Straight Answers to Controversial Questions about Islam

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There are some people giving the wrong answers on this thread with regards to Christians and their churches within Muslim lands. I can't post any links on this site as I don't have permission yet but there is a very good place to read up on these things : call to monotheism. It talks about the rights of non-muslims within muslim lands and what they can and can not do.

Please read and since I can't post a link, if you want it, do not hesitate to message me personally.

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullah Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Download the PDF book, Straight Answers to the Controversial Questions about Islam. This book, alhamdulillaah, clarifies the misconceptions about Islam.
Click here: www.cris.co.nf/English.html
Was-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullah

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Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullah,
Download the book, Straight Answers to the Controversial Questions about Islam, from: www.cris.co.nf/English.html
This book is very good in studying comparative religion.
Please let me know if you like the book
Was-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullah

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullah,
I have found a book, which clarifies almost all famous misconceptions about Islam very effectively, alhamdulillaah. So I am sharing it here. The book is “Straight Answers to the Controversial Questions about Islam.” Every Muslim should read it, so that we may be able to deal with non-Muslims effectively. You can download it from: www.cris.co.nf
Please reply here if you like this book.
Was-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullah

jazakom lahu khayran ...

Thanx Maryam for your reply.

Greetings,

Isn't it remarkable that a supposedly perfect system of life, designed by a perfectly intelligent being, contains so many controversies and requires such constant explanation and justification? It's also notable that the justifcations given are almost never satisfactory to non-Muslims, and the same issues keep coming up again and again, despite all the attempts to resolve them.

Peace

format_quote Originally Posted by czgibson

Isn't it remarkable that a supposedly perfect system of life, designed by a perfectly intelligent being, contains so many controversies and requires such constant explanation and justification? It's also notable that the justifcations given are almost never satisfactory to non-Muslims, and the same issues keep coming up again and again, despite all the attempts to resolve them.

Being an old-timer here, you should be aware that perfectly satisfactory answers have already been given to all the questions, yet new members or people new to Islam keep repeating the same questions again and again. Nobody wants to search and lookup the answers which were given previously.

Your post looks like an attempt to discredit all the debates our members had with you over the last decade. You should have known better.

Greetings,

format_quote Originally Posted by ibn-Adam

Being an old-timer here, you should be aware that perfectly satisfactory answers have already been given to all the questions, yet new members or people new to Islam keep repeating the same questions again and again.

I think I'll be the judge of whether I find the answers given in discussions here satisfactory or not, thank you very much. I have seen no adequate defence or justification for many of the injunctions of Islam; for example, among many other issues, the rulings on music and homosexuality, as well as the general hostility to free thought that exists in Islam.

People keep bringing up the same questions because they matter. You may not agree, but you ought to realise that to many of us outsiders, many of the teachings of Islam appear to be obviously false, unhelpful and / or dangerous. Would you agree that I'm perfectly entitled to hold that view?

Your post looks like an attempt to discredit all the debates our members had with you over the last decade. You should have known better.

Some of them have been worthwhile.

Peace

format_quote Originally Posted by Muslimbr.

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullah,
Download the book, Straight Answers to the Controversial Questions about Islam, from: http://cris.co.nf/English.html
This book is very good in studying comparative religion.
Copy the link given and paste in your browser.
Was-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullah

Jazakallah khair for the link , its covering a wide range of Quran , Hadith & Madhabs but still did not go through.

format_quote Originally Posted by czgibson

I think I'll be the judge of whether I find the answers given in discussions here satisfactory or not, thank you very much. I have seen no adequate defence or justification for many of the injunctions of Islam; for example, among many other issues, the rulings on music and homosexuality, as well as the general hostility to free thought that exists in Islam.

People keep bringing up the same questions because they matter. You may not agree, but you ought to realise that to many of us outsiders, many of the teachings of Islam appear to be obviously false, unhelpful and / or dangerous. Would you agree that I'm perfectly entitled to hold that view?

