed Most Wise.
Allah is also Most Just. Therefore, every single unjust act that has ever been committed by a human will be brought to account on the day of judgement. So an unrepentant and unforgiven paedophile would be punished very severely in the fire of hell compared with eternal bliss for the victim if he remained steadfast in his life. There's the justice.
11) Is there an literature about mohammeds existence as a person, before he was given insight by god? cos i know nothing about him or who he was,i wouldnt mind knowing what he stood for and believed in
Again, books of sirah will help.