struggling between morality

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Re: struggling between morality

@lil_ash

How do you distinguish between morals set by religion and morals set by society/yourself. I’m struggling between morals set by myself and the so called morals I hear set by religion. I feel like an outcast in my own religion. I feel like I have a different Allah than other Muslims. I disagree with so much of what some Muslims have to say about our religion, morals, or Allah swt. I believe in Allah, I believe in Prophet Muhammad pbuh, but I don’t agree with what people have to say about our religion, or the ways of following it. Does that make me a non Muslim? A lot of mullah type religious people have told me that I follow a religion set by myself not Allah swt, and it breaks my heart being an outcast. Do morals set by me make me a non-muslim?

There are very basic, and universal values which we all ascribe to. Such values are inherent and obvious to all, as well as logical. Such values permeate the core of most religions as well. This makes sense, since as creations of the all mighty we were endowed with same values that were dictated in our holy books, for us the Koran.
My belief is that if what you are hearing contradicts this core value system we all have, its probably not the right interpretation. For example, we all know instinctively that murder of innocents is illegal. So if you hear a Mullah or a self professed Islamic theologian trying to justify it in any way, and you are still not comfortable with it, as it goes against our instinct, its probably not valid or in concordance with the precepts of Islam.