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Caringheart
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 1:36pm |
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"There is a lifestyle that means that secularism has overtaken the popularity of belief in our communities in Britain."Excellent statement! There are those who have a heart longing for God, and they find it in different faiths. |
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Abu Loren
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Oh s*****p!
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honeto
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CAringheart, you did not mention what you find as "Excellent" in that statement. And how can one find it in different faiths, when these different beliefs do not even agree with the very basic question of who God is? Hasan |
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The friends of God will certainly have nothing to fear, nor will they be grieved. Al Quran 10:62
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Caringheart
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Greetings Hasan, I am glad you asked. I think we're all born with a heart longing for God, don't you? If we have that heart longing and we seek Him, then it is up to Him to reveal Himself to us, correct? Why that statement meant so much to me is that, to me, it embodies how evil has its foothold in the world. Societies used to have belief in a Higher power at their center... a belief that there was more to this life, and an expectation they had to live up to. But belief is not a thing much supported in societies any more is it? The prevalent 'life style' is free for all... do as you will... no longer God's will that is accepted. Man has come to believe in himself alone. I feel that if you(meaning any other person) are on a path that is seeking God, and I am on a path seeking God, and we are both submitted to His will as we know it, then we are at least on the same plane, we are seeking the same thing... to do good, and not evil, in this world. After that it is a matter of definition of what serves good, and what serves evil. But there are others who are only seeking to please themselves, fulfill their desires outside of God's will. They do not even give consideration to what God may will, correct? The 'popularity of belief' in our communities... belief that there is a Higher power that we must acquiesce to... has disappeared. Belief is rather unpopular these days is it not? I see this as the base of evil. Isn't this what satan wanted from the beginning... for people to reject the words of God first given to Adam and Eve, that they were to obey Him? I feel like I rambled in trying to be clear. Hope I made sense. Salaam and blessings, CH |
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Nur_Ilahi
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Salam Caringheart.
Yes indeed we are born into this world longing and searching for our Creator. Asking ourselves what is the purpose of our being born into this turbulent world. Some are lucky enough that they have guidelines to follow either from their parents or from the beliefs of their parents. Some are lucky enough to have scriptures that teaches and explains in detail the character of the Creator, while some are unlucky in getting ones that are obscure or false. Whatever it is, the purpose of living is deep inside us. We have to work extra hard to delve into our heart and seek the strength and the Truth that is already given to each and every one of us. Remember we live in the same planet, same earth, same universe, we eat from the same food source, drink from the same water, we only have 1 purpose in living in this world. That is to please The Creator and His Creations. |
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Ilahi Anta Maksudi, Wa Redhaka Mathlubi - Oh Allah, You are my destination, Your Pleasure is my Intention.
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honeto
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Nur Ilahi you have put is right, JazakAllah.
CAringheart, Yes, God reveals Himself to those who seek Him. Those who seek the pleasure of their own hearts become the supporters of evil and evil of them. Does God love evil? No. Does God approve of evil? No. Is God OK if one chooses evil? No. Is there good and evil in this world? Yes. In all of God's scriptures did God not warn us to stay away from evil and do what is good? Yes. We must also remember that God did not reveal a book of guidance for each one of us rather He sent a leader, a prophet for a specific time with a specific book. If we follow God's guidance, it leads us into success and right direction. Anything from our own mind or out side of that guidance is our own invention and leads one into error and eternal loss. People of different faiths may have longing for the same God, but it does matter how they go about that! A fire worshiper may be longing and thinking to worshiping the same God in theory, but in practice it does not match. Same way a idol worshiping Hindu or Catholic may be trying to worship the same God, but the reality and practice does not reflect that. A Muslim and a Christian may be claiming the same that there is only one God, but when it comes to practice the same God for a Christian, in their own words is comprised of three parts, one of whom was a man, who walked, ate, and worshiped his maker his God, but they claim he was himself God. So the practice has to match the claim, otherwise it is just a claim, and God does not see our claims rather what we practice and do. Hasan Edited by honeto - 21 January 2013 at 9:48am |
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Greetings Hasan,
What comes to my mind is; 'to you be your god, and to me be mine.' To me what matters is that we fight the forces of evil, not one another... and those who are seeking God are those who do not seek to serve the forces of evil. Simple as that. That is the matter, and the Truth we need to recognize and accept. Anything that sets us against one another does not come from God. Simple as that. If satan can deceive us into thinking one religion or another is more right than another then he can make us fight one another instead of looking for, and seeing, the Truth... what is evil and what is not. He can keep us blind. He can turn us away from fighting the forces of evil, and make us serve him instead. Be sure you do not succumb to the tactics of satan to make strife, and have your vision clouded, only to find that you have served evil rather than good. Killing and warring is a thing of evil. That is my message to the world. When we are serving one another in love, then we are serving God. Salaam, CH |
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another question Hasan,
Do not Islam and Christianity and Judaism and Buddhism and Hinduism... teach the same morality? Don't all religions teach some form of reverence for something other than self? Doesn't this guide us in the same way... towards moral living... and only those who reject the concept of reverence for something higher than self... it is they that truly go astray. Just sharing my thoughts about what I think God really wants us to see. Salaam, CH wherefore; 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world Edited by Caringheart - 22 January 2013 at 1:31pm |
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