Maddy

Do I have any right to be mad?

I planned a dinner night with my boyfriend initially and it grew to be a group thing which I was completely fine with. My boyfriend and I hang out with the same group of friends so the plans included them (3 girls and 4 other guys). Im kind of an organization freak and planned everything out early (inviting people, offering rides, even asking my boyfriends younger brother to join us in the fun). Unfortunately all of the girls had to cancel for legitimate reasons (family things and one was actually sick). I was still going to go because I'm close with my the guys and wanted to still spend time with my boyfriend as well. However when i told him the situation he said "I want you to come but the guys just want it to be a guys night and for you not to come. Raincheck?"....I was really hurt that I was being uninvited to my own plans by my boyfriend and it ruined my whole night. I just want to know, am I justified in being angry? This isnt the first time he's canceled plans with me for a "guys night" but this felt worse because I was the one who organized it all!

Do I have any right to be mad?

I planned a dinner night with my boyfriend initially and it grew to be a group thing which I was completely fine with. My boyfriend and I hang out with the same group of friends so the plans included them (3 girls and 4 other guys). Im kind of an organization freak and planned everything out early (inviting people, offering rides, even asking my boyfriends younger brother to join us in the fun). Unfortunately all of the girls had to cancel for legitimate reasons (family things and one was actually sick). I was still going to go because I'm close with my the guys and wanted to still spend time with my boyfriend as well. However when i told him the situation he said "I want you to come but the guys just want it to be a guys night and for you not to come. Raincheck?"....I was really hurt that I was being uninvited to my own plans by my boyfriend and it ruined my whole night. I just want to know, am I justified in being angry? This isnt the first time he's canceled plans with me for a "guys night" but this felt worse because I was the one who organized it all!

Do I have any right to be mad?

I planned a dinner night with my boyfriend initially and it grew to be a group thing which I was completely fine with. My boyfriend and I hang out with the same group of friends so the plans included them (3 girls and 4 other guys). Im kind of an organization freak and planned everything out early (inviting people, offering rides, even asking my boyfriends younger brother to join us in the fun). Unfortunately all of the girls had to cancel for legitimate reasons (family things and one was actually sick). I was still going to go because I'm close with my the guys and wanted to still spend time with my boyfriend as well. However when i told him the situation he said "I want you to come but the guys just want it to be a guys night and for you not to come. Raincheck?"....I was really hurt that I was being uninvited to my own plans by my boyfriend and it ruined my whole night. I just want to know, am I justified in being angry? This isnt the first time he's canceled plans with me for a "guys night" but this felt worse because I was the one who organized it all!

I tried going to the Ramadan section, but all anybody wants to do there is judge how good of a Muslim you are and tell you off for doing various "haraam" things. So in all seriousness, tomorrow me and my best guy friend (who I haven't seen in like a month) are planning to go to the movies to see Harry Potter since neither of us have seen it yet. He's JUST my friend, and we both know it, but we really miss each other and want to hang out. I'm also going to be fasting tomorrow since ramadan starts and he will be too. So does it invalidate my fast just for hanging out with a friend who's a guy? I mean we usually hug hi and bye, and mess around/hit each other for fun but just as best friends.

Some people who are so set on hating Islam like to spread the rumor that Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) was a pedophile because some of his wives were very young. However does it ever occur to anybody that this practice may have been okay at that time?

Sure we are absolutely disgusted by it nowadays, but then don't you think if their civilization looked at us now with our widespread homosexuality, premarital sex and alcohol consumption, they would look at us in the same (in not more) disgust than we do to them.

Of course in this time, it is unacceptable for a 30 year old man to marry a 10 year old, however it may have been acceptable and even normal at the time. Are we right to judge them and assume that our practices are the only right ones in history? Most people who claim he is a pedophile don't take the time to learn about Islam and the Prophet (pbuh). None of us were even there to judge the situation first hand, so let us think before we insult other people's beliefs and religious leaders

Im not associating this to any particular religion but im just curious.

Say a religion that believes in eternal hell and eternal heaven predicted a supernatural phenomena to occur (for example the disappearance of gravity)

And there is absolutely no scientific data that would EVER support this to happen

But then one day it actually happens and people realize the religion was correct in their prediction.

If it was a matter of converting to that religion in order to achieve paradise or to keep rejecting it and take the risk of suffering forever and ever, would you convert or would you still be skeptical and take the chances of living life in rejection and going to hell rather than spending the eternal afterlife in paradise?

Basically what i am asking is what if you were given an ultimatum to either believe or not to believe and risk the eternal sufferings of hell. Do you think that having that choice in life is more important than your hypothetical eternal soul?

Im really just curious to see how people think, im not trying to scare people/imply anything about any religion

Do you think this proves that Muslims follow Jesus's example a little more than MOST christians do?

Let us look at some examples.

Appearance

1. Jesus was bearded, as are most Muslims, but only the rare Christian.

2. Jesus dressed modestly. If we close our eyes and form a mental picture, we see flowing robes, from wrists to ankles—much like the loose Arabian thobes and the Indio-Pakistani shalwar kameez, typical of the Muslims of those areas. What we don’t imagine is the revealing or seductive clothing so ubiquitous in Christian cultures.

3. Jesus’ mother covered her hair, and this practice was maintained among the Christian women of the Holy Land up to the middle of the twentieth century. Again, this is a practice maintained among Muslims as well as Orthodox Jews (of which Jesus was one), but not among modern day Christians.

