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Sahabi
reply to post by MarioOnTheFly
I too am a great fan of the 'Golden Rule'. Such a simple concept can change the world instantly, if followed in mass. Personally, I prefer to modify the 'Golden Rule' as, "Love and treat others as you Love and treat yourself, because others are yourself." This slight re-conceptualization is rooted from personal realization,... the basis of the 'Golden Rule' should be more highly encouraged in popular culture. Cheers to hope!
Whatever you like for yourself, like for others, and whatever you dislike to happen to you, spare others from such happenings. Do not oppress and tyrannize anybody because you surely do not like to be oppressed and tyrannized. Be kind and sympathetic to others as you certainly desire others to treat you kindly and sympathetically. If you find objectionable and loathsome habits in others, abstain from developing those traits of character in yourself. If you are satisfied or feel happy in receiving a certain kind of behaviour from others, you may behave with others in exactly the same way. Do not speak about them in the same way that you do not like others to speak about you. Do not speak on a subject about which you know little or nothing, and if you at all want to speak on anything or about anyone of whom you are fully aware, then avoid scandal, libel and aspersion as you do not like yourself to be scandalized and scorned in the same manner.
www.al-islam.org...
If you can't show my religion some respect, then at least show ME some respect.
First of all, you no longer have the rights to give me a SALAM. That is SPECIAL for MUSLIMS ONLY. So since you are NOT a Muslim anymore, please show my religion some respect by refraining from saying it. If you insist in doing so, I should reply you - ALAIK.
If you want, I can tell you 2 versions of the story. The first version, is the version that is accepted by the majority of Muslims. The second version, is the version that is accepted ONLY by a small number of Muslims.
Now, the first version. According to the hadeeths, the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h) says to kill any apostate who leaves Islam after embracing it. However the person should be given some time to repent. If he refuses to repent, only then, he should be killed. This is because apostasy is most dangerous, to the followers of any religion. If anyone converts to Islam and later leaves Islam at any time as he wishes, then people would not take the religion SERIOUSLY. People would go in and go out of the religion, as they wish. In the end, religion will be treated like a toy, and no one will take it seriously anymore. Eventually, religion itself, will collapse.
Killing apostates is not only mentioned in Islam, but also in CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM.
OpinionatedB
reply to post by Sahabi
Its a prayer.... you are saying a prayer to God upon his head when you speak those words... a God you turned your back on...
is it any wonder people find offense when you say this to them?
dollukka
Why should western counries help those countries when they have rich enough people to take care of their own people ?
God's divine name “As-Salam” (The source of peace, safety and perfection) means that He is the source of peace and safety
MisterMahound
This is the thing many do not understand:
ISLAM IS NOT ONLY A RELIGION, BUT A WAY OF LIFE AND GOVERNANCE, TOO.
Also, there are no "moderate moslems" (a Western coined term for moslems who, frankly, don't blow themselves up), only 'fake' moslems—those on the same rung of disdain as the 'infidel". That is to say, Islam is the strident, intolerant, misogynistic, paedophlic, violent, bellicose, uncompromising doctrine that has traditionally been labelled only the bent of the "extreme" elements of the religion.
Education is Islam's most fearsome enemy. The more people that are educated as to the underlying, long term goals of this dogma, the weaker said brain rot becomes.edit on 11-10-2013 by MisterMahound because: (no reason given)