ADEENUL �AQL � RELIGION IS INTELLECT .

 

Christians do prostrate, along with all the standing and singing, there is much kneeling heads down and hands put together with the fingers facing up to the heavens. You can even just stand with your hands together and the head slightly down and say a prayer. This is also prostrating.  

 

This is pure off my own intellect so if you're looking for documented Islamic source then I suggest asking one of the members who have a source handy. In such an inquiry I'm more of an Averrorist when it comes to faculties of man. Averroes (Ibn Rushd) took the position that man with all his flaws and limited qualities is capable of prophetic revelation (any human being). We all possess so-called "divine qualities" that enable us to communicate directly to God. According to Averroes it is by God's divine whether or not he activates this divine mechanism in our intellect-in contemporary thought we call this being chosen.

 

I believe more conservative Muslims are using religion as a tool to constrict masses to absolve from activities that they see as emulating no-muslims. Indulging in music and the arts is one of them. I've heard audio lectures from Sheikhs from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other Muslim dominated countries where they speak out against music, the arts the sciences and so forth. I began to ask myself "why would so-called scholars who, speak their lives studying a focused discipline would condemn other cultural areas they themselves don't know about?" Such questions beg answers.

 

I don't know if God "loves" music as I take the position of Moses Maimonides in believing that God is beyond our desires adn has left those to us. I believe God gave human beings a variety of qualities so that we not only have the full experience of being human, but it is also apart of our intellect so that we have some sort of self-identification. We know ourselves through our interaction in the world that means, music, the arts, sciences etc. I believe God gave us sexual desires so that we would procreate and replenish the human popultion.

 

The mechanisms that promote lust in our biological makeup is apart of this equation. Although the intent was not to become immoral creatures it was as I already mentioned, for the purpose of procreation and as well as developing (or solidfying) a relationship with the other person. When religions define morality within their own scope of understanding you'll always have restrictions and this is not always a bad thing. Humans although the most intelligent creatures on the planet still need guidance. Even if you are areligious human beings still need guidance throughout their life whether its guidance in school, work, sports, or life. We sometimes need constraint because it is easy to become side tracked. But at the same time there must be a balance in how much constraint.

I believe all those qualities of a human being should be enjoyed to their fullest extent because that is where we enjoy our humanity however there must also be a balance to that enjoyment.

 

Segregation is necessary. There is no need to mix up the unrelated persons of opposite sex. The result will be what is now available in Europe. WE Muslims do not need to provide any better proof of such things. There is definite attraction between persons of opposite sex. At times there is urge (desire).

 

It is very strong and moving, 1 people together talking to GOD.

 

You are no more then an animal if you can not control your lust!!