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Salam Joseph,

I hope and pray you and your family are doing well. I very deeply appreciate your endeavor to address the misconceptions of Muslims and relay the proper, true message of the Quran. You are an unsung hero of our time! I sincerely implore Almighty God for the greatest reward and forgiveness for you and your family, admitting you all to the highest rank(s) of the Gardens of Eternity, and to give me the chance to be able to meet you in Paradise.

I have longed to write a book by the same name of the post alluding to numerous verses and argumentations that finally convinced me in total submission. Such a feat may transpire if God wills and if He gives me enough time on Earth. I chose only to part with a few examples from a plethora of scattered thoughts. (Hence the thought of writing a book which depicted my journey).

^ I remember you having written the following on your "Fingerprints of Authenticity" follow up post on Facebook. It has been a long time coming since you wrote it (17 January, 2013).
Are you still working on such a book or have you abandoned the task? I am very interested in it.

Please do get back to me on whether you are working on it or stopped. Thanks in advance

Kind regards

Reference
https://www.facebook.com/joseph.a.islam/posts/217054775098324

Salamu'alaikum wa rahmatullah Joseph,

love to read your articles and learn your words for my Quran English vocabularies. Thanks you so much.

Salam from Indonesia

Hello!

I'm from Estonia and the reason I write, is to thank You from webpage http://quransmessage.com/
This webpage is very informative, interesting and language is very academic, I like reading something like this. I'm a christian and just reading Quran and trying to understand it as best as possible. We have here in Estonia a muslim community too and they have their own webpage, too. There is many information, but Your page is a little bit different, so, it is interesting to compare and think about these things. And of course read a Qurans translation in estonian language. There are so many things in islam and Quran, that I agree with, and also things, that I do not understand, so I continue my searching for answers for questions (get an answer and rises a couple of questions .
Best wishes to You and God's peace to You.

From Estonia

ssallam u alaikum

I am from Pakistan.  i read your articles. i had these questions regarding Quranic explanation of several authors and i was afraid i ll turn away but i prayed Allah to keep me strong. after reading ur articles i m relieved . thank you so much .May Allah give you the best and the very success of life and the hereafter.

As Salaam Alaikum, Brother Joseph Islam! I am reading the articles on your site quransmessage.com with great delight and benefit.  I thank Allah for your research and your efforts to share what you have learned through your studies.  I would be very happy to have the honor of writing and/or discussing some of your methods and conclusions, as I am traveling down a very similar spiritual and intellectual path myself and you have shed much light along the way.  Navigating the increasingly strange world of those who claim to seek guidance through "Quran alone," or "Quranism" or under some other designation, has become ... hmmm ... challenging.  I admire the logic, elegance, humility, evident sincerity and scholarship that you bring to your writing. Hope to hear from you.  Warmly,

Dear brother,

I have discovered your website http://quransmessage.com, and I have been blown away by the systematic, organized, and scientific material in it. This is like by far the most intellectually saturating content I have ever met online.

Radiyallahu anke!

Salam brother. I recently came across your website and have found your thoughts in relation to the singular importance of the Quran very intriguing. I whole heartedly agree that if Muslims refocused on Quran rather than hadith many of our internal and external problems would be minimized.

Thank you for your efforts.

Assalamu alaikom dear brother Joseph Islam,

First of all, I want to appologize in advance if my English expression or syntax isnt how it should be.

I dont know how to express myself the way I have in my mind. I have discovered your site a few weeks ago. It really blew me away. Your way of explaining and elaborating complex issues is really a relief.

In fact you explain it the way I've always wanted to. So many topics so refreshing.

As I myself I started to "investigate" the traditions and Quran like some 30 years ago. I'm not a scholar at all, not at all. I did it by interest in the first place. The question that actually got me busy was the fact that how Islam has spread the message almost all over the Arabic world Asia etc in a few decades.
It was certainly not by violence

And now we have these beasts monsters, barbarians over out there claming that we have to force the non muslims to convert even by violence.
I'm sure you also know whom (what) I'm talking about.

Whenever someone mastering the Arabic language came to our house and read from the Ahadeeth books, I never could believe that the companions of the prophet or the people lived in his time could be this wrong! But really soo wrong!

There were so many irrational and illogical  hadeeths, beyond (my) belief.

I have always avoided or kept away from the hadeeths as most as possible.

I sincerly thank you...

