Interfaith Islam
I am seriously considering becoming a Muslim, but without leaving Christianity or world spirituality. I may simply add Islam to my wealth of faith. I have no particular intention of adopting Arabic cultural practices, nor dress, nor language or social practices, although if I find them appealing I may try them.
I love devotion to God and the practice of what is good, but I cannot support enforcing religious beliefs on others through physical means. All physical action is tactical, and all tactics are bound by value and desire, which are spiritual and mental, and the mental world has great non-physical privileges over the physical world. The mind can be used as a tactical item as well as physical items can be.
Instead of whipping someone for showing skin, I could easily recognize them as valuing their body less, or other things more, or having a different value set. I do not well know much else of what Islam stands for forcefully, but I plan to study it well and post my findings here. I enjoy part of what Muslims say about not harming other Muslims.
There is much I do not know, and I will not perform a practice if it does not have personal menaing to me. I do not plan to face Mecca, although I pray often and believe much. I have not studied the works of Mohommad well, although I examine and observe a kind of loving reverence and admire religious study and ethics, and the obedience and love of people for these things.
If we all were technically "Muslim", which does not mean unfaithful to your own faith, and obeyed well reviewed loving and sensible practices, the world could be better.
I am a Christian. I am enlightened. I will soon be a Muslim as well.
“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white — except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Remember one day you will meet Allah and answer your deeds. So beware: Do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone.”
This statement by Mohommad is good. I am pleased to spell this name and the name of the holy book of Islam as I see fit, for it cannot affect truth. I am concerned about the problems presented by some verses from the Koran. But I love that which is right and I will become a reform Muslim with my own personal beliefs and understanding with God.
I think Muslims might enjoy spiritual math. I admit I have a compromised attitude about what Islam is. Instead of seeing the bad in it through the disarray of Middle Eastern and African society and worrisome or violent passages in the Koran, I want to focus on the positive traits and qualities of the religion and use it to build a better faith and relationship with God for billions of people.
I love devotion to God and the practice of what is good, but I cannot support enforcing religious beliefs on others through physical means. All physical action is tactical, and all tactics are bound by value and desire, which are spiritual and mental, and the mental world has great non-physical privileges over the physical world. The mind can be used as a tactical item as well as physical items can be.
Instead of whipping someone for showing skin, I could easily recognize them as valuing their body less, or other things more, or having a different value set. I do not well know much else of what Islam stands for forcefully, but I plan to study it well and post my findings here. I enjoy part of what Muslims say about not harming other Muslims.
There is much I do not know, and I will not perform a practice if it does not have personal menaing to me. I do not plan to face Mecca, although I pray often and believe much. I have not studied the works of Mohommad well, although I examine and observe a kind of loving reverence and admire religious study and ethics, and the obedience and love of people for these things.
If we all were technically "Muslim", which does not mean unfaithful to your own faith, and obeyed well reviewed loving and sensible practices, the world could be better.
I am a Christian. I am enlightened. I will soon be a Muslim as well.
“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white — except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not therefore do injustice to yourselves. Remember one day you will meet Allah and answer your deeds. So beware: Do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone.”
This statement by Mohommad is good. I am pleased to spell this name and the name of the holy book of Islam as I see fit, for it cannot affect truth. I am concerned about the problems presented by some verses from the Koran. But I love that which is right and I will become a reform Muslim with my own personal beliefs and understanding with God.
I think Muslims might enjoy spiritual math. I admit I have a compromised attitude about what Islam is. Instead of seeing the bad in it through the disarray of Middle Eastern and African society and worrisome or violent passages in the Koran, I want to focus on the positive traits and qualities of the religion and use it to build a better faith and relationship with God for billions of people.
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