Hijab, Beard. Today the scholars stress to much on the outward appearance rather than character. Tell me did the arabs become muslims due to the Prophet’s beard or was it imaculate character. You have all heard the story of the old women who wanted to leave Makkah beacause a madman was preaching this new faith of Islam. As she was going she met a man who extended his hand in helping this old lady. Later when she found out that this man was the madman which everyone was talking about she becams muslim, ad yes he was our Prophet. His fine character was what made Islam spread.
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well then why do we bother with prayers and other ibadaat....
no one accepted Islam because he/she was very fond of the way the Prophet (saw) prayed....
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Really? I've never met a scholar that has told me to keep a beard or dress in a jubba?
They've always told me to study the life of the Prophet pbuh, and be the way he was. To emulate his life into my own.
Always about inner-self, controlling the nafs, warding off evil..etc
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Ibaadat are prescribed to us and are fardh. Im talking things which are mustahab like wearing the Imamah etc.
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rabbz you are correct that 90% of he focus is on 10% of the stuff, everything else gets ignored by and large.
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Fraudz, what u talking about, elaborate
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Just a quick glance of recent topics in this forum - what is the importance/Islamic rule on: men plucking their eyebrows, women plucking, hindu food, owning a dog, sushi, gelatin, music, hijab, washing clothes, wearing silk - demonstrates that some are obsessed with the trivial, 2nd tier matters as opposed to studying the spiritual aspects of religion.
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^ sad but true
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read seminole’s post and he echoes as a non muslim, what I feel as a muslim… that our focus is wasted on minutia, while the bigger things get ignored.
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It matters
we have a question so why not get some answers for clarification. all these topics are relevant.
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Relevant? Maybe. But are they really that important or just trivial in the scheme of things? And if they are that important wouldn't concrete answers exist after 1400 years? These same quesions are posted over and over all across the internet.
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ofcourse same questions will be asked over & over.
don't we have to learn what our forefathers learned.
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If the forefathers learned it, there’d be answers, not questions.
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^
exactly.
our seniors/forefathers have the answers and we juniors are asking them.
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Dont balme anyone or anything…this is our ppl’s fault that they dont understand wht exactly QURAN says…!
If they bother reading it once with full concentration…there would be no questions..i guess!
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"One whose appearance does not benefit you, his words will not benefit you either" i.e. since his appearance does not remind you of Allah Most High, do not expect his words to. *- Sufi Sheikh
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True!
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What people fail to realize is, these 'small' things are necessary for spiritual development. Everything in Islam has a purpose..you can't just neglect it.
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Nicely put, outisde appearance does matter.
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I believe the primary reason in Islam is Believe in One God, period. Others all come secondary. I have repeated and repeat again. There is no complexity in Islam one God, unseen God. Allaah is the one who benefits and also tests us. So ask help from Allaah directly.
No mediator in between, one creator and one to ask help for. Rest all comes later, as Fraudia is explained the knowledge of One unseen God is the most important gift to any human being and only worshipping the True God is most important too.
Well, my only point is being a Muslim or following Islam is important. But believing in one God, and submitting yourself to this one God in all your actions in this world and believing in destiny automatically makes you a muslim.