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Introduce Yourself / Re: The journey so far

« on: January 03, 2011, 03:24:45 AM »

O sorry brother, in my first reply I tought you were a woman ... lol... but I completly agree, glad to have a nativ-speaker who can help us with the arabic language
Not always easy for us, so you can be a great help.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: The journey so far

« on: January 02, 2011, 02:24:48 AM »

I am so glad for you that your husband now also is became critical over the hadiths.... Mashallah!
Really I am lucky that my muslim-friends who bring me to Islam are also 'critical' even if they still label themselves as 'sunni' but they always point my attention to the Quran first and check everything with the Quran.

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General Issues / Questions / Re: Quraanites or whatever...

« on: December 30, 2010, 03:51:51 AM »

Asalaam Alaykum,

There is a whole discussion here, I read it with high interest, lots of things surely are true. About the prophets and the messengers: I believe we don't have to make a difference between them, we only have to be grateful, for the message they all brought: The MESSAGE is what is really important and they all told the same message: There is only ONE GOD and we have to worship that ONE GOD and not the messengers! NONE of the messengers themselves ever said we have to worship them but all makes us clear to worship GOD ALONE.
Surely the early books are corrupted, at least the Thora and the Bible, that is why GOD revealed his last book the Quran! This doesn't mean you can't read the Thora and the Bible, because you can check with the Quran. Yes the Bible is written many years after Jesus death and so are the hadiths... that  is why I prefer to follow the Quran and not the hadiths because all of them are also written about 200 years after Mohammad died and so many of them are also corrupted or fabricated. And ultimately GOD himself is our guidance.... we only have to learn to hear, see, feel, understand his 'personal' guidance to all of us!
And than the discussion of 2,3,5 prayers/salat a day/night to accomplish..... the goal of prayers is to worship GOD, to remember him, to praise him, to thank him, to ask him forgiveness, to ask him guidance .... Prayers are a HELP to accomplish what we have to do..... and that is LIVE every second of our life in Knowledge, remembering..... of that.... in fact our whole life has to be a prayer, a worship. Do you need a ritual like bowing and prostrating to remember that? Sure, doing this with your whole heart, is surely good. If you bow and prostrate in full conscience...; it is great.... unfortunately I am sure many do this 'ritual' as a habit. And when you pray, rather let the heart without words than the words and rituals without heart! I don't remember who of you posted the article over meditation. I knew that, it is a real good article. In the same reasoning, do you know that prostrating helps the body clean from the overload of electrical submersion we all have in our life? So, there is a hidden and unknown reason in things God asks us to do? Standing bare-foot helps you better grounding and also get rid of this same electrical overload (some shoesole would prevent that)  Sure.... HE IS the ALL-KNOWING and He is the only one who can read in your heart, He is the only one who can judge your intentions...

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Europe / Re: Holland in the House

« on: December 30, 2010, 12:54:36 AM »

Asalaam Alaykum brothers and sisters

I am from Belgium and so speaks dutch and french.

Nice to meet you here.

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Europe / Re: Recherche francophones, Belges, Français...

« on: December 30, 2010, 12:51:00 AM »

Bonjour et  que la Paix soit avec vous tous

J'habite le Brabant-flamant mais je parle aussi français.
Mes grand-parents habitaient Mons.
Y a-t-il des rencontrent de Quranistes en Belgique?

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Europe / Re: any belgians here? perhaps even from antwerp?

« on: December 30, 2010, 12:40:18 AM »

Asalaam Alaykum,
 
I am from Vlaams-Brabant. Is there an meating place in Belgium for Quran Alone people?

Would be glad to meet you all.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: My story.

