Define believers. Do you consider Jews and Christians as believers? 1/8
A Series of 8 questions – Do Muslims resist the following questions?
A Series of 8 questions – Do Muslims resist the following questions?
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A few among us pander to the donors and funders and are afraid of answering what they believe. By the way that is the case with people of pulpits in all religions, however the majority of Muslims, like any other majority believe and practice live and let live. I have received a few affirmations from different faith leaders about the commonality of the issue.
The questions were presented to me and I have responded to them and inviting others to express their opinion. You are welcome to refute, reject, differ or add to it, but know that there are different takes to the issue and different expression. Quraan 49:13 says he has created us to be unique, so that we can make an effort to know each other.
Mike Ghouse
World Muslim Congress
A few responses:
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Mike Ghouse
The answer is in a larger context; believer is an individual who seeks peace for himself and what surrounds him or her through the principles of justness, fairness, truthfulness and respect for the God given life to every member of the creation. The principles of oneness of creation and God imply one world and one God. God has sent a messenger and a peacemaker to every nation and tribe.
Whether it is the Jews, Christians, Hindus, Wiccans, Mayas or any one who subscribes to the idea of oneness of mankind is a believer as the end result is peace, which comes from submission to the idea of oneness of creation; meaning we are all in it together and we have to make it better for every one of us. We cannot be safe when others around us are not.
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Iftekhar Hai
Believer is anyone who says, “We believe in God or One God.” No human being should play God and judge others. Judgment is only with Allah…full of Knowledge and Wisdom.
YES: Jews and Christians are also believers according to the above definition. Anyone who says they are not are stepping into GOD’s domain of judgement
Muslim: A Muslim is a person who says, “There is no God but One God (Allah) and Mohammed (pbuh) is a messenger of God.2How do you define Islam? Did it start from Adam and Eve or did it start from our Prophet
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Dr. Iffat Khan
The word Muslim is a generic Arabic word meaning ANYONE who submits to ONE God, and does not associate any partners in the Divinity. Abraham, Noah, Moses and other prophets before the time of Prophet Muhammad are described as one’s who bowed to the will of God, i.e. were muslim 3:67. The Quran also states—‘It is God who has named you muslims, both BEFORE and in this revelation’.. Hence, regardless of what people of the existing world religions call themselves, if they submit themselves to the worship and will of ONE God, they are by definition muslims
By definition a Mu’min is anyone who acknowledges the one God, Angels, His messages, all Prophets, the Last Day, and leads a righteous life. One of Pharaoh’s wives during the time of Moses, the mother of Moses and Mary are addressed as mu’min, which means ‘believer’