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Discussions / Doubts - Please Clarify

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:17:55 PM »

Salamunalikum Brother,

My name is [name removed] from India, currently working in UAE; First of all I would like to appreciate you the way you have explained and researched the Quran.

It’s made me to read day and night with full concentration in the subject and become deep thinker Maasha Allah.
You have explained each subject obviously and opened my blind eyes, Alhamdulillah

I am really wants to encourage you to do more research and guide us through the light of Quran

10 years before I came to know about the contradictions, confusions, lies, fabrications etc about the Ahadith but I could not get any guidance and tools to do research in such things.

But now I feel very good when I started studying your “Quran and its Message” website and learned more Alhamdulillah.

Nowadays I am arguing with my friends and trying to pass the God’s message with the proof from the Quran.

And I would like to know regarding the prayers that what we can recite while praying in the stages of Rukh, Sajtha, and mainly in sitting position. Usually I will recite what we have in the ahadith but I am not satisfied with that.

We know that Quran is complete and explained in detail but I have to know what to recite in the different stages of prayers. It will be more useful for us

Please send me your answers through this email.

Thank you.

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Discussions / A Request for Urdu Speakers

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:15:16 PM »

salamunalaikum,.

Brother i have a deeper request about your site should be in urdu so i can understand ,i understand english but not more hard word cant understand please do help me understand quran in urdu language. please please please

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Discussions / Curious About You

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:13:25 PM »

Dear Brother,

salamun alaikum

Recently, I came upon your website and have been reading since last three days(2-4hrs/day)

I do not belong to any sect, rather I am a muslim trying to follow quran.

I am 56, Bangldeshi,living in Canada since 1999.

Would you please let me know about yourself ?

Allah Hafiz

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Discussions / Slave Girls

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:10:58 PM »

Salamunalaykom, I know its random, really enjoyed ur web page on "slave girls". For sooo long I have tried to understand what "those whom your right hand posesses means" as many websites and books ect say different and disgusting things. I follow Allahs words only, so it's quite hard to find a good explaination without opinion of sheiks ect or Hadith, which by the end leave me with a sick feeling. Anyways just wanted say thanks brother.
Salam

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Discussions / Thank You

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:09:22 PM »

Dear Joseph

May the Almighty's blessings be upon you.

I have found your website refreshingly original and welcome in terms of understanding what Islam is really about.

Unlike you perhaps, I am at the very beginning of my journey exploring the Quran and the religion/way of life I profess to follow. I certainly have enthusiasm but lack direction at the moment!

Personally, I think a new translation of the Quran in to English that highlights issues like you deal with on your website is long overdue - have you considered this? Most Quranic translations with commentaries muddy the picture by deriving guidance for interpretation from Hadith which sort of defeats the point.

Either way, thank you again for your fantastic efforts and the very best of wishes

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Discussions / A Trained Scientist

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:07:06 PM »

Salaam

I was brought to your website by a friend. I am a believer in the Quran as the divine message from God. However I have some doubts regarding the hadith.

I hope I have come to the right place.

I have read your work with interest, but as a trained scientist I must be able to criticize and still be able to form a strong belief, as a very strong test to a belief is questioning it and breaking it down.

Thank you for your work.

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Discussions / Website - Edip Yuksel

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:04:55 PM »

(June 2011)

Peace Joseph,

I browsed some of the pages and I looked at a few articles, and I found your work admirable. Mashallah. The article I looked demonstrated the following qualities:

1. Clear mind
2. Concise language
3. Great presentation and use of Quranic quotes
4. Awareness of important issues
 
I will inshallah include your site among the few links at 19.org and later I will share with a list of several thousand contacts and readers.
 
Peace,
Edip

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Discussions / Your Website - We are sharing with others

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:02:08 PM »

Dear Joseph:
 
A/A.....I have found your material very very useful.  I want to thank you for sharing this important research.  I hope you can continue to enrich the people with your
analysis and intellectual appeal.
 
Yours brotherly,

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Discussions / Seeking a Family in Faith

« on: January 15, 2013, 11:00:09 PM »

Dear Joseph,

Peace be upon you.

You do not know me. But, to some degree, I feel I know you through the articles posted on your website, your forum, and your facebook presence. I have been studying your material for some time now, and while I do not necessarily agree with everything you have posted, I certainly do concur with most of it, if not nearly all of it.

