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"All bad things are embodiments of one sin: theft. Murder steals life. Lying steals our the right to truth" etc. Me "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." - Ghandi "We believe, we don't question or go into details or conclusions."- Anonymous Y!A "Nanda, the Buddha's half-brother, was discontent and wanted to give up monkhood. So Buddha taught Nanda of heaven and all its [physical] delights, promising Nanda would enjoy it all if he practiced the Dharma well. So Nanda stayed, working hard to reach heaven after death. While practicing, Nanda gradually felt Nibbana brought greater happiness than being in heaven, and then released Buddha from his earlier promise". "Whether one surrenders to existence through the search for the absolute, the self, nirvana or a deity doesn't matter. in the end it is the very quality of surrender that leads to liberation, not the object of liberation." Anonymous
A question for shias regarding modern-day miracles...?
What are the most amazing miracles you've heard of? Here are some amazing miracles at Karbala, especially at 1.50 and 5:00:
5 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoWhy are all questions about Islam by outsiders called 'fitna' (causing trouble)?
I can put up a question simply asking what the black rock at ka'aba is and what it's meant to be. When I get a variety of responses, resulting in mass confusion among people, I'm accused of doing fitna (dividing the community). Doesn't the problem lie with the answerers who are intolerant of other people's beliefs?
14 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoAtheists, Christians, Jews, Pagans etc.: You were all born Muslim. So why did you leave Islam?
... was it your parents that convinced you that you weren't muslim? In Islam, all children on earth are automatically muslim, so you left your original religion at some point in your life. Why?
48 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoHow many muslims actually think the moon was split in two- minority or majority?
If it was split in two, then it means the rest of the world was blind for one night, so I'm hoping no muslim actually believes this happened.
22 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoIs it true that dogs aren't allowed inside Makkah or Medina?
11 AnswersSaudi Arabia1 decade agoWhy are the Divinely Guided Imams considered perfect?
Does this belief come from the quran? If it does where does it say they're perfect?
13 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoSince many of Bukhari's hadiths contradict the quran...?
... what did the other 593,000 hadiths he rejected say?
19 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoWhat are the most common and uncommon misconceptions people have of Islam?
And why are the misconceptions wrong?
6 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoSince not a single prophesy of Nostradum didn't come true, what does that make him?
Some people say that he made errors but that's because they don't have faith in him.
12 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoAre the biological risks of having children with your cousin real or exaggerated?
Islam allows cousins to marry each other so I assume there are no risks involved when having children with your cousin; or if there are risks, that they're so low that it really makes no difference. I read a recent article in the International Herald that said that contrary to popular believe, the risks are grossly exaggerated.
6 AnswersBiology1 decade agoAre both non-muslims as well as muslims all guilty of describing Islam "out of context"?
Non-muslims refer to the war and killing verses of the quran. This is taking Islam 'out of context' because the quran also has verses on forgiveness and non-aggression.
Muslims reply by saying 'there is no compulsion in religion'. But every reputable Muslim school of thought teaches that apostates be killed if after a few days of peaceful persuasion they still refuse to come back to Islam. This to me suggests there is compulsion in religion but with conditions.
Aren't both non-muslims as well as muslims all guilty of describing Islam 'out of context'... one in a deceivingly bad light, and the other in a deceivingly positive light? Can't both sides just admit that they're biased?
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhat are the scientific miracles in the hadiths?
7 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoWhat percentage of people in Iran and other Shia places do mut'ah?
If only an extremely small percentage of people do it, then mut'ah doesn't to be very practical.
7 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoIs the oil wealth of muslim nations be a miracle given by Allah?
Looking at the globe, we see how the most pious nation in the world- Saudi Arabia- is also the wealthiest in oil. Even muslim nations far away like Indonesia, Brunei and Nigeria are blessed with oil. Yet oil can only be found in very few countries.
Is this all a very, very strange coincidence, or isn't this proof that it's because of something more? And if a muslim nation doesn't have oil, maybe they did something to be punished for it?
16 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoIn your country is Zakat automatically deducted from your income tax, or do you do it all yourself?
If there are different causes, which one do you choose to give it to?
12 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoIs it bad to follow fabricated hadiths that don't conflict with quran?
Following a fabricated hadith going against quran is bad. Sometimes the only way to know it's fabricated seems to be because it goes against the quran, even though it's still 100% sunnah practice.
But what if it's a fabricated hadith with nothing to do with the quran (eg. eating dates always in threes?). Does a person get more rewards for going to extra effort of following it even if it's probably fabricated?
10 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoHow do you 'know' the Holy Spirit is with you? Could it all just be in your mind?
Only Christians have this 'holy spirit' idea because only Christians believe in it.
Do you have any proof the 'holy spirit' is real, or is it just a feeling of hoping it's real? In which case, is feeling and emotion a rational prisom to view reality from?
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoBukhari believes Imam Ali burnt people alive?
Is this a fabrication?
Sahih Bukhari- Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57:
Narrated 'Ikrima:
Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to 'Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn 'Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's Apostle forbade it, saying, 'Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire).' I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"
10 AnswersRamadan1 decade agoWhy did ibn Katheer write the chapter of Jizya as "Paying Jizyah is a Sign of Kufr and Disgrace"?
http://www.tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=9&tid=20986
"Paying Jizyah is a Sign of Kufr and Disgrace
Allah said,
[حَتَّى يُعْطُواْ الْجِزْيَةَ]
"(until they pay the Jizyah), if they do not choose to embrace Islam,"
[عَن يَدٍ]
"(with willing submission), in defeat and subservience,"
[وَهُمْ صَـغِرُونَ]
"(and feel themselves subdued.), disgraced, humiliated and belittled. Therefore, Muslims are not allowed to honor the people of Dhimmah or elevate them above Muslims, for they are miserable, disgraced and humiliated. Muslim recorded from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet said,"
«لَا تَبْدَءُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَى بِالسَّلَامِ، وَإِذَا لَقِيتُمْ أَحَدَهُمْ فِي طَرِيقٍ فَاضْطَرُّوهُ إِلَى أَضْيَقِه»
"(Do not initiate the Salam to the Jews and Christians, and if you meet any of them in a road, force them to its narrowest alley.)... these conditions that ensured their continued humiliation, degradation and disgrace."
Is this out of context, mistranslated or something?
3 AnswersRamadan1 decade ago