Religion & Spirituality - 15 October 2007

2007-10-15 12:47:44 · 7 answers · asked by The Young Philosopher 2

Hello, Hope everything is well with everybody.
I didn't know where to ask on this, I asked on an Islamic forum before.. but I didn't get a very clear answer, that was down to the wording of my question I think.

So, I wish to convert to Islam.
I have been very seriously considering this for several months now; and thinking about it since I can remember.
I'm not sure this is long enough , but I am convinced.
Can anybody help me create, some sort of list? I know it sounds very bad.. but of things I should know and do before I take the next step and take my Shahada..
I want to know what sort of things I should know first.
I have read a translation of the Qur'an, and found its message extremely powerful... What else should I get?
I mean, I am very familiar with The Sirah, I read Hadith daily and I believe the word of the Qur'an with my heart now.
I have read numerous books on Islam, - it's pillars , it's teachings, it's festivals..etc. So anything else I should know? THANK YOU

2007-10-15 12:46:58 · 36 answers · asked by Jasmine B 2

Believers, let not a group of you mock another. Perhaps they are better than you. Let not one of you find faults in another nor let anyone of you defame another.” Holy Quran, Chapter 49:11 (Al-Hujarat)

How do Muslims justify, for example, the internal civil war for power taking place in Iraq now? How is it that Muslim states can openly suppress certain sects of Islam?

2007-10-15 12:44:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

People say they don't believe, even when presented with the evidence and after examining the evidence. Yet they still do not believe. This is just plain stubbornness IMO.

2007-10-15 12:43:40 · 7 answers · asked by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7

2007-10-15 12:42:28 · 7 answers · asked by Guida D 1

answer that question sponge bob smarty pants agnostics and athiests.

2007-10-15 12:42:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Personally, I would want to change that misanthropic mass murder trait.. but hey, that's just the humanist in me..

2007-10-15 12:41:38 · 18 answers · asked by Socratic Pig 3

Here is the verse-

“How great you are, O ______ ____! There is __ ___ like you, and there is ___ ____ but you, as we have _____ with our own ___ .”-

Hint: it is in 2 Samuel.

2007-10-15 12:38:03 · 14 answers · asked by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6

doesn't satan come down pretending he's a savior or something then the 4 horsemen come, i want to know what exactly happens, any sites I can visit? or if u have the time to explain

2007-10-15 12:35:40 · 21 answers · asked by Whole 4

2007-10-15 12:35:13 · 28 answers · asked by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6

2007-10-15 12:34:55 · 15 answers · asked by Kristi P 2

Let's say someone is shooting down your religion and spreading lies about it online. You try to tell them politely that what they're saying is not true, and ask them to leave this religios group alone. They simply cuss you out and tell you your religious leaders are lying. They know much more about the religion because they were a member of it for twice as long as you, then left claiming to have found out"the truth". Although this doesn't change your opinion on your religion, it makes you mad about being so flippantly insulted. What would you do?

2007-10-15 12:34:25 · 28 answers · asked by ~Think About It~ 4

IMO, they haven't.
Have they studied what went on at Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje, Rwanda? I don't think they have. At Fatima, for crying out loud, the SUN fricking DANCED in the SKY!!!!

The following is two accounts: one religious, and one written by a self-proclaimed atheist.
What's with those people? Why don't they believe?
http://www.threeinonegod.com/fatima.htm
http://www.portcult.com/FAT.12.NEWSPAPER.2.htm

2007-10-15 12:32:00 · 21 answers · asked by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7

2007-10-15 12:29:53 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5707251

See, this is the stuff that enrages me! Innocent people get killed, innocent good people, and in this case a defenseless boy, dumped by some piece of s*** who doesn't deserve life at all! This is one of the reasons why I think God is neutral!!! Usually good people have to step up, united by positive energy, "not God's so-called will"! I'm sorry , but it makes me mad that He possibly doesn't seem to give two craps about the human race as a whole, and that I'm spinning my wheels and I'm practically forced to believe all of this stuff, everytime I go to a church!!!
Does anyone else believe that God is NEUTRAL and can care less and that it seems we are all spinning our damn wheels?

