Interfaith dialogue

Failure of Ishmaelite outreach and tragedy of blasphemy

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There are important outreach efforts in our sub-continent. Tabligh movement has global outreach but they are not qualified for interfaith dialogue. Dr Zakir is qualified and a bit confrontational but does not have an organized missionary movement. Mufti Taqi has written some reasonable material about Christianity but laymen in Tabligh movement are out of touch with it . Dr Qadri has tried to visit churches but he is criticized for condoning Christian errors, If we integrate these visions in qualification, compassion and outreach we can minimize these tragic events of blasphemy .

But still we should not ignore the legal element of our religion. In western law, in case of preponderant evidence makes you guilty. For example, the evidence against Dr Afia was not of totally certain nature but still she was sentenced. The idea of complete certainty of evidence is actually Islamic. So, in case of iota of doubt, life imprisonment is more just than execution.

مغرب میں اسلام کا پیغام عام کرنے کی کافی اہم کاوشیں بر صغير میں ہو رہی ہی۔ تبلیغی جماعت کے روابط عالمی سطح پر موجود ہیں لیکن وہ بین المذاہب مکالمے کے اہل نہیں۔ ڈاکٹر ذاکر اہل شخصیت ہیں لیکن ان میں تھوڑا پہلو محاذ آرائی کا بھی ہے اور ن کی کوئی منظم مشنری تحریک نہیں ہے۔ مفتی تقی عثمانی صاحب نے عیسائیت کے حوالے سے چند معقول کتب تحریر کی ہیں لیکن تبلیغ سے وابستہ ایک عام فرد ان سے لاعلم ہے۔ ڈاکٹر طاہر القادری نے گرجا گھروں میں جانا شروع کیا لیکن ان پر عیسائی اغلاط کو تسلیم کرنے کی وجہ سے تنقید کی جاتی ہے۔ اگر اہلیت ، ہمدردی اور اسلام کا پیغام کرنے کی کوشش جیسی تین باتیں جمع ہو جائیں تو ہم توہین رسالت جیسے سانحات ہونے کے امکانات کو کم سے کم کر سکتے ہیں۔ لیکن اس کے باوجود ہم اسلام کے قانونی پہلو کو نظر انداز نہیں کر سکتے۔ مغربی قانون میں ، غالب ثبوت آپ کو مجرم بنا دیتا ہے۔ مثال کے طور پر ڈاکٹر عافیہ صدیقی کے خلاف ثبوت کی نوعیت یقینی طور پر ثابت شدہ نہیں تھی لیکن انہیں سزا سنا دی گئی۔ ثبوت کا کلی طور پر یقینی ہونا اسلام کا دیا گیا تصور ہے۔ لہذا ، شبے کا شائبہ ہونے کی صورت میں سزائے موت کے بجائے عمر قید دینا زیادہ قرین انصاف ہوگا۔

The Mission of the Ummah and Asiya Bibi

The pro-Ishmaelite community must compete liberal Murji’ah in rights of servants of God

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Ishmael Abraham being a Pakistani I feel ashamed for not being qualified as a nation to treat a sick traveler to our country in a compassionate and professional way. 
Laura Weichselbaumer No reason for shame. There is no blame. This sickness can be found about everywhere under many different names (Costa Cramps, Dehli Belly, Montezuma’s Revenge, and on and on). If there were to be blame in the situation, then the blame would be on myself. I am a very experienced traveler, including into developing geographies. I certainly have the knowledge to have protected myself from this, but after weeks of beautiful touring in Pakistan, my diligence toward self care became lax in the last couple days. At any rate, it all works for good. I hope that you are able to put down this sense of shame and capture the message of goodness in the story, at the end. 🙂
Ishmael Abraham Thanks for your empathetic understanding. But please educate our traditional culture about improving health infrastructure because Hadith teaches that after prayers and obligatory virtues the most beloved action to God is to make believers happy. West is weak in God’s rights (huquq Allah) and East is weak in rights of servants of God. (huquq al ibaad)

An ex Ismaili criticizes Irish convert to Islam

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Ireland has a violent history like Ismailis. Which creates a profound sense of self hatred. I hope she follows a middle path between traditional Islam and Sola Scriptura Islam to avoid the errors of Catholics and Ismailis. Both have the concept of successive unifying leaders in common, while for Ismailis, unlike Gentiles, leader must have a chosen DNA. As far as infallibility of the leader is concerned, it creates problems. In Sunni Islam, the Caliph Umar considered himself  fallible and valued moral and Scriptural feedback as a gift worthy of prayer for the one who offers it.

