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Why are we here? Because Allah/Creator Spirit wants us to go on intellectual journeys. Mind travel. Where we ask the big questions and try to answer them. Intellectual travelers. I think this is the essence of religion/spirituality. But has been corrupted. Mind travel means we travel with the word. The word becomes our vehicle of travel. I think this makes such travelers more aware of what they say. Higher consciousness. A great gift.

Someone asked me to tell them my understanding of why we are here. This is what i said. Comments welcome. "Ok here goes. This is my view: 1- i believe it's very important to ask why we are all here in this planet. Why? Because otherwise it means we are lost. We don't know if what we are doing is the right thing. It may be the wrong thing. Or a mixture. So to find out what the right thing is we need to embark on a journey of discovery and exploration. This journey may take a very long time. And we may not really know at the end. But i believe it's still important to try. Why? Because i believe it's the right thing to do and we may actually discover the answer. So it's very interesting. Also if we look at history we find that some people did claim to have found the answer eg the prophets and others. Thinkers and philosophers and scientists.  So this is encouraging. 2 - My journey so far: I have discovered that yes there is an answer and that the answer is a...

Bismillah If you read a book eg about tawhid, and you think that everything the book says is true and then start challenging every Muslim you see to show them that they have shirk and should repent, and if not then they deserve hell. This is what Wahabism looks like. Ignorance coupled with supreme arrogance. What is the correct position on things? When we read any book written by a human we need to realize that the author is just giving either his opinion or the opinions of the people he or she is quoting. At the end of the day they are opinions. If they quote a Hadith then assuming the Hadith is actually correct then the understanding of the Hadith may actually be faulty. Or that it may have exceptions to it. Same thing if verses of the quran are quoted. Doesn't mean that the understanding of the verse presented is complete or accurate, no matter how much they want it to be complete and accurate. The result of this is that it means we can never be supreme in our opinion and...

If you are feeling the pain then i believe it's because you weren't vocal before. You weren't thinking about contributing positively in society. Instead just focussed on money making maybe and were afraid of controversy. So i believe that now Allah has sent you a message. You need to start using your mind and start thinking about why our situation is as it is? If you don't then expect the demonization etc to increase and expand. Relying on leaders just to repeat words of condemnation i don't think will work. But feel free to keep trying it. Free advice. Salam Ali Twaij Muslim thinker

Bismillah I think we need to explain what true Islam is really like to the western people as the media is giving them completely opposite type of understanding. That Muslims just want to attack and harm westerners etc. This is not true. But there are elements who have adopted the evil Wahabi sect that Saudi cradles and because of their immense oil money they spread it far and wide unfortuntely. And also because western governments keep that evil regime propped up and supported and this help maintain that spread. So we need to explain what true Islam is and if we don't know it we need to find out. I have written up my understanding of it in the link below. Basically it's closer to Sufism where you think deeply about the meaning of things and less about the outer appearances ( which is what  wahabism focuses on i believe). Then we need to tell people the difference between the two so they can see the beauty of Islam and stop believing the lies of the media. This is my view. ...

We must follow the Sahaba. True. The prophet peace be upon him turned all of them into thinkers i believe. We need to do that too. We have become sheep. Time to think. Time to question. Time to doubt. Yes doubt. Because this is the way to strong l knowledge. Salaam.

Bismillah Sahih doesn't mean the hadith is true. It just means that the chain of narration was deemed reliable. So it relates to the chain and not the content i believe. And the chain is to do with how some narrators are regarded by Hadith scholars. And because they differ on how narrators are classified it means that a Hadith that is regarded sahih by one scholar eg imam bukhari maybe regarded weak by another Hadith scholar eg imam Ahmed for example.  Simply because they differ on a particular narrator of the hadith. With one he is regarded trustworthy and with another regarded suspect (eg due to unreliable memory or other reasons. Each scholar has their criteria for classification i believe) But because we have many either deceitful or ignorant scholars today, this point is not clarified and many Muslims think a sahih hadith is actually sahih ( sahih means correct in arabic). And start thinking that any hadith in sahih bukhari is true. The Quran on the other hand is 100% aut...