Then your arguments stands nullified because the shariah has always been applied in Egypt since the conquest..and she was only secularized recently after the english colonialism
The shariah doesn't prevent any other religion to practice....non muslims pay jizya because unlike muslims ,they...
I don't think it's an islamic objective to force a rule on people...islam is a religion with general rulings for life....how can the people be ruled by it without accepting it as a religion in the first place ? that would be a tyranny practiced in the name of the religion ?
and if it was...
I don't know about the Mughals..and even if it's true...why should their actions be attributed to Islam...Islam did..islam wants...Islam bla bla , Is it hard to attribute the action simply to the person who did it ?
I don't deny the islamic conquests...and i have just said they were meant to...
Where do you see the contradiction ?
I don't think the islamic conquests' purpose was to dominate...but to preach the religion when there was no other communication channels possible....and yes , without them ,i wouldn't have been a muslim ,myself
Islam doesn't want to dominate...people want to dominate....islam doesn't reach its goals by the sword because the ' hearts' of people is the only goal of islam
We preach and practice dawah but we don't have missionaries in the christian sense of the word
The masses were touched by the fire of tyranny and colonialism....not secularism
Secularism is not a problem as long as it's not forced on muslims..and islam is not a problem as long as it's not forced on non muslims....both ,secularism and the islamic regime should be a reflection of the...
Excuse me ,you know english is not my first language
by 'compatible ' i mean that we can co exist and find common ground to stand upon...i wasn't aware that 'compatible ' means that one has to change the other entirely and obscure its identity
I believe the west can benefit from Islam a...
I think the more westernes learn about islam ,the more common ground they will be able to see..and the less fearful they will become of it
The truth is that i expected you to be one of those who are able to see the common ground more than anyone else considering that your knowledge about islam...
The true islam is still around ,alhamdulilah...the religion of allah is always around , in the hearts and actions of many muslims
Regarding the state of women in islamic countires...it's not that bad as the media portryas it....most countries grant women plenty of their rights and i am...
I find the spiritual pursit and continous " Tazkeya " practiced by the sufis something that should be expected from every muslim..and i am disturbed when people think it's only restricted on sufis
However , many sufis go with their spiritual pursuit to the extreme ignoring the essence of islam...
we have assurance that those who die holding the creed of ' Tawheed ' in their hearts will go to paradise...but we have no assurance that we ,personally , are going to be among them....we have hope in Allah's mercy...we do our best...and excpect the best from our lord
yes ,sure....One's creed...
I strongly dislike the term too ,not4me...because of the connotation that the *fundamentals* of the religion are necesicarily extreme and backward and have to be abandoned for us to be *moderates*
I dislike most of the terminology used by the media to classify islam...i can't tell if they are...
I don't think they understood or differentiated between anything ,sajdah
The danish cartoons were re published soon after the protests ,the boycotting..and so...and we never got an official apology from the Denemark ,as far as i know
on the contrary , what happened is that they adhered more to...