It is for this reason that I now write to you – I am at my wits end and desperately seeking a family in faith. To be sure, not just any family, but specifically a family of committed Qur’an only believers. Ever since I first picked up the Qur’an about six years ago, realized its truth, and earnestly began to reflect upon its verses, ever since then I have been, and continue to be alone in faith. During this period, I have gone through many trials, the full details of which are known only to God. But then, that is to be expected, for does the Qur’an not say, “Do people think they will be left alone after saying ‘We believe’ without being put to the test? [29:2]

As a result of my sincere efforts, and God is the best of judges, to seek absolute truth – and thus follow the guidance of the Qur’an, and only the Qur’an, and not tradition and cultural practices – I am essentially estranged from my two children (who, after all, are raised by a secularist mom, in a Western education system replete with all its influences, both good and bad), long divorced (that is, according to God’s law), and largely a social pariah. My extended family, in various capacities of practice, is Sunni. Amongst other factors these theological differences, as correctly pointed out in one of your facebook entries, have significantly contributed to strife and division within my family; I find myself as ‘the odd man out,’ standing alone with deeply held convictions. But then, once again, some solace is to be found in the Qur’an when God says, “The love of desirable things is made alluring for men – women, children, gold and silver treasures piled up high, horses with fine markings, livestock, and farmland – these may be the joys of this life, but God has the best place to return to.” [3:14]

Joseph, may God bless and reward you for all your efforts and good works in His cause, both in this life and in the hereafter. I look forward to hearing from you soon, God willing.

Your committed brother in faith,

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General Discussions / Re: Shahahdah

« on: September 12, 2012, 05:30:08 AM »

Comments by Azin Hemila

Joseph Islam..../Peace b upon you too….Thanks for your kind reply …I’d like your manner and style of writing .MashaAllah.

Regarding the verse 3:86 that Prophet’s contemporaries bore witness I should say the word of messenger in entire Quran bears the message…Mohammad without message wasn’t a messenger…Prophet was commanded to obey the messenger/revelation/message too.

33:2-Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord. God is fully Cognizant of everything you all do.

As you would know message of the Quran is dynamic and is not limited to the time and places….3:86 is related to the message not the messngership of Mohammad since he’s dead and is not part of teaching of God to bear witness to his messngership too…When God doesn’t teach/command us such a thing then going over the board and innovating such a shahada goes against His Will…He knows something that we don’t know…Our utterances shouldn’t contradict the teachings/commands of God.

3:86 has universal message for all who witness the message of God/Quran as Truth but yet ignore/reject it because of their wishful thinking/egos.
Please consider in 3:85 where we’re reminded of Islam as accepted religion…The continuation of that message is 3:86 where strong reminder is for those who witness the message of Islam but reject it after believing it.

We can only bear witness according to 3:86 that Quran/message is Truth since it's messenger too because we witnesses it with our mind/heart/eyes and once recognizing such a Truth but disregarding /ignoring/rejecting it then God wouldn’t guide disbelieving after believing

Regarding the verse 63:1 it’s hypocrites that bears such a testimony…God calls the hypocrites liars who went to prophet with such a testimony and God says that He knows he is His messenger…Why would God say such a thing that sounds so personal? Hypocrites were bearing witness to Mohammad why then God answer them in such a manner??..It’s because God suffices as witness for him and none of hypocrites witnessed the time Mohammad was appointed as messenger and God asked them to believe in him not bearing false shahada.

63:1 is not about sincerity of the hypocrites only, it’s about their testimony too creating divisions, distinction among messengers and above that ignoring the command of God believing only not that testifying since God Alone suffices as his witness therefore no need of testimony of others when they never witnessed it....

‎/Regarding the 39:45 the word is ذُكِرَ which means remembering. The word of worship is coming from (ع ب د) as in 51:56 we read. remembering is a kind of worshiping too but in its own context needs to be considered….Therefore remembering anybody beside God for any reason is Shirk….Giving testimony to messngership of Prophet in call for Unity of God is remembering another god beside God which is Shirk…….Those who are not happy to remember God Alone insist on remembering Mohammad or Ali beside God in such an important declaration of Unity of God which is the message to the whole Universe.
My point by quoting 39:45 was for such a gross sin that majority commit .since they’re not happy with God Alone they find all kind of excuses to legitimatize such a gross sin/shirk. Every one of us should search deep down in our heart why we get exited by mentioning the name of Mohammad beside God then the rest becomes clear InshaAllah.
That testimony is false…Uttering falsehood is not part of traits of believers.

Regarding the witnessing and then testifying where you mentioned about God there are 2 solid proofs in the Quran teaching us testifying to the Unity of God must be observed.

1-Verse 3:18 where God testifies to His Own Unity by asking Angels and those posses knowledge to testify exactly like Him.

2-verse 7:172 where God took us to testify that He is Our Lord and Master….Based on 2 Quranic proofs we must bear witness to the Unity of God Alone.

