I Am Enjoying Being A Muslim

[big]"You should be able to do what you want"[/big]

Really? You should be able to do what you want? And people have feelings all the time! How many crazy thoughts and feelings go through a teenager's mind? You're saying that they have the right to act on all of their feelings? There are no restraints?

Isn't this the most insane worldview?! You should be able to do "whatever you feel like"? If everybody started doing that, what we would be left with other than chaos?!

The entire idea of thinking is restraint, there are somethings you have to hold back. You might have a feeling, but it's not a good idea to act on it, it's not good neither for you nor for someone else.

This is what the Quran criticizes: a rule, a decision making, a thought process that is based on no restraints. Just feelings.

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Frank52 · 70-79, M

I think this is most sensible. Actually most people have restraints, either imposed internally by a sense of community values about 'right and wrong' or by groups that they choose to belong to. Even anarchists follow the 'rule' of having no rules, but subscribe to basic understandings about the value of human life.

Perhaps there is a debate, though, around being forced to submit to value systems which are not willingly entered into as a reasoning adult. Cults and some closed communities (religious and otherwise) sometimes control their followers through means which some might think immoral (poor diet, isolation from others, deprivation of alternative views).

I would think that most followers of Islam have sufficient access to alternative views to make an informed, adult choice and if they choose to refrain from certain things and follow particular practices that's freedom. The fact that I don't agree with them is neither here nor there. Only when my freedom to follow the path that I have chosen is 'forbidden' by someone else is there a conflict.

Madeleine · 41-45, F

@Frank52 I agree with most of what you wrote. According to the Quran, following Islam should be based on conviction. It's a choice. And the fact that someone finds the Truth in Islam, it only makes sense that they would follow all of its rules, because they believe it's the Truth.

Now, freedom has nothing to do with having restraints. The idea of someone is entitled to do and say whatever comes to their minds is in fact ignorance. Human beings are blessed with the ability of thinking. And it's sad to see that acting based on feelings is glorified in our modern age.

Frank52 · 70-79, M

@Madeleine I think we are agreeing. Feelings need to be tempered by reason and sensitivity to others. They are not more important than anything else.

Tukudo · 41-45, M

Mind itself social! So every thought arise from the mind is social not original. Natural thought never affect anyone,it arise and disappear by its own. Only the society given thoughts get mess up and become chaos.

Do you think everyone is understanding the truth Quran in right and exactly? No ! Everyone have their own idea according to how they learn from society not naturally. When anyone drop everything that learned from the society,religion,books etc and dare to understand the truth by naked eye,then only truth revealed.

Madeleine · 41-45, F

@Tukudo Social approval should not be taken as guideline. Moral codes change with time; what was unacceptable 30 years ago is common today.

Tukudo · 41-45, M

Have you understood the Quran in the right perception? Did you choose the religion by yourself or you accept it because of born in that Muslim family?🙂 @Madeleine

SW-User

Very Thoughtful

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