First of all I want to show respect in the way you think as most of the people in the world are following the religion of their parents and defending it blindly without even thinking. I was born in a Muslim family but in some stage I start thinking what if my parents were wrong? And I started searching for proves and studying different religions and beliefs so I can find the truth also I had a believe that if there is a book that is said to be from god it must prove itself don’t come and tell me that there was a miracle happened hundreds of years and that’s the proof. God is justice if god gave some people a miracle so that they become believers he will give us a proof too. In this message am not trying to make u become a Muslim I just want to clarify the truth about this religion and removing any misconception about it. And I will try to tell u from the point of view of a Muslim and what is said to the unbelievers through the Quran.
Islam:
A-the meaning of the word Islam:
The word Islam is derived from the Arabic root “SLM” which means, among other things, peace, purity, submission and obedience. In the religious sense the word Islam means submission to the Will of God and obedience to His Law.
B-what we believe:
1-we believe that there is no god except ALLAH Supreme and Eternal, Infinite and Mighty, Merciful and Compassionate, Creator and Provider. This belief, in order to be effective, requires complete trust and hope in God, submission to His Will and reliance on His aid.
2-we believe in all the messengers of God without any discrimination among them. (David, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed………….etc) peace be upon them all. And that they were chosen by god to deliver the same message which is to worship ALLAH and no one except him and also we believe in the scripture that was given to them (zabour, torah, enjeel and Quran)
3-we believe, in the Last Day of Judgment. And that this world will come to an end some day, and the dead will rise to stand for their final and fair trial. People with good deeds will be generously rewarded and warmly welcomed to the Heaven of God for eternity, and those with bad deeds will be punished and cast into Hell for eternity.
4-we believe that God’s creation is meaningful and that life has a sublime purpose beyond the physical needs and material activities of man. The purpose of life is to worship God. This does not simply mean that we have to spend our entire lives in constant seclusion and absolute meditation. To worship God is to know Him; to love Him; to obey His commandments; to enforce His law in every aspect of life; to serve His cause by doing the right and shunning the evil; and to be just to Him, to ourselves, and to our fellow human beings.
5-we believe, that mankind enjoys an especially high-ranking status in the hierarchy of all the known creatures. He occupies this distinguished position because he alone is gifted with rational faculties and spiritual aspirations as well as powers of action.
6-we believe that every person is born free from sin and all claims to inherited virtue. He is like a blank book. When the person reaches the age of maturity He becomes accountable for his deeds and intentions.
7-we believe that man must work out his salvation through the guidance of God. This means that in order to attain salvation a person must combine Faith and action, belief and practice. Faith without action is as insufficient as action without Faith. In other words, no one can attain salvation until his Faith in God becomes dynamic in his life and his beliefs are translated into reality.
8-we believe that the Quran is the word of God revealed to Muhammad (pbuh) through the agency of the Angel Gabriel. The Quran was revealed from God piece by piece on various occasions to answer certain questions, solve certain problems, settle certain disputes, and to be man’s best guide to the truth of God and eternal happiness.
For more detailed information read Islam in focus by Hummudah Abdelati:
http://www.masjidfresno.org/documents/is...-focus.pdf
Concept of god in Islam:
The One true God is a reflection of the unique concept that Islam associates with God. To a Muslim, Allah is the Almighty Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Who is similar to nothing and nothing, is comparable to Him. The Prophet Muhammad was asked by his contemporaries about Allah; the answer came directly from God Himself in the form of a short chapter of the Quran, which is considered to be the essence of the unity or the motto of monotheism. This is chapter 112, which reads: “In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say (O Muhammad), He is God, the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone”.(Quran chapter 112)
For more details:
Link:http://sultan.org/articles/god.html
The Quran:
A-challenges of the Quran
1-The Quran itself provides us with the test of authenticity and offers challenges against itself and prove its veracity ALLAH tells us in the Quran
"haven't the unbelievers considered if this was from other than Allah, they would find within it many contradictions?" (Quran chapter 4:82)
The Quran was revealed in 23 years (from 1400 years), yet there are not any contradictory points in it
2-For 1400 years no one was able to produce chapter like it.
