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format_quote Originally Posted by truthseeker63

Im on a diet do you think drinking more ice or iced Water would help me lose weight ?

Salaam,

I'm not sure. Diets are not going to help you in the long-term. You should consider eating healthy on a regular basis. Try to make some small lifestyle changes as well, like replacing unhealthy food with something healthier.

format_quote Originally Posted by truthseeker63

I want to become a Muslim but I am fearful about meeting new people I want to make Friends with Muslims and socialize but I am a shy person I would love to go to my local Mosque and learn I have Asperger Syndrome and am viewed as Disabled or Handicapped by the State I want to know how a handicapped/disabled person is viewed in Islam I am a White Male with some American Indian/Native American Anestry not that my Anestry matters I am 23 years old and I tried being a Christian but Christianity is too hard to believe and Judaism is not right for me since the Jews reject Prophet/Messiah Jesus peace be upon him and Prophet/Messenger Muhammad peace be upon him what should I do ?

Many greetings of peace, brother.

Islam is the religion of peace, mercy, compassion and forgiveness. Allah invites you to this religion and offers you forgiveness, a great reward and salvation from the Fire.

If you have any doubts or questions..... do not hesitate to ask. Just_A_Girl13 has recently accepted Islam and we are all rejoicing over it.

Ahem! Actually I still can't believe that she and Just a Guy became Muslims....... within such a short period of time of joining IB forum.

Hmmm. Am I dreaming? Anyway, you are more than welcome to join the club. The club of pure joy and happiness.

Just_A_Girl13's advice is very good. I'm sure Just a Guy can suggest something too. Since they've been in your shoes (sort of).... I think they are in the best position to answer your questions.

Peace be unto you.

Alhamdulillahir rabbil al ameen!

format_quote Originally Posted by truthseeker63

I want to become a Muslim but I am fearful about meeting new people I want to make Friends with Muslims and socialize but I am a shy person I would love to go to my local Mosque and learn I have Asperger Syndrome and am viewed as Disabled or Handicapped by the State I want to know how a handicapped/disabled person is viewed in Islam I am a White Male with some American Indian/Native American Anestry not that my Anestry matters I am 23 years old and I tried being a Christian but Christianity is too hard to believe and Judaism is not right for me since the Jews reject Prophet/Messiah Jesus peace be upon him and Prophet/Messenger Muhammad peace be upon him what should I do ?

My friend there is nothing to be fearful about for this is an exciting time for you. Allah guides who he wants and out of so many he has opened your heart to the truth.

Surely it is Satan who is trying to make you feel fearful for he is your enemy and does not want you to accept the truth.

Therefore you must reject your enemy satan and know put ALL of your trust, faith and hope in Allah and know that he is there ALL of the way with you on this exciting and wonderful journey.

You will come across many wonderful people who will be more than willing to help you and make you feel welcomed and even honoured. There is good and bad everywhere and no doubt you will come across bad people just like you come across bad people in any aspect of life but know that if you put your full faith, trust, hopes and reliance in Allah then NOTHING will have a negative affect on you.

You should not think about "what if" just go for it. You will see that is is so different to how you ever imagined it to be. You will think to yourself "why did i ever worry?"

So take the step putting your full faith and trust in Allah and know that you will be most welcomed and you will make many new friends for life inshallah.

Also with regards to your disability then know that Allah has created people in different races, colors and having various abilities. While some of them are given certain gifts, others are deprived of these gifts and thus are disabled. This is the nature of life, according to the Divine Wisdom through which Allah governs everything.

Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi states the following regarding the Islamic perspective on disability:


In fact, man’s life is a full record of hardships and tribulations. In this sense, Allah says: “ We create man from a drop of thickened fluid to test him” (Al-Insaan:2) When man looks upon these tribulations and afflictions as being a test from Almighty Allah to see his true colors, he will come to know that there is a great Divine wisdom behind all these tests. This is surely an absolute fact, whether we know it or not.


It is also a great thing that Almighty Allah, when depriving a person of a certain ability or gift, compensates him for it, by bestowing upon him/her other gift, whith which he excels others. That is why we see that those people who are deprived of sight, have very sensitive ears that they can hear very low beats or movements around them. They are given excellence in many other abilities to compensate their imperfection.

