10-24-2003, 08:51 PM
Bismillah
You have got to be kidding me if you think that I chose Islam because it fits my needs. You did not really read what I wrote? Islam in the United States is just about the most difficult religion to practice. It also requires more of my time and effort than any other religion that I have studied. How is this fitting MY needs? Could you also define cult leader for me?
Also list how Muhammad benifitted by being a prophet.
He was a well off man with a wife that allowed him to follow the spiritual pursuits he wanted. He had enough leisure time to meditate and reflect for weeks at a time. He was respected by all of the people of Mecca to the point where he was called upon to settle intertribal disputes. After prophethood, he had no free time, his fellow people initially hated him for his calling and abused him. When he died as the most powerful man that Arabia had ever seen, he died without any material possessions. Everything that was given to him, he gave away to those he saw in more dire need.
I am going to stop here because I feel that I am wasting my time with your questions. If you really wanted to know things, you would not just take the bits and pieces that feed your opinion and actually find out the full truth of things.
Initially I pegged you as some wannabe pompous intelectual who surfs the net starting debates just to get off some how. I now feel differently. I do not feel you are intellectual at all.