Questions about Islam (Ask Away!)

[Medusa]

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Islam actually doesn't dig images of any human beings. It's to prevent idol worship. It's actually something I like. The idea that God isn't some white dude with blue eyes being represented across the globe makes me happy. I bet for believers it's a closer feeling to their god. You sorta are forced to deal with god as what it is, an omnipotent being. As opposed to a Santa Clause god. You won't be mistakenly adding human attributes to it. Know what I mean?

I could be off. But that's the gist I got.

[anunitu]

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I can dig it Sister Dragon mistress...

[Heka]

Islam actually doesn't dig images of any human beings. It's to prevent idol worship. It's actually something I like. The idea that God isn't some white dude with blue eyes being represented across the globe makes me happy. I bet for believers it's a closer feeling to their god. You sorta are forced to deal with god as what it is, an omnipotent being. As opposed to a Santa Clause god. You won't be mistakenly adding human attributes to it. Know what I mean?

I could be off. But that's the gist I got.

^^this. Love it.

[Juniper]

This isn't exactly Islam related but it's the only Abrahamic that thread active and it sorta applies; I stopped saying "bless you" when people sneezed and instead say "Gesundheit" because I don't feel it's my place to 'bless' people. And I'm German, so there.

[anunitu]

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Interesting Juni,I never thought of the "bless you" as being kind of taken a place of being a person to bless..as I remember it being said as a kid,it was God bless you.

Anyway good point. If I remember the story,you say the bless you,because people thought sneezing could allow a person to be invaded by an evil spirit.

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Here is an explanation on "Bless you"

[Medusa]

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I say Satan bless you. I honestly do.

[Heka]

I say Satan bless you. I honestly do.

😂😂😋 i love it. I'd give rep for this but I'm on the stupid app.

[anunitu]

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Done Heka.but cause it is duce,you have to do Negative rep to show. I did your Rep for you..

[MaskedOne]

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There are indeed different levels of heaven and hell, but all human beings end up in either one of them. You may be talking about what's known as Al A'raf (The Heights, or The Elevations) which is a place between heaven and hell where people whose good deeds are equal to their bad deeds go to, to be judged by God. The Qur'an talks about them in a Surah which has the same name.

So the Qur'an tells us about these people who are right between heaven and hell, which in the end are entered into heaven because of God's mercy. We also learn they are people whom those who entered hell have claimed that God will never show them mercy, so God turns to those people in hell and asks, aren't those the people whom you swore would not receive my mercy? And then he enters them into heaven.

So basically, we should never make a claim about whom God will enter heaven and who he won't. I'm sure we all know people who others have judged and claimed they'd never be worthy of heaven or God's mercy. So we should never make that mistake, lest we end up like those people in hell.

Here are the ayat from the Qur'an:

Soooo.....

If I ever end up in hell and feel a need to limit the amount of incoming company then I should start condemning people as loudly as I can in the hope that Allah shows them all mercy to spite me?

Can I exploit this feature while I'm still living? Preferably without eating a lightning bolt?


No. I'm not being particularly serious. If nothing else, I'm pretty sure that Allah will catch on to what I'm doing and return the favor in practical jokes (or large objects applied to my head, depending on his mood at the time). I just find the idea amusing.

[anunitu]

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So,Mask is this kind of an Orange one move to limit the immigrant incoming to your own private Hell?...And who is tapping your phone?

[Heka]

Done Heka.but cause it is duce,you have to do Negative rep to show. I did your Rep for you..

Haha yeah I have been around long enough to know about Duce's negative rep lol. And thanks

[Chessa]

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Not to derail the thread, but can someone explain duce's negative rep?

[anunitu]

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Long story,you might ask Juni or Thal..

[MaskedOne]

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Not to derail the thread, but can someone explain duce's negative rep?

Medusa enjoys being infamous so the admins keep her rep arbitrarily low. Barring an act of mod, it would take a concerted effort by all senior members +ing every post she has to have a hope of getting her in the green. You aren't likely to find anyone who naturally gets a rep that low because being adequately offensive is more likely to end in a ban.

[Heka]

Medusa enjoys being infamous so the admins keep her rep arbitrarily low. Barring an act of mod, it would take a concerted effort by all senior members +ing every post she has to have a hope of getting her in the green. You aren't likely to find anyone who naturally gets a rep that low because being adequately offensive is more likely to end in a ban.

So if you like something, you neg it, not pos it.