Believers!! Don't mislead people

[Losty]

I am an atheist not a Muslim. I don't believe in any gods. If you want to call yourself and atheist go ahead.

So am I, Allah is not God and I don't believe in God or Deity.

If you want to call yourself a Muslim who doesn't believe in god, you can do that as well. But I will point out to that a person who does not believe in god cannot technically be a Muslim.

Nope. . the Quran doesn't say that.

So what? I do not care what the Quran says or doesn't say. You do not own the Arabic language. Muslim is not an Islamic word it is an Arabic word. It's definition is one who submits to God. That is the meaning of the word regardless of how you feel about it or how you interpret your silly little fairytale book of nightmares.

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Contention: Muslim don’t have to believe in Allah, Paradise, Angels, and all the allegorical issue that need further interpretation [/b]

Read together with verses 3.7 and 5.101.

This is the minimum requirement and it is the “interpretation provision” of a Muslim and a Believer.


Firstly

When Allah says “You have not believed”
It means, “You have not believed”
It does not means, “You have believed”

Simple logic, everyone can understand this statement.
Someone may argue that they have believed, but it is not according to Allah.
There are specific provisions to define the Believers, and it is not for human beings to simply claim that they are Believers.

Therefore it doesn’t matter if they believe or did not believe.
What matter is they obey the rules in the Quran, and what is related to the “practical aspect of life”.


Secondly

When Allah says “You have not believed”
and then, ‘We have submitted’
It means, there is a distinction between “Believers” and “Muslim”
It means, there is a distinction between “faith” and “obedience”
These two do not mean the same, and human being only be accountable for “obedience”, not “faith”

Faith is beyond human control, but obedience is within human control.
“Faith” is within the Allah’s jurisdiction, and “obedience” is within human’s jurisdiction.
There is no blame for what is beyond human control.

Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity. (2.286)


Thirdly

When Allah says “And if you obey Allah and His Messenger.
He will not deprive you from your deeds of anything”
and then “Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful”

It means, one can enter Paradise even if he does not believe in Allah at all.
It can be wrong, but Allah said “Allah is Forgiving and Merciful”
Allah will forgive whatever mistakes that is related or may arise from “lack of faith”
Muslim only concern with their “practical aspect of life”

Accordingly, a Muslim is not necessarily the so called Muslim as we know today, the system of Islam is to simplify life so that the society can unite, not to complicated life and raising all issues and creating more and more division in the society. These people are sectarians, and "sectarianism is a religion". They are "religious people", whatever name they attached themselves to.

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