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Amish 1/ In the first part , you mentioned disrespectful Christians and I get your pain Amish. Most of those who attack my posts on here are from a Christian background.
But I think that is mainly because a lot of those who use this site are Christian and not necessarily that Christians tend to be “more “ disrespectful. I have met many many disrespectful Hindus Muslims etc…
You see such people from each faith unfortunately. People who follow a certain faith are not always a good reflection of it . many are a horrible reflection of it.
That is why God says in the Quran the following :
Al-An'am - Verse 108
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And do not insult those they invoke other than Allah, lest they insult Allah in enmity without knowledge. }
Because if I insult your God/religion
You will (most likely ) either insult mine back or be pushed away And that might cause you to push the truth (Islam) away before even learning about it.
That is why God also says in the Quran :
An-Nahl - Verse 125
{ invite to the way of your lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He is most knowing of who is [rightly] guided.}
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2: In the second part you said
“ I never heard about Pagan Arabs making Idols of dates before. Were they part of the eastern philosophical background? “
Arab paganism is very broad. They worshipped many idols. Almost every family /tribe had their own Idol.
But some of the famous ones were
“Al-lat “ and “Al uzza”
(You can look them up )
And no , in the big picture
they erre not made of dates but minor ones were.
Ironically , most of the Arab idols were “Goddess”
Aka female God.
Although the pagan Arabs hated and degraded the women
So the Quran pointe at their faulty logic :
An-Nahl - Verse 57
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And they attribute to Allah daughters - exalted is He - and for them is what they desire.}
Here God (God in Islam is not a female or a male. “He “ in Arabic is also used for the genderless ) is saying :
So you make female idols and worship /exalt but you hate your own daughters just because theyr female and prefer sons ? What kind of logic is that ?
And the verses continue :
An-Nahl - Verse 58
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And when one of them is informed of [the birth of] a female, his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.
He hides himself from the people because of the ill of which he has been informed. Should he keep it in humiliation or bury it in the ground?
Unquestionably, evil is what they decide.}
God ends the verse with “evil is what they decide “
Meaning , that daughters are a blessing and that their judgment is evil .
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“You mentioned about the commandments of God that prohibit Idol worship. Are they same as the ones that Christians follow ? “
We Muslims believe that god sent thousands of prophets throughout time.
All with the same basic message
“To worship the one true God alone and follow the prophet of your time “
And Mohammed is only the last prophet.
But people throughout history
Deviated from that path
Jews who turned their religion into an ethnic religion and denied Jesus and Mohammed
Christians who went astray and started to worship Jesus and the spirit besides God
And crested the whole Trinity
Pagans who started to worship idols
Who don’t benefit nor harm them and crave them with their hand and a lot of religions stemmed from it
And so on…..
jf you analyze you will notice that
Hinduism , Judaism , Christianity, Sikhism
They are all named after a person or an event or a land
No?
But “Islam”
Means “submission to the one and true God”
It’s not named after any person or a land.
Hence we believe by “definition “
Jesus moses Noah etc were all Muslims.
