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Hi.
A earlier post prompted me to post this.

If there was an unaltrable choice between choosing between the death of a human and the destruction of the most sacred building to your religion, Would you prefer the building to be saved?
 
Hey i havent voted yet but islaam teaches that the blood of a muslim is more valuable then the world and everything in it so for my muslims i would sacrifice every building on this world as even the ka'ba is less sacred then the life of a muslim.



now you will ask what about a non-muslim,

well become a muslim and i'll also rather have you saved :D
 
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well,I think the kabaa is the most scared buliding, since we pray towards it, and circumbulate it etc, so id rahter a person die...having said that though, if the ka'baa was destroyed, wouldnt we just have to pray, circumlate it as if it were still there
hmmmm...
id presonally refer this this to a scholar actually...
 
AhLÄÄM said:
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Is this a trick question? :mmokay:
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Nope its a serious question.:)
The building involved wouldbe the Kaaba, the Vatican, The Temple of the mount, an atheists Pub. That sort of building.

The Human being involved would be an innocent child.
Theres no way to save both. One of them has to go.
 
^ i would save an innocent child over the ka'ba.

the ka'ba has been levelled and rebuilt many times anyway, and also im sure the life of a child is greater. im going to vote now :)


*voted no im muslim*
 
A sacred building destroyed can always be rebuilt by the people. Like the Jewish Temple Mount or the Kaaba. However, a life lost can never be returned. And Islamic teaching commands preservation of life and not to take life unless with right (the lives of convicted murderers, for example.)

So between a human life and a sacred building, I would choose to save a human life.
 
The answer is an obvious no...Christ never mentioned a structure as being sacred, much less worth more than a human life.
 
AhLÄÄM said:
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Every child is born a Muslim :)
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Slightly off-topic (sorry): Regarding that, a Brother coincidently posted something about this statement on another forum just the other day:

I don't think anyone believes that the child is born a Muslim in a fiqhi sense, that if he/she dies, janaza is prayed over him, etc...

What people mean is that a child is born on his fitra, recognising Allah as the only Lord and the only one deserving of worship. Meaning, he does not have to contemplate deeply on the emergence of the creation to prove the existence of a creator. He simply believes in a deity from birth. This does not necessarily mean that he is a Muslim in fiqhi sense.

So whilst it is good to clarify that a child is not born a Muslim in fiqhi sense, it is also important to clarify that the child is actually born on tawheed, such that he does not need to reason the way the mutakallimun want him to, to discern God's existence.
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^ bro it is clearly established that every child is born a muslim upon islaam. later the society and environment brings them into shirk which leads them astray...
 
Voted no, though it does kinda depend upon the person. ;)


(Plus I hadn't read that a Pub could be one of the targets, so that might change things as well. :))
 
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