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Revoltingest

Revoltingest

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Pawpatrol said:
I'm an ex-Christian, now a Muslim, and a student of Islamic knowledge.

I like to discuss evidence rather than emotions, when it comes to religion.
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Pawpatrol

Pawpatrol

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Soandso said:
Welcome! How long have you been a practicing Muslim, if you don't mind my asking? Also, what led you away from the Christian path?
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Thank you.

I've been a Muslim for about 5 years.
I switched from Christianity to Islam. I was never a "real Christian" though... I found the truth in Islam. To give an example — I found justice in it. "Everyone goes to heaven" had never felt right to me.
 
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Pawpatrol said:
Thank you.

I've been a Muslim for about 5 years.
I switched from Christianity to Islam. I was never a "real Christian" though... I found the truth in Islam. To give an example — I found justice in it. "Everyone goes to heaven" had never felt right to me.
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Salam

As you said emotions can't be trusted. I left Islam for 5 years because of what started as a mistranslation and misinterpretation in all the commentaries I checked on altafsir.com, but also I hated the idea of people going to hell.

When I was non-Muslim, I had an obsession with seeing hell as irrational.

So emotions to me can mislead. Even Nuh (a) because of his attachment to his son, easily misinterpreted what God meant. And Ibrahim (a) when given good news became overwhelmed by beauty that he went too far from God's justice and began to argue for people of Lut (a). Yonus (a) because of his love of people blamed himself primarily when he had no blame and when in fact, he was successful and his people after seeing the punishment from far potential decided not to risk it being rain or something and believed.

Adam (a) wanting the rank of everlasting authority because it's the closest position to God even doubted the proper God and believed in the lies of Iblis for a moment. But he quickly returned to the Lord he knew deep inside was true and saw the ugliness when he ate of the tree (looked towards it with envy and sought to take that position).

Emotions can lead even Prophets (a) like Adam (a) astray (briefly). He being truthful believed in Iblis when he swore by God and because he wanted it to be true that he can be the closest to God and have the highest everlasting authority position.

So while you accept Islam for not everyone going to heaven, I fell away from it, because I wanted everyone to go to heaven.

This is why we should not in my view, pick what we want God to be. We should not project our morals to God. Rather, we find who he is, and accept who he is and the proper balance of virtues we take light from God and not make it up and project to God.

When I wanted to return to Islam, I put emotions on hold. I began to assess logical arguments for Messengers, leaders from God and scriptures. I would argue for and against. And wake up a Muslim in the morning and sleep as a disbeliever, and vice versa. It was a tough period in my life.

One of the arguments I had for it is when Imam Ali (a) appeared to me in a dream, made me remember a dormant memory, and then said "indeed Nubuwa and Welayat is a door of light to save you from the darkness of your sins".

But I got up saying my mind made it all up, despite, the fact that his spirit to exalted, too holy, to real, and the telepathy vivid, that I had no reason to doubt it was Ali (a).

And later on it was long dream experience which felt like 3 days with Mohammad (s) that really solidified by faith and made it take a leap - to that point I couldn't really do university (computer science), but after that, it was successful. Now timing couldn't be more perfect as I was introduced to adrenaline as medication at this point, but I was yet to go back to school. I didn't know anything about the medication other then the doctor recommended and said it would help me focus and do the tasks.

I took a leap of faith in both my doctor for my physical mind and for my doctor for my spiritual mind and soul, the Nabi (s). Everything been going better still I screwed up in many ways and got off medication for relapse. Just one last semester and I finish school though. Inshallah it will happen.
 
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