Farhana's comments
(member since Oct 25, 2008)
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Hey Portland crew.. thanks!!
Nice blog maphead. I'm sure I shall be reading it often.
Take care
Farhana
Hello Wendy, thank you so much... I think I'll have to go find this book! Humm.. sounds interesting, although this "some folk are already condemned to suffering in life and after death no matter what they do" is enough to see he doesn't understand the religion, but I'd still like to read the book.Hopefully once I get it, I'll be back to let you know what I think.
If others have read it.. please share your opinion.
Hey Wendy..No I have not read it, though the title sounds interesting.
What did you think of it?
As-salaamu'alaykum
Oh, I like this! How true. Thanks for sharing.
Haha... yes Marieke it's a wonderful topic, and I'm happy to see more people are joining in :D
Hello Marieke,
I'm sorry no-one seems to be taking part in this discussion. It's not a 'boring question'. I don't have enough knowledge nor have I even thought about this topic to be of much help.
Humm.. in my opinion, yes Mary and Jesus are very important in Islam - however we don't celebrate any births, including the Prophet Mohammed birthday - peace be upon him (note: you do find some Muslims who do celebrate his birthday, that's a whole different topic - one I don't want to get into)
As for Christmas, even if Jesus was really born on that day (I believe he wasn't - from the little knowledge I have), we would not celebrate it.
The Qur'an tells us that Muslims should NOT differentiate between the Prophets of God, how can we celebrate the birth of one or two and not the rest? As well, the Prophet Mohammed never celebrated Christmas, nor did he mention it. He did tell us we have TWO celebrations - and those are the two Eids.
Anyway.. I hope that helps a little.
Take care.
