There are many people who are pedophiles but don't act on it. Pedophilia is a sexual disorder and usually people who were abused as children can end up attracted to children when they grow into adults. Not all pedophiles are evil. Acting on it is wrong.

There are many people who are pedophiles but don't act on it. Pedophilia is a sexual disorder and usually people who were abused as children can end up attracted to children when they grow into adults. Not all pedophiles are evil. Acting on it is wrong.

Grow up. There are many people who are pedophiles but don't act on it. Pedophilia is a sexual disorder and usually people who were abused as children can end up attracted to children when they grow into adults. Not all pedophiles are evil. Acting on it is wrong.

That is not a model of the Quranic cosmos, but someone's erroneous opinion based on faulty interpretations of the Quranic text.

That's not a source. That's someone's faulty opinion.

No it doesn't.

Incest can produce offspring, plus, incest is not a sexuality. If a person happens to be attracted to their sibling or family member, they are not ONLY attracted to them, they can still have a healthy romantic relationship with literally anyone else outside of their family members. The same logic also applies for the vast majority of pedophiles. They have sexual preferences, but they are not limited to those preferences. There are pedos that realize they have attraction to young kids but don't act upon them and stick to getting into relationships with adults, the pedos that prey on young kids are usually the type that have mental illnesses and/or they have power to get away with it, like many celebrities, wealthy people, or people with power. Incest and pedophilia are disorders, and depending on the individual's internal willpower, they can choose to recognize they have the disorder and stick to satisfying their sexual urges and desires with regular adults who are not close kin or young children.

Homosexuality however IS a legitimate attraction, a gay man literally has no choice but to get into a romantic relationship with another man. A gay man is not into women, no amount of showing him different types of women will have a gay man become attracted to them. The same applies to gay women. Attraction is about our relationship with masculine and feminine energies. A gay man is more internally feminine and desires masculine energy to be sexually satisfied. A gay woman is more internally masculine and desires feminine energy to be sexually satisfied. And then you have people who actually desire both energies, they are bisexual people. This sexuality is on a spectrum and everyone is sitting on it somewhere. No one is purely on one side or the other, but somewhere in between.

An individual's choice in their sexual/romantic partner is no one else's business except their own as long as it's not going against the basic principles of consent and not harming others. Children cannot give consent, and incest can lead to damaged offspring which is harming others.

Muslims who are stuck in the past with outdated concepts of morality need to catch up with modern rational standards of ethics.

You're reading a good portion of those verses out of context. Like verse 58:2 isn't referencing any particular words, it's just shedding light on a group of people and what they are saying relative to their context, it's not prohibiting any specific words.

Many things in life are subjective also, something might be a cuss to you but not to someone else.

Yeah, that's just one type of challenge, the type where monsters always 1-2 shot you. It gets old after a while and is not as fun as fighting monsters that are actually balanced. Literally the only way to make monsters challenging in new MH is to make monsters hit like trucks, that or add some type of gimmick that makes you cart more easily like DPS checks or inconsistent stuns and the like, things that can't really be predicted and are just there to give you a hard time for the sake of being hard.

Peace. Thanks for being open minded. I understand that it sounds like there's a fair bit of speculation going on and that may be true up to some extent in terms of how I'm explaining it, but all I can say is that if you introduced the Quran to someone who never heard of Muslims or the traditional understanding of Islam and asked them to interpret the Quran, I will argue they would never arrive to anything resembling the traditional prayer that we are used to.

Talk and connect with people around you and spread the message, share your truth and perspectives. Don't aim to change and influence the ummah, your duty is to spread truth to all of humankind.

You're never gonna get the true difficulty of the older MH games when you virtually have access to infinite items and healing. Proper tension is built through limited resources, something 5th and 6th Gen MH did away with completely in favor of more action.

The Quran doesn't say anything against homosexuality. Don't believe in lies told by other people. You have a brain, use it, use it to make your life better. Use it to find the happiness that you are looking for and don't let corrupt invented ideas stop you.

I hope to give you the same respect back, so please forgive me when poking and prodding in the rest of this reply, it is to learn further, not to be combative :)

No problem.

How do you substantiate this? Is there a specific verse(s) that give you this interpretation?

Since we are a future audience trying to understand commands given to an ancient society using their specific language, we can only work backwards to try and understand what message was being conveyed to them. There are many things in the Quran that are simply implied and you just have to have the cohesive knowledge to know what the Quran is talking about. For example, the Quran references baby girls who were buried alive asking on the day of judgement for what crime were they buried. This is obviously in reference to the rampant female infanticide traditions which were upheld by many people in Muhammad's society, but the Quran doesn't outright point this out because the Quran is directed at an audience that already knows what it's referring to.

