Gentleman

[Jolie]

Re: Gentleman

@Ghost14

Should, but does it? From your own experience, can you honestly say that the average Muslim is any better than the average non-Muslim? Does salaat and zakaat make one a better person? You can’t enforce empathy and kindness. Prayer and charity, which usually means money and not time, which is harder to give, does not make a better person. These things will make you a better Muslim, going by the letter of the law, but one would think the spirit of the law is more important.

Which again, begs the question: is a Muslim with faults higher in God’s eyes than a disbeliever who espouses the characteristics that Islam preaches but ignores the rituals?

Better in what sense?

Does salaat and zakaat make one a better person? How do you expect me to answer this? Well yes of course if you perform these practices by understanding the spiritual message behind it and keeping the spirit of the law alive. The whole spiritual purpose of namaaz is that it brings discipline, humility, calmness and peace into your life if done with the right intentions.

Quran is pretty clear on where disbelievers stand in Allah’s eyes. Shirk is considered an unforgivable sin and shahadat is not a ritual, it’s a belief. whether good non Muslims will get any special compensation on the day of judgement or not, that’s beyond my knowledge and understanding and only the Almighty knows the answer to that.

I think it’s an attempt to demean the religious obligations by terming them as rituals. They become rituals when you completely take spirituality out of it.