a gist of my life

[wasi]

well ....my mother has a greediness in her soul because she is always concerned about my life ...that i should get job or get married soon or this and that ....basically she is mushrik  in my eyes ...because she not concerned about our life rather  more taught full about others
and my father is not self sufficient even after his years of experience with quran n
as i think so he has been practicing religion by having other  people beside him ....that's why he is dependent  always on some other persons guidance along with allah --
whereas me
since my childhood i want to be alone away from my parents ....basically i enjoyed my loneliness life as well as with friends but not too much with parents ..n friends..

now i can say that if allah alone would have not guided me then i would have been deluded by my parents n friends  and people around them who were to give advises and people around me who were to give advises which i were to forcefully follow....my peaceful soul was always disturbed by someone and something

allah  took me away from my people and guided me all alone as i lost my peacefulness in my heart it was very greedy for money , carrier , marriage and desperate life there was a disease in my heart then Allah wanted to clean all that stuff ......

Every soul should take advises from allah the irresistible  lord --allah to whom  belongs all matters of affair ...he is the true creator no doubt and he will proportion our every  life's matter  just as he has proportioned the stars , earth, galaxies ,universe,  our bodies and  all other creations,  and there life .....truely  ALL PRAISE IS FOR LORD OF THIS ALAMEEN ..

oh my friends always follow the way of living of ibrahim , who has not associated anything or anyone beside allah ...
not even your desires  and be aware of shiatan ,  and iblees ...and be patient certainly being with Allah is better way of living ...certainily when you are fully submitted to allah you  heart surely will sink in humbleness , will overlook the people around you , n every heart beat of your is purely connected n communicating to the LORD OF THIS WORLDs.............

[Man of Faith]

Peace,

And my problem is that all my family and relatives are atheists. Despite that I grew fond of God and came upon a straight path (God willing). I had a similar struggle only that I discovered about God from an atheist starting point and I learned the creed on my own and the translations (Quran and the Bible) and own thinking.

Anyway was nice to read your post.

God bless you

[Mikebloke]

Salam Wasi,

My posiition is much like Man of Faith, growing up in a irreligious family it was alien to me at first and in many cases I rejected it because of what I saw the adherents did, it was only by reading Quran and letting it speak for itself, not through human interpreters and making my own judgement that brought me on this path.

Some people questioned my change, some really close people even bluntly said it was the exact opposite of what I believed before, and to this day they doubt my conviction 8 years later.

It is hard sometimes, but you push on. Thank you for your story.

[wasi]

39:56 Lest a soul should say, "Oh [how great is] my regret over what I neglected in regard to Allah and that I was among the mockers."


39:57 Or  it say, "If only Allah had guided me, I would have been among the righteous."


39:58 Or it say when it sees the punishment, "If only I had another turn so I could be among the doers of good."


39:59 But yes, there had come to you My AAYAATS, but you denied them and were arrogant, and you were among the disbelievers.

[Ignac]

It all started when I angered my dad with an FB post that supported Salafism over Sufism which I was born into. I was raking the internet when I came across a Quranist Website. I was shocked and was going to make a post to warn my FB friends about it when my dad's call came in telling me to leave the house before he got back from work.

Earlier that morning, we had a talk on some theological issues. He was noticing my refusal to give any value to his Sufi practices. He asked me if what he believed was wrong but I refused to give a reply. When he pestered me for one, I took a Quran with the intent of showing him 4:59 & 33:36 to justify following every *authentically fabricated* hadith of the prophet. He was angry that I had the effrontery to do that. He criticised my audacity and attributed it to my attending Tablighi classes (most people mistake Tabligh Jamaati for Salafism). He simply made threats...should I embrace Salafism (which I had since final year in high school: 2011).

Luckily for me, that afternoon, my father stumbled upon an FB post I had made the previous day. While I was at home (during last rain semester break) raking the internet for some hadith to back a claim, his phone call came in. After the call was ended, I could not make the FB post against Quranism any longer. I just started looking for how to placate my dad whenever he came back. The whole issue was settled.

I was becoming convinced by the ideas of the members (mostly atheists) of an FB Group, DEBATE FAITH, and I was losing my faith. In fact, it got to a stage I only observed Solat to cover up my new atheistic leanings. It was at this point I rediscovered Dr Khalifah's Code-19 theory which I had disbelieved because of Dr Abu Ameena's Criticisms of it which is also shared by Answering-Islam's Sam Shamoun. I also discovered Kassim Ahmad' Hadith: A Re-Evaluation and subsequently, Quran: A Reformist Translation. Since last year's September, I have only finally & fully accepted Quran alone in February 2014. I still hide it from dad, tho.

[Neptin]

Unless you have a first hand experience, you basically can't understand the hardship that bugs one in his early years of adopting Quran alone, particularly if you have a sunni/shiite background.

The persistent pestering by traditional muslims and family pressure could piss anyone. It is so sad that many Quran Alone believers can't live a life of freedom that the Quran stipulates for believers.