Atheism is sugarcoated greek polytheism. An international atheism will take sometime to emerge but will be tainted by communist tyranny without Christian humanism.
Interfaith dialogue
Quran 14:4 and multiculturalism
What is the biblical perspective on multiculturalism?
Chris Lee, Neo-Evangelical Protestant Christian, ecclesiology, apologist, M.Div. GCTS
I don’t think the Bible outright addresses the issue of multiculturalism, but H. Richard Niebuhr did write a book, “Christ and Culture.” There are five paradigms:
Shirk of modern valentine and possible anti-shirk traditional valentine
Chaucer corrupted Valentine. Valentine hated Roman gods. Today he is a symbol of roman golden calf and eros. Ishmaelite festivals are specifically designed to avoid hero worship and commercialization.
Islamic eschatology, rise of modern west and end of slavery
Prophetic Hadith predicting the rise of modern west and end of slavery. A good tool for spiritual paradigm shift among modern humans. Orthodox Islam should be skeptical of his anti-traditionalism but he is still a lesser evil than blind anti-traditionalists.
Islam and divine protection against fall from grace
Islam teaches prayers like this in spiritually and morally threatening situations. : Allahumma inna nauzubika min ilhaahish shahwati wa shamatatil adaai: O God I ask you for your refuge and protection against impulsivity of lust and mockery of enemies. May God make the faithful firm in spirit and commandments. The Ishmaelite Prophet peace and blessings be upon him prayed: Ya Muqallibal qulub thabbit qalbi ala deenika: O God who changes hearts, make my heart firm on your faith and religion.
Hijrah and Aliyah
Ummah/spiritual community needs hijrah/aliyah out of melting pots of zina/adultery.{ I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:24-26) }
If modern secular humans cannot make hijrah/aliyah to Masjids/Churches/Synagogues, then political hijrah/aliyah will be moral and spiritual failures.
Post righteous kingdom and trinity/antinomianism of Ishmaelites
The bloodshed in Syria is in the name of hatred of first post righteous king named Ameer Mu’awiyah and the bloodshed in Yemen is in the name of love of this post righteous king making it the political trinity of Ishmaelites. Or like Paul who is loved by Gentiles and hated by pronomian Semites. Both appear to disagree with the idea of genetic primacy of righteous Semites and Ishmaelitic Prophetic descendants. This line of thinking makes it plausible that Jewish Einstein had a tendency towards Shia Islam. I am a semi-Shia pro-Zaydi Sunni like Nasai and Shawkani.
Alperovich Anatoly I would love if you explain about shia
Ishmael Abraham They are like zionist rabbis of Ishmaelites. Zionist rabbis want to bring Jewish Moshiach into power while they want to bring Ishmaelite Mahdi into power. But both will be disappointed when Messiah and Mahdi ends up opposing them.
Both need apolitical Scriptural spirituality to recognize the true Mahdi and Messiah.
Liberal unitarianism, conservative unitarianism and Islam
liberal unitarianism perpetuates conservative trinitarianism. God bless conservative unitarian Christians if they exist.
Peter Bell Unitarians can be any political persuasion they like, but their common choice as I understand it is not to be liberal to preserve conservative trinitarianism but to oppose it because of the excesses of conservative trinitarian fundamentalism, which I think you agree do not help anyone and certainly not the cause of an open conversation with our Muslim brothers and sisters. Some of the local unitarians are conservative on a lot of issues, and the ones I know strongly oppose conservative trinitarianism. I’m not interested in arguing, but I am curious as to the sources for your claim here. Why do you believe that what you said is true?
Ishmael Abraham Fundamentalists need empathetic scriptural dialogue not strong opposition. Jesus kept commandments and then had dialogue with pharisees.
Kirby Hopper I don’t know about the “perpetuates” part of your post, not sure what you mean by that, but yes, there are plenty of conservative Unitarian Christians. I used to be one of them. The Bible College I went to graduated thousands of them. I think the Worldwide Church of God produced quite a few back in the day. I think Christadelphians are socially conservative, as are members of the Church of God, General Conference (aka Church of God Abrahamic Faith) and the numerous graduates of Atlanta Bible College. These are all what we call “Biblical Unitarians”, as opposed to the Unitarian Universalists which tend to be very liberal.
