RE: The role of Muslims in the current conflicts
January 1, 2016 at 10:29 am
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2016 at 10:38 am by Mystic.)
If we define Christianity, as what Jesus truly taught, then we can say Christianity is perfect. If we define Christians as only those who know and follow the true teachings of Christ, then all of them will be perfect. However, Muslims define Christianity as what Christians teach about it. They even believe the Bible is corrupted. From that perspective, Islam and Muslims whether hadiths are corrupted or not, are part of the problem.
I don't feel God is ever to blame.
I think it's always the case that humanity would be steered in the right direction if they follow God's guidance, but it's not inevitable if God's provides perfect guidance, that humanity would follow it.
Case in point, per Quran, God revealed the book to Moses, showed all sorts of proofs in forms of miracles, and send series of Prophets and divine appointed Leaders and Guides. Despite this, the result was a disaster. They fought many of the Prophets, killed some of them, rejected some, and corrupted the revelations revealed to them.
They didn't stick to the truthful people.
However we have to deal with Judaism or Christianity as is, not simply as it ought to have been.
I believe Islam ought to have been a perfect guidance, given that God revealed a majestic book and appointed pure guided leaders and divine authorities to follow, mainly the family of Mohammad.
However, the people failed to follow the family of Mohammad, even the Shias didn't so perfectly, and attributed to them things that contradict the Quran.
The result is a disaster we have today.
That said, I don't believe Quran only approach is a solution for guidance.
I feel there is a Guide in each age, and if we turn to God often in need, in desperate need of God's guidance, he will guide us perfectly by this Guide.
It's a whole different thing if we approach religion or morality or guidance or God's book, with the intention, of turning it into what are desires say it is. It's as if we are leaders of the Quran rather then the Quran being our leader.
I don't feel God is ever to blame.
I think it's always the case that humanity would be steered in the right direction if they follow God's guidance, but it's not inevitable if God's provides perfect guidance, that humanity would follow it.
Case in point, per Quran, God revealed the book to Moses, showed all sorts of proofs in forms of miracles, and send series of Prophets and divine appointed Leaders and Guides. Despite this, the result was a disaster. They fought many of the Prophets, killed some of them, rejected some, and corrupted the revelations revealed to them.
They didn't stick to the truthful people.
However we have to deal with Judaism or Christianity as is, not simply as it ought to have been.
I believe Islam ought to have been a perfect guidance, given that God revealed a majestic book and appointed pure guided leaders and divine authorities to follow, mainly the family of Mohammad.
However, the people failed to follow the family of Mohammad, even the Shias didn't so perfectly, and attributed to them things that contradict the Quran.
The result is a disaster we have today.
That said, I don't believe Quran only approach is a solution for guidance.
I feel there is a Guide in each age, and if we turn to God often in need, in desperate need of God's guidance, he will guide us perfectly by this Guide.
It's a whole different thing if we approach religion or morality or guidance or God's book, with the intention, of turning it into what are desires say it is. It's as if we are leaders of the Quran rather then the Quran being our leader.