If a person adopts this view, he will surely find rest and get contented with the test posed on him by Almighty Allah. Every person should bear in mind that he can never change his inability or escape Allah’s fate and thus he should try his best to make his life better and turn this sore lemon into sweet honey. This inability should be a motive to creativity and excellence in any field of life. A disabled person should make his condition an impetus towards being distinguished and prominent in the society.

Islamic history has a shining record of many examples of people who, while having some kind of disability, occupied very excellent positions and prominent status in the society. `Atta Ibn Abi Rabah, who was known of being black, lame and paralyzed person, was the greatest Mufti (very learned scholar)in Makkah. He was highly honored by `Abdul-Malik Ibn Marawan, the Muslim caliph of that time. His vast knowledge earned this prestige.

Almighty Allah guides all Muslims not to leave those disabled in isolation lest they fall a prey to despair and psychological ailments. They should be welcomed to the open society and be dealt with in the kindest way.


The Duty of the Society towards the Disabled:

It must be clearly borne in mind that there are things that happen out of man’s control and there are things that happen to man out of his own negligence, To make this matter clear, we may quote the following example. An infant gets paralyzed. This may occur due to his mother’s negligence of giving her child the due vaccination. So such disability is out of man’s negligence.

Now, it is the duty of the whole society to establish schools for those persons and secure them due care so that they become good members of the society and that they benefit themselves and their families.

In the West, great care is shown to the disabled. It is duty of we Muslims to shoulder the responsibility of showing the utmost care to those people, for, according to the teachings of our religion, those persons are sources of Divine mercy and blessings being showered on us now and then. They are the weak for whose sake we are given sustenance and made victorious.

In his Hadith, our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “You are given sustenance and victory for the virtue of those who are weak amongst you.” We, should show mercy and care to the disabled out of both human and religious motives. In Islam, we are commanded to show mercy to everything in this world.

In the Hadith: “Show mercy to those on earth so that He Who is in the heavens (i.e. Allah) bestow mercy to you.”

Source: http://www.ukim.org/imam.asp?CatID=17.


So my friend do not worry about aything else just put your FULL trust and faith in Allah and know that nothing will affect you in a negative way and everything only happens by the will of Allah.

If you believe in his oneness and the finality of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) then you should not hesitate to proclaim the Shahada as life is short and death is awaiting us and so we should acknowledge the oneness of our lord without hesitation:

Ash hadu Allaah ilaaha illallaahu Wa ash hadu annaa Muhammadan Abduhoo wara sooloo

I bear witness that there is NO worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the slave and Messenger of Allah

If you need any help with finding a Masjid or getting in touch with local Muslims or with anything else at all then please do not hesitate to ask.

Bismillah

@ramadhan

Jazak Allah khyran for stepping up for me.

@Impey

Your writing style seems very familiar. I can care less about your disguises or reasons for it. Before I answer your questions or rather further humiliate you by exposing your ignorance, I will give you benefit of doubt. Since you said you want to learn the basics, let's start from the basics:

1) Do you believe in God?
2) If you say yes to 1), do you believe in a religion? If so, what is your religion?
3) If you say yes to 1), do you believe God is the supreme ruler?
4) Do you think we should let man-made laws dictate our lives? Why or why not?

format_quote Originally Posted by Impey

Well I assume you know more than me but I have read about Hanifa, Malik, Shafi etc. Madhabs in my understanding as schools of jurisprudence so if that is different from Schools of law then the nuance escapes me. Now I further gather that the Qu'ran and Hadith are 'divinely protected from error' though this seems an assumption as I cannot see how it can be proved. However, one might regard the Qu'ran and Hadith as error free but you cannot extend that to any interpretation that end up as law.

Qur'an is divinely protected from any changing and there is no error. You seem to have really short memory, you have not been away from IB that long (does creating new username mean you lost your past memory too?), and it has been proven to you many times in the past in many discussions involving you. It's a pity sis. Lily is not really active anymore, otherwise I'm sure she would have been glad to show you again.

format_quote Originally Posted by Impey

Of course but they require human mind to find an interpretation that links all the things together - renumbering there are contradictory hadiths for example.

So you have found contradictory hadiths, can you show us some examples along with their details, classifications, and the context? And I am sure you are familiar with classifications based on the isnad and mat'an.

