I’m, today, sitting in bed typing this up asking you lot most likely in the northern hemisphere of this world, how do you wake up every morning, eating your breakfast, going to work, praying, and then all find it so easy to believe that there is this extra terrestrial force, a great creator, someone or something out there is looking down upon this great world and looking after us. Why do you find is soo easy to believe??
I am so frustrated. I can’t really speak out about this in my home (I’m 19); even though we aren’t really a very conservative Islamic family, far from it, but everyone in my family find it so easy to believe. I’ve grown up reading Arabic; learing to read the Quran, know so many surahs off by heart, understanding the fundamental concept about Islam. Yes, being born in Australia my parents probably tried to put that extra bit of effort to make sure I knew everything Islamic but I’ve reached the age where I can think for myself and understanding the world around me.
I’ve found it All the way through my years in high school its been so easy to believe (because I never questioned it) and then it hit me in my face one day this whole concept that a god created the earth, the heavens the sun is very disturbing and hard to believe. And the thing that is really eating me up inside, for over a year is that so much of this belief is based on faith. How do you find it so easy to believe? How do you find it so easy to believe. I am not question Islam. Ok I am sort of because some stuff is based on faith. E.g. Adam and eve. How do you just believe it just like that? Why is it so easy that because a book told you that it is the truth it must be the truth. Heck I was called a kaffir last week because I found it so tough, hard, & Difficult to believe in jinns/ghost. Yes the Quran says it’s all true but how do you find it so easy to believe. How did you achieve this leap of faith?
Of course, this story, of religion, cannot function unless it is believed within the community. The thing that really is hurting me is that Islam is not a matter of debate if someone has the thought to raise the question of the truth of the sacred stories that the Quran proclaim to be the truth. but the mullahs, religious fanatics, the people that believe so easily do not even enter into the debate. They just ignore or denounce them as blasphemy.
The thing is, in the religious sense, it is believed that the divine answers that science cannot explain such as the origins of the earth, but such answers are found within the religious text itself. But I’ve found that Creationists cannot explain origins at all. Saying “God did it” is not an explanation, it is simply faith. “God did it” is not tied to any objective evidence. It does not rule out any possibility or even any impossibility. It does not address questions of “how” and “why,” and it raises questions such as “which God?” and “how did God originate?”----- Well how did god originate? Do you know?....what caused god? If, as some claim, God does not need a cause, then by the same reasoning, neither does the universe.
I just want to know, how fellow Muslims have such faith, believing so easily. And to tell you the truth I want to go back in time and never have to ask myself these questions. I rather just follow blindly that having all these thoughts/questions swirling around in my head…yes, i rather be a sheep.
How do you find it so easy to believe? This leap of faith, that god is testing us. How do you find it so easy?
cheers.
slick_star.