« on: December 29, 2010, 03:13:25 PM »

  Thank you all for your nice replies.
Yes ros I also hope we can stay in touch, with pleasure sister.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: My story about my conversion to Islam

« on: December 29, 2010, 07:10:32 AM »

Asalaam Alaykum sister. What a nice story! As a revert to Islam for 7 months now and being new on this site... I recognize a lot of your story.
I am glad I had a dream when I was 11 years old. That dream lead me here finally, but in the 40 years between... I always knew and had many proves that God always guide the true searcher.
I live in Belgium, spreek je nederlands? I would like to chat in my own language if possible.

fi aman Allah.
Eiliyah.

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Introduce Yourself / My story.

« on: December 29, 2010, 06:41:27 AM »

Asalaam Alaykum brothers and sisters.
I am a married woman, mother of three adult children and grandmother of a beautiful little girl. I am soooo glad to discover this site, you can't imagine. I was born and raised up in a catholic family, sit on catholic schools etc. At the age of 11 years, I had, like many of you I read in the mean time, my doubts about a lot of things in catholic religion. For me Jesus wasn't the son of God and he surely didn't take all the sins of the world on his shoulders. I didn't accept that. It was really strange when during the office, we had to say the testimony of faith, I left out a lot sentences.... growing up, I left church completly. My husband also came from a very catholic family and growing up you can say he loosse his faith completly. I didn't.... in all those years I always believed in God and search the truth. So I read a lot.... hundreds of books about all possible religions: other christians like protestants of different schools (batipts, reformed, mormons, Jehova's witnesses, .... orthodox. Judaisme, Buddhisme, new-age, wicca, paganisme..... Islam? Yes, but not much... the reason was simple: the news, the wars, the terrorist attacks, my sunni-hanafi-muslim neigbours..... Till a year ago, I begun to chat with a very nice muslim couple of the middle-east.... They are very good friends and even if they call themselves sunni-muslims, during the many chats and phone-calls on skype we had, I know they are very liberal. 7 months ago, I did the shahada, alone at home.... Hm, but now, I had to find a masjid and community to go. That was another problem, I don't know why but most community's I examined here in Belgium, came over as really extreme.... but finally I did go to a masjid near my city, again a Sunni-Hanafi-Turqish community. They were nice, but a fews problems were talked over: first my husband.... 'O he doesn't convert?, he is not a muslim?' hmmhmmm 'well because you did the shahada before Allah, we accept you as a muslim and we give your husband two years time.'..... Two years for what? And what after those two years? Would they force me to divorce if he still don't convert?.... This bottered me. My husband always let me free in my religion, he always accepted that I believed in God, but converting to Islam? He declared me foolish, stupid.... 'How can you, in a few years you also will be dressed in a burqa or with a niqab, go live their.... go to Aghanistan, go to Saoudi and see for yourself.' was his a bit angry reaction. Being the only revert in my family, the only people I could talk with over my faith, were my friends of the middle-east. Really, they are great people and they helped me a lot. After a few weeks I joined Madina.com, a forum for muslims.... Hm, I hoped to talk with other muslims too... yes, well.... Here it begun: ' O I hope you wear hijab! ' O no color hijab, that is not modest. Cover your hands during the salat,... see that everything is covered except your face...' Well, I must say I met some real nice sisters too and strangly I remarqued quickly that revert-sisters were a lot more excessive than some born-muslims, who were/are sometimes more tolerant. Now I have a few good muslim-sisters who really also became good friends.... Last week, I put some picture on my profile from my two saluki-dogs: OMG!!!! what a reactions!!!!! Immediatly I received a lot of comments, with all different hadiths, telling me that having dogs  was haram.... I did reply them that this wasn't mentioned in the Quran.... Than I don't see the problem. If God would forbid holding dogs, I am sure it would be written in the Quran.... So I searched internet and found this site....My middle-east friends always told me that nobody has the right to takfir another muslim  brother or sister.  They always told me: read the Quran... Ask guidance to God....but the majority of muslims always talk a lot of hadiths....  they takfir easily. And it did botter me more than once that they idolate Mohammad,saw, practicly like christians idolate Jesus. .... No, I am glad I found this site: God-alone  is sufficient. Fi aman Allah.