Re: Non muslims dont go to heaven?
. And not all of them are so simplistic as the vengeful version of a powerful wizard sitting in some physical place of unimaginable beauty.
This is your own characterization. By the same token, one can calim God isn't some laid back hippie driking buddy who's there to listen to your liliuptian problems. Or some disinterested cloud.
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Spiritually and logically, it makes so much more sense to put our emphasis on doing what God wants us to do rather than contantly reasserting his superiority and all-powefulness.
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Worship is what he wants us to do, as he has communicated to us. If you reject it...then to you your own faith and to us our own.
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Secondly, with over 100,000 prophets sent from God (according to Islam),
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According to Islam, God only created us to worship him...why no invocation of that above?
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it is irrelevant to believe in the all impotance of just one man. All the prophets and every other men stacked together should not be on par with God. Here we give equal billing: "there is no god except Allah SWT and Muhammad was his messenger".
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No, by no means is it "equal" billing. It's a criteria of faith, and a less verbose way of saying that one recognizes the primacy, and sovereignty, of Allah (swt) as communicated through the Message revealed to Muhammad (saw)