The Conservatives among us however Ishmael Abraham are rarely the ones who want to even think that Islam has anything to do with God. Many will say it’s of the Devil. They are the same ones who also say people who don’t believe in Futurism, Penal Substitution Atonement, and Eternal Conscious Torment are also of the Devil. I get that judgement on a regular basis. And building bridges with Muslims? OMG, I am off my rocker according to many. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam having a common source in the God of Abraham? I’m am soooo deceived, they say.
I’ll can say this: I rarely get bored. 🙂
Ishmael Abraham Kirby Hopper you are right liberals are more open minded to intelligent interfaith dialogue but due to my own conservative background I cannot help but have the most respect for conservative unitarians and/or pro Torah unitarians. Or may be liberal unitarians may grow conservative through dialogue with Islam
Kirby Hopper Ishmael Abraham understood. I try to stay away from “my goal for you is to be more like me” however I fight the urge continually. I do believe it’s better to learn to love others enough to respect their particular individual journeys through our spiritual landscape. It’s a good place from which to begin interfaith dialogue.
Ishmael Abraham Kirby Hopper I respect your political wisdom 🙂
Explaining spiritualisation of mundane activities through dhikr to a Christian
Of course, on earth before death there is inevitable distance between loving believers and Beloved God. So, the best form of relationship on earth is to remember Him. Like Paul said: Pray without ceasing. Islam teaches how to pray without ceasing. Even when we go to market, go near husband, or go for call of nature we have sunnah prayers to remember God. Sunnah means Prophetic praxis because actions of remembrance are more important than empty words of boasting piety. So, even worldly activities become spiritualised. When we sleep we pray: O God with Thy name I die and rise up again. Because sleep is sister of death. When we wake up, we pray: All praise is to God who resurrected us after death and towards Him is the final resurrection. When we go to market we glorify God by saying: There is no god except God Alone who is without partner. When we answer the call of nature we pray: O God I ask for your protection against spiritual and physical impurities because our kidneys and stomach produce both physical and spiritual impurities which requires us to renew our state of impurity by ablution as a form of daily baptism. After we get a sense of relief after answering the call of nature we pray: All praise is to God who removed my sense of discomfort and relieved me. So, we thank God for even small blessings and comforts. When we have physical intimacy with our sexual partner in marriage we pray: O God protect us both from Satan and protect the baby which you will bless us from Satan. Today most people forget God as soon as they are outside Mosque or Church and even within Church people are thinking about greed and temptations. I agree with you that faith precedes Law. In Islam, the Companions or Prophetic disciples said: We learnt iman(faith) before Quran(Book containing commandments like Torah).
Sola Scriptura and traditionalist self righteousness in East and West
Both Sola Scriptura and traditionalist movements can be self righteous. I follow as Quran teaches the middle path(ummatan wasatan) so I follow Prima Scriptura approach. But we can see the disasters of self righteous Protestant Zionism and Salafist phariseeism. Self hating Quranist modernists have no major contribution to Quranic studies other than importing anti-spiritual western culture.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 
As a post Indo-European orthodox Muslim from Pakistan, we share similar spiritual and cultural dilemmas. The local saints of traditional culture form the bridge between Semitic roots of faith and tradition and local audience and Quran 14:4 addresses this and this is similar to Catholic approach which tends to take antinomian forms leading politically to sufi liberal alliance empowering tyrant secularism due to high tradition to scripture ratio. While Sola Scriptura approach make faith international and universal but also susceptible to anti-ecumenical political abuses like Protestant/Talmudic Zionism, Umayyad Salafism and Ghulat Twelverism.
The Twelverism in power right now belongs to pro-traditional Usuli Taqlidi school. While Zaydiism of Yemen is more pro Sola Scriptura currently without a modern nomian state.