The ANTI Christ

Shams God's peace and blessings to you Ameen!

I have to agree with Annie we must restrain fro  judging others even though their views are different than the orthodox principles of Islam. Although myself  I disagree with some stuff she says but her heart nonetheless is in the right place and I believe that God perhaps has a plan for her, Allahu Alim! Buit we must be cognizant of God and understand that all power and control is due to him and only to him we return for our judgement

Alaikoam Salam

Thank you Israfil for a positive comment, your are right my heart is in the right place.

As for judgement it is true we judge others and ourselves all the time and a lot of time without thinking about it that we are doing it.

True we are judged on that final day when we stand before Allah and our lives are recounted for us and we meet our judgement and punishment or bonuses it it were.

As I mention in my signiture, judgement day can be born in each moment and a time to survey our lives, our families, our communities, our Nation and World and see where we need guidance, education, counseling or consultation to resolve any challenges we may have.

I call this journey a sacride Pilgrimage or Hajj.  For we must view our lives and the lives of others including the seen and unseen as sacride and worthy of respect, caring and consideration.

I believe this sacride journey, Hajj, Pilgrimage is part of the Great sorting out talked about in Surah 99, 1-8 when we will be sorted into groups and shown what we have done wrong and what we have done right and though it does not mention it I believe that is when we will recieve education, counseling, consultation to resolve and challenges we have and to rectify any negative behaviors we have.  Though this process is already happening on a smaller scale I believe it could be worked or put into play in a bigger way Inshallah with a Inter Faith Call to an education, counseling, copnsultation with Personal Hajj to our lives our families..... and maybe just maybe create in the end a heaven a little closer even if only in our personal lives and community.

Mahsallah may it be so!

Anne Marie Elderkin Habibi

Alaikoam Salam

I think there is always room to question any book brother other wise we would not be human and we would be blindly lead.

Freedom to question is part of Life and part of being a Muslim and why should we not ask questions as that means we are doing our job as Muslims in my opinion.

Otherwise you end up with things like suicide bombers, they obviously have not asked the right questions have they?

I think their victims would like to ask questions too and why not, they and we all have the right and freedom to do so.

Islam is not so lame as it cannot answer or bare to answer questions from the people.

Asking people to folllow blindly without question does not always work for the best interests of everyone.

So no brother I am a Muslim and very much so and the Islam I believe in is far more accepting of questions from the heart than your Islam appears to be.

After all it is us who control Islam not the other way around.

Islam may form the base or foundation and it is our job to work with this, change it if we have to to meet the new future challenges and the needs of our families.

Islam is not as you would have it a block of stone, unchangeable unworkable no Islam is fluid like water and is ever evolving and flowing from it's source.

Questions is how society grows and developes, questions are good and make us think not just be spoon fed whatever someone want to feed us, we can ask where the food came from, why, how, who made it, what is in it, where will it go, can you keep it for a long time etc..

Salam

Anne Marie Elderkin Habibi

Dear Sister Habibi!

You have misread me once you say that I oppose that we should ask questions. I think the reason why we Muslims have become stagnant is that we have stopped asking questions and finding solution to them. But yourc case appears as different to me you are denying a thing without any evidence or popper reason. Quran says, "Will not they then ponder on Quran? If it had been from other than Allah they would have found lot of contradictions." (4:82). The orders of using reason and sense has been many a times used in Quran.

The sucide bombers were not born due to your mentioned reasons. No one want to give his/her life in such a manner. It is only a desprate measure once you have lost your loved ones and you have been denied justice and you have no hope to get justice so this is why one blows himself up. I am no authority to comment on the valadity of the sucide bombings only what I know is that you cannot kill yourself just for revenge or someone who is innocent.

Shams Zaman