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Why do some Atheists, Christians, Hindu's etc., believe in Islamic ahadith so passionately?

A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
We decide what texts are real. Not non-believers, who don't even speak Arabic.
So you just "decide" what is real? Sounds typical of theists, honestly. No surprises here... just more tacit/accidental admission of adhering to a bad business model.

If you cannot speak Arabic, then you can't even know anything.
Seems a bit hyperbolic. "Anything?" You sure about that? I'm sure you meant that I "can't know anything about the texts." And do you know what? I'd rather not know anything. Why not keep it to yourselves - ENTIRELY?
 
The OP described a non-Muslim who accepted the Hadiths as true. What in your quote suggests that @Tokita actually believes the Hadiths?

Oh, that is a good point, I had just assumed that when he continuously insists that people who don't believe in the Hadith should believe in the Hadith because without the Hadith "there is no Qur'an", that they are really desperate about people believing in the Hadith so that they can hate on them for it. I doubt they believe in the Hadiths for real, and the imaginary people that fire-dragon was talking about probably don't actually believe in the Hadith either (since they don't believe in the miracle aspects as he mentioned), but those "types" of which tokita seems to be one, typically insist that people ought to believe the negative seeming things in the Hadith, and when people reject those things, they insist that they must believe in such or else "there is no Qur'an, you don't know who Zaid is" or whatever tokita was saying.

I may need some more resources, a bag, possibly some tools to extract the specific posts from tokita you are looking for though, since they don't talk to me directly usually or respond to anything I say ever.

I thought they were an O.K. or close enough example of someone who isn't a Muslim who keeps using examples from the Hadith as if they believe in the Hadiths or are implying or insisting they are true or should be true for others at least and are a requirement, in order to insult Islam. Not good enough maybe though, so I'll keep an eye out for any other people who pop up and use examples from the Hadith to try to demonstrate how Muhammed was an evil pedobear or whatever.

Actually, you can see its quite frequently used as a tactic all over the world wide web, where polemicists collect things from the Hadith in order to show Muhammed, Muslims through history, and Islam in a negative light, but do so not to say "hey look at how silly this is" which is how some people might do it, but instead as "look at how this historical record of this person shows what a creeper little girl lover he was, ew" and their argument doesn't really work as well as "look at this fake and unverifiable account of a guy doing something that was written long after he was dead, I don't believe it, and neither should you". So it seems like they are implying at least that other people should believe it, because if believed, then it makes the person look bad, but if disbelieved, then it means nothing bad about that person, so kind of only mainly makes sense that they are saying "hey check out this disgusting factoid about this pervert from Arabia, yuck central".
 

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
Well, he doesn't speak for me as a "we" and I don't believe in his fair.

What I'm saying is that his use of 'we' is not trying to speak for you. He giving his opinion about what 'we' should do in terms of humans.
You can have your own opinion.

For example, if I say 'I think we should promote a secular society' do you really think I'm stating what your opinion is, just because I use the word 'we'?
 
I'm extremely passionate about the Qur'an because its the best religious scripture I've ever read. I don't think I'd be so hot and bothered about it if it wasn't so good as compared to the other books in their little skirts and all made-up.
 
What I'm saying is that his use of 'we' is not trying to speak for you. He giving his opinion about what 'we' should do in terms of humans.
You can have your own opinion.

For example, if I say 'I think we should promote a secular society' do you really think I'm stating what your opinion is, just because I use the word 'we'?
Science got interesting

You had beliefs prior to science getting interesting that were sort of incompatible or contrary to science and scientific thinking?
 

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
You had beliefs prior to science getting interesting that were sort of incompatible or contrary to science and scientific thinking?

Hi mate, I'm assuming you didn't have a question for me, and just quoted me accidentally. Easy to do.
But if you do have a question for me, just let me know.
 
Hi mate, I'm assuming you didn't have a question for me, and just quoted me accidentally. Easy to do.
But if you do have a question for me, just let me know.