"If you are in doubt about it, bring chapter like it." (Quran chapter 2:23)
3-The Quran states, "If this book is not what it claims
To be, then all you have to prove that it is false." Of course, in 1400 years no one has been able to meet any of these challenges
4-Prophet Muhammad was unlettered and no one had heard him say even a couple of poetry. However, the Quran also challenged the known experts in poetry and oratory and forced them to surrender
5-The Quran describes man with all his physical and spiritual aspects and contains principles to solve all the problems that may appear at any time and in any place concerning all the social, economic, juridical, political and administrative fields of life. Furthermore, it satisfies both the mind and spirit at the same time and guarantees happiness in both worlds
For more detailed information read the amazing Quran by Dr Garry Miller:
Link:http://www.islambasics.com/index.php?act=download&BID=47
And you can read an English translation of the Quran here:
Link: http://www.harunyahya.com/Quran_translat..._index.php
[b][b]B-Some of the scientific miracles in the Quran:[/b][/b]
These are some of the miracles that prove that the Quran couldn’t be from anyone but that it is from ALLAH the creator of everything because it is impossible to believe that these facts was known in the time of Mohammed (pbuh) from 1400 years as most of these facts was only known in the last 100 years. I will mention here just a few and there is a lot of scientific facts that was mentioned in the holy Quran and God tells you that he will show you his signs:
"Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?" (Quran chapter 41:53)
1-the big bang theory:
“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then we separated them, and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?” (Quran 21:30)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SfuZw2DaGk
2-the big crunch:
That Day We will fold up heaven like folding up the pages of a book. As We originated the first creation so We will regenerate it. It is a promise binding on Us. That is what We will do. (Quran, 21:104)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lyqoWgB5kg
3-universe expanding:
And it is we who have constructed the heaven with might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it. (Quran, 51:47)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPqeS5I_QM
4-the sun and the moon:
Do you not see how He created seven heavens in layers, and placed the moon as a light in them and made the sun a blazing lamp? (Quran, 71:15-16)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pKgAhdULo
5-pulsar star:
By the heavens and The Knocker How will you comprehend what the Knocker is? It's a piercing star. (Quran chapter 86:1-3)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Ldqkd0Fa4&feature=related
5-emberyoligy:
''man did we create from a quintessence [of clay]. then we made the sperm into a blood clot; then we made out of that clot we made a lump; then we made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then we developed out of it another creature. so blessed be Allah, the best to create" (Quran chapter 23:14)
"He makes you in the wombs of your mothers in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness." (Quran chapter 39:6)
"Then We placed him as a drop in a place of rest." (Quran chapter 23:13)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tm2meyTyt4
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJL8b0r3omU&feature=fvsr
6-darkness in the seas and the internal waves:
Or [the unbelievers' state] are like the darkness of a fathomless sea which is covered by waves above which are waves above which are clouds, layers of darkness, one upon the other. If he puts out his hand, he can scarcely see it. Those Allah gives no light to, they have no light. (Quran, 24:40)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcD9KoydjoY&feature=related
7-iron sent down to earth:
“Certainly We sent Our messengers with clear arguments, and sent down with them the Book and the measure, that men may conduct themselves with equity. And We sent down iron, wherein is great violence and advantages to men, and that Allah may know who helps Him and His messengers, unseen. Surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.” (Quran chapter 57:25)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9dMqTxR19s
8-the seas not mingling with each other:
"He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between them they do not break through." (Quran, 55:19-20)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmzgLeZ3zo
And you can find more here:
Link:http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_index.html
And ALLAH says to the unbelievers in the holly Quran:
57 It is We Who have created you: why will ye not witness the Truth?
58 Do ye then see? The (human Seed) that ye throw out,
59 Is it ye who create it, or are We the Creators?
60 We have decreed Death to be your common lot, and We are not to be frustrated
61 from changing your Forms and creating you (again) in (forms) that ye know not.
62 And ye certainly know already the first form of creation: why then do ye not celebrate His praises?
63 See ye the seed that ye sow in the ground?
64 Is it ye that cause it to grow, or are We the Cause?
65 Were it Our Will, We could crumble it to dry powder, and ye would be left in wonderment,
66 (Saying), "We are indeed left with debts (for nothing):
67 "Indeed are we shut out (of the fruits of our labour)"
68 See ye the water which ye drink?
69 Do ye bring it down (in rain) from the cloud or do We?
70 Were it Our Will, We could make it salt (and unpalatable): then why do ye not give thanks?
71 See ye the Fire which ye kindle?
72 Is it ye who grow the tree which feeds the fire, or do We grow it?
73 We have made it a memorial (of Our handiwork), and an article of comfort and convenience for the denizens of deserts.
74 Then celebrate with praises the name of thy Lord, the Supreme!
(Quran chapter 56:57-74)
Muhammad (pbuh) messenger of God?
