wmc

I am first time visitor and reader and based on what I have glanced so far, i would like to commend the overall respectfulness and attempts at accuracy when dealing with religions other than your own(i came for the Mormon/Scientology article).

I rarely take the time out to provide corrections / input to non-Muslim websites that speak about Islam, mainly because the information is usually so distorted and/or blatantly false, that i figure this could only have been done intentionally (and with malice) in an age when correct information is so readily available. Thus far, this website appears different, so my “brief” and respectful correction is as follows…

you stated at the end of your article that; “There is not even the idea of loving Allah in Islam (except in Sufism).”

in response, i would just like to provide you with the following verses from The Holy Qur’an;

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YUSUFALI: Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides Allah, as equal (with Allah): They love them as they should love Allah. But those of Faith are overflowing in their love for Allah. If only the unrighteous could see, behold, they would see the penalty: that to Allah belongs all power, and Allah will strongly enforce the penalty.

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YUSUFALI: It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah-fearing.

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YUSUFALI: Say: “If ye do love Allah, Follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins: For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”

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YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! if any from among you turn back from his Faith, soon will Allah produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him,- lowly with the believers, mighty against the rejecters, fighting in the way of Allah, and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault. That is the grace of Allah, which He will bestow on whom He pleaseth. And Allah encompasseth all, and He knoweth all things.

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YUSUFALI: So We listened to him: and We granted him Yahya: We cured his wife’s (Barrenness) for him. These (three) were ever quick in emulation in good works; they used to call on Us with love and reverence, and humble themselves before Us.

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YUSUFALI: And they feed, for the love of Allah, the indigent, the orphan, and the captive,-

For starters, he’s saying that its HIM who’s loves Jesus, Buddha, Ramakrishna, Guru Dev, Tao Te Ching and Mohammed. Not that it is a requirement for others to, or a stand point for the religions. It’s his personal feeling.

What the song is saying is that take what you can from all religions, because they all have the same fundamental ambition’s so to speak.

Religions are a bi-product of these leaders. They didn’t create the religions. So we have put our own ‘meanings’ to them. He’s saying take what you can from all these people, because they are all showing us their own different way to God. Buddha just worked in a different way to Jesus, whether he ‘diverted attention away from himself’ or not, the outcome was very similar.

Each path is leading to the same place basically.