If God intended for there to be just ONE religion, then my belief is that it would have been revealed in a way for all mankind to accept.
This statement is not fair. He has always sent the same message to all.. God is one, He sents prophets to guide, there are angels, Satan is our enemy, there is a day of judgement et al.
The reason people deviated because He has given right to choose and people choose wrong things and right things based on their own understanding.
If we were to blame everything on God that if He wanted this and if He wanted that then, please spare Osama Bin Laden to be a bad person as well.. If God had wanted, bin laden would not have such persona in people's mind.. it's not his fault.. God wanted that way and so no one should go to hell.. and for that matter, no one deserves Heaven as well for people do good deeds because God want it that way... There is no credit for what people do.
When I look around the world there are so many clashes between Muslims and other religions. In India, majorly religious Hindus and Muslims have tiny clashes that have at times led to explosions of huge riots. There are countless accounts of violence between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia and the Philippines, Muslim-Buddhist violence in Thailand, the Muslim-Jew clashes in Isreal and the inter-Muslim violence between the Sunnis and Shias.
The basic foundations of Islam are for peace so what is the underlying reason for all of these clashes?
Muslims are politically and militarily weak now. Religion is not stoking the violence. Anyone who is oppressed fights back one way or the other (muslim or not). Many muslims today use religion to convince other muslims to join the fight to free muslims of victimization by propagating the message that it is their religious duty to fight for the betterment of muslims.
Ofcourse muslims are not all at fault however a select few who think using milataristic means or tactics to fight will promote muslims from their current state to a better one then they are wrong. The muslim world lacks in too many other things that desperately need improved and it is not abandoning religion or modernizing Islam.
This statement is not fair. He has always sent the same message to all.. God is one, He sents prophets to guide, there are angels, Satan is our enemy, there is a day of judgement et al.
So your view is that the Abrahamic religions are "all"? You may be surprised to learn that there are thousands of religions in the world, many of which did not begin in the Middle East.
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If we were to blame everything on God that if He wanted this and if He wanted that then, please spare Osama Bin Laden to be a bad person as well.. If God had wanted, bin laden would not have such persona in people's mind.. it's not his fault.. God wanted that way and so no one should go to hell.. and for that matter, no one deserves Heaven as well for people do good deeds because God want it that way... There is no credit for what people do.
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My point is if there is going to be ONE, FINAL, COMPLETE message that everyone must follow in order to please God and have a chance at an afterlife, it would have been revealed in a way all of mankind can accept. If man kept messing up the same message over and over, surely God would've perfected it for the final message we'd ever receive.
There was only one religion at the time of Adam:as:
There were no other race until Noah:as:
After the flood, his three sons settled in three different places on the land and from there on, races started to emerge… The message was still the same until they started deviating…
From the lineage of one of the son, came the Ibraheem:as: and hence the Ibrahimic religion that is mentioned in Quran and other divine books…
The message got corrupted in other two areas as well!
*Everything *you said here is from the Abrahamic pov. As I said, there are thousands of religions around the world and only a handful started with Adam.
That's a shame. I used to think my faith was strong and invincible until I started studying things outside of my comfort zone. How otherwise would I know if my faith was strong or weak, right or wrong if I limited my studies to just one field? Out of fear? That's not knowledge or strength - it's following blindly.
Sure it was scary, but looking back it would have been a lot scarier because I wouldn't have the knowledge from which the strength comes. What good is a strong faith when it isn't bsaed on knowledge? It’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts.
hence, after learning all that I am satisfied that my faith is strong and I only represent the strong and correct POV than the knowledge that is based on wrong information.
hence, after learning all that I am satisfied that my faith is strong and I only represent the strong and correct POV than the knowledge that is based on wrong information.
"Knowledge", "faith", "fact", "wrong information" are all exclusive terms. You must be educated on all of them in order to have an educated pov or legitimately claim to have any strength of faith.
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Muslims are politically and militarily weak now. Religion is not stoking the violence. Anyone who is oppressed fights back one way or the other (muslim or not). Many muslims today use religion to convince other muslims to join the fight to free muslims of victimization by propagating the message that it is their religious duty to fight for the betterment of muslims.
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The point that is being made is that why is that only muslims are being oppressed wherever they are. While in most of the so called Islamic countries non muslims are being oppressed in a worse manner. Then how come there are no revolts in the so called Islamic countries from the Kuffars.
Is it a Pakistani or Muslim trait to believe there are only 4 or 5 religions and only certain ways to interpret them? Does one have to have centuries-old books, a lineage of prophets that predate educated society and 500 million followers to quality as a real, sure nuff set of beliefs?
You tell me, as these are your metrics.
No, I don't think any of those qualifications are necessary for someone to follow a legitimate, spiritual, God-pleasing set of beliefs. But there are others who think if your religion didn't start w/Adam, then it isn't a legitmate belief system and any other possibilities aren't up for discussion.
The point that is being made is that why is that only muslims are being oppressed wherever they are. While in most of the so called Islamic countries non muslims are being oppressed in a worse manner. Then how come there are no revolts in the so called Islamic countries from the Kuffars.
1 there are, but they are suppressed, just like they revolts of locals and other muslim minorities are suppressed as well.
2- because most of those countries are totalitarian regimes where no one gets a say, muslim or non muslim. If Saudi govt can send tanks in the holiest site in Islam to go after political dissidents, that tells you what type of regimes you are dealing with.
3- i have not seen an example of worse oppression in the last few decades than what happened in Bosnia, and I dont know of any other group of ppl living in refugee camps for over half a century, so when you say worse oppression please give examples.