Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers?

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Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers?

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Unread post by Greatest I am » Sat Jul 09, 2016 8:12 am

Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers?

All believers in God are following an entity that they only know by what other people have said about that God. Few, if any, know their God from apotheosis or first-hand information.

That fact makes whoever that God is, an idol.

It must be so, as what is believed is not a known or real entity. Believers have no real or personal knowledge or experience of their God. All a believer can have is faith in whichever God they are idolizing based on what others have said.

Do you, as a believer, recognize that you are an idol worshiper?

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Unread post by anajmi » Sat Jul 09, 2016 3:14 pm

It depends upon how one chooses to define an idol. The Islamic definition of idol is more aligned with the traditional definition of idol which is a representation of God in some material form.

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Wed Jul 13, 2016 3:54 am

burqa shrouded definition of GOD is also some unknown, invisible,imaginitive, patriarchial, misogynostic idol somewhere in the sky who permisses sex slaves, sex with infinite no. of concubines, bond maid, and after death, promises virgin hoors with pearly white or crystal eyes
untouched by jinns or ins ( lulual maknun )(56:22,23)

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Unread post by zinger » Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:28 am

qutub_mamajiwala wrote:burqa shrouded definition of GOD is also some unknown, invisible,imaginitive, patriarchial, misogynostic idol somewhere in the sky who permisses sex slaves, sex with infinite no. of concubines, bond maid, and after death, promises virgin hoors with pearly white or crystal eyes
untouched by jinns or ins ( lulual maknun )(56:22,23)
Qutub bhai, can you atleast please show some maturity? If both of you are going to senselessly troll one another then how and when will this stupid cycle break?

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:01 am

bro zinger.. sorry point taken and noted
liked the operating part of ur message in bold

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Unread post by anajmi » Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:56 pm

mamaji, you do not have to worry about surah 56:22, 23. Those rewards are not for people like you. They are for people who believe in the Quran as it was revealed and follow it as the prophet (saw) followed it. Not a bikini interpretation of it.

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:01 am

i dont want also in jannah.
i have here bikini clad on earth itself.
u desire it in jannah, so to hasten ur desire and get it quickly, what r u doing?
suicide bombing?
dont tell me it is haram--i have video of ZN whom u follow terming it as halal if done under guidance of quran and
sunnah, which u boast of following.
anyway fighting infidel is the main aim of any true practising muslim--so better hurry
seeing present condition--there is rush of men and a long que for it in jannah--hope u are not left out.
better late than sorry.

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Unread post by anajmi » Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:03 am

I am fighting infidels right here on this board. But thanks for your concern. :wink:

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:06 am

so how many you are able to change or convert in last 15 years?

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Unread post by anajmi » Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:25 am

It doesn't matter. How many did Nuh (as) convert in 950 years?

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:35 am

as u wish.
but he lived 1000s of years before, without any modern technology.
do u also want to go that much back in time?
guess mind is already there.
also he lived 100s of years more than u.
do u think u have that much of years left?
anyhow how will u get ur vigin then, if u plan to spend that much time on earth.

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Unread post by anajmi » Thu Jul 14, 2016 4:43 pm

He was a prophet. He didn't need technology. He had the most powerful angel at his disposal. Seriously man, I don't know why I am wasting my time discussing these things with you. It is like arguing with a 7 year old who has the brain of a 3 year old!! It doesn't matter how many I convert. The prophet (saw) was told clearly in the Quran that converting people is not his job. His job is simply to deliver the message.

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Unread post by KA786110 » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:58 pm

Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers?
The answer is no.

Please re-read Surah Ikhlas

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Sat Jul 16, 2016 4:24 am

are u delivering the message or fighting the infidels to deliver the message?
first come out of ur confusion.
if it is fighting, then no use crying victimisation or persecution of muslims everywhere coz --that is sheer hypocrisy
coz in war u loose some-win some.
if only delivering then must be ready to hear and allow other side too even if false.
but u dont want others to propagate their religions and authenticating scholars who justify tafkiri killings--again sheer hypocrisy.
guess where u stand?

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Unread post by anajmi » Sat Jul 16, 2016 11:11 am

Right, so you should be ready to lose at the hands of the muslims. That is what is going to happen in the end. And no, it isn't going to be half chaddi muslims like you, it will be the muslims who follow the Quran and the Sunnah of the prophet (saw).