Salamu alaikom

Salaam Aleikum Br. Joseph,

I am [Name Removed] from Kenya and I recently came across your site (www.quransmessage.com) which I found much interesting with regard to most of the greatly debated and controversial topics you touched on through the various articles there in. I was just seeking other possible references as to the subject of "seven heavens" question which I had recently come to understand before reaching your site.

I would like to be contacting you sometimes for some insight and your view regarding various subject in Islam. I have a recent found friend who actually does some very recommendable work using a similar approach to yours, and reaching same and somehow remarkable (of course non-popular) realizations/conclusions through deeply researched analyses.

Salam, I will be short in my writing.  I am very pleased with your work and for finding your website with Allahs wills.  As I begin to ponder on Islam and Quran, I began to realize that we need to take charge for our guidance and put Quran at the core.  Most of us dont.  I dont like the idea of Submission.org that reject all hadit and islamic history.  Similarly I am not in agreement with more traditionalist suni (and shea) interpretation of our deen.  Your work is unique as its centers on the Quran and also takes guidance from our collective historical sources (non imposing).  I had many questions which are gracefully addressed by your website.  I have been pondering over Quran for a long time as well as other sources.  I use common sense as well as the notion that Allah desires ease for us, that his commandments are flexible to cater to differentiating circumstances that we will come across till the end of time.

I appreciate the effort you are putting in.

Regards,

Brother ! Your research is precious and mind blowing. You have been successful in explaining everything in a systematic and lucid manner. Do you plan to write a book ?
You must look to preserve your work.
Where do you live and what do you do for a living ?
Who taught you Arabic and other stuff about Islam ?

Hi and hello (from US)

I just wanted to write you a quick note to say hello from one monotheist to another.  I am a masters student finishing up an end-of-the-semester paper and I found your helpful site.  I found your writing style to be particularly gracious and humble, even while also writing persuasively.  You may find it interesting to hear that my paper's topic is Apostasy in Islam, and your perspective is very helpful, being one that sees apostasy and riddah being ultimately a matter left only to God.  As I say to some of my other Muslim friends, including my brother-in-law, no less—I hope and pray that others will interpret the Qur'an and the Hadith more like you.  I say that with personal experience of working with many Persian refugees here in [Place removed] who, while allowed to keep their lives, were exiled from their country of Iran, because they chose to leave Islam.

I write as a Protestant Evangelical Christian so of course, you and I will not agree on everything, but I think finding and focusing on each other's disagreements is sometimes from the Devil, the Enemy.  Instead, I admire your humanity that shines visibly, your obvious devotion to God who created both you and me, and your pursuit of Truth above dogma.

I pray for many blessings on you and your family, and I pray nothing except for God to guide us both, and all of humanity, into the Truth, and nothing else.

As the apostle Paul was fond of writing:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

To Joseph -

It it truly a pleasure to read your fb profile I feel as if your understanding has enlightened my clouded understanding, it's as if years of researching finding out has now come to a halt at your expertise, I'm nor wise nor smart but learning threw the message and learning threw others in hope to strengthen my lack of the truth, I don't really know of what to say, I'm sorry if this is weird and awkward to receive, it's just your knowledge is truly inspiring, and your input is very genuine, nobody here at my age group or people in my life ever put me in the situation to change my original ways of Islam as we know today, I new in my heart what I was following was wrong I just knew it n it took me to travel a path I never thought I'd ever go, in fact it was only today I realised I was wrong to even believe in Devine interference with the whole Rashad khalifa thing, it's as if saying I'm wrong is ok, something as information was never mine, never owned it, sometimes people that find things themselves take great pride in there work unable to let go, I've made many mistakes in life not perfect, one Allah I always put faith in and that it's the same Allah that all twenty prophets mentioned in 19 scriptures came to be as it is all of the same, I got so many questions n nobody to ask, I just want to say thank you 

Dear brother Joseph,

I continue to read your posts on facebook and visit your website. It is absolutely fantastic that He gave me an opportunity to come across such a wonderful person like you. May all your endeavours, hard work for the sake of believers be rewarded both in this world as well as the eternal one.

God bless you and the ones you love (insh.)

Your brother in faith (insh.),

Salamunalaykum,

I have been reading your articles since late 2015, when I came to understand the significance of the Quran alone...and the need to truly grasp the message of the Quran.

I wish to thank you for your articles which  I continue to read and to study.

Warm regards,