Indeed we are my friend. Peace upon you my friend.

Salam

Peace be upon you and your family.

you must have learned them from your experience in ME, didn't you?
did they tell you what they mean?

alaikom-o-ssalam
khoda shoma va khanevadetan ra hefz konad. har etefaghi ke oftad az dine khod bar nagardid. dar vaade khoda shak nist.

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I notice Perham you have a good understanding of English.

You will notice those who insult your faith have not taken the time, I'm assuming, to learn your culture. Yet you know and understand the English language. You have studied this. What have they studied?

A key to diplomacy is understanding. My hope is that our two cultures may learn to respect our differences and more importantly, our similarities.

me too.

this is the message commonsense left in my profile. I like it a lot. and I do agree with you. people need to understand that violence will only destroy. no nation have been built on violence that could survive. we all are mortal.

Qur'an 36:20-22 and from the remote part of the city there came a man running, he said: o my people! follow the messengers; follow him who does not ask you for reward, and they are the followers of the right course; and what reason have i that i should not serve him who brought me into existence? and to him you shall be brought back.

Qur'an 36:82-83 his command, when he intends anything, is only to say to it: be, so it is. therefore glory be to him in whose hand is the kingdom of all things, and to him you shall be brought back.

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Now you brought back memories.... Commonsense was the bright light of this forum... I miss him very much...

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Actually you should take notice that those on this forum who insult Perham's faith the most are Christians. You know, the ones calling for "new crusades" and asking "Should Islam be Destroyed?". Those are mostly christians who disrespect Perham's religion and are advocating destroying it.

Notice who defends the islamic religion on those type of topics? Mostly it's agnostics and atheists. Yes we are so immoral. *rolls eyes*

And thanks to science we have created some cures for some of those instead of allowing the faithful to keep defining disease as a punishment from their "loving" god.

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whoever that has a sense of moral in himself, has a gift from God. you're good people, there's no doubt about this. but believe in God. I beg you. you're doing well in your life. just believe in God, and you will be in God's heaven after death. that's not so hard. you already have done the hard part. just believe in God.

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There was a time when I did. Trust me, it's not an easy path to walk down when you are losing your faith. But that struggle is resolved and at this point there is no convincing me that there is a god. My mental state is actually much more at peace now that I have accepted what life and death are. More so than it was before when I did believe.

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Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness ~Thomas Paine

Faith is a very easy road to go down.

1) As was mentioned, it is the non-religious who are most courteous to Muslims.

2) It doesn't mean I believe Islam is valid. I just believe that if you have to believe in God to make you a good person, then more power to you.

3) Perham requested that we believe in God. My question is why? Will there be some form of punishment for a very moral person who is kind and accepting of his fellow man, should he not?

Ixtellor

P.S. What do you call a very very nice person, that tortures you if you don't submit to their will?

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