We are not the direct audience of the Quran, the direct audience that speak the language know what the Quran is already referring to. And since we already know that everyone in Muhammad's society knew what salat meant (like in chapter 9), then we can imply that it is in fact something more universal. Even the prophets prior to Muhammad did salat, but they obviously did not have the Quran, and there is no recorded history of other revelations being revealed or recited in the same manner as the Quran.

If it were for recitation, then the word used would surely belong to the QRH root, not the SLW root no?

Because the As-Salat was more than just about recitation. The person conducting the session was reciting, but the people attending the session were listening and pondering over the messages.

We have to take into account that the Quran in reality was revealed gradually (17:106, 25:32, 76:23, and more). In between revelation, would the Prophet (as) repeat what he had up until that point over and over again?

There is no issue with the prophet repeating the Quran during the sessions. You have to remember that these sessions were attended by numerous people throughout his ministry, and if he wants to be successful in delivering his message, he has to ensure he's delivering as much of the message to as many people as he can. Yes the Quran was revealed gradually, so there was more to be recited and delivered.

It's also highly probable that these sessions weren't just recitation and listening, but also discussion, pondering, and reflecting as well. This becomes more obvious when the Quran emphasizes continuous pondering and reflection over the revealed word.

This is in stark contrast to the more robotic type of rituals that have developed over time since they leave very little room for true pondering and reflection. The reason I stopped doing the traditionalist ritual is because it became nothing more than parroting the Quranic verses back to God without even thinking or understanding what I'm saying. It made even less sense for me to memorize and recite words in a language I do not understand. This compelled me to change my views because God's "religion" would surely be more logical than doing something like this, and while I can respect those who do still like the traditional ritual, it just wasn't for me anymore after doing it for many many years.

To me, God's true system has to be logical, and this understanding of salat to me is not only logical, but also seems to be supported by the Quran, especially when we start analyzing the various verses where salat is mentioned, for the prophets prior to Muhammad, to the believers who followed Muhammad, to the disbelievers who did not even accept God's system, and to non-human entities like birds.

Here's an article discussing this more in depth: https://lampofislam.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/salat-during-the-time-of-the-prophet/

And a list of articles related to the entire topic: https://lampofislam.wordpress.com/category/salat/

For the general category (second link), the wartime salat article to me is very significant because it indirectly shows how the prophet actually conducted these sessions (he used to face the people instead of having his back turned towards everyone like how the salat ritual is done today). This shows direct proof from the Quran that the salat back then was different.

Cause some physical features and characteristics are more prominent than others and carry greater weight in representing a character and how they are portrayed in a fictional story. Voldemort had red eyes in the book but obviously that was missing in the movies cause red eyes on screen looked cheesy.

Snape being black on the other hand in terms of skin color is more so just changes the vibe of the character, no different than if Snape were Indian or Chinese. Snape's character is a sallow, loner British Caucasian, that's his entire vibe, so if his eye color is different, it doesn't really affect the vibe.

Appreciate the reply and don't fret in replying immediately if you're busy.

I myself grew up learning the traditional prayer also as with many other people so I still respect those who still pray the traditional way and don't hold anything against them. But I'm always happy discussing the non-ritual perspective of salat, (I won't say zero prayer since the Quran uses the word dua as prayer and that is something personal to an individual and I of course pray/supplicate myself).

But as for salat, I'd love to discuss the nuances of it in relation to the things you brought up. For starters, yes you're right about the birds bit, and I myself bring that up when discussing salat with other people. The Quran confirms that for birds, each knows its own salat. I will explain this towards the end because salat is used in the Qur'an in a general manner along with a specific manner depending on context so I will explain the specific manner first which should explain most of the verses in question.

The salat was not a ritualistic prayer originally, it was essentially a gathering/meeting for Quran recitation conducted by the prophet, let's call these salat sessions. The prophet held these sessions twice a day, mornings and nights by default, and occasionally during business hours of the day if the need arose for it, but by default, salat sessions were not conducted during the business hours of the day as the Quran confirms that this is a time when people are busy with their livelihood.

The purpose of these salat sessions was simple, the prophet was commanded to deliver the Quran. The Quran confirms that the sole duty of the messenger is the clear delivery of the message, and that if he did not do that, then he did not fulfill his duty. Since they did not have printing presses back then, the most practical means of the prophet in conveying and delivering to the people en masse were to conduct public sessions that people of the public can attend and listen to the Quran.

So all of these rules that we see in the Quran pertaining to the specific forms of salat are in the context of these sessions. Ablution for example is mentioned because since these sessions are conducted in public, the Quran wanted people to be generally clean and presentable in an environment where the Quran is being recited. If there was no water, then they can use clean sand from the top of the sand dunes. This was a practical solution to real problems.

In another verse, the Quran mentions privacy times for parents, during the salat of the morning, the noon, and salat of the night. Note how the Quran doesn't mention salat for the midday time, it's because there is no salat session conducted during that time. The Quran only mentions salatul fajr and isha as they correspond to the two default times these sessions are held by the prophet.

