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[edit] New Look for Islam

The difference between Believers and non is that Believers take the signs carefully and follow the instructions word for word like everyone else, they just take it seriously and with zero resistance. In Arabic called Islam. The man who proved so was Abraham.

I am a Muslim too, and those are my beliefs after reading the 3 Holy Books and following Abraham's religion, ISLAM as in Al Nissaa 125 ومن احسن دينا ممن اسلم وجهه لله وهو محسن واتبع ملة ابراهيم حنيفا

Islam really used swords to put away governments that did not accept their people to declare their Islam. Prophet Muhammad faught only kings, armies and governments like the one that tortured Jesus (PBOH) for his Christianity, as seen in "The Passion of the Christ". (Al Tawba 12) فَقَاتِلُواْ أَئِمَّةَ الْكُفْرِ إِنَّهُمْ لاَ أَيْمَانَ لَهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَنتَهُونَ shows clearly those concepts. Prophet Muhammad didn’t fight the people, instead he spread a peaceful Islamic environment that made it safe for everybody to worship whomever they wished as in (Al Tawba 6) وَإِنْ أَحَدٌ مِّنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ اسْتَجَارَكَ فَأَجِرْهُ حَتَّى يَسْمَعَ كَلاَمَ اللّهِ ثُمَّ أَبْلِغْهُ مَأْمَنَهُ . Non Muslims were only requested to pay taxes. Yet, in our region presently, we grow up in a violent environment where we beat our children to make them agree or obey. Prisons and police stations use violence sometimes, and people use violence to take a stand in most contentions. We grow up thinking that violence is a sort of negotiation. Islam tells us to negotiate in wise and good terms as in (Al Nahl 125) ادْعُ إِلَى سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَالْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِ وَجَادِلْهُم بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ. Some Muslims, who experience certain traumatic events or feelings of guilt, suffer great pains at a certain time which they don’t perceive as a sort of test for their Faith, they perceive it a punishment from God for their being away from his path, so they think. They declare themselves clergymen and nuns and start to wear a veil or grow a dense beard as a sort of salvation and to refresh their Faith through sacrifice, some of them even sacrifice their faces and hide them. The sad thing is that when those people heal and wish to reform, they get rejected from the society that calls their hair and face sacrifices a final destination without a return back. Hair sacrifice is really a big thing to do that's why we do it during Haj, with a permission to substitute it with another tradition of choice in case of embarrassment (Al Baqara 196) وَلاَ تَحْلِقُواْ رُؤُوسَكُمْ حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ الْهَدْيُ مَحِلَّهُ فَمَن كَانَ مِنكُم مَّرِيضاً أَوْ بِهِ أَذًى مِّن رَّأْسِهِ فَفِدْيَةٌ مِّن صِيَامٍ أَوْ صَدَقَةٍ أَوْ نُسُكٍ, which shows it is not a sacrifice to do everyday. Islam does not approve monk-ship as a style of living (Al Hadeed 27) وَرَهْبَانِيَّةً ابْتَدَعُوهَا مَا كَتَبْنَاهَا عَلَيْهِمْ إِلَّا ابْتِغَاء رِضْوَانِ اللَّهِ فَمَا رَعَوْهَا حَقَّ رِعَايَتِهَا. God also did not create humans to be exactly like one person in resemblance and appearance and taste for life, only in worshipping. Otherwise, all God’s prophets would have been so. Islam accepts everyone's outfit and we don't have a uniform to wear. The Indian Sari for example is accepted by Islam and a woman is requested to wear a veil only during prayers and Haj because you need it to add some holiness to the self during the occasion. Consider it a worshiping tradition but not a woman's regular outfit. Al Noor 31 is speaking to straight womenabout woman's major human seducing elements which are eyecontact, breasts & genitals as in يَغْضُضْنَ مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِنَّ وَيَحْفَظْنَ فُرُوجَهُنَّ وَلا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ ! the part وَلْيَضْرِبْنَ بِخُمُرِهِنَّ عَلَى جُيُوبِهِنَّ instructs women to cover their breast area completely especially during breastfeeding period that demands them to keep their buttons open all the time and made it improper for them to show their breasts seductively or breastfeeding وَلَا يُبْدِينَ زِينَتَهُنَّ excluding the presence of certain people who would not be seduced. God here was merciful with the feeding mothers and only asked them to cover the open part of their chest by a scarf and did not ask them to zip up their dresses completely. In the same Aya وَلا يَضْرِبْنَ بِأَرْجُلِهِنَّ لِيُعْلَمَ مَا يُخْفِينَ مِن زِينَتِهِنَّ and Al Ahzab 59 يُدْنِينَ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِن جَلَابِيبِهِنَّ ذَلِكَ أَدْنَى أَن يُعْرَفْنَ shows that some women wore miniskirts like our 1970’s and were instructed to lower them down till the knee to avoid embarrassment. If anybody in Arabia during that time liked that dress with the scarf for fashion she was only blamed in the Quran for its being a bit too short and sexy, and that doesn’t make it a fashion for all Muslim women today especially those who like it more decent and conservative. Cosmetics in Islam were allowed for all girls and women until they grow too old for it, as in Al Noor 60 وَالْقَوَاعِدُ مِنَ النِّسَاء الَّلاتِي لا يَرْجُونَ نِكَاحًا فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِنَّ جُنَاحٌ أَن يَضَعْنَ ثِيَابَهُنَّ غَيْرَ مُتَبَرِّجَاتٍ بِزِينَةٍ. Islam was targeting a conservative civilized modern society with elegant men and appealing women. Some people say it's in the Quran. Well, the Hijab in Quran states that Prophet Muhammad's wives should not expose themselves to people while they are at home. Just imagine the daily crowd in front of a Prophet's door, so the Quran tells them it is OK and not offensive if you talk to people from behind doors if you're not ready to meet them and never feel guilty about it. Over ages, some Religion men used Hijab among other legends like female circumcision to inhibit adultery in the community, but that has nothing to do with Allah's religion. Let's also have a closer look to multi-wives marriages (marrying up to 4 wives). Islam came in a time where people had several wives at the same time. It was hard to let a person declare his Islam and desert his many wives and keep "just" one وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلاَّ تُقْسِطُواْ فِي الْيَتَامَى. It was easier to go through a transition from 10 or 8 to 4 and then to one only. Al-Nissaa 3فَانكِحُواْ مَا طَابَ لَكُم مِّنَ النِّسَاء مَثْنَى وَثُلاَثَ وَرُبَاع states you can keep any two, three or four out of those you liked from your existing women and if you fail to be fair to them 4, then you are allowed to keep only one فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلاَّ تَعْدِلُواْ فَوَاحِدَةً. Later, Allah mentions that you will never be fair with women (Al Nissaa 129)وَلَن تَسْتَطِيعُواْ أَن تَعْدِلُواْ بَيْنَ النِّسَاء وَلَوْ حَرَصْتُمْ Islam here brings dignity to the woman and lets her be the one and only for her husband instead of sharing him with 9 others. When God gave us the guide for how to punish our women he mentioned conversation for a start and then derprivation of intimacy in bed and last beating them without harm as in Al Nissaa 34 وَالَّلاتِي تَخَافُونَ نُشُوزَهُنَّ فَعِظُوهُنَّ وَاهْجُرُوهُنَّ فِي الْمَضَاجِعِ وَاضْرِبُوهُنَّ فَإِنْ أَطَعْنَكُمْ فَلاَ تَبْغُواْ عَلَيْهِنَّ سَبِيلاً. God never mentioned marrying another as a punishment for women although it is one that people use, at least as a threat, in our society thinking that this is one of their rights. I don't mean people who have second wives should divorce them for we can then fall into a social crisis. Islam should start to build itself again over the existing situation as it did before during our Prophet's time. Everybody