Things you liked about other sects / religions?

diwana · February 27, 2014, 2:49am

Re: Things you liked about other sects / religions?

There are many things we say (sometimes openly and sometimes not that openly) against sects and religions we don’t follow.

But sometimes, certain things inspire you about those sects and religions. Lets share such things (practices, rituals, way of life, attachments) from different sects / religions (other than yours) which inspired you at some point of time.

I start:

Sect: I belong to a sunni family, but I like one thing (amongst many) about shia community i.e. they know about the history more than sunnis (whether we agree to that or not). Their young children know more about the early history of Islam, mainly they attend Majalis and this make them good / convincing speaker, debater not only in religious matters but also in other matters.

Religion: Parsis… very down to earth and philanthropist people. I’ve worked with a Parsi boss and the way he deal with people is exemplary. They are usually hardworking and have strong community set-up (which is also common in sects like Bohri and Agha-khani who once shared Gujarata and adjacent territories with them).

Islamic Sects:

Mutah: Practiced or not refuted by Shia Muslims. Albiet it is controversial and debatable, I have not found anything concrete or authentic to refute as of yet.

Yes, there is a lot of chance of it being abused and taken as mean to cause a lot of indiscriminate actions. I agree wholeheartedly that tharki and wannabe promiscuous can use it for wrong reasoning.

**Divorce method **by Shia sect:

When long term marriage is valid ONLY with presence of witnesses, how come divorce does not need witnesses?

On a principle basis, I agree with Shia sect.

**But **I do see the argument for talaq being valid for many other reasons to be valid if given three times on one occasion without any witness being there.
(I have posted several posts on that a while ago).

Perhaps an Ijtehad on a large scale in this matter is in order…with room to have divorce being accepted in certain selective situations when given three times in one occasion.

More to come…

What people said about Islamilies, Shias, Ahmadis ..or any minorities in a Muslim country can be easily extrapolated to some extent Muslims, Hindus, Jews etc… in a non-Muslim, Non-Hindu, Non-Jew country.

**Minorities by virtue of being minorities have to find some way to be …united, compete against majority, or have a survival instinct to help each other.
**

So if minorities are helping each other then** what is the big deal about them per se**???

P.S.
In case anyone did not get the point: Per Se means being literally who they are. There is no specail qualification for being a member of minority and being successful.

But it is very commendable that a member of minority would posses such a strong self respect that the member would try to compete against the majority for goodness.

Got it???