Lately I’ve been feeling a bit down on my spiritual side.
I just feel empty, like I don’t belong.
Is it a phase which will pass?
Re: I can’t be bothered with religion
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*Originally posted by Zakiii: *
Lately I’ve been feeling a bit down on my spiritual side.
I just feel empty, like I don’t belong.
Is it a phase which will pass?
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InshaAllah. Just stick to Quran and Sunnah. Try to read and understand them.
I always suggest to read Surah Doha with it’s context and background.
Once, you will read it, you will :insha: know what I am talking about 
Zakii: It is hopefully a stage, which will pass soon, insha’Allah.
However, you will have to work hard to make sure you can improve your eeman. You should spend more time reading Quran with meaning. Read articles that can help you. Foremost beg for forgiveness and remember Allah (SWT) as much as you possibly can.
Following a link to a book that speaks in detail about the signs and cures of weak eeman.
It is a small book that has been made available online. It is definitely worth a read, insha’Allah.
May Allah (SWT) help you as well as the rest of us, ameen.
You must read ShrimadBhagvat Gita, the only spiritual book for all centuries.
others in the thread have already told u what to do...
you'll be okay :) dont think abt it too much...
Dear Zakiii.
Perhaps you are feeling a little depressed maybe?
I can remember a time in my life when I felt spiritually numb.
My mom would say to me... Pray.... and tell me that if something was really bothering her..and she didn't know what to do...she would pray..and an answer would come to her...and advised me to do same.
Well I would pray and pray and nothing changed. I was still numb...and answers were not forthcoming.
Maybe they did..but I was too numb.
For me...I think I lacked the ability to believe that God would give me guidence..even though I wanted to.
I think it was because I had not yet learned how to trust myself.
Sort of a growing pain.
Keep praying. And trust your feelings.
is out brother 'Zakiii' back to the norm
Thanks guys I feel much better now.
Sister Sadiyah, that was great. :k:
For a very long time, all I’ve practiced of Islam is the bare necessities, like the five Namaaz but not the optional ones before and after or Zikr and Tilaawat, I’ve started them and feel much better.
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You must read ShrimadBhagvat Gita, the only spiritual book for all centuries.
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Thanks but no thanks, I’ve read parts of the Bhagvad Gita when I was in London, fathers business trip, a group of Hare-Krishna’s gave me a copy, I couldn’t sleep at night so I sat in the window of our flat and watched the cabs drive past until I got bored of that and started reading the conversation between Sri Krishna and Arjun (I think he was called?) and I wouldn’t be so confident about calling it the only spiritual book for all centuries, it didn’t touch me in the slightest, quite empty and boring, no proper clear guidance like I’ve found in the Qur’aan al-Kareem, even the Old and New Testaments are better than the SBG, I don’t agree with a lot in them but some things I can relate to, Hinduism is a complete other.
Not to mention, it’s not the coolest of religions, with Islam people like Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X and other cool people follow it and convert to it, Islam is cool, it’s bling innit, who follows Hinduism? Some hippies and dark vegetarian arse swotty Hindu kids?
If it was convincing and promising on the spiritual side I’d consider it and not worry about what people will say but it’s naff both ways.
I need to do a lot of work in becoming a better Muslim, I have an attitude problem and other things but I’m still proud of being a Muslim.
According to St. Thomas the soul is not transmitted with the semen, but is created afresh with each man. There is, it is true, a difficulty: when a man is born out of wedlock, this seems to make God an accomplice in adultery. This objection, however, is only specious. There is a grave objection which troubled St. Augustine, and that is as to the transmission of original sin. It is the soul that sins, and if the soul is not transmitted, but created afresh, how can it inherit the sin of Adam? This is not discussed by St. Thomas.
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According to St. Thomas the soul is not transmitted with the semen, but is created afresh with each man. There is, it is true, a difficulty: when a man is born out of wedlock, this seems to make God an accomplice in adultery. This objection, however, is only specious. There is a grave objection which troubled St. Augustine, and that is as to the transmission of original sin. It is the soul that sins, and if the soul is not transmitted, but created afresh, how can it inherit the sin of Adam? This is not discussed by St. Thomas.
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So that would make God an accomplice to a murderer for a murder, thievery to a thief and rape to a rapist...My friend, if God intervened in everything that man proposed to do out of evil, there woouldn't be a question of faith now, would it? Everyone would be a believer...Islam believes in faith of the unseen and that's where smartasses seem to part ways...Not everyone possesses faith but all are tested for it, hence the rewards and the punishments deserving each deed...
Funny thing is, God did intervene in front of everyone's eyes on many many occasions, yet many disbelieved even then...
And if I am not mistaken, you are talking about St. Thomas Aquinas, the famous promulgator of the 'just war'? Then how do Christians explain the crusades in Christianity and the support of Israel by Christians today? Christianity is a little messed up...We have our own creed called Islam and we follow that...No saints here...
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So that would make God an accomplice to a murderer for a murder, thievery to a thief and rape to a rapist...My friend, if God intervened in everything that man proposed to do out of evil, there woouldn't be a question of faith now, would it? Everyone would be a believer...Islam believes in faith of the unseen and that's where smartasses seem to part ways...Not everyone possesses faith but all are tested for it, hence the rewards and the punishments deserving each deed...
Funny thing is, God did intervene in front of everyone's eyes on many many occasions, yet many disbelieved even then...
And if I am not mistaken, you are talking about St. Thomas Aquinas, the famous promulgator of the 'just war'? Then how do Christians explain the crusades in Christianity and the support of Israel by Christians today? Christianity is a little messed up...We have our own creed called Islam and we follow that...No saints here...
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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.