What is Islam?

Assalamu alaika davebane.

We wellcome you to this forum and we sincerely wish you understanding. But you must make effort to read, research think and then act.
Truly speaking there is only one Islam. Ad-din is a concept translated by the Greeks into religion. Ad-din has ten different meanings: accountability, reward governance, power, obedience, submission etc.
The holy Qur'an is a compendium of all that Allah revealed to mankind from Adam to Jesus the son of Maryam explaining why He is and called Allah. This is understood from the physical and non-physical world. Then He explained and proved beyond any doubt why He has to be obeyed. All what the world is saying about differences in Scriptures is not true. The hatred generated by inciting the Children of Israel against Muhammad is not true. Muhammad married their daughters. The terror the world is facing is due to the lack of that representative of Muhammad called his Khalifa in the world. This Khalifa can be an American a Red Indian, an Ethiopian and never Decreed by Allah to be an Arab. So Allah needs your hand in establishing the Khalifate.
 

 

schmikbob,

I was following your arguments. Quite interesting.

If you do not consider those Qur'anic statements valid answer to your question, may I ask what sort of miracles in the Qur�an would satisfy your quest? If you could specify, that would enable your readers in pin pointing such miracles if there are any.

 

Regards,

 

Ansari

 

Assalamu alaika Schmikbob.

Your post: this whole Quran and science argument is a modern polemic to try to convince modern sceptics.

Response: When did modernity begin? In the OT Genesis 1:19 Allah said: Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control.  .... Here Allah did not tell or describe the process of fertilization. By their civilization they might have understood sex chromosomes.
In Gen 1:20 Allah said, "I have provided all kind of fruit and grain for you to eat." Probably they ate without knowing how food is digested and transported across the body. They do not know ATP=ADP conversion. Do you know that
Please allow us to glorify Allah for we have submitted to Him based on what He created and challenged us to do the same but utterly failed. Note there was never recession or depression from Hijra to 101 A.H.   

Schmikbob,

After reading through your posts, I begin to wonder if what you said about someone�s �mental gymnastics�, trying to attribute special significance to the word �smoke� could be right. But before I subscribe to your thought, I want to get further insight into your thinking. I believe that the word �smoke� we are talking about is found in the Quran 41:11. So, before I can assume if the �mental gymnastics� theory is correct, I hope you can clarify some of my doubts, namely:

1. Since the word is taken from the Quran, who do you think the author of this Quran is? I am sure you won�t agree it is Allah. Then the obvious answer is Mohamed. Or, do you think it could be someone else?

2. If you feel it is the latter, what kind of person was he? What do you know about him? Was he a liar, a magician, a lunatic, a tyrant, a terrorist etc. etc.? What kind of background did he live in? What is about his ancestors?

3. When Quran talked about prophets, some critics of the Quran said that Mohamed �learned� about these prophets from the earlier scriptures. In this case, do you believe that he had some sort of �education� about nature, astronomy, zoology, physics etc. etc. from previous scriptures or from anyone else?

4. How many other seventh century illiterate Mohameds, who talked about �smokes� �revolving stars�, �the moon following the sun�, �the star of piercing brightness� �the sky full of great constellations�, �the expanding universe� etc. etc. , did you learn about? How many such Mohameds lived before the 7^th century A.D. (not including the prophets as we are not considering the Mohamed in question a prophet. If Mohamed is not a prophet, comparing him with prophets is not fair. Please note Question 3 above is a separate issue).Were there any other such Mohameds for the next 10 centuries after his death?

Answers to these questions are vital to see if somebody was doing �mental gymnastics�. Honest answers to these questions will also enlighten us to know him -  if he was one of many that existed, if he was talking something sensible, if so, from where did he get that information etc. Then we will also be able to consider whether there is anything miraculous about the Quran.

 

Regards,

 

Ansari

 

Edited by ansari - 14 December 2010 at 4:37pm