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Ramadaan Mubarak!
Sikotic™:
Hey as long as you're not an asshole trying to shove your beliefs down my throat and what you believe in makes you a better person, then I wish you the best.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Spice 2 seez the euro in you on August 01, 2011, 11:27:52 PM ---you're white, not a muslim
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Islam is not a race or a nationality. It is also not named after any person or any time period. Islam is eternal, and it has been around since the beginning of time, because Allah has been around since the beginning of time. Even the sun and the moon are Muslims because they submit to the will of Allah and they do not deviate from the course in which Allah has prescribed for them.
The Qur'an states that the purpose of dividing mankind into nations (races) and tribes is so that we could know each other. If everyone was the same there would be no identity. So we have all types of groups of people, but we all come from the same source.
Islam's culture has touched all different regions and races in it's time. The Russian caucuses where white people trace their ancestry is today a predominately Muslim region. With the Chechen Caucasian who their origins in the region and still populate that region today. Also, many parts of Eastern Europe are predominately white and Muslim, such as Albania and Bosnia.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Spice 2 seez the euro in you on August 02, 2011, 10:42:26 AM ---
How so? It's spread everywhere. If Brian's parents were Muslim that's one thing but how much you want to bet he was raised as a Christian?
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I was born a Muslim because everyone is born a Muslim. Because the exact translation of Muslim means that you are in submission to the Creator. So nobody chooses where they are born or how they are born, this is all chosen by God. So in that way we are all born Muslim. Then it is our parents or society that can raise us to be Christian or Hindu or Atheist and so on.
But I came back to my natural state as a Muslim, in recognizing the only true Creator which is Allah. Because in the grand spectrum of time, Jesus was not any more than a speck of dust. He lived 33 years, in a small region of the Earth. But the Earth is just one planet amongst an infinite number of galaxies known and unknown. So it only makes sense to worship the Creator that is sustaining the entire solar systems and galaxies.
Next, how sincere would my worship be if I was only a Christian because that's what my parents told me to believe in? Eventually we all have to choose our own path in life and we all have to be responsible for our own decisions and actions.
That would be a terrible statement of ignorance for me to claim that my parents contained the eternal, absolute truth about this world. Nobody has the eternal, absolute truth of this world, because we are all living according to our own circumstances. No two people are alike. What is right for one person can be wrong for another.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Raphael on August 02, 2011, 10:57:29 AM ---Im positive that he was raised as a christian and there is no doubt in my mind that he converted because he thought it was the black thing to do. Im just saying that there are a handful of white muslims, mostly in Eastern europe and the balkans.
and by raised you mean celebrating the religious holidays right?
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So what religion should I have converted to in order to embrace my white roots and satisfy your bigotry? Name me a white religion?
So I converted to Islam because it was the black thing to do? Again, please tell me what is the "white thing to do" so I can satisfy your bigotry. Because honestly I don't know what is the "white thing to do" so please enlighten me.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Furor Teutonicus on August 02, 2011, 01:29:25 PM ---
People in Somalia have started a little earlier this year it seems.
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Part of the purpose of fasting is so that we can gain sympathy for others who have to go without food and drink. So that we can praise Allah that he has not afflicted us with what he has afflicted them with, and that he has elevated us over much of what he has created. Because anybody could be in that position. The differences amongst humans is not so vast that it is impossible for a man to starve. There was once a King who loved his gold so much that he would go inside the vault to count it, until one day the vault door closed behind him and he starved to death counting his gold.
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