We already testified to God that is our Lord and Master .it means the process of witnessing in whatever manner was has happened and God reminds of such a testimony. We shouldn’t question God.

None of us witnessed Mohammad to testify to His messngership and God never took us as his witness or commanded us to bear witness….We shouldn’t pass the line construe our beliefs in message of God by coming up with testimony of Mohammad’s messengership.We should strictly stand by what God is asking us and not doing/saying/uttering anything else ....God is asking us to believe in him we say we hear and we obey….Unfortunately all those kind of interpretations based on none Quranic proofs/command of God have caused confusions and created sects ,innovations and committing shirk is result of it at the end.

God knew we would come up with such an excuse for not seeing Him then why testifying to His Unity that’s why He reminds us with those verses but not reminding/commanding us for Mohammad or any other Messengers for such a testimony. Glory be to Him, He is so precise leaving no excuse for creating any sort of innovations.

When God hasn’t commanded us something but we innovate it and utter it beside God then Wow that’s a gross transgression.
When God hasn’t asked us doing/uttering especially when reminded us what our approach should be to that matter then going against His message is falsehood and that shahada is false.

7:172-Recall that your Lord summoned all the descendants of Adam, and had them bear witness for themselves: "Am I not your Lord?" They all said, "Yes. We bear witness." Thus, you cannot say on the Day of Resurrection, "We were not aware of this."

At the end declaration of Unity of God must be absolutely to Him Alone without mentioning anybody beside Him to let the whole world to know that Our God is One and Him Alone is Our Lord and Master…He Alone we worship and remember Him alone without compromising mentioning anybody else’s beside Him…Proving that He Alone is the Creator and all messengers are His Servants nothing more nothing less....He Alone is Worthy of to be mentioned, remembered and called….This is strict monotheism.

Sorry for my lengthy response but I had to express myself as much as I could in order to prove my understanding is purely based on God’s Teachings in the Quran.

Peace
Azin.

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General Discussions / Shahahdah

« on: September 12, 2012, 05:29:01 AM »

Comment shared on Joseph Islam's Facebook Page to the following post:

SEEK MUTUAL GROUND

029:046
"And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly, and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and our God and your God is One, and to Him do we submit"

Beautiful Azaan in a Church

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX3U-BGDedc&feature=player_embedded


Comment by Azin Hemila
Beautiful voice but false Shahada....God never asked us or teaches us to testify to Mohammad's messengership. Why God Alone can not be mentioned?39:45

Comment by Mubashir Inayat
Dear Azin, upon reading the Qur'an and based on what Allah tells us, are we not led to believe that that the blessed Messenger was Allah's Messenger? If we do, then are we not testifying that he was Allah's Messenger?

Comment by Azin Hemila
Mubashir Inayet.....Salam…Is there any verse in the Quran that God is teaching us to testify to Prophet Mohammad messengership? No….Then on what basis we innovate such a Shahda and declaring it alongside with God’s own Shahada 3:18?

God is repeatedly asking us to believe in his messengers …God is teaching us not to make distinction among His messengers….BTW who has witnessed to prophet Messengership?Were we there? Don’t we read God is suffices as his witness?

Everything is about God Alone….When calling His unity in the world is associated with one of His servants then God is not Alone ,He has partner that needs to be called beside Him too…..39:45 has all the answers.
Yes Mohammad was God’s messenger like any other His messengers.

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Islamic Duties / Comments on Five Prayers & Meaning of Sujud - Wakas

« on: August 01, 2012, 06:18:08 AM »

Post received by Wakas on Facebook

peace brother Joseph, I read your article on 5 prayers: http://quransmessage.com/articles/the%20five%20prayers%20from%20the%20quran%20FM3.htm

Here are the issues that you may wish to have another look at:

11:114 says “near/proximal parts” (plural – 3 or more) – proximal to what? Two ends of day.

Equates SBH and HMD to salat, however, if doing so, one must equate them in all verses mentioning times, once one does this, the times of SBH/HMD/salat become irreconcilable, or at least no-one I have ever read has done so. Did you analyse all such verses with timings?

5-a-day means no time-ranges given for all salat, or for some only, if so, explanation required.

2:238 – al salat al wusta is not in the same form as “salat al fajr/isha”, according to Arabic, the former is a description, the latter a specific.
If one chooses "middle prayer" then why is this singled out and is it this one can be done on the move? Requires explanation.

why in some verses does it mention some salat only, and not others, seemingly missing some out etc.

