Re: Next Week I will be meeting an local IMAM about converting to Islam what should I
Based on your posts, I thought you probably had done so long ago. I think you will find it a good fit for what you appear to already believe. Wishing you God's speed in your faith journey.
peace,
it's not just about a good fit for what you believe, it's about humbly acknowledging and submitting to the truth when you see it and sincerely know it to be the truth, there are no size "m"s or "l"s or "xl"s,
as the old (famous) saying goes:
seek the truth
and the truth shall set you free
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come,
he will guide you into all truth:
for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:
and he will shew you things to come.
John 16:13
1. By the Star when it goes down,-2. Your Companion is neither astray nor being misled.
3. Nor does he say (aught) of (his own) Desire.
4. It is no less than inspiration sent down to him:
5. He was taught by one Mighty in Power,
Quran 53:1-5
...This day have I
perfected your religion for you,
completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion...
Quran 5:3
things to come -
Mahdi means: The One Who Is Rightly Guided
Certain it is that IN THE TIME OF HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)
IF A BELIEVER IS IN THE EAST HE WILL SEE HIS BROTHER IN THE WEST.
AND IF HE IS IN THE WEST, HE WILL SEE HIS BROTHER IN THE EAST.
(Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 52, p. 391)
HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE??? GOT SKYPE???
[SUP]Hazrat Mahdi (as) will (spiritually) conquer both east and west[/SUP][SUP]and cause Islam (the moral values of Islam) to rule the world...
[/SUP][SUP]ALLAH WILL BESTOW SUCH POWERS ON PEOPLE [/SUP][SUP]THAT
[/SUP][SUP]EVERYONE WILL HEAR HIS (THE MAHDI’S (AS)) WORDS,[/SUP][SUP]WHEREVER THEY MAY BE
[/SUP][SUP]and Imam (as) will give life to Islam...
[/SUP] (Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 52, p. 27 and Vol. 53, p.12 Ikmal'ud- Din, Vol. 2, p. 367)
Sadir al-Sayrafi says: I heard from Imam Abu Abdullah Jafar al-Sadiq that: ...
He whose rights have been taken away and who is denied(MAHDI (AS))
WILL WALK AMONG THEM,MOVE THROUGH THEIR MARKETS AND WALK WHERE THEY WALK.
BUT THEY WILL NOT RECOGNIZE HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)until Allah gives them leave to recognize him,just as He did with the Prophet Yusuf (as).
(Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim Nomani, al-Ghaybah al-Nomani, p.189)
And this is the record of John,
when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,
Who art thou?
And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not.
Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
He said, I
am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth
that prophet that should come into the world.
John 6:14
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
1. To thee have We granted the Fount (of Abundance).2. Therefore to thy Lord turn in Prayer and Sacrifice.
3. For he who hateth thee, he will be cut off (from Future Hope).
Quran Chapter 108
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[TD="class: hadithquote, width: 95%"]"Whilst I was walking in Paradise I saw a river whose banks were domes of hollow pearls,
and I asked, "What is this, O Jibrîl?"
He said, "This is al-Kawthar which your Rabb has given to you".
And its scent - or its mud - was of fragrant musk".
Hudbah [one of the narrators] was not sure if he said tib [scent] or teen [mud]. [Sahîh al-Bukhâri, Kitâb ar-Riqâq, Bâb fil-Hawd, Fath al-Bâri, 11/464]
And it is related, on the Prophet's authority, peace and blessings be upon him:
‘[Al-kawthar] is a river in paradise, and my Lord promised me it- in it is abundant good-
sweeter than honey, whiter than milk, colder than snow, softer than cream; its brims are of chrysolite. Its drinking vessels are made of silver;
he who drinks of it does not thirst [again].’ And it is said: a basin is in it.
2 – a great cistern which will be set up in the place of gathering on the Day of Resurrection,
to which the ummah of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) will come.
The water of this cistern will come from the river of al-Kawthar which is in Paradise,
hence it is called the Cistern of al-Kawthar. The evidence for that is the hadeeth narrated by Muslim in his Saheeh (4255) from Abu Dharr, that “into the Cistern will flow two pipes from Paradise.”[/TD]
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In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying,
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said,
Of a truth this is the Prophet.
Others said,
This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
John 7:37-41
The Prophet Muhammad said: “Whoever believes in that there is none worthy of worship except God, and with no partners,
that Muhammad is His messenger,
that Jesus is the servant and messenger of God;
His word which He bestowed upon Mary and a spirit proceeding from Him,
and that Paradise and Hell are true,
shall be received by God into Heaven.”
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
John 15:26-27
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2 Corinthians 13:8
may Almighty God guide us all,
and peace be to those who follow the guidance