Once it has been explained that Allah is our Lord and Sustainer, and that He alone can be worshipped, then there remains no question of trying to justify His commands and prohibitions. Whatever He commands is for the best of His creations, whether we understand His wisdom or not.

It is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should [thereafter] have any choice about their affair. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly strayed into clear error. [33:36]

Allah does not command something or prohibit something except for our own benefit. What would Allah gain if we follow His commands or what would He lose if we disobey Him? Nothing. He is Self-Sufficient and does not require our praise. It is all for our own benefit, in this world as well as the Hereafter.

Allah says:
... Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship [2:185]


Allah wants to make clear to you [the lawful from the unlawful] and guide you to the [good] practices of those before you and to accept your repentance. And Allah is Knowing and Wise. [4:26]
Allah wants to accept your repentance, but those who follow [their] passions want you to digress [into] a great deviation. [4:27]
And Allah wants to lighten for you [your difficulties]; and mankind was created weak. [4:28]


... Allah does not intend to make difficulty for you, but He intends to purify you and complete His favor upon you that you may be grateful. [5:6]


And abide in your houses and do not display yourselves as [was] the display of the former times of ignorance. And establish prayer and give zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah intends only to remove from you the impurity [of sin], O people of the [Prophet's] household, and to purify you with [extensive] purification. [33:33]

Greetings ibn-Adam,

Your post above is a perfect example of what I mean by Islam's hostility to free thought. Your words are a hymn to voluntary suspension of the critical faculties. Your intention is to obey without question. You do not seek to understand. You would rather shut all discussion down with an elaborate tribute to Allah's magnificence that doesn't address the points I made in any way.

Civilisations make progress largely through experiment and observation, research and innovation. This requires a basic curiosity about the world and its workings that is absolutely negated by your myopic position. A civilisation that adopted your point of view would stagnate and find it very difficult to recover.

Peace

format_quote Originally Posted by czgibson

Civilisations make progress largely through experiment and observation, research and innovation. This requires a basic curiosity about the world and its workings that is absolutely negated by your myopic position. A civilisation that adopted your point of view would stagnate and find it very difficult to recover.

Peace

Dear Czgibson,

With all due respect, you have been on this forum for many years but from your words and how you write about Islam, it seems that you know and understand very little about it, it's teachings and its history. Because if you compared between the pre Islamic era and the Islamic era you wouldn't be making statements such as the last one, unless you were quite bias and unfair in your research, observation and analysis.

Peace.

format_quote Originally Posted by czgibson

Your post above is a perfect example of what I mean by Islam's hostility to free thought. ...

Not at all. You are being too judgmental in your post. Islam does not prevent understanding and using one's faculties to reason. What I am saying is from the faith point of view. Once we have faith in Allah, we place absolute trust on Him.

It is perfectly allowed to question and find reasons. Ibrahim , even though he was one of the great Messengers, questioned Allah on how He raises the dead once again. Allah says:

And when Abraham said, "My Lord, show me how You give life to the dead." [ Allah ] said, "Have you not believed?" He said, "Yes, but [I ask] only that my heart may be satisfied." [ Allah ] said, "Take four birds and commit them to yourself. Then [after slaughtering them] put on each hill a portion of them; then call them - they will come [flying] to you in haste. And know that Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise." [2:260]

Several Muslim scholars have written books on reasoning and understanding. See for example, Hujjatullahi AlBaalighah by Shah Waliullah Dehlawi.

format_quote Originally Posted by czgibson

... your myopic position

I would say your vision is myopic, not Muslims'. Muslims (practicing ones) are the most far-sighted people because we prepare for we need in the Hereafter.
Whereas atheists like you are the most myopic people, because they say "You live only once".

If atheists are right and Muslims are wrong, then nobody is at loss. Both of them live this life and die at the end.
But when Muslims are right and atheists are wrong, then Muslims win the Hereafter and atheists loose their chance.

Logically, any sane person would choose what is best for him in the long run. So what do you choose? Do you want to live your life being skeptical about the hereafter and ultimately loose it, or are you ready to take no chances and prepare yourself for it?