Another thing, as a christian, shouldn't you be loving contradictions? after all, we can find more contradictions in bible which is considered by christians as words of God. Also after all, christians do not even have any particular care about how jesus' sayings and actions were recorded and transmitted (yes, I understand you do believe that the writers of bible were divinely inspired, the problem is no one knew who they were and whether they were trusted and it is a complete mystery how the collections of this hodgepodge of writings became koine greek bible and why hundreds of other gospels which clearly said Jesus (pbuh) was a messenger were thrown out. I see that christians do love mysteries, though). And one single event by one person is often reported contradictorily in different bible verses. If you cannot remember what they are because of your identity change, I'd suggest you to head to the comparative religion section.

format_quote Originally Posted by Impey

Have you actually read the whole Bible?

Yes I have. It was a bible a couple of christian missionaries gave to me when I was studying in college. Actually they have put the bible online: http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/index.htm
And it does occur to me that you actually have not read the whole bible, and so I'd suggest you go to that site and read it.

format_quote Originally Posted by Impey

If not it goes to show that you can make claims and false accusation about Christianity and the Bible but actually have zero knowledge.

Ah, more christians in this forum and their false claims and accusations. I am sure I have more knowledge about bible than most christians.

format_quote Originally Posted by Impey

“If you do not know, ask those who know.” (21:43)

Based on your false accusations, this verse perfectly describe what you need to do.

format_quote Originally Posted by Impey

Where? Frankly, I think you comment is absurd

format_quote Originally Posted by Impey

What facts exactly and where does it say to worship one God? As far as I know all Christian believe in the oneness of God and your trouble is that you have such a limited understanding of what a person is that you cannot see beyond your own bias. AS far as I can see Christians and other non believers do not make fun of Mohammed in this board and its is unseemly for you to do it about Jesus here.

Actually, I am far more respectful to Jesus (pbuh) than any christians in this forum. I always send salam and pray for him whenever I write his name, and everytime I read his story in the Qur'an, I also send supplications for him.
From your question

What facts exactly and where does it say to worship one God?

, it does seem you have not read your bible in a while:
"The most important one," answered Isa, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. (mark 12:29)
It is clear that Jesus' Lord and God is one, and we muslims worship the God that Jesus worshiped, while christians do not worship the God that Jesus (pbuh) worship, and decided this commandment from Jesus (as) as unimportant and changed it to our lord is 3 in 1 god, one of which is a baby jesus and the other wandering spirit.
If such important law was changed by christians, you don't have to imagine what happened to the rest of the laws.

format_quote Originally Posted by Impey

I have read many posts but I do not know of a single case where there was any witnesses to the words revealed to Mohammed - I would be very happy to read such information.

Prophet Muhammad was known as always telling the truth, and this was corroborated by everyone, including his enemies.
And of course only prophet Muhammad SAW directly received the words being revealed to him, had others also heard it live, then the others would have been messengers of God too, you know this but you are pretending you did not.
But the events when revelations were taking place were witnessed by other shahaba, and you must have known this too.

truthseeker63

If you want to be one of us, say shahada alone. If you afraid do so, ask Allah help you.

format_quote Originally Posted by truthseeker63

I want to become a Muslim but I am fearful about meeting new people I want to make Friends with Muslims and socialize but I am a shy person I would love to go to my local Mosque and learn I have Asperger Syndrome and am viewed as Disabled or Handicapped by the State I want to know how a handicapped/disabled person is viewed in Islam I am a White Male with some American Indian/Native American Anestry not that my Anestry matters I am 23 years old and I tried being a Christian but Christianity is too hard to believe and Judaism is not right for me since the Jews reject Prophet/Messiah Jesus peace be upon him and Prophet/Messenger Muhammad peace be upon him what should I do ?

First off, don't get too concerned with useless labels like "Asperger's". Every person is an entire person unto themselves and a unique mental case and at the very best mood and personality disorders are just feeble attempts to treat common problems that have little in the way of common cause. But it's not even that: everyone is diagnosed with Asperger's now because it's the disease of the moment, along with bipolar disorder and ADD. "Handicapped" is basically another word for "unordinary". And I am speaking as someone who is diagnosed with all three, so don't think I have some ignorance or bias on the matter. Mental disorders, whether belonging to current psychiatric trend and vogue or not, are just arbitrarily decided upon meaningless groups of personality traits, a textbook example of the statistical cluster effect. If you have enough people in the world then there's bound to be a large number of people with any combination of traits you can think of: the only difference is whether or not psychologists have bothered to come up with a label for them and a personal subjective judgment on whether or not they think it's good for anyone alive to have said traits. And again, getting diagnosed with one of the specific disorders mentioned above now seems to require little more than breathing in and out. I am not saying this to impugn anything you've said about social anxiety, which is a far from unheard of trait even for those not alleged to have any disorders. It is the psychiatric community, and especially the DSM, that I am attacking, not you. My advice for you is to think of your problems as your very own, just the same as you would if you'd never heard of any disorders, and try to overcome them as you would any emotional or character flaw. Common sense is all you ever need.