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Sun Jul 17, 2016 2:24 am

well good when it happens.
till then why are u crying victimization, persecution of muslims, crocodile tears for riots affected ola musalmaano.
keep on saying today muslims are most viled and bombarded.
it is all part of the game.
atleast play it fairly--seerath of prophet if u care to follow

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Unread post by anajmi » Sun Jul 17, 2016 11:21 am

Because it is victimization. Plain and simple. Only Muslim haters want muslims to quietly suffer. They shouldn't. they need to rise up and prove to the world that the secular nations that are persecuting muslims is because they know the muslims are going to be victorious very soon.

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Unread post by qutub_mamajiwala » Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:24 am

but muslims are also meant to hate non muslims and they are doing a very gud job of it.
but there will be reaction according to newton.
but hey not learning newton will not let u to hell.
but not hating non-muslim will .

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Unread post by Greatest I am » Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:50 pm

anajmi wrote:It depends upon how one chooses to define an idol. The Islamic definition of idol is more aligned with the traditional definition of idol which is a representation of God in some material form.
I have been taking that description a bit further and internalizing it as that is where idolization occurs.

From the Oxford Concise Dictionary of World Religions (2000 Oxford U. Press) p. 266
"Idolatry (Gk eidolon image + latreia worship.) The attributing of absolute value to that which is not absolute, and acting toward that object, person or concept as though it is worthy of worship or complete commitment. In a religious context this most usually mean treating as God that which is not God, and in particular acting toward a representation of God as if it is God. Thus idolatry is associated with the worship of idols, as though these are the actuality of God. In that sense, idolatry is extremely rare, since most religious worshippers are well aware that the signpost is not be be confused with that which is signified." [Discussion of the attitude to idolatry in Judaism and Islam follows.]

All the worship is directed to the concept that people create in their minds.

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Unread post by Greatest I am » Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:54 pm

anajmi wrote:He was a prophet. He didn't need technology. He had the most powerful angel at his disposal. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvBxFXQy7-M

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Unread post by Greatest I am » Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:57 pm

KA786110 wrote:
Are all believers in God automatically idol worshipers?
The answer is no.

Please re-read Surah Ikhlas
You do not idolize Mohammad or Allah?

You do not consider either a supreme or absolute being?

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Unread post by Greatest I am » Fri Aug 05, 2016 8:03 pm

anajmi wrote:Because it is victimization. Plain and simple. Only Muslim haters want muslims to quietly suffer. They shouldn't. they need to rise up and prove to the world that the secular nations that are persecuting muslims is because they know the muslims are going to be victorious very soon.
Why in particular do you think people hate about Muslims?

I know that some do not like your ideology because they think it immoral but that is not the same as hating Muslims.

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Unread post by anajmi » Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:11 pm

Why in particular do you think people hate about Muslims?
The same reason a poor man hates a rich man. Especially a poor man who has the power to steal from the rich.

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Unread post by Greatest I am » Sun Aug 07, 2016 4:56 pm

anajmi wrote:
Why in particular do you think people hate about Muslims?
The same reason a poor man hates a rich man. Especially a poor man who has the power to steal from the rich.
You have it backwards.

In this case, it is the morally rich who hate the morally poor Muslims.

Why do they see Muslims as morally poor?

Because Muslims say Jesus was a prophet that they respect, yet do not do his first moral tenet of loving your neighbor and doing unto others as you would want done to you.

Muslims ignore the Golden Rule.

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Unread post by anajmi » Sun Aug 07, 2016 6:20 pm

Not sure which muslims you are referring to. I love my neighbors. Even though they have attacked and destroyed the countries I love.

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Unread post by Greatest I am » Thu Aug 11, 2016 9:51 am

anajmi wrote:Not sure which muslims you are referring to. I love my neighbors. Even though they have attacked and destroyed the countries I love.
There is a time to love and a time to hate.

You do not know what time it is.

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Unread post by anajmi » Thu Aug 11, 2016 9:25 pm

Let me know when the time to hate starts.

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Unread post by Greatest I am » Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:23 am

anajmi wrote:Let me know when the time to hate starts.
Best to ask your local jihadist.

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Unread post by anajmi » Tue Nov 08, 2016 8:30 pm

That is why I asked you.