Why don't you study Islam?

Question

I am sad to see such ignorant remarks about Islam. I am a converted white female Muslim. I became Muslim 18 years ago at the age of 15. I have never known any system to be more just or fair or to make more sense. Islam is growing by leaps and bounds. I have always said that I will know that Islam is really growing when I start to see more white male converts. The time has finally come. But I am sad to see such attacks against Islam from people who have never taken the time to really study the religion. If I knew there was a religion with such power and such conversion I for one would want to know what all the buzz is about. What keeps you from picking up the Quran and discovering for yourself?

I think some of you did not get the point. I didn't ask why you are not converting to Islam. When I was much younger I studied about all religions. Even as a Muslim I studied about all religions so that I can understand what others believe. I study about almost everything that I don't understand. Fear is caused by ignorance. My question is why don't you study about Islam- not become Muslim. Why don't you want to know the truth about the religion that will soon be the world's largest religion>

There are dumb people everywhere. There are equally gruesome reports of what US soldiers are doing- raping women and killing their families as a cover up. Should I say that US is bad because of these soldiers? I think we need to be analytical about individual cases.

I don't have any idea what Quran you are reading. I read the original Quran in Arabic. It says nothing about car bombings. It says nothing about torturing anyone. Torture is forbidden in Islam. Wish the US military would take a hint from that. Any Muslim who kills an "innocent" person will be held liable. Allah does not allow the killing of any innocent person. We Muslims are told that if you kill an innocent person it is as though you have killed the whole mankind and if you save one person it as though you have saved the whole mankind. Killing children is a big sin. Killing anyone who is not fighting against you or who has not committed a crime worthy of death penalty (such as adultery or murder) is a grave sin. Going into another persons country and killing innocent people is a grace sin. The Quran does not tell us to torture anyone. Where is your proof? Do not make lies against Allah.

Frenris thank you for your feedback. I find that to be more intelligent. However, as people say that Muslims have been left back in antiquity, I would say that the Quran should be one exception to your rule.

khullar you make me laugh 1) you have not given me your proofs from Quran 2) it is one man's side of history against another- the british will also have quite a different side of that same story. I didn't say I was waiting for white men to become Muslim as you put it. I said this would reflect its power. White men have been the most resistant to Islam. You either believe in Islam or you don't. However, make sure you give proofs for your statements.

Answer 1

Any religion that advocates the killing and eternal enslavement of others is not anything I want to be a part of.

(And I'm not too keen on strapping a bomb to myself and screaming "DERKA DERKA MUHAMMED JIHAD" and blowing myself up in the name of some ayahtolla of rocka-rolla either)

Answer 2

I'll preface my statement by saying that I am a Christian. I think most Muslims are good people, but I do believe that Islam leads people astray.
I've studied a little bit of Islam, in school, and read some of the Quran. I also have had Muslim friends. It just didn't interest me all that much. How could the Quran hold my interest when I know the truth is in the Bible? If you would like to see power and conversion, it is in a relationship with Jesus Christ!

Answer 3

Assalamualaikum.
Alhamdulillah. I'm very proud of your question. I dont blame anyone of those rude answers. they just dont know and dont understand...

I think the one to blame for all these is our fellow muslims.. nowadays we dont tend to live the true ways of islam anymore.. the way that was shown by our Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).

It is hard for non-muslim to see the truth in Islam if muslims themslve dont show a good examples of the true living. I'm from an Islamic country but still finds alot of muslim slacking and forgetting the true Muslim living. I feel sad for this..

We are living in the time where the Prophet Muhammad is not here to lead us. But he has left us the two things that can help us go through this world... Al-Quran and As-Sunnah. Islam has been affected and polluted by many issues in this world.. I know the right thing we need to do now is to wake our fellow muslims to come back into the life of a true muslim and this is a much difficult task for us.... We muslims are the one that need to relearn and understand more about our true religion..InsyaAllah..

Thank you for this question..

May we all succeed in this world and the world after... amin.

Answer 4

Every Muslim I have ever met has been poor, ignorant and seemingly uneducated....
I have no need for a "religion of peace" that keeps women subject to traditional male dominated laws. I have no need for a religion that demands that it be considered higher than the laws of the law (a religion that impoverishes the law.) I have no need to a religion that attacks other religions as being so fundamentally wrong that they issue orders to kill anyone who dares to draw a comic picture of their God. (Ooops.... sorry, I forgot, Muhammid was a profit, not a God. I guess it is still OK to draw pictures of God as long as I remember not to draw pictures of Muhammid the man.)
Yeah, I'll find me a nice religion that gives women full rights with men, that allows individuals to have freedom to express thoughts and ideas and converse with others without fear.
You are engaged in a religion that removes thousands of years of individual rights and human progress. I believe you should reconsider one simple idea.... when you converted to Islam you were not yet an adult. No child of any age should be subjected to any religion until they reach the age of majority no matter what that religion is. Your religion of peace... what a freaking joke.
And yeah, I also have studied religions, and have been doing so for many, many, years now. The power and conversion you spoke about... doesn't exist.... Never did, never will. Your religion is a joke. A joke!