Other information:
Earliest Islamic sources clearly show it was originally two salat daily, with an optional night vigil.
http://www.urirubin.com/downloads/articles/morning.pdf
Post "night journey" (isra & miraj) it changed to 5, according to tradition.
Only two salat times mentioned by name in Quran - coincidence?
No record of "wusta" ever being a salat.
Examples of a twice daily seemingly in Quran itself: 6:52-53, 18:27-28.

In my humble opinion, the evidence is heavily weighted in favour of a minimum of two daily, for the mumineen - I say minimum as one could do more if one wishes etc.

Please note, I'm not looking for a lengthy discussion, just wanted to highlight issues. If in future, you look into, let me know the update. Thanks.

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Discussions / Re: Verse 87:7 and Support for Hadith

« on: July 22, 2012, 09:30:12 PM »

Response by Mubashir Inayat
(On Quransmessage.com Facebook Page)
http://www.facebook.com/Quransmessage

Thanks Brother. Curious to explore it further, instead going through Muhammad Asad's translation (without footnotes) on the web, I picked up a hard copy of his "The Message of the Qur'an" and just read an explanatory footnote that says:

4 The classical commentators assume that the above words are addressed specifically to the Prophet, and that, therefore, they relate to his being taught the Qur'an and being promised that he would not forget anything thereof, "save what God may will [thee to forget]". This last clause has ever since given much trouble to the commentators, inasmuch as it is not very plausible that He who has revealed the Qur'an to the Prophet should cause him to forget anything of it. Hence, many unconvincing explanations have been advanced from very early times down to our own days, the least convincing being that last refuge of every perplexed Qur'an-commentator, the "doctrine of abrogation" (refuted in my note 87 on 2:106). However, the supposed difficulty of interpretation disappears as soon as we allow ourselves to realize that the above passage, though ostensibly addressed to the Prophet, is directed at man in general, and that it is closely related to an earlier Qur'anic revelation - namely, the first five verses of surah 96 ("The Germ-Cell") and, in particular, verses 3-5, which speak of God's having "taught man what he did not know". In note 3 on those verses I have expressed the opinion that they allude to mankind's cumulative acquisition of empirical and rational knowledge, handed down from generation to generation and from one civilization to another: and it is to this very phenomenon that the present passage, too, refers. We are told here that God, who has formed man in accordance with what he is meant to be and has promised to guide him, will enable him to acquire (and thus, as it were, "impart" to him) elements of knowledge which mankind will accumulate, record and collectively "remember" - except what God may cause man to "forget" (in another word, to abandon) as having become redundant by virtue of his new experiences and his acquisition of wider, more differentiated elements of knowledge, empirical as well as deductive or speculative, including more advanced, empirically acquired skills. However, the very next sentence makes it clear that all knowledge arrived at through our observation of the external world and through speculation, though necessary and most valuable, is definitely limited in scope and does not, therefore, in itself suffice to give us an insight into ultimate truths.
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Wonder if Br Asad has a point here?


Response by Mubashir Inayat
(On Quransmessage.com Facebook Page)
http://www.facebook.com/Quransmessage

‎"The Message of the Qur'an" complete in PDF format can be read here:

http://asadullahali.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/the-message-of-the-quran.pdf


Response by Mubashir Inayat
(On Quransmessage.com Facebook Page)
http://www.facebook.com/Quransmessage

To get another perspective, I also looked up Parwez, who says:

87:7 - If it were the will of Allah, you could have forgotten something from it (or ignore it), but (as has been mentioned earlier in 17:86) that was not His will. That is why you cannot forget or ignore anything from it. This has been so ordained.

The Wahi has been revealed from Allah Who knows what the latent potentialities in a human being are and how these can be developed. (Therefore this Wahi is complete in every way and sufficient for the purpose it has been revealed.) Wahi is revealed for the development of human self (personality).

http://www.tolueislam.org/Parwez/expo/expo_087.htm

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Discussions / Re: Ghulam Parwez Critiqued - Literature

« on: July 11, 2012, 05:35:10 AM »

Request received on behalf of a forum reader

Please can any Urdu reader possibly translate the following Fatwa by Muslim scholars with respect to Ghulam Parwez. This is only requested for education purposes to understand content and not as a criticism against Ghulam Parwez.

Thanks - Please see attached.

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Q&As with Joseph Islam - Information Only / Learning the Quran through Dictionaries Alone

« on: June 22, 2012, 12:29:06 AM »

From Mubashir Inayat
Sent: 05 June 2012

Salam Brother
 
Just want to share a comment on Facebook with a Br. Aurangzaib, who was once associated with Dr. Qamaruzzaman's aastan.com (learning Qur'a through dictionary alone).
 
We were analysing the meaning of Muslim and Momin.
 
Mubashir