1-muhammed (pbuh) didn’t come with something new he came saying the same that every prophet came with which is to worship Allah and nothing but him
2-no one have ever been able to lie on god and be believed and followed by people it have been always changing or not believing in revelations as the Jews did with Jesus(pbuh) by saying that he is a liar or crazy as Christians now are saying about Muhammad (pbuh)
4-if some one is acting or something like that he will never be able to do this in his home of course one of his wives would known and even tell the people the truth after his death but instead they decided to continue his message and some of them kept telling about him for 45 years
5-how was he sure of what he was saying that he challenge his uncle who was non believer that he will not believe and he will die like that his uncle for ten years was able to say that there is no god except ALLAH and that would prove that Muhammad (pbuh) words was not from god (chapter 111) but in fact he didn’t and he died as a non believer
6-his people at the beginning of his revelation told him to stop what he was saying and they will give him anything he wants and his answer was that if they put the sun in his right hand and the moon in his left hand he will never stop telling the people the message of ALLAH
7-It is common knowledge that Muhammad (pbuh) had a very difficult life. All of his daughters died before him except one The Quran does not mention any of these things - not the death of his children, not the death of his beloved companion and wife
8-why didn’t he say anything good about his wives or his daughters in the Quran in fact he said that the most righteous woman in the world was marry mother of Jesus (pbuh) 'Behold! The angels said: "O Mary! Allah hath chosen thee and purified thee- chosen thee above the women of all nations' (chapter 3:42) and there is a whole chapter called Mary in the Quran
9-if prophet Mohammed (pbuh) had written the Quran by himself he should never mentioned some incidents concerning him Abu Talib, the Prophet’s uncle to whose safeguarding ‘Abd al-Muttalib entrusted him, undertook the Prophet’s maintenance when he was yet eight years old and, after his declaration of Prophet hood, protected him against the Quraysh for ten years. The Prophet (pbuh) loved his uncle very deeply and desired his conversion very much. However, a verse came and admonished the Prophet against this desire of his which nearly drove him to death: "You guide not whom you love, but God guides whom He wills. He is best aware of those who are guided" (Quran chapter 28:56). What would have prevented the Prophet, if he were the author of the Quran, from falsely declaring that his uncle had accepted Islam?
You can read more about him here:
Link:http://www.rasoulallah.net/v2/index.aspx?lang=en
at the end i want all of u to feel free asking me any question about my beliefs and about islam and i will also make another thread for refuting misconceptions about islam
Islam:
A-the meaning of the word Islam:
The word Islam is derived from the Arabic root “SLM” which means, among other things, peace, purity, submission and obedience. In the religious sense the word Islam means submission to the Will of God and obedience to His Law.
B-what we believe:
1-we believe that there is no god except ALLAH Supreme and Eternal, Infinite and Mighty, Merciful and Compassionate, Creator and Provider. This belief, in order to be effective, requires complete trust and hope in God, submission to His Will and reliance on His aid.
2-we believe in all the messengers of God without any discrimination among them. (David, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed………….etc) peace be upon them all. And that they were chosen by god to deliver the same message which is to worship ALLAH and no one except him and also we believe in the scripture that was given to them (zabour, torah, enjeel and Quran)
3-we believe, in the Last Day of Judgment. And that this world will come to an end some day, and the dead will rise to stand for their final and fair trial. People with good deeds will be generously rewarded and warmly welcomed to the Heaven of God for eternity, and those with bad deeds will be punished and cast into Hell for eternity.
4-we believe that God’s creation is meaningful and that life has a sublime purpose beyond the physical needs and material activities of man. The purpose of life is to worship God. This does not simply mean that we have to spend our entire lives in constant seclusion and absolute meditation. To worship God is to know Him; to love Him; to obey His commandments; to enforce His law in every aspect of life; to serve His cause by doing the right and shunning the evil; and to be just to Him, to ourselves, and to our fellow human beings.
5-we believe, that mankind enjoys an especially high-ranking status in the hierarchy of all the known creatures. He occupies this distinguished position because he alone is gifted with rational faculties and spiritual aspirations as well as powers of action.
6-we believe that every person is born free from sin and all claims to inherited virtue. He is like a blank book. When the person reaches the age of maturity He becomes accountable for his deeds and intentions.