Story of repentance of an alcoholic Prophetic descendant

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A Prophetic descendant was a professed alcoholic. He once visited a student of knowledge for some help, but he did not allow him to enter his home, so he came back sadly. During journey to pilgrimage, a scholar among Prophetic descendants did not allow that student to enter his presence, so he wept. When he wept he was allowed to enter. He asked why he was refused although he loved the Prophetic family. He replied: Because you refused entry to my cousin. He wept again and stated: I only did this so that he repents from alcohol. The scholar replied: Respect them any way otherwise you will become a loser. When he came back, the same cousin came again. This time the student respected him a lot. The cousin was surprised. Then he told him the story of the scholar during pilgrimage. He felt guilty and repented. He came back to home and destroyed the bottles of alcohol, and started spending time in Masjid until death and then he was buried near a pious female Prophetic descendant.

This is an important lesson for physical Jews.

Jordan Peterson, Church and Islam

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I am also happy to see you approach him through the lens of antinomianism a relatively more important element of modern Christianity than even traditional Christianity. In Islam, an outspoken wife can be a gift for moral and spiritual progress because one of the Mothers in Islam was outspoken scholar of sacred law, but she also repented after she participated in a civil war which shows that even feminism with good intentions can have tragic consequences.

https://tifwe.org/jordan-peterson-message-for-church/

The truth of Islamic qadar and jihad an nafs lies between Jabariyyah quietism of antinomian Christianity and Mutazilah pelagianism of free will. To some Catholics, he is a modern Pelagian.

https://www.gotquestions.org/Pelagianism.html

Is Jordan Peterson a Mutazilah pelagianist and an antithesis of Jabariyyah Paul of traditional Christianity?

Jordan Peterson and the Catholic Faith

 

PVV, suicide of Willie Dille, secularization and xenophobia

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I feel sad due to her suicide. She had a negative view about Islam because she met imperfect or even criminal Muslims. But her xenophobia does not worry me. It is common among both conservative Christians and conservative Muslims. Secularization increases xenophobia because it makes you close minded to all change because most of change is negative. I hope conservative ecumenical apolitical Christians become more vocal and ally with conservative ecumenical apolitical Muslims to overcome xenophobia and secularization.
I think PVV has a zionist agenda by employing Christian xenophobia towards and ignorance about Islam.

Modernist Hinduism versus Abrahamic faiths

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Ishmael Abraham Those ignorant about Gospel and Quran will not be punished, only arrogant informed deniers.
Ishmael Abraham Unitarianism/Tawhid is not specific to Middle East rather prominent westerners like Isaac Newton and George Boole died as unitarians.
Ishmael Abraham I hope Hindu murderers of Kashmir and Gujarat honestly believed in Karma but they did not.
Ishmael Abraham Ecumenical perennialism tries to unite all religions against Godless modernity.
Ishmael Abraham A Hindu once said: Hinduism is everything to everyone which makes it subjective while Abrahamic truth is objective.
Ishmael Abraham Modernist scientism is an exclusive claim to truth.

Mary, peace be upon her, cold nights and hot days

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رُوِيَ أَنَّ عِيسَى ( عليه السَّلام ) نَادَى أُمَّهُ مَرْيَمَ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهَا ، فَقَالَ : ” يَا أُمَّاهُ كَلِّمِينِي ، هَلْ تُرِيدِينَ أَنْ تَرْجِعِي إِلَى الدُّنْيَا ” ؟
قَالَتْ : نَعَمْ ، لِأُصَلِّيَ لِلَّهِ فِي لَيْلَةٍ شَدِيدَةِ الْبَرْدِ ، وَ أَصُومَ يَوْماً شَدِيدَ الْحَرِّ يَا بُنَيَّ ، فَإِنَّ الطَّرِيقَ مَخُوفٌ

According to sacred Islamic texts, after Mary(p) died, Jesus(p) talked to her. “Do you want to come back to this world?” She said: Yes, to pray in cold nights and to fast in hot days.