The Absolute Truth

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The Absolute Truth

Islam, a monotheistic religion, is the Absolute Truth. Islam means submission to God (Allah). People who follow Islam are Muslims. There are around 1.5 billions Muslims all over the world. Majority of Muslims are non-Arabs.

Islamic Belief:

• There is only one God (Allah), the Creator of everything that exists in this universe, including all beings. God does not have any shape or form.

• God (Allah) does not have any son, daughter, family member or partner. He is only one and unique. And there is none comparable to Him.

• God (Allah) accepts only direct prayer/worship to Him without any mediator.

• God (Allah) forgives all kinds of sins if a person repents to Him directly.

• God (Allah) sent messengers and prophets with His Message (divine Books) to guide all of mankind.

• Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad are some of the messengers/prophets of Allah (peace be upon all of them).

• All human are born equally and sinless. They all belong to God (Allah). They are created for worshiping God (Allah).

• On the Day of Judgment, God (Allah) will resurrect and judge all of the mankind based on their beliefs and actions. Then, He will reward the righteous people with Heaven, and punish the wrong doers with Hell.

How to become a Muslim:

Just say and believe: There is only one God (Allah), and Muhammad is the final messenger and prophet of God (Allah). ----- (With this belief, you just became a Muslim, congratulations!!!)

To read the Book of God (Allah) – Quran, search for – Quran Translation by Yusuf Ali

Other Beliefs:

• Quran (the message from Allah) was revealed for all of mankind for guidance.
• God (Allah) created angels for His services.
• All human beings must be treated with respect regardless of their beliefs, race, gender and other differences since they all belong to God (Allah).
• God (Allah) forgives the person who forgives other beings.

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I am impressed sir. I’ve been convinced.

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I respect you and your beliefs. I am a benign agnostic.

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Me too :banana-dance: !

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Thanks all for being open minded and for the nice words.

I am inviting you to read the translation of the Quran. Knowledge always help us to grow. I also read the Bible to learn about it.

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Ya, I tried the Bible. Found more value and truth in The Illiad and The Odyssey. At least cyclopses are believable, unlike burning bushes…

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Humpty,

As a fellow human, I am humbly requesting you to read the Quran translation with open mind. I believe you will find the Truth there. As Allah (God) mentioned in the second chapter: “this is the Book of God, there is no doubt in it….”

You can read the Quran translation at:
usc.edu/schools/college/crcc … lim/quran/

Thank you in advance for your kind consideration.

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NO THANKS. I know I sound like a closed-minded ass hole, but it’s really not that simple. You can’t expect people to read whole books just to consider your opinion. If that were a legit way to spread ideas, I’d be neck-high in a house full of books right now. If you have a case to make, I’m sure you can do it without having me read thousands of pages of stuff I don’t really care for. That’s a ridiculously unreasonable expectation.

Asking me to read a few specific paragraphs, even a whole essay, on the other hand, is much more doable. Try not to be so full of yourself that you get the idea people are going to read thousands of pages of material they disagree with just to appease you. People generally don’t care about your religion enough to do that.

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No, however, they do seem to generally care enough about “your” religion to cite something and take it wildly out of context though. :wink:

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IIAT----------I wish you had requested for me to read the Quran translation. Do you
want me to do something. Is there a common ground on which to meet? We are fellow humans.

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If there were any such animal as absolute truth no evolving human mind could ever comprehend it.

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This person apparently believes strongly in what he says. I am not sure I agree with you IERR. How do you know this for sure?

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All,

Isn’t it a fair request to read a Book (Quran) that is believed as the Absolute Truth by more than one billion people? We believe that Quran is the direct commands of God without any interpretation.

Many of you may have already read the Bible. Many of you spent lot of time to read magazines. I am just requesting you all to read the Quran with your curious mind. You shall find the truth there.

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Turtle,

Actually I requested all of you to read the Quran.

Is there a common ground on which to meet? We are fellow humans:

Yes, the common ground is: we should learn from each other. May be, we all can take you as an example of a great human.

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A great human? Because he’s willing to read your book? HA!

Also, Mr.Islam, your appeal to popularity doesn’t sit well in a philosophy forum.

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True…just because everyone has read something doesn’t make it truth or not.
Hell, academic peer review is coming under fire right now over this very thing.

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Willing to read some books does not make somone a great human. But, open mind and a mind that is capable to understand other point of view do make a great human.

Also, are you saying appeal to read a Book doesn’t sit well in a philosophy forum? Are you setting the limit to learn in a philosophy forum? if so, then you have exclueded yourself from the philosophy world.

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I don’t think you understood what I said…because that was a really bad nonsequitor. Guess that’s to be expected, though. Good try buddy.

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IIAT; Humpty’s point was that if you want to make an assertion on this forum that Islam (or any religion) is the absolute truth, then for discussions purposes, you would need to present the case here without requiring everyone to read a massive text that takes years to digest.

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yeah, that