format_quote Originally Posted by
czgibson
I think you've missed my point: the Aalim uses the queen as an example, but the rule on not shaking the monarch's hand does not exist because she is a woman; it exists because she is the monarch. The monarch could quite easily be a man, and in that case ordinary men would not be able to shake his hand. So the analogy would imply that men should not be able to shake hands with each other either. Is this in fact the case in Islam?
the difference hilighted appears to show that not everyone is interacted with in the same manner.
indeed the Messenger of God is held in higher regard when it comes to tone of voice or turning away when hearing him speak,
and God is held in the highest regard.
knighting salman rushdie is an insult to God and His messenger and requires sincere humble repentance.
the lady is held in different regard to men and you can't just touch up a non-mahram female.
the person giving the parable is put in an awkward position by the kafir questioner and a parable is not the same as an actual event - but since the aalim is finding it difficult to explain and get it through to the kafir that it is haraam - since the kaafir has problems understanding the basics, he used a parable. we sometimes do the same with children when it comes to answering questions whose answers are too difficult for the child to comprehend.
imagine walking up to a drunk atheist on the street and telling him it's time for prayer and that alcohol is haraam and requires istighfaar and repentance - in the absence of which he/she gets forty lashes? or that it's sunnah to use a miswak before prayer and also to gargle during ablution???...........
although you can immediately enforce the laws of God and should do so if you have the authority, you'll normally start in a kafir majority society by explaining the harms of alcohol and some of the reasoning behind what God has revealed, The parables just probe thinking and draw similarities, but are NEVER ditto.
In a Muslim majority society, you'd expect people to know the basics of God's laws and be in the process of learning more and one can resort to immediate enforcement of God's laws.
format_quote Originally Posted by
czgibson
But there is a massive amount of evidence supporting gravity as an explanatory theory. It explains so much, and the effects of its operation can easily be observed.
No evidence whatsoever has been found for God, and rather than explaining anything, a God theory actually requires additional explanation.
cz,
you know and i know that you are suppressing the truth and lying, woe to you, forge not a falsehooid against Allah lest He destroy you utterly by chastisement.
it is understandable when one is ignorant and sceptical, but it is a heinous crime when one knows the truth, covers the truth, and then challenges the truth.
if you want to dispute after the truth has been made obvious, come, let us gather together, ourselves, yourselves, our people your people, our children and your children, then let us invoke the curse of Allah upon those who lie.
and if you decide to turn away, know that there is no God but Allah who knows what you conceal and what you reveal.
format_quote Originally Posted by
czgibson
so can magic mushrooms, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, ecstasy tabs, and shoe polish.
why then do you prohibit them?