would keep his wives, but we have to take a new Islamic approach that states clearly no more multiwives marriages among the new generations unless with an Islamic decree (Fatwa) for each case. Islam encouraged and accepted everybody to approach God as they were and then applied the rules gradually. Islam also used the multi-wives ancient community during the Prophet’s time to free women from slavery. So in Al Nissaa 3 فَوَاحِدَةً أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ ذَلِكَ أَدْنَى أَلاَّ تَعُولُواْ, God mentions that you can keep one wife or the women slaves. People of that era who married their slaves gave them liberty by tradition. Islam came to offer the woman monogamy, freedom and dignity; that's why marrying more than one wife is not a Sunna. Al Ahzab 50 قَدْ عَلِمْنَا مَا فَرَضْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ فِي أَزْوَاجِهِمْ وَمَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ لِكَيْلا يَكُونَ عَلَيْكَ حَرَجٌ shows that Prophet Muhammad was ordered to marry in a different way than anybody and then in aya 52 لا يَحِلُّ لَكَ النِّسَاء مِن بَعْدُ وَلا أَن تَبَدَّلَ بِهِنَّ مِنْ أَزْوَاجٍ وَلَوْ أَعْجَبَكَ حُسْنُهُنَّ proves he did not make marriage decisions freely as everybody else, and his wives were close witnesses as in Al Ahzab 32 يَا نِسَاء النَّبِيِّ لَسْتُنَّ كَأَحَدٍ مِّنَ النِّسَاء. They served as trustable narrators for a specific era like the Apostles of Christ as in Al Ahzab 34 وَاذْكُرْنَ مَا يُتْلَى فِي بُيُوتِكُنَّ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَالْحِكْمَةِ; that's why he was not allowed to replace any of them as of a specific time. Some of the people who still fight against monogamy say that man was not created monogamous, yet they know that Adam (PBOH) had only one wife when he needed four wives most to build the world, and Noah as well. A question remains, did God bestow a gift on Muslims to marry four wives and left the rest of humanity without such social privilege? If it was so, every man would have used that privilege. Did God order only Muslims to cover their hair and left the rest of humanity enjoying the hair gift? The present version of Islamic interpretation for the Quran is tanned with some extremism producing a low self esteem society who feels incompetent for the present measures. That’s why the human product of the present Christianity and Judaism is more powerful and confident. Islam has a place for everybody with or without beards and veils. At this era, Islam needs people who can do more than just worshipping. We lack brilliant communicators, negotiators and drivers of civilization. We can at least attract them. Still addressing our critics, Islam says let's all sit together and pray that whoever says something wrong about God be doomed as in (Aal Imran 61) فَمَنْ حَآجَّكَ فِيهِ مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءكَ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ فَقُلْ تَعَالَوْاْ نَدْعُ أَبْنَاءنَا وَأَبْنَاءكُمْ وَنِسَاءنَا وَنِسَاءكُمْ وَأَنفُسَنَا وأَنفُسَكُمْ ثُمَّ نَبْتَهِلْ فَنَجْعَل لَّعْنَةُ اللّهِ عَلَى الْكَاذِبِينَ . And still addressing our community, we have to revise the English version of the Quran, and try to find for ourselves what was misinterpreted over the last 1500 years that might have brought us down to mockery and criticism. We have a golden opportunity to add 1 billion new Muslims, just if we know that none of them wants to be a monk or share her husband with another. (Al Baqara 136) قُولُواْ آمَنَّا بِاللّهِ وَمَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ وَإِسْحَقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ وَالأسْبَاطِ وَمَا أُوتِيَ مُوسَى وَعِيسَى وَمَا أُوتِيَ النَّبِيُّونَ مِن رَّبِّهِمْ لاَ نُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِّنْهُمْ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ مُسْلِمُونَ states the core of the religions is the same for we all worship one God, The One And Only.