the truth!

[echo]

Salam to all
Those people who raise strange questions regarding islamic teachings (e.g. regarding Jesus) i have a message. Every question has a right answer, i believe that but to reach that right answer is highly difficult. Its like entering a maze. There are 100s of ways of getting lost but one, just one to reach the truth! By asking questions you are entering this difficult maze but do you have the confidence or ability to follow the right path.
Friends, sometimes we get the wrong answers before we get the right one. Before asking such questions, you must have such a strong islamic belief that even if your research leads to an answer contradicting Islam, you will not question the veracity of Islam.
And of course, the climax of every knowledge is your Lord, the one ruler : Allah.

[yahudi]

you are talking less of truth and more of propagating a particular religion.

correct yourself and come again.

[Nadia_H]

Echo, Walaikum Assalaam

Originally posted by yahudi:
correct yourself and come again.

"Correct" himself to your interpretation? Perhaps, you could have stated your argument in a bit more politer fashion...which would have made others (like me) more willing to listen to your points of view.

Echo, i agree. Remember the ayat in the Quran that states,

Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,- any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. {II.62}

The truth is one and we all have our own ways of discovering it. While i firmly believe that what i believe is the truth, that cannot give me allowance to negate that someone else will feel equally passionately about their own religious beliefs.

[echo]

Thank you Nadia for your reply. It was certainly written in a very nice manner.Also thank you for your support.

[yahudi]

I donot mean to offend you.
You have provided the most suitable verse from Quran, though there are plemnty of verses say entirely in different manner.

What you call Truth, it is onesided in Quran, only for those who have eccepted the theme without questioning.
Others fall under another criteria.

If I have to prove my point throgh verses of Quran, this page is very small.

[Matsui]

Usually truth is an assembly of facts or postulates from various sources that that have been concurred.

Religion is based on faith not "truth". A singular source of theoretical evidence to prove itself is not "truth". It is belief or faith.

[echo]

What do you think faith is? a lie? Do you you believe that your faith is not based on truth?

[yahudi]

Your problem is that you are propagating a particular religion behind the curtain of truth. First correct yourself.

Are you really intewrested in Truth or just fulfilling a madrisa course?

[Matsui]

Originally posted by echo:
What do you think faith is? a lie? Do you you believe that your faith is not based on truth?

No faith is not based on truth. THe only relation is that faith can be based on truth as you see it not a universal paradigm.

So as yahudi said..come correct chanda. Don't be bringing your mom and pop theories in here.

[echo]

I think i am not clearly expressing my point. What i am trying to say is that our faith is what we "believe" to be true. This means that every other person believes in some different idea. But is this idea the real fact? Due to this very reason a person may get confused or "lost" while he is questioning the his faith. This is the point i am trying to emphasize, we believe that what we believe is the truth( atleast muslims do!) and so if we question it we can enter a lot of trouble. My request (which i also pointed in the first post) is that our faith must be so strong that apparant wrong answers during our questioning do not make us disbelieve in Islam.
One last thing. Thank you for your criticism. It certainly made me realise some faults in my thinking but i also hope that you will understand my point.

[yahudi]

Again you are misquoting truth while pushing a particular party.

My question, how much Islam recognizes other religions? I think only once the Prophet had to accept under some particular circumstances, ‘you follow yours and we follow ours’.
For rest you can open any chapter of Quran and find plenty of verses saying bad for people who do not recognize your faith.

So, make it clear if you are talking of ‘Truth’ or of Islam?

[rvikz]

Ramakrishna-"God has made different
religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries. All
doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God Himself.
Indeed, one can reach God if one follows any of the paths with
whole-hearted devotion....so the one Everlasting-Intelligent-Bliss is
invoked by some as God, by some as Allah, by some as Jehovah, and by
others as Brahman....So people in ignorance say, "My religion is the only
one, my religion is the best." But when a heart is illumined by true
knowledge, it knows that above all these wars of sects and sectarians
presides the one indivisible, eternal all-knowing bliss."

[echo]

I am talking about truth , i only gave Islam as an example.
As far as Quran is concerned, we do believe that people of other religions think wrong but we are not to hate them or anything else. You are a human and so all Muslims respect what you believe. If any one does not then he is doing wrong. Would you also give some Quranic verse in support of your argument.

[yahudi]

Does Quran accept other religions?
My dear Echo, you are contradicting yourself.
Muslims respect other religions and do they do so against the teachings of Quran?

Have you read Quran, or you are joking? In all 114 chapters every fourth verse , if not second, condemns faiths other than Islam.
No need to backtrack, just make it clear if you are talking of ‘Truth’ or of ‘Islam’.

[echo]

Let me make myself clear.When i wrote the first post i had not assumed that non-muslims would be reading it too, so i only talked about Islam and Truth. Now the same principle can be applied to other religions however it is difficult for me to think how they think. What i think is what Islam tells us. So i was talking about truth but from Islamic point of view. I hope this satisfies you.
Now the second thing. Have you ever read the Holy Quran or even its translation. I presume not. Even if you have you would not have understood it. As i said before, instead of talking randomnly-everywhere in Quraan- why don't you present a single verse which condemns non-muslims.