Teknevra

Why do Wahhabis and extremists always want to have superiority?

Why do they always WANT TO HAVE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND?

Why does it feel like they WANT to be right?

If you’re in a Muslim country, LET THE PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY WANT. SHIAS CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AND SUNNIS CAN DO THE SAME. YOU ARE NOT ALLAH (SWT).

You can advise them in a civil manner. But not be passive aggressive or straight up aggressive.

Not to mention the fact that my country has a stupid “code of honor” which is straight-up late stage patriarchy. where you’re expected to do this and that without having a private personal life.

Sorry if this didn’t make sense but they just piss me OFF.

That is, not to mention the stupid hate against Shias.

Especially on social media. It’s like we did something horrible.

Why can people not co-exist in peace? I know, we’re not living in an ideal world.

There is no sunshine and rainbows.

But still, sectarianism is terrible for society.

Also, why is it that, in the Arab world, the ELDERLY feel like they have the right to know everything about your personal life.

Not to mention that they LITERALLY contradict the prophet’s treatment to his wives.

People’s belief: you should be masculine in front of your wife and not too tender or gentle. And that she MUST give you sexual intercourse when she has to.

The Prophet: literally emphasized tenderness, consent, and mercy.

Islamic thought is reduced to Muslim thought, whereby Muslims can only explain what it means to be Muslim.

While there are dozens of studies on Christian and Eastern thinkers and how they contribute to understanding what it means to be human, rare is the case where a Muslim voice is allowed to speak beyond its religious identity.

And in the cases where a Muslim voice is allowed to speak beyond its Orientalist void, such as Rumi, it is rendered neutral of its Muslimness"

Assalamu alaikum,

I've found the situation after the Iran-Israel conflict to be much worse than I could imagine, especially on social media in my country, Indonesia.

This YouTube channel one of the example:

The hate speech towards Shia Muslims is worsening, usually fueled by Wahhabi clerics and Turkey sympathizers.

They even label Shias as "kafir" and claim that anyone who dies in the war, whether Iranian or Israeli, will meet the same fate in hell.

I can understand if they criticize the Iranian authoritarian government, but I still can't comprehend the hatred towards Shia people just because they belong to a different sect.

It raises questions in my mind: why They're dehumanizing their brothers in Islam?

As we know Allah SWT ordered Ibrahim pbuh to sacrifice his son and in the last moment he stopped him, and Ibrahim was praised for his obedience.

While being obedient to Allah is the best you can do, I feel like it is human to have doubts, or maybe feeling hesitant to kill your own child.

And I wonder if Ibrahim actually had an idea before that this may be a test where Allah would intervene.

I have been wondering for a while now if stuff that has just a small bit of alcohol for preservative purposes.

Like vanilla or soy sauce.

We already discussed the verse about wife beating many times, and mostly came to an agreement that it can't be a physical punishment etc.

But what about lashing (24:2) and house arrest (4:15) as the punishment for adultery?

Do you think it's fair?

Is the common interpretations valid?

If so, why a physical punishment is now justified?

Western media often paints him in a bad light, and stuff such as controversial hadiths aren’t great for his character either.

It’s easy to like Isa because he is presented as a pacifist who never did anyone wrong.

My question is, what made you see Muhammad not only as a good person, but one of the best ever?

What is the Quranic / Islamic view on Adam and how the earth became populated?

In Christianity it’s commonly referred to as Adam’s children marrying each other which doesn’t exactly make sense due to incest.

And it also doesn’t fully align with science and the fact that there were earlier hominids on earth.

From what I gather, the Quran is pretty adamant on Adam being the first human - but how do we reconcile that:

1. It potentially doesn’t align with what we know scientifically about human evolution on earth

And

2. 2 people populating the earth with their children and their children only is incest?

We tend to think of the most religious or most beloved by God as the most outwardly pious person but that’s not how God actually works.

If you look at the stories in the Quran and in the life of Isa, it’s so clear that God isn’t just for the perfect. He’s for the broken, the struggling, the ones who keep messing up but keep coming back.

In the Quran, God is described over and over as the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. That mercy(arguably) is for people who need it, not those who’ve already “arrived.”

Isa said he didn’t come for the righteous, but for sinners. He spent his time with the outcasts, the poor, the sick, the people religion had pushed to the side.

So why do we act like religion is only for the flawless? Like God only loves the people who never fall?

And why do we act like gatekeepers to Gods love / acceptance?

I see so many Muslims and Christian’s say that lgbt people are only worthy of love and mercy if they absolutely hate themselves - but most lgbt folks I know distance from God when they hate themselves / contemplate suicide. But when they learn to accept who they are, that’s when they rebuild a relationship with God and become closer to Him.

Note: when I say “we” I mean as a whole, and arguably a lot less in this space or progressive spaces.

The Quran says: “No soul bears the burden of another” (35:18).

But I still wonder… are we paying for Adam’s mistake?

If he hadn’t slipped, would we even be here on Earth?