What keeps you adhered to your religion/belief?

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I know you must have many but please mention the ULTIMATE one.

I would say the infinite mercy that God showers on us. I've recently attended hajj and i found out that one prayer in the Grand Mosque Of Makkah (Al-Haram) is equivalent to 100,000 prayers. It's just amazing, Subhan'Allah. There are some dua's which are like one line long and the reward for them is a house, a garden, a palace in paradise. How many people have a palace in this world? There is one which forgives your sins even if they are in a form of a sea.

Words can't describe it. Really they can't/ :cry:
 
What keeps me 'in my religion' is God's continued presence in my life, and a strong sense of God's Spirit living and working in me and gradually changing me into the person God wants me to be.
Praise God for that. :)
 
I really agree with glo. There have been instances in the past where I've had doubts, but all I can do is act thankful to the Spirit He has guided me to where I am today. I've felt God has worked miracles in my confidence, education and social life.
 
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I really agree with glo. There have been instances in the past where I've had doubts, but all I can do is act thankful to the Spirit He has guided me to where I am today. I've felt God has worked miracles in my confidence, education and social life.
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Well, I fear the punishments of Allah. The time we spend in this dunya is only a fraction of the time we spend in the here after.
 
The fact that the Lord saved me from a life of bondage to sin is what keeps me in the fold. And also that he promised me when I was a child (attending my old church) that he would bless me. A woman stood up during testimony service (a time when the saints can tell what the Lord has done for them) while I was a drummer at my old church and she said in reference to me that, 'God is going to bless him, and he knows it too.' And I did know it, having said in my mind many times that God was going to bless me.

So, despite how difficult living the Christian life has been for me (many times I've wanted to give up because of Satanic attacks, my own failings, the discipline and chastisement of a Holy God), this is what keeps me in the fold. And also knowing that if I did turn back I'd be returning to the bondage of a sinful life.
 
I'm not in any "religion" right now. I used to be a mormon which is a christian sect that also has some similarities to Islam. But since I discovered that it was started by a con man and that the leaders of the church had been covering up the truth for many years, I have been very leery of ever becoming affiliated again with an organized religion.

When I was a member of a church, I guess the thing that kept me the most adhered to it was family.

:wa:
 
My reasoning is along Trumble's lines. It seems most reasonable to me and is my best shot at explaining reality.

Good post!

Thanks.
 
The explanation of life and death within the bounds of the universe with its natural laws and beyond make the most sense to me according to the Vedic philosophy more so than any other religious explanation. That is if there is a God, I believe that reincarnation and karma are more logically plausible.
 
Having been born a Muslim and practiced as such for over 20 years, what pushed me away from it was the fact that I could not agree with the idea of eternal punishment, as well as various other aspects which I felt were inconsistent with the way the world really is and the way people really are.

Moving forwards, my way of life is now deism - a belief in one God based on reason and observation of the natural world, as opposed to any "revelation", although I am sure I move into agnosticism and even atheism at times. What keeps me in this way of life is that I have now realised that the very concept of "revelation" is flawed, in many ways and to varying degrees depending on which specific "revelation" you are talking about.
 
A few things. Learning history played very important role(thus God speaks to us by history), also examples in my family, personal experience of change in me, and others that I dont remember now ;).
 
What keeps us adhered to our religion?

Well, what keeps a student studying and adhereing to the syllabus? They want to have enough knowledge and apply that knowledge to the questions in order to pass the exam at the end, and to succeed.

In the same way, we want to do well in our exam paper in this world before it ends (death), and thus get good marks and succeed in the hereafter (inshaAllah).
 
^^best response

personally a day came when i became deserving of the guidance of Allah, once Allah showed me those clear signs I knew i would have to be an idiot to walk away.
 
We shall now call you hajjia 'life is short' mashallah


to the question my answer would be in my heart i feel its the absolute truth and there's nothing like it.
 

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