As for joining Islam I would be glad to help in any way I can: it's literally why I'm here. And I hope I haven't got things off to the wrong start. If you can't bring yourself to go to a mosque then you could always watch services online on Friday, although I think a better idea would be to find a small mosque with few members.

format_quote Originally Posted by Ramadhan

Qur'an is divinely protected from any changing and there is no error. You seem to have really short memory, you have not been away from IB that long (does creating new username mean you lost your past memory too?), and it has been proven to you many times in the past in many discussions involving you. It's a pity sis. Lily is not really active anymore, otherwise I'm sure she would have been glad to show you again.

Well you have to prove it. I have read a good number of hadith so far (mainly for the music thread) but also looked at hadith science - now everywhere I have looked it talks about this 'divine protection from error' but as far as I can tell it is an assumption as not one of the papers attempted to justify it - perhaps you can? However, I have also discovered that interpretations are NOT divinely protected so ispo factor sharia must be the work of men or to put it more technically Allah and His Messenger are divinely protected from error, instead of taking it from the madhhabs or "schools of jurisprudence" of the mujtahid Imams such as Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi‘i, and Ahmad, which are not?"

I now know that to better understand Islam, one must appreciate the thoroughly legalistic nature of the religion. According to sharia every conceivable human act is categorised as being either forbidden, discouraged, permissible, recommended, or obligatory. "Common sense" or "universal opinion" has little to do with Islam's notions of right and wrong. Only what Allah (through the Quran) and his prophet Muhammad (through the Hadith) have to say about any given issue matters; and how Islam's greatest theologians and jurists – collectively known as the ulema, literally, "they who know" – have articulated it.

So it matters not to you what arguments anyone might bring about right or wrong they are all irrelevant so there is no logic needed other that to decide what a group of hadith say. So if the hadith collectively say the sun goes round the earth that is right no matter what science says, similarly if I bring an argument that having more than one wife is wrong you do not, cannot consider that argument, all you are interested in is what does the law say?

So you have found contradictory hadiths, can you show us some examples along with their details, classifications, and the context? And I am sure you are familiar with classifications based on the isnad and mat'an.

I can hardly believe you are asking this, I am a total beginner and know already the are contradictory hadith - what do you think hadith science is for, why you have to collect all the relevant hadith before you make a judgement. Go and do some work and read http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/nuh/madhhabstlk.htm

Yes I have. It was a bible a couple of christian missionaries gave to me when I was studying in college. Actually they have put the bible online: http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/index.htm And it does occur to me that you actually have not read the whole bible, and so I'd suggest you go to that site and read it.

Here again you just show you don't know much - anyone at all can tell you that the site you quote is a Jehovah's Witness site and with a tiny bit of searching I easily found http://www.biblegateway.com/ where I can if I so wished look at many different translations. I conclude you don't have 'more knowledge about bible than most christians'. As you quoted the Bible can I assume you regard it as an authority?

Actually, I am far more respectful to Jesus (pbuh) than any christians in this forum. I always send salam and pray for him whenever I write his name, and everytime I read his story in the Qur'an, I also send supplications for him.

You do seem a little arrogant and so far in this board no one else talks like that. I don't understand what you mean when you say you pray for Jesus but I take it 'supplications means you also pray TO him?

Prophet Muhammad was known as always telling the truth, and this was corroborated by everyone, including his enemies.
And of course only prophet Muhammad SAW directly received the words being revealed to him, had others also heard it live, then the others would have been messengers of God too, you know this but you are pretending you did not. But the events when revelations were taking place were witnessed by other shahaba, and you must have known this too.

Can you tell me where is says that others HEARD the actual words of revelation from the angel.

truthseeker63

I know sister from my country who is muslim and asperger. I will ask her to talk with you if you like.

She might knows better what it is be muslim with this.