Manners

1. Jesus focused upon salvation and eschewed finery. How many “righteous” Christians fit this “It’s not just on Sundays” profile? Now how many “five prayers a day, every day of the year” Muslims?

2. Jesus spoke with humility and kindness. He didn’t “showboat.” When we think of his speeches, we don’t imagine theatrics. He was a simple man known for quality and truth. How many preachers and how many evangelists follow this example?

3. Jesus taught his disciples to offer the greeting of “Peace” (Luke 10:5), and then set the example: “Peace be with you” (Luke 24:36, John 20:19, John 20:21, John 20:26). Who continues this practice to this day, Christians or Muslims? “Peace be with you” is the meaning of the Muslim greeting, “Assalam alaikum.” Interestingly enough, we find this greeting in Judaism as well (Genesis 43:23, Numbers 6:26, Judges 6:23, I Samuel 1:17 and I Samuel 25:6).

Religious Practices

1. Jesus was circumcised (Luke 2:21). Paul taught it wasn’t necessary (Rom 4:11 and Gal 5:2). Muslims believe it is.

2. Jesus didn’t eat pork, in keeping with Old Testament law (Leviticus 11:7 and Deuteronomy 14:8). Muslims also believe pork is forbidden. Christians … well, you get the idea.

3. Jesus didn’t give or take usury, in compliance with the Old Testament prohibition (Exodus 22:25). Usury is forbidden in the Old Testament and the Quran, as it was forbidden in the religion of Jesus. The economies of most Christian countries, however, are structured upon usury.

4. Jesus didn’t fornicate, and abstained from extramarital contact with women. Now, this issue extends to the least physical contact with the opposite sex. With the exception of performing religious rituals and helping those in need, Jesus never even touched a woman other than his mother. Strictly practicing Orthodox Jews maintain this practice to this day in observance of Old Testament law. Likewise, practicing Muslims don’t even shake hands between the sexes. Can Christian “hug your neighbor” and “kiss the bride” congregations make the same claim?

Practices of Worship

1. Jesus purified himself with washing prior to prayer, as was the practice of the pious prophets who preceded him (see Exodus 40:31-32 in reference to Moses and Aaron), and as is the practice of Muslims.

2. Jesus prayed in prostration (Matthew 26:39), like the other prophets (see Nehemiah 8:6 with regard to Ezra and the people, Joshua 5:14 for Joshua, Genesis 17:3 and 24:52 for Abraham, Exodus 34:8 and Numbers 20:6 for Moses and Aaron). Who prays like that, Christians or Muslims?

3. Jesus fasted for more than a month at a time (Matthew 4:2 and Luke 4:2), as did the pious before him (Exodus 34:28, I Kings 19:8), and as do Muslims in the annual fast of the month of Ramadan.

4. Jesus made pilgrimage for the purpose of worship, as all Orthodox Jews aspire to do. The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca is well known, and is alluded to in the Bible (see The First and Final Commandment).

Matters of Creed

1. Jesus taught the oneness of God (Mark 12:29-30, Matthew 22:37 and Luke 10:27), as conveyed in the first commandment (Exodus 20:3). Nowhere did he declare the Trinity.

2. Jesus declared himself a man and a prophet of God (see above), and nowhere claimed divinity or divine sonship. Which creed are the above points more consistent with—the Trinitarian formula or the absolute monotheism of Islam?

when it comes to religious tolerance ESPECIALLY with Islam?

I have seriously never met a more stupid pair of people in my life. And to think she was about to be out VP....wow.

Is it because he was Mary's son and God's son? Since he didnt have a human father?

Because if thats the case, then dont you realize that Adam had an even more miraculous existance than Jesus since he was created directly from God. No mother or father....Does that make him God's son too?

In my opinion neither are His sons. God doesnt have children. Jesus was a prophet

Happiness

Weep for what little things could make them glad.

—Robert Frost, "Directive"

Melvin,

the large collie

who lives in the red house

at the finish off of my daily run

is happy,

happy to see me

even in a minute,

in February—

a month of low skies

and slowly melting snow.

His yard

have turned almost

entirely to mud—

but so what?

Today,

as if to please me,

he has torn apart

and scattered

everywhere

a yellow plastic bucket

the color of forsythia

or daffodils . . .

And very soon,

in a transport

of cross-eyed

muddy ecstasy,

he has placed

his filthy two front paw

together

on the top pipe

of his sagging cyclone fence—

drooling a little,

his tail

wagging furiously,

until finally,

as if I be God's angel himself—

fulgent,

blinding,

aflame

with news of the Resurrection,

I give him a biscuit

instead.

Which is fine near Melvin—

who is wise,

by whole epochs

of evolution,

beyond his years.

Take

what you can get,

that's his motto . . .

And really,

apropos of bliss,

cheer

and the true rapture,

what saint

could tell us half as much?

Even as he drops

back down

into the cold

dog-**** muck

he'll hold to live in

every day

for weeks on end possibly

unless it freezes . . .

whining now,

dancing

nervously

as I turn away

again,

to set out him there

the same today

as yesterday—

one of the truly wretched

of this earth

whose joy

is almost more

than I can bear.

I'm a little confused as to when the prayer time is. I am aware we have to start FASTING at fajr, but what about the prayer?

The reason I ask is because I usually just pray when I wake up (10 or 11am) but I want to start praying at the correct time, and I'm not sure what to do :/

I'm a little confused as to when the prayer time is. I am aware we have to start FASTING at fajr, but what about the prayer?