Recent content by talib-al-kalim

That's my point, actually.

Do you think to have enough evidence that Hammurabi existed? Gaius Iulius Cesar? Maimonides? Martin Luther? Albert Einstein? Do you have a proof that I exist? What's your criterion?

The assumption that anything that IS must have a prior cause is not proven. Purement logically, there's no logical proof that the assumption is wrong but it is logically evident that under the axiom that the assumption is universally true, there cannot be a final reason of all.

Yes, there's a much greater number of of eye witnesses for Muhammad than for Jesus (peace be on them) and a broad body of traditions inside Islam that cannot have been fabricated as a whole. No, because there's no founder of this religion. The figures of this very old religious tradition have a...

There are no accounts of eye witnesses who didn't follow him and became Christians. There's the 1st Epistle of Peter which the majority of critical scholars grade probably authentic. Peter was an eye witness. There's the Gospel according to John the 1st and 2nd Epistle of John (3John doesn't...

I would rather say, fortunately, because then he has the chance to leave before he fails. Erdoghan would have been a great statesman had he resigned in 2012... Addiction to power is the major vice of many who gained it. Submission to God means for us to serve. Translate to an atheist: work to...

Yes, that's interesting. I also read the Wikipedia on it. The founders were Muslim, and they developed from a sect to a more open society. Promising, but far away...

I think he is certainly not wrong, but it doesn't have a spiritual meaning.

One motivation for me is that I am kind of a Christian Muslim or a Muslim Christian, and there's no denomination that would accept my faith. Interfaith is somehow a substitute for this lack. In real communities, I'm either a dissident believer or disbeliever (Islam) or a welcome guest, but not...

We can challenge our beliefs through observation of ourselves and the world around us, analysing the benefit that arises from the belief, and the detrimental consequences. I do that, merely partially though, and I found many principles and teachings of my religion beneficial, but also some where...

I actually thought to ask @muhammad_isa but you are welcome

Interesting passage I have stumbled over before 84:19 لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍ > Pickthall: "That ye shall journey on from plane to plane." > Yusuf Ali: "Ye shall surely travel from stage to stage." > Shakir: "That you shall most certainly enter one state after another." >...

I don't expect people of other or no faith to observe what is sacred in my religion. But I insist in a respectful way of expressing dissent. @Aupmanyav has answered respectfully to my post, so it's ok for me. I don't actually understand what you want to say with your last sentence - do you say...

Yes, bad spirit. In Islam, Iblis = Shaitan is not an angel (spiritual messenger of God) but a djinn (other spirit, "made of fire" according to the tradition, meaning, destructive).

It's certainly difficult to listen and understand the position of different beliefs. This also applies to me. I don't understand your belief either. What do you think about my post: ?