7-we believe that man must work out his salvation through the guidance of God. This means that in order to attain salvation a person must combine Faith and action, belief and practice. Faith without action is as insufficient as action without Faith. In other words, no one can attain salvation until his Faith in God becomes dynamic in his life and his beliefs are translated into reality.
8-we believe that the Quran is the word of God revealed to Muhammad (pbuh) through the agency of the Angel Gabriel. The Quran was revealed from God piece by piece on various occasions to answer certain questions, solve certain problems, settle certain disputes, and to be man’s best guide to the truth of God and eternal happiness.
For more detailed information read Islam in focus by Hummudah Abdelati:
http://www.masjidfresno.org/documents/is...-focus.pdf
Concept of god in Islam:
The One true God is a reflection of the unique concept that Islam associates with God. To a Muslim, Allah is the Almighty Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Who is similar to nothing and nothing, is comparable to Him. The Prophet Muhammad was asked by his contemporaries about Allah; the answer came directly from God Himself in the form of a short chapter of the Quran, which is considered to be the essence of the unity or the motto of monotheism. This is chapter 112, which reads: “In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say (O Muhammad), He is God, the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone”.(Quran chapter 112)
For more details:
Link:http://sultan.org/articles/god.html
The Quran:
A-challenges of the Quran
1-The Quran itself provides us with the test of authenticity and offers challenges against itself and prove its veracity ALLAH tells us in the Quran
"haven't the unbelievers considered if this was from other than Allah, they would find within it many contradictions?" (Quran chapter 4:82)
The Quran was revealed in 23 years (from 1400 years), yet there are not any contradictory points in it
2-For 1400 years no one was able to produce chapter like it.
"If you are in doubt about it, bring chapter like it." (Quran chapter 2:23)
3-The Quran states, "If this book is not what it claims
To be, then all you have to prove that it is false." Of course, in 1400 years no one has been able to meet any of these challenges
4-Prophet Muhammad was unlettered and no one had heard him say even a couple of poetry. However, the Quran also challenged the known experts in poetry and oratory and forced them to surrender
5-The Quran describes man with all his physical and spiritual aspects and contains principles to solve all the problems that may appear at any time and in any place concerning all the social, economic, juridical, political and administrative fields of life. Furthermore, it satisfies both the mind and spirit at the same time and guarantees happiness in both worlds
For more detailed information read the amazing Quran by Dr Garry Miller:
Link:http://www.islambasics.com/index.php?act=download&BID=47
And you can read an English translation of the Quran here:
Link: http://www.harunyahya.com/Quran_translat..._index.php
[b][b]B-Some of the scientific miracles in the Quran:[/b][/b]
These are some of the miracles that prove that the Quran couldn’t be from anyone but that it is from ALLAH the creator of everything because it is impossible to believe that these facts was known in the time of Mohammed (pbuh) from 1400 years as most of these facts was only known in the last 100 years. I will mention here just a few and there is a lot of scientific facts that was mentioned in the holy Quran and God tells you that he will show you his signs:
"Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?" (Quran chapter 41:53)
1-the big bang theory:
“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then we separated them, and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?” (Quran 21:30)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SfuZw2DaGk
2-the big crunch:
That Day We will fold up heaven like folding up the pages of a book. As We originated the first creation so We will regenerate it. It is a promise binding on Us. That is what We will do. (Quran, 21:104)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lyqoWgB5kg
3-universe expanding:
And it is we who have constructed the heaven with might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it. (Quran, 51:47)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPqeS5I_QM
4-the sun and the moon:
Do you not see how He created seven heavens in layers, and placed the moon as a light in them and made the sun a blazing lamp? (Quran, 71:15-16)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pKgAhdULo
5-pulsar star:
By the heavens and The Knocker How will you comprehend what the Knocker is? It's a piercing star. (Quran chapter 86:1-3)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Ldqkd0Fa4&feature=related
5-emberyoligy:
''man did we create from a quintessence [of clay]. then we made the sperm into a blood clot; then we made out of that clot we made a lump; then we made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh; then we developed out of it another creature. so blessed be Allah, the best to create" (Quran chapter 23:14)
"He makes you in the wombs of your mothers in stages, one after another, in three veils of darkness." (Quran chapter 39:6)
"Then We placed him as a drop in a place of rest." (Quran chapter 23:13)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tm2meyTyt4
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJL8b0r3omU&feature=fvsr
6-darkness in the seas and the internal waves:
Or [the unbelievers' state] are like the darkness of a fathomless sea which is covered by waves above which are waves above which are clouds, layers of darkness, one upon the other. If he puts out his hand, he can scarcely see it. Those Allah gives no light to, they have no light. (Quran, 24:40)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcD9KoydjoY&feature=related
7-iron sent down to earth:
“Certainly We sent Our messengers with clear arguments, and sent down with them the Book and the measure, that men may conduct themselves with equity. And We sent down iron, wherein is great violence and advantages to men, and that Allah may know who helps Him and His messengers, unseen. Surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.” (Quran chapter 57:25)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9dMqTxR19s
8-the seas not mingling with each other:
"He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between them they do not break through." (Quran, 55:19-20)
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmzgLeZ3zo
And you can find more here:
Link:http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_index.html
And ALLAH says to the unbelievers in the holly Quran:
