If true then what kind of religion is that!!
2006-12-08 23:44:01 · 21 answers · asked by James 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes but we consider it the true religon so why would you want to convert.
2006-12-08 23:47:24 · answer #1 · answered by questioner 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Islam is not a "religion," Kim, it is a "way of life." Islam's concept of "religion" is different from the modern one: where religion is a choice on a buffet table, and an individual picks, chooses, or drops whatever.
Islam does not pin down people. The concept is this; all existence was created by One Creator. The Creator, over human history, sent The Message the central theme of which was: THERE IS BUT ONE CREATOR.
That message, explains the Islamic belief, started right with Prophet Adam, and was sent to various regions and times through no less than 124,000 persons - messengers and prophets.
Muslims believe in these prophets of the Testaments: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Isaac, Ishmael, Mohammad (peace be upon them all) - just to name a few. We also believe in the four books: Psalms, Torah, Bible, and the Qur'an - apart from many other messages. Additionally, Muslims believe that throughout history, humans distorted the message for their own gains (the priests, the kings, and the intellectuals) - and today, only one book of The Creator remains as it was: The Qur'an.
It is also not surprising that the Qur'an today "seems to incorporate" the elements of past religions because:
1/ those religions were often the earlier forms of the message, distorted over time
2/ Where and when humans didn't have "access" to the message, they "reverse-engineered" a religion or anything like it by observing the nature, etc.
However to understand the Creator through a tree or Sun is to understand oneself through our nail or tooth.
The Message says that there is a larger whole. And the Qur'an invites the humans to observe nature (which, interestingly, means that Islam is pro-science), and determine for themselves if this could be the work of multiple "gods," no "god," or Allah.
Choosing Islam is not like choosing clothes or girlfriends. There IS no other way other than the way of the Creator. Islam also frees man from the slavehood of other races, gender, cultures, language by reminding humans that only Allah is the Supreme One and all things come from and go back to Allah.
Islam says: "No human has supremacy over the other on the basis of color, caste, gender, or wealth. The only basis of supremacy is the righteousness and the fear of Allah."
Hence, there is no such thing as "Leaving Islam" or "converting."
2006-12-09 09:14:13 · answer #2 · answered by Prophecy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No religion lets you convert to another religion. However, there are converts from all religions.
It's more of a matter of theocracy than religion. Even in the US, there used to be blasphemy laws for saying something against whatever version of Christianity was in power.
2006-12-09 07:49:32 · answer #3 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you realise it's really NOT the one true religion, and try to get out, you become a fugitive, is what I read. It may not be because of Islam itself, but Muslims in some Muslim countries seem to feel licensed by Islam to kill converts.
2006-12-09 08:08:19 · answer #4 · answered by The Black Knight 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Do Not Follow Your Parents' Religion Blindly
[5:104] When they are told, "Come to what GOD has revealed, and to the messenger," they say, "What we found our parents doing is sufficient for us." What if their parents knew nothing, and were not guided?
[5:105] O you who believe, you should worry only about your own necks. If the others go astray, they cannot hurt you, as long as you are guided. To GOD is your ultimate destiny, all of you, then He will inform you of everything you had done.
http://www.submission.org/suras/sura5.ht...
No Compulsion in Religion
[2:256] There shall be no compulsion in religion: the right way is now distinct from the wrong way. Anyone who denounces the devil and believes in GOD has grasped the strongest bond; one that never breaks. GOD is Hearer, Omniscient
[2:257] GOD is Lord of those who believe; He leads them out of darkness into the light. As for those who disbelieve, their lords are their idols; they lead them out of the light into darkness - these will be the dwellers of Hell; they abide in it forever.
2006-12-09 07:50:23 · answer #5 · answered by A2Z 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is true. If a Muslim converts to another religion, especially Christianity, they are considered to be "open target" "fair game" and the Muslim who murders them by stoning or beheading will not be punished but rather hailed as a hero for killing a blasphemer.
See Worthy News - Christian News as there is one such current case in their news.
It is a religion of oppression and empty vain repetition.
P.S. If one leaves the Jewish religion for Christianity one is sunned by one's family, however they are not made "open target".
If one leaves the Roman Catholic church then the Roman Catholic church excommunicates one and often the family will shun that one, however they are not made "fair game".
If one leaves the Protestant faith then one is prayed for and encouraged to come back even if one has committed a sin for which one refuses to repent and forsake, one is still prayed for in the hopes that one day before one dies die one will repent, forsake their sin and return to Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour.
2006-12-09 07:52:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well it is true but the point is that you must know that you will be killed for converting.
which really really begs the question, what do those humans who thought they where muslims and decided for themselves that it is a load of BS what on EARTH could they be thinking that even the threat of death would not convince them to continue to believe in that ideology.
WOW no wonder Islam needs to kill converts! bad testimonials
2006-12-12 16:17:10 · answer #7 · answered by jimmy j 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its true though. It is stated that if you leave the religion you will be given 5 days to repent or you will be killed. Fortunately that is raerly practiced anymore but only by those extremists. I believe the reason was to not allow that person to soil the name of Islam. Not very clear on this tough..
2006-12-09 07:48:33 · answer #8 · answered by shadow_prophet2k6 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you belong to one religion any religion, how can this religion permit you to convert to other? Then is you are converted to other religion you do not belong to the first anymore.
2006-12-09 07:48:01 · answer #9 · answered by pelancha 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you say is true.
However it is because of Christians that people like Osama want all infidels out of all Arab countries.
It seems that Christians are effective in witnessing and converting Arabs to Christianity. They consider the results to be polluting their society. It must remain pure to Islam.
It seems that Christians teaching that God had a Son that took care of all their sins, removing the requirements to work their way into heaven is very seductive to Arabs.
Islam must exist in a vaccum or it may not survive.
2006-12-09 08:04:42 · answer #10 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
religion is oppression. The Islamic religion has thousands of hypocritical oppressive laws, rules, ordinances, regulations, etc., but it's no different than Catholicism, Judaism, Taoism, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormonism, or any other "ism" "schism" you can think of, for....religion is religion. If it's religious, that means it's oppressive.
It want's to bind you to it's rules, schedules, holidays, ordinances, regulations, laws, rituals, robes, garments, obligations, they want you jumping through their hoops in order to gain approval with God, so on and so forth. It happens in Christian denominations, it happens wherever you find religion of anykind.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ who died on the cross for your sin debt with his life's blood, and you will be saved.
2006-12-09 07:50:47 · answer #11 · answered by The (1Cor.15:1-4) Ambassador 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