Sorry about that! Yeah, that was some kind of an accident, or it was in my quote from earlier or somehow showed up there, sorry about that! I'll definitely ask you a question though if I come up with one, but in that case I was trying to quote the other person, the second quote only was the one I meant, sorry for the alert it may have sent you!
 

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
What I'm saying is that his use of 'we' is not trying to speak for you. He giving his opinion about what 'we' should do in terms of humans.
You can have your own opinion.

For example, if I say 'I think we should promote a secular society' do you really think I'm stating what your opinion is, just because I use the word 'we'?

Okay, I have a tendency to read it literal. Can you explain more about what/who the 'we' is?
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
Also I know Christians who say that muslims are practicing Taqiyyah so they don't trust anything the muslims say.

Well, this is irrelevant, but let me say that "muslims practicing taqiyyah" as you said is one of the most nonsensical absurdities that anti islamic apologists use. Its ignorant, and deliberately established as an attacking tool that doesnt work on Muslims but only non-muslims because they are not made aware of the truth.

Tell me. Do you know what that means? It means righteousness. Some say it means God consciousness. Why? Because lets say you are in a place where you have an opportunity to steal and no one is gonna see you do it but only God would know. Thus, this awareness would stop you from doing something bad.

That is Taqiyya and that's what it means. The Shii's developed a doctrinal meaning to this word where they believed its okay to pretend you are not a Muslim, or pretend your faith doesnt exist when threatened with life. Why? Because your righteousness is in your heart and you are only doing that to save your own life or your children under persecution.

So what in the world are these people talking about? Anyone who uses this bogus Taqiyya for anti islamic polemics are either absolutely lying intentionally or are absolutely ignorant.

Cheers.
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
RE: Why do some Atheists, Christians, Hindu's etc., believe in Islamic ahadith so passionately?


Were you quoting an atheist, a Christian, or a Hindu?

Or were you quoting this guy...

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Yeah. When understanding is as low as the gutter things like this prop up in peoples minds.
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
I don't think it is reasonable to reject hadithes, or accept hadithes without a reason.
A hadith can be authentic (truly from Prophet or an Imam) or it could be made up by someone else.
So, we need to go case by case. If you think a hadith is false, you must have a good reason to reject it. I don't think it is reasonable to reject a hadith on the basis that it was written long after. You know, it still could be a true hadith, verbally memorized and transmitted by believers to the later generation until it was written.

Excellent. So that's the exact point the earliest Islamic theologians believed in the madrasathal medinath al munawwarah. Its not me, but the earliest school of thought in the Islamic tradition. This is very well known to Muslims.

But that's the whole problem. Why do these anti islamic apologists take some ahadith for their polemics but reject others saying "I dont care"? DO they go through the meticulous methodology you have quoted above?

Thats the whole point of the post.
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
I am not sure if they have that dogmatic belief. I have never seen an atheist that claims that all Muslims have the same beliefs. But to be fair Islam appears to have a higher percentage of literalists than Christianity does right now. Applying those beliefs even to the hadith. I know there are many that do not do so. But there are countless Muslims that will defend the actions claimed of Muhammed in the hadith that you mentioned in your OP.

Okay. So lets say Muslims are "literalists". How does that justify a non-muslim addressed in the OP?
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
Is the above an actual conversation or a strawman you created in an attempt to make some point?

You can make that judgement call based on your own self mate. I know you are attempting very hard to create an ad hominem.

Have a great day.
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
I suppose the idea is to poison the well.

Hard to have a conversation starting off saying there is no reason to believe anything written in your holy book actually happened.

So for the sake of conversation, you accept, however you personally feel about its reliability, the possibility of the events recorded in the book because the other party uses it as a basis for their argument.

So you believe, that Muslims believe, that all the ahadith are "Holy"? Do Muslims believe ahadith books are all "Holy Books"? Please do make me understand.
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
I care about understanding problematic beliefs that millions of people hold. In other words, if only a handful of people believed in Islam and Muhammad, I wouldn't care. But because hundreds of millions of Muslims believe these things, they become important factors in the world. We know, for example, that for the women of the world, Muslim majority countries tend to be the least safe places women can live.

Thats irrelevant.
 
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