If you fellow Gambians chose to overlook the contentious issues in Islam, then so be it. However if you are going to stand by these principles then you need to delve more deeply into it. Islam is not something that you can pick & choose the elements you like & dislike, if you accept its Gods word so you have to accept it - the whole kit & caboodle.
If you dont accept the hadith, then where do you get your instructions from on how to pray? Do you drink alcohol?
So how do you know its true, and not something made up by some desert merchant? History has proved man has done it before, so why not in this instance, particularly when there are no obvious signs that is written by an infinite being. One that spends more time glorifying his own image in the book than anything else.
Dont you think Allah owes it to us to be more clear & obvious, rather than hiding behinding his invisibility, showing know sign of his existence, other than this book that is over 1400 years old? Surely Allah could do better if he created the world as it stands?
It is not that they choose to overlook it,they never had any theachings of it.In many muslim countries,the knowledge of hadith or the content of the Quran,is something they have little knowledge about,because it is thought in a language they do not speak.They just memorized the Quran,and dont know shit in it.
People think circumzations of both woman and men is there,not knowing they are following many thousand years culture,and is not in quran.
I dont know what Allah think or planned,or why he is not clearer.Maybe because many things in this world is not clear,not even for the people that do not belive in any god.There are things we have to find out on our self.In the bible,it is written that the thruth is delivered,but it is delivered in peaces,meaning we have to come togheter to make the thruth.
For me Allah is the only one that can ease the anger of this unfair world for me.I dont know how it would be for me,to watch this world and hear the cry of million people,that suffer unfairly,I would arm my self,and go on in the killing field.
It scares me sometimes if I think of it,to not pray,and seek support there.Sometimes me too,get confused,where ever I turn I meet this insane islamic culture and tradition,that have no origin from quran.Many muslims here I dont mingle with,because they are so closed and hostile,and segregated,that I can feel the suffication in my cheast.
I give you a link on prayer from the quran.Please tell me what you think of them(not that I think you have to be asked about answering
) Maybe you read them before.
http://www.tolueislam.com/Parwez/skn/SK_11.htm http://www.free-minds.org/salat_edip I take a glass of wine,from time to time,and more than a glass,but I recognized that in it,it lays danger.Just like in gambling.It is sweat,but can have devestated consequens sometimes.
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