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Originally posted by Fox Molder
Facing East so that they may face the direction of Meca is quite normal as far as I am concerned. Each religion has it's own set of rules and boundaries. But yesterday at Taekwondo class, this young mother of three came to me and asked me if I knew where East was!
Don't get me wrong here, most people I know, no matter the religion they choose have no knowledge of how to point out North from their own a$$ when they enter a building , it's like they loose any ability to find themselves on a map or something. Well anyway, I tell the young woman that East is ---------> that way, she thanks be and finds a secluded spot and begins to pray. All is good and Allah is happy.
But..That being said, if you are of Muslim faith and you know that you must pray facing East......How come she could not point out East ??? Wouldn't this be a real basic skill seeing that it is important to face Meca when praying?
I do not want to put this woman down by no means, she was very well spoken, had a beautiful smile, her three kids were so cool and friendly, truly nice genuine people but I am puzzled as to why she did not know how to find East????? Just baffled !!!
Originally posted by damwel
A Muslim astronaut would pray facing earth. It doesn't really matter you know. If they eat pork by accident because they didn't know it was in there or if they accidently pray facing the wrong way God doesn't work that way. It's about your heart and intentions you know.
A Muslim astronaut would pray facing earth.
Yahweh is also a "pagan" god, where pagan means, local.
Yahweh is not Allah.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by lonewolf19792000
Yahweh is also a "pagan" god, where pagan means, local.
Yahweh is not Allah.
Yahweh is a local god of the Sinai. Not to be confused with the "Christian" God, who is the Father of Jesus.
You are probably thinking of El Shaddai, another pagan god, lord of the Shaddaim, who are man-killer demons corresponding to the pre-Islamic concept of the Jinn.
The Almighty.
Originally posted by kallisti36
reply to post by lonewolf19792000
I wish people would stop repeating that, it's only half true. Allah is the Arabic form of the Semitic El. Arabic Christians and Jews have used the word Allah for God long before Muhammad. Muhammad took the moon-god of his tribe and associated it with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I take offense at this, because a number of the Arabic Christians at my Church refer to God as Allah, and you seem to be implying that they are accidentally committing idolatry, which is nonsense. Anyways, the word "God" likely comes from the word for a minor Babylonian luck god, so by your logic most Christians are accidentaly worshiping a false god. Oh, and "Yahweh" is an educated guess on how the tetragrammaton is pronounced. No one actually knows the original pronunciation.