Answer 5

Why on earth is adultery punishable by death? Good grief.

But to answer your question, people don't want to know about what they don't understand. They see mad Islamists decapitating people on TV and blowing up everything they can get their hands on, even murdering each other (ie Shi'ites and Sunnis) and they don't understand that this is not the real Islam.

I have a copy of the Koran (Quran?) on my reference shelf but I've never read it. Maybe I should. I'm a pagan and would never convert to a religion that treats women the way all monotheistic religions do. But I know it's important to understand.

Answer 6

it really is a difficult question to respond to. It relies upon if this man or woman is getting formal Islamic guidance or analyzing independently. In all actuality Muslims under no circumstances end studying and analyzing about Islam. One would get an organization comprehend-how of the basics of the religion in about 5-10 years with perfect guidance yet because the international evolves and persons replace Islamic regulations will be utilized otherwise to appropriately manage each and every new difficulty.

Answer 7

I've studied enough of it that I have a basic idea what it is, especially relative to other established religions. I studied Islam about as much as I studied the earlier Judaism and Christianity, Buddhism, Atheism, and a various less wide-spread beliefs. I do this in order to understand the important dimension of religion in society, politics, and economics, which are my primary interests. Religion is also related to philosophy, which is one of my hobbies. Finally, I also studied Islam because of my particular interest in Turkish culture and the Ottoman Empire.

However, I am not interested in reading directly from the holy texts of any religion, neither the Quran, Torah, Bible, or anything else. I don't see the source as at all relevant, especially compared to how people actually treat the religion in everyday and political life. This means that I pay attention to heretics and other abberations in addition to mainstream beliefs, when my somewhat limited studies unearth them.

Answer 8

Yes indeed most muslims are not studied their own religion.They receive only their religion teaching from their parents and let their children to receive it at their schools.The public schools have no enough time to teach Islamic religion.So their knowledge of Islamic teaching are not in depth.But in other side for someone like you as muallaf a new follower of Islam is eager to know all about Islam so study hard..It is short coming of a born muslim.They are passive to be muslims and not equip themselves with deep Islamic teachings.Yhe attacker of Islam I think do not much know of Islamic knowledge.They know only a little and read only a wrong intrepreted verses.They read only the books of Islam which are written by non muslim writer.The non muslim writer has the ill intention to make its reader a wrong fictu
res of Islam.That is why they attact Islam.

Answer 9

I never have and never will study islam. It's just a personal thing with me because the tenants of Islam don't appeal to me.

I was born and raised Catholic... went to the Sisters of Loretto for Grade School and to a Jesuit High School. I had to learn latin and studied theology in that language.

I have had more religion in my life than any 10 people I know and the one thing I have learned from studying religion... INCLUDING ISLAM... is that they are ALL phony... the sole purposes for religion are CONTROL of the people and SELF PERPETUATION of the religion... and, IMHO, Islam is just about the worst of the bunch.

Religion appeals to the weak and the weak minded and I believe the pictures on the nightly news coming out of the middleeast prove that hypothesis.

So, like I said... I would NEVER consider converting to Islam.

Answer 10

I chose not to study Islam, simply because I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and I shalt not put anyone before him. I believe that Mohammad was a great prophet, however he is not the messiah. I know that Islam, teaches, kindness, patience, goodness and virtue just as Christianity does, however they have a major difference, The NEW TESTAMENT. My question to you is have you studied the New Testament? I know you feel the Quar'an to be the final testament or the revelation, it however is only one view, and for me it is false. I wish you well in whatever faith you choose to follow and fear that this major debate between Christianity and Islam will not be solved in Yahoo Answers, just take a look @ Fox News and the Gaza Strip.

Answer 11

I made a little research about Islam when I was in College. It is so true that it's a nice religion ( not for me, but okay ). I've talked to Islamic people who were very nice and opened to talk about the religion. But you got to admit the images the newpapers and television show about Sunnite people back in Iraq and Afghanistan are nothing to help everybody else in the world to actually open the Quran and read it.