2007-10-15 12:28:42 · 11 answers · asked by microbopeep ♥Stranger♥☂ 6

achtung whom I disagree with, but respect states:

Jehovah's Witnesses fully understand and agree that Jesus Christ the Son deserves and receives what can be described as "worship", but only when the English-language word "worship" has been properly defined. The obeisance and honors due the Christ should remain unambiguously subject to the "exclusive devotion" which is owed to the Father, Jehovah God. The Scriptures quite plainly show that true worship is uniquely devoted to the person of Almighty Jehovah God the Father. His Son, Jesus, personally taught that Jehovah deserves a unique form of "sacred service".

Hear O'Israel the Lord our God is one Lord. God was manifested in the flesh! Jesus has a name on His thigh as the KING OF KING & LORD OF LORDS!

2007-10-15 12:27:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

George W Bush states that the war in Iraq was a mission given to him by God. Is this true? I know God's a bit of a c#nt, but this really does take the Jammie Dodger.

2007-10-15 12:27:14 · 21 answers · asked by shakeysmatey 1

And who first said this?

2007-10-15 12:24:15 · 17 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7

2007-10-15 12:23:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

About 10% of all people are and in the bible it doesn't mention their wives and girlfriends. How about Thaddeus?

2007-10-15 12:23:32 · 13 answers · asked by Red Phantom 5

its a sin to be not circumized and a sin to marry outside the camp of isreal..moses married a egyptian woman.does god have favorites

2007-10-15 12:20:18 · 14 answers · asked by Waddetree 2

A friend said he had to be because he is without sin. Why would having sex be a sin? The 6th commandment admonishes against adultery and the 10th against coveting. And even then couldn't he have been married? What do you think

2007-10-15 12:19:43 · 26 answers · asked by Red Phantom 5

its for a project in my christian ethics class (religion) class anyways i had to pick a topic that is bad for your body and i choose this so how are drugs good and bad for your body

2007-10-15 12:17:24 · 36 answers · asked by ♥ Tia Alexandria ♥ 3

OK, everybody knows how the LS Church used to deny the priesthood to African Americans until 1978, and then they defend themselves saying that "God revealed" that the teaching was repealed. Mormons love to say "Blacks have always been accepted in the church" But what no one talks about is the type of acceptace that Mormons refer to when they say that. Why did Elder Mark Roberts say: "In spite of all he did in the pre-existent life, the Lord is willing, if the ***** accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. If that ***** is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory"? That had nothing to do with the priesthood revelation. Mormons still privately believe that black people will be servants in heaven.

2007-10-15 12:16:21 · 26 answers · asked by Lee S 1

Why is this different from the brat who pulls the legs off flies to see what happens when they fly away and try to land?

2007-10-15 12:16:07 · 36 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7

I like yahoo answers but sometimes I want to go into a more in-depth conversation about things. Do you know of any site thats similar to this but has "more" to it?Like longer conversations and stuff? If you do I would appreciate it if you would tell me what site/sites are....thanks!

2007-10-15 12:15:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well I had a argument with my mom the other day.
At times she can be very predijuce, sometimes even racist.
It hurts me to see that my mothers views, are so diffrent then my own. Not only that but, so twisted and ignorant. She believes that is isn't right to date another "race." She believe so because it was "in the Bible." First of all there is no such thing. The only race there is is the human race, we all have came from Africa and have migrated over the years and our skin tones have changed to adapt to the climates of the regions. And the bible has no such thing. It tells the exact opposite. God loves diversity, and tells us not to disrminate but to love others as we would love ourselves. Is there any verses in the Bibe, or anything that I could do or say to convine my mother that there is no diffrences between any of us? It literaliy brings me to tears knowing my own mother can be so blind.

Thank you

2007-10-15 12:14:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

My parents are the least accepting people I have ever seen and are absolutely terrified that I am an athiest and completely reject Christianity even though they have forced it on me for so long and even forced me to attend a Catholic School..........Now there attepting to make me get confirmed but they don't get it............how do i get through to them.............is there any laws against this?>

2007-10-15 12:02:41 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

the reason I'm asking is that I have someone I call my best friend and when I go to his meetings he always say this is Lydia and she works with me, I just pick up on it the last week is that wrong of him or am I tripping? I;m studing with a couple weekly what do you think, I always indrouse him as my best friend

2007-10-15 12:01:52 · 16 answers · asked by lydia 3

"Darn it! Where are my n.....hey! Where's my body??!!"

2007-10-15 12:01:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous