Regards to you Brian.
According to the Qur'an, only those may prosper who will not associate false gods with Allah. Allah says in several places that
[4.48] Surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him, and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He pleases; and whoever associates anything with Allah, he devises indeed a great sin.
[4.116] Surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him, and He forgives what is besides this to whom He pleases; and whoever associates anything with Allah, he indeed strays off into a remote error.
I am not claiming this, it is in the Qur'an. You yourself know that there are several commandments like:
Exodus, Ch. No. 20, V. No. 2, says… Thou shalt have no other God besides Him. Thou shalt not make any graven things of thee, of the likeness in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, and the water beneath the earth. Thou shalt not serve them, nor bow down to them, for thy God, is the jealous God.
So the message is somewhat the same. Yes, I do know that people promises hell-fire to those who are outside of themselves. I am not going to comment on that because as the Qur'anic verses say "Surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him, and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He pleases;"
About the verse that I placed earlier in my post, yes, it is not in every persons fate to become a believer. Even a few believers go astray like I mentioned about Salman Rashdi(India) and Tasleema Nasreen(Bangladesh). Being blind and deaf is as if one sees and hears the signs but choose not to see and hear them. This may be because Allah had sealed their intelligence. Again, it is Allah's will. I am sure that Samabudhi would not be offended because he is not a believer and from the looks of it, he is never going to. If he really thinks that way, well, he would have second thoughts.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I sure wish that I am able to satisfy the comment you placed. I am not as well experianced as you guys. I mean, I have heard a lot of articals and lectures and I gained a lot of knowledge about comparative religion. There can be better comments from other Muslims but I do not find any around here.
I said:Ah, but then you imply that Allah creates men to be deaf to His word, simply so that He can torture them for fun. There is a similar argument from certain Christian circles, and it tends not to convince there either. After all, there are probably a few thousand different Christian and Islamic denominations all promising hell-fire to those outside of themselves in their own special way.
According to the Qur'an, only those may prosper who will not associate false gods with Allah. Allah says in several places that
[4.48] Surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him, and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He pleases; and whoever associates anything with Allah, he devises indeed a great sin.
[4.116] Surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him, and He forgives what is besides this to whom He pleases; and whoever associates anything with Allah, he indeed strays off into a remote error.
I am not claiming this, it is in the Qur'an. You yourself know that there are several commandments like:
Exodus, Ch. No. 20, V. No. 2, says… Thou shalt have no other God besides Him. Thou shalt not make any graven things of thee, of the likeness in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, and the water beneath the earth. Thou shalt not serve them, nor bow down to them, for thy God, is the jealous God.
So the message is somewhat the same. Yes, I do know that people promises hell-fire to those who are outside of themselves. I am not going to comment on that because as the Qur'anic verses say "Surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him, and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He pleases;"
About the verse that I placed earlier in my post, yes, it is not in every persons fate to become a believer. Even a few believers go astray like I mentioned about Salman Rashdi(India) and Tasleema Nasreen(Bangladesh). Being blind and deaf is as if one sees and hears the signs but choose not to see and hear them. This may be because Allah had sealed their intelligence. Again, it is Allah's will. I am sure that Samabudhi would not be offended because he is not a believer and from the looks of it, he is never going to. If he really thinks that way, well, he would have second thoughts.
I sure wish that I am able to satisfy the comment you placed. I am not as well experianced as you guys. I mean, I have heard a lot of articals and lectures and I gained a lot of knowledge about comparative religion. There can be better comments from other Muslims but I do not find any around here.