Helpp
January 20, 2011, 5:05am
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Re: Is it OKAY to have doubts?
Its definitely ok to question every little detail but remember most people on this forum are not qualified to give you answers. It is probably best if you seek answers from scholars who have devoted their lives to the study of Islam. I would be lying if I said I have never had doubts because I have in the past. I think most do and its the simple things that make you believe truly there is a god out there.
Anyway, I knows its a bad place to be in but inshAllah I hope you find the answers you seek.
Thank you.
I’m not looking for any answers, rather opinions on whatever I’m going through atm. I really want to know how those of us who are born into this religion keep our faith strong and if its okay to stop believing or to be confused for a while.
lethal_kamikaze:
I won’t go in details. I’ll try to answer u with very simple example. When u born, have u seen the lady who gave u birth is the same lady whom u call Mother since ur birth till the day now? U didn’t seen by urself. U just believed. This is how u hav the believe the existance of the God.
Somewhere in a book i read (i guess book name is Hayat-e-Sahaba) one Sahabi, when he was in with the company of Prophet Muhammad His heart was very soft than ever and he can imagine the heaven and hell (as per discussion). When that Sahabi reached home, he got busy with his wife and children all the imagination of heaven and hell was gone out of his heart. Suddenly he rememberd when he was in accompany, his situation was like that now it is totaly different.
He went to see Prophet Muhammad on the way he was saying to himself “Oh Sahabi! u r munafiq”, he meet another Sahabi on his way 2 there. They both had the same conditions and descibed the whole sitution. Our Prophet Muhammad explained by saying that Almighty Allah SWT! Have made ur feelings in such a way that u can have this life (in world) but by following the Islamic codes etc.,
So i guess this is the right time 4 u to dig answers of ur questions by reading studying more n more about Islam. every thing will gonna f9.
P.S. Plz! correct me as i think i don’t remember the exact senario. Thank you
Thank you.
I didn’t quite understand your example. So I have ‘faith’ that its my mother who gave birth to me, but if I have some sort of doubts I can go for any sort of testing to ‘prove’ that. Religion is totally based on faith, and I understand I need to have the faith from within and thats what I’m trying to look for.
aramis:
you dont pray and have not recited akalima in ages… u prayed for a problem!!!
dear praying is for worshipping Allah …then if u pray and ask Allah for things He grants out of HIs bounty..Always… you have to get your priorities straight; pray and worship Allah because thats why He put you on this earth… then trust HIM and believe in Him like HE needs to be believed in not for your needs only but because you are HIs slave.
think of having an employee what do you expect from him? only that you give him pay and not do any work? is that acceptable for you? then why do you expect anything from Allah if you dont worship HIM? Allah does not need you or your prayer …its YOU who needs to pray for your own good dear.
Comparing God to an employer? Seriously? Is this all there is to it, you worship Him and He grants you whatever you wish for? Give and take?
I don’t think so.
Thanks for replying though (: