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τhε ṿαlε'ṡ lïlÿ
More heathens of course ^o) NO..
I think you need to work on getting us a scholar once a month or so to take our questions.. also some sort of historian/philosopher to teach the young ones (adults too) about Islamic history, jurisprudence, ghazwat, personalities, perhaps the art of debate, reasoned judgment ...
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:sl: Ukhti,
It has always been the goal of this forum to keep the educational level of Islam at a very basic level. In other words we are a kindergarten and not a university. There are very few Islamic forums geared for being an introduction to Islam from the perspective of day to day Muslims. Sharing the experiences of those of us who live in the everyday life of the trials of this dunya.
There are very many excellent forums that do an outstanding job at teaching things about Hadith, Jurisprudence, Quranic studies etc. But it has never been our intent to be a fiqh discussion board or a scholastic approach to Islam. The goal is to be a place where people with very limited knowledge of Islam can come and learn the very basic understandings from average people who live as Muslims.
On several occasions it seems we have had scholars join as members, however their threads almost always went unread and unnoticed. I believe one or 2 are currently members, but I have not seen them here for a long time. There was at least one Scholar we tried to entice to come on as an adviser, but without success.
But that all may be for the best as if we get too deep into complex discussions of a scholarly nature we would loose the basic ideas behind why this forum was formed. And that is to share with the average person on how we Muslims actually live.
If we have a single goal agreed upon by all of us admins it is we want to dispel the misconceptions non-Muslims have about us.
Inshallah, some of the other Admins and Mods will add more input into this. Each of us do have individual ideas and goals.But somehow we seem to work together.