11-24-2004, 11:03 AM
Bismillah
I am just confirming what Iman said, Childofnowhere, we are not children of Allah. But rather servants, devotees, Creation, in Arabic e`bad which best translates as those who worship only Allah nothing else. Allah begotten noone neither was He begotten. But as far as I understand from your post, then u r a Jehovah witness.
As for your reply to rock we are not the least offended child, we understand u r talking from your own viewpoint. Although I made my comment about rocks point. I have a very special and personal opinion about the whole issue that stems from many hadeeth (narrations made after the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam). But to make a long story short, yes America's attitude may be provocative to others as acting like director of the world. But why would I be so critical of a nation that is trying to secure itself a prominent position. Why would i be critical of its attitude trying hard to top over the Muslim world specially. It is all our fault. We gave it this chance. We are also entitles no we are encouraged to make others respect us as Muslims. See Child if we did our job properly, noone would have been able to beat us. So now we are crying for what we suffer due to our shortcomings.
Hope I made sense to u.
Stay with us Child, we are not offended. Just browse and learn about Islam even if u feel that u r growing more convinced with what u r