10-27-2004, 02:46 PM
Quote:Salaam,
I am going to be very forward, since I don't like confusion.
Rehmat it would be better if you reveal who you are, because some of your answers are a bit confusing. You have said you were raised as a Muslim and you have gone to learn Christianity for some years and you sign sometimes with Shalom. And that makes it rather confusing. The question is not what is 'right' or what is 'wrong' the question is to come forward in an honest way. Like Islam teaches. And we are all here attending an Islamic forum, so it would be polite to approach in the Islamic way.
If you are a brother then tell us straight out that you are, and if you are not, it is ok too, only so we know 'who is who'. It makes discussing much more relaxed and benefitting.
With the best intention,
Wasalam
Your question is not much different than the Moderator of a 'Salafi website' asked me after I posted more than 100 posts, explaining that the Muslim Ummah has more enemies (Sectarians) within than outside. His 'straight-forward question' was - Are a Shia? When I replied to him that no; I am neither Shia; nor Sunni (though I am born in a Hanafi family); nor Salafi; nor Wahhabi; nor Qadiani - But just a Muslim, who tries to follow the Seerah of the Prophet (pbuh). And the Moderator called me: 'You are Shia and Kafir!'
Now concerning my Christian schooling - I am very proud of that - Just like Sir Sayyid Ahmad - Because it gave me 100 more reasons to be a Muslim. And don't get surprised, if I confide in you that I learned Judaism and Hinduism too - And my little girl just graduated from a Catholic High school, in Canada.
And where I got my 'arrogance' is by a humble student od Sayyid Abu Ala Maududi (d. 1979) and reader of Imam Hassan Al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, and Imam Khomeini. Is that okey with you?
Wa Salaam