57 It is We Who have created you: why will ye not witness the Truth?
58 Do ye then see? The (human Seed) that ye throw out,
59 Is it ye who create it, or are We the Creators?
60 We have decreed Death to be your common lot, and We are not to be frustrated
61 from changing your Forms and creating you (again) in (forms) that ye know not.
62 And ye certainly know already the first form of creation: why then do ye not celebrate His praises?
63 See ye the seed that ye sow in the ground?
64 Is it ye that cause it to grow, or are We the Cause?
65 Were it Our Will, We could crumble it to dry powder, and ye would be left in wonderment,
66 (Saying), "We are indeed left with debts (for nothing):
67 "Indeed are we shut out (of the fruits of our labour)"
68 See ye the water which ye drink?
69 Do ye bring it down (in rain) from the cloud or do We?
70 Were it Our Will, We could make it salt (and unpalatable): then why do ye not give thanks?
71 See ye the Fire which ye kindle?
72 Is it ye who grow the tree which feeds the fire, or do We grow it?
73 We have made it a memorial (of Our handiwork), and an article of comfort and convenience for the denizens of deserts.
74 Then celebrate with praises the name of thy Lord, the Supreme!
(Quran chapter 56:57-74)
Muhammad (pbuh) messenger of God?
1-muhammed (pbuh) didn’t come with something new he came saying the same that every prophet came with which is to worship Allah and nothing but him
2-no one have ever been able to lie on god and be believed and followed by people it have been always changing or not believing in revelations as the Jews did with Jesus(pbuh) by saying that he is a liar or crazy as Christians now are saying about Muhammad (pbuh)
4-if some one is acting or something like that he will never be able to do this in his home of course one of his wives would known and even tell the people the truth after his death but instead they decided to continue his message and some of them kept telling about him for 45 years
5-how was he sure of what he was saying that he challenge his uncle who was non believer that he will not believe and he will die like that his uncle for ten years was able to say that there is no god except ALLAH and that would prove that Muhammad (pbuh) words was not from god (chapter 111) but in fact he didn’t and he died as a non believer
6-his people at the beginning of his revelation told him to stop what he was saying and they will give him anything he wants and his answer was that if they put the sun in his right hand and the moon in his left hand he will never stop telling the people the message of ALLAH
7-It is common knowledge that Muhammad (pbuh) had a very difficult life. All of his daughters died before him except one The Quran does not mention any of these things - not the death of his children, not the death of his beloved companion and wife
8-why didn’t he say anything good about his wives or his daughters in the Quran in fact he said that the most righteous woman in the world was marry mother of Jesus (pbuh) 'Behold! The angels said: "O Mary! Allah hath chosen thee and purified thee- chosen thee above the women of all nations' (chapter 3:42) and there is a whole chapter called Mary in the Quran
9-if prophet Mohammed (pbuh) had written the Quran by himself he should never mentioned some incidents concerning him Abu Talib, the Prophet’s uncle to whose safeguarding ‘Abd al-Muttalib entrusted him, undertook the Prophet’s maintenance when he was yet eight years old and, after his declaration of Prophet hood, protected him against the Quraysh for ten years. The Prophet (pbuh) loved his uncle very deeply and desired his conversion very much. However, a verse came and admonished the Prophet against this desire of his which nearly drove him to death: "You guide not whom you love, but God guides whom He wills. He is best aware of those who are guided" (Quran chapter 28:56). What would have prevented the Prophet, if he were the author of the Quran, from falsely declaring that his uncle had accepted Islam?
You can read more about him here:
Link:http://www.rasoulallah.net/v2/index.aspx?lang=en
at the end i want all of u to feel free asking me any question about my beliefs and about islam and i will also make another thread for refuting misconceptions about islam