The words for standing, bowing, prostrating, they are never used together one after the other in the Quran. The Quran mentions standing but its usually in the context of the prophet who is standing as he is reciting the Quran to the people. And in other verses the Quran mentions irkau and sujood which is sometimes literally translated as bowing and prostrating, but other verses in the Quran shed light that these words should be taken metaphorically first. Irkau/rukoo means to yield or to not resist something, sujood means to submit. The believers were commanded to be non-resistent to the Quranic commands and to submit to them, so this is why these words are used.

When we analyze the verses carefully without preconceived notions, we will not get a ritual prayer, what we will get is a system of procedures to accomplish a specific purpose, which over a period of time, has in fact become ritualized, as has happened in many other religions.

This is further elaborated when the Quran says that even the disbelievers did salat at the house, but the Quran called their salat nothing but whistling and clapping. Salat in essence is a type of procedure while being connected to something greater or higher, it can have various connotations.

In chapter 9, the Quran says that the believers are commanded to fight the disbelievers until they establish the salat and "do the zakat" (leaving that untranslated for now). We know that chapter 9 is referencing not just metaphorical fighting but also physical fighting since it's in relation to the state of warfare the prophet and his community were in. If these two actions are supposed to be religious actions (salat and zakat), why is the Quran expecting religious imperialism when chapter 2 confirms there shall be no compulsion in the deen? This tells us that establishing salat is something more than the traditionalist understanding, it's something that even the mushriks are/were expected to do even though they are not expected to become followers of any new religion.

I noticed the video you sent and I'll check it out at some point, for now I wanted to discuss using my own words and knowledge and sharing my ideas to see how they resonate with you.

Now just to preface, I'm not trying to stop you from doing any form of prayer, my only goal here is to spread the knowledge of what the Quranic understanding of salat is versus what picture the traditionalist translations seem to paint it in.

Thanks for the post. What is your opinion then on the idea that salat is NOT prayer at all? I personally do not hold the view that salat means prayer or a ritual prayer, but instead has meanings more closely related to communication/connection/corroboration/correspondence.

Since salat is an Arabic word, and like other Arabic words in the Quran, I hold the view that it is not necessary that we will always have an equivalent word in another language to get an accurate translation all the time.

Scientism is a religion and you have been brainwashed, hopefully you didn't fall for the scientific studies telling you to get triple jabbed lol 🐑💉. We shall see who was right and you will remember your words vividly on that Day ;)

That's your first problem, thinking people using their brain to develop the scientific method is now some sort of religion. You're literally on reddit using either a phone or a computer, both of which were created using science. You have an issue with "science" calling it a religion yet your entire life is dictated by science. You're a hypocrite.

If the earth is flat, go prove that it is flat. Surely God's religion should inspire you to seek the truth and convert the rest of the world to your way of thinking. After all, the Qur'an says, "Verily truth prevails and falsehood vanishes."

If the earth was flat and scientists are wrong, then it should be proven by people like you who claim are on the right path. Clearly you're not. Just another charlatan.

On Judgement day you are going to realize that you abandoned using your brain, failing to produce a proper scientific study of the shape of the earth yet trying to convince everyone else on the earth to take you seriously. Seek help.

Jaw surgery to correct the overbite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBfEhIJLYfY

Please don't humiliate yourself.

RE2 isn't open world, it's an interconnected/seamless world minus the lab area.

This whole "generation of boys" are a byproduct of deeper issues arising from a plethora of things on the internet and social media. People like the Tate brothers don't just pop out of nowhere in a vacuum.

The Quran was written in a language understood by the 7th century Arabs of the Hijaz, it's not written in a language that people in the modern century speak, this includes Arabs. So we are left with translations of an old language that is filled with errors and assumptions, and because of these faulty translations, we have people jumping to all sorts of conclusions without having knowledge in how to comprehend a historical language with connotations and information that was mostly relevant to the 7th century Arabs during the prophet's time and not necessarily by people later on.

There are universal values and principles in the Quran and there are time specific, contextual laws also that can only be fully understood if you were a 7th century Arab, and people in the future have to put on their shoes to understand what the text is saying. This is the crux of the issue.

And while there are people who are trying to understand the Quranic text without cultural bias and traditionalist influence, they also have to deal with the prejudices of people today, whether traditionalists (Sunnis/Shias) or heretics (Quranists/non-traditional ideologies).

The truth is, how can YOU judge that your interpretation is the right one and others are wrong? At the end of the day, your interpretation is going to be based on your own personal values.

Do you support homosexuals in having the right to marry whoever they love? Or are you against it? Whichever side you choose, do you choose it because a book tells you to or because you actually believe it to be right?

Here's the real question, is morality taught through words and interpretations of words from a book, or is morality understood through deep reflection and introspection?

Hey there, is it possible you can DM me the link? Appreciate it.