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  1. A-ManESL

    Is it ok to mock beliefs?

    I don't think causing distress and sadness to other people who arent doing any wrong is okay. If mocking one's belief is resulting in that then I wouldn't say it is okay.
  2. A-ManESL

    Validation through other Religions

    1. A validation of a religious scripture based on another scripture is improper. The true validation comes from spiritual development of a person. 2. Many Muslim scholars also hold the view that the corruption referred to in the Bible is a corruption in interpretation and not a literal...
  3. A-ManESL

    Hi... I hope you are well. Thanks for the thumbs up.

    Hi... I hope you are well. Thanks for the thumbs up.
  4. A-ManESL

    Science and Religion

    I tend to the viewpoint that modern science, or understanding the laws which govern our universe, is but a reading of the cosmic book God has spread out for us. It is true that science stays on one dimension only (the worldly and does not ascend to the spiritual) and so it may be said that any...
  5. A-ManESL

    Will Allah Punish a Good Hindu?

    You use the term another God which leads me to believe that you a-priori assume that other faiths do not believe in Allah. Since God is one, I see no reason to believe that a non-Muslim is always believing in another God different from Allah. If any other name is used by some other faiths...
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    Will Allah Punish a Good Hindu?

    One of Allah's names is goodness (Al-Barr is one of the 99 names, and so is Al-Nafi). You are treating Allah as if he is a distinct entity and goodness is divorced from Him. It is important to realize that this treating as a distinct entity is encapsulating Him within parameters, which is...
  7. A-ManESL

    Will Allah Punish a Good Hindu?

    At a very fundamental level I have already stated that all messengers of God brought the same message (the word Quran is used in the context of Muhammad(pbuh) though). The proper approach to understanding the Qu'ran is to understand it in the style within which it is presented. Its appeal is...
  8. A-ManESL

    Will Allah Punish a Good Hindu?

    I said the word Muslim means submitter (to God). Those who are not following the Muslim path as shown by Muhammad (pbuh) may be doing so only externally, since internally God's religion has and always been one; hence internally they may be following the same path at an esoteric level. The Quran...
  9. A-ManESL

    Will Allah Punish a Good Hindu?

    There may be a need for some clarifications: 1. Being a Muslim doesnt neccessarily mean being a believer (see Quran 49:14). It just means one has submitted to a path. The word Muslim in fact literally means submitter. 2. Knowledge of God is the ideal that is to be aspired for, and only those...
  10. A-ManESL

    Could have Islam exist without Judaism & Christianity?

    Because the mentioning itself was for a purpose which has nothing to do with non-local (non-Bible) prophets. The Quran does however say that those other prophets always taught in their own language(14:4).
  11. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    Lol! If you agree that mathematics doesn't give us absolute truth then we are agreed. However I am actually glad that this discussion/debate dragged on for so long, it did help me understand some things.
  12. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    Well, if you are saying that the textbook ought to have said "by the way, this particular result is based on hotly contested definitions, and who knows what might be wrong, but trust us this is a good thing to learn" I am agreeing to do that. The source just said that textbooks stated and proved...
  13. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    Yes, I have read some of that. Some one named Bishop Berkely criticised infinitesimals vehemantly. If you still feel that the textbook was doing its job, I just disagree. I don't think by stating that such and such result is a conjecture, a textbook would have failed in its objective at all. If...
  14. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    Of course I know calculus, and know what you are talking about (although I wouldn't say that everyone was unconvinced between 1806-1870). But this isnt what I am talking about. You make big assumptions when you say that the growth of calculus would have been stymed or students could not learn if...
  15. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    I do think there is something wrong if most of them are teaching a wrong thing. I do not think any compromise should be made on this.
  16. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    You didnt read the whole page in my link? I do think that you did not. Had you read this line: you would have understood that this is what I was referring to. If my reference was unclear, no harm done. I just want to say I believe this line means that a wrong result was stated and proved in...
  17. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    I would say that if a "wrong" proof is appearing in textbooks it has been accepted (but that's my opinion of course). But okay. I realize that the modern era standards are pretty tight and works done previously were not subject to the stringent standards. Hence many results were accepted...
  18. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    I think you have not read the example I have already quoted. There are many other examples in the links. At any rate I don't think you are not grasping the point. It's not that the relevant concepts are still being debated upon or not. I am pointing out that it is certainly possible that a proof...
  19. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    Firstly I am glad someone understood what I am saying. All the other forms I know of are naturally subjective. However as I said before, regarding spirituality and the knowledge obtained from it I don't have any idea. I feel it is a genuine thing, but not knowing about it enough I would refrain...
  20. A-ManESL

    Different truths are not the same

    Perhaps you haven't understood what I am saying yet. My argument is not that it was mathematically true and later proved false. Of course, none of the results mentioned in the link considered true and later found false are mathematically true. On its own, I do not consider mathematics...
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