Reflection
I know its been a long time since I came on Revival, and I also know last time I came, I promised I was back for good.. And I have to say i went back on my word. Anyway, having recently attended the Steps to Allah conference, organised by Islamic Network, I was able to witness some live spoken word by Muslim Belal 🙂
Hence the small inspiration... (it's not anything wow, but just thought I'd share)
Britain is under threat from a rising tide of "militant secularisation", a cabinet minister has warned.
Religion is being "sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere", Conservative co-chairwoman Baroness Warsi wrote in an article for the Daily Telegraph.
The Muslim peer said Europe needed to become "more confident and more comfortable in its Christianity".
She will also highlight the issue in a speech at the Vatican later on Tuesday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17021831
Abu Issa Mohammed ibn Harun al-Warraq
Abu Issa Mohammed ibn Harun al-Warraq was a 9th Century skeptical scholar and critic of Islam.
He was a mentor and friend of scholar Ibn al-Rawandi in whose work The Book of the Emerald he appears.
Some Muslim sources have described him as being a Muslim and others a Manichaean
Al-Warraq was skeptical of the existence of Allah because "He who orders his slave to do things that he knows him to be incapable of doing, then punishes him, is a fool." Warraq also doubted claims portraying Mohammed as a prophet
That Mohammed could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully, but this does not mean that he had real knowledge of the future. And certainly the fact that he was able to recount events from the past does not prove that he was a prophet, because he could have read about those events in the Bible and, if he was illiterate, he could still have had the Bible read to him
Al-Warraq challenged the notion that Islam was a revealed religion. He argued that if humans are capable of figuring out that, for instance, it is good to be forgiving, then a prophet is unnecessary, and that we should not heed the claims of self-appointed prophets if what is claimed is found to be contrary to good sense and reason
Warraq admired the intellect not for its capacity to submit to a god, but rather for its inquisitiveness towards the wonders of science.
He explained that people developed the science of astronomy by gazing at the sky, and that no prophet was necessary to show them how to gaze. He also said that no prophets were needed to show them how to make flutes, either, or how to play them
Common Ground
Am i the only one who feels that religion is the common ground when generation clashes?
eg: parents, teenagers.
I know it depends on how valued religion is. But if it IS valued. I feel it's a great common ground.
Religion and (medical) Drugs
The Health Department are generally always trying to tailor around their Patient's need ( I know that this does not always happen).
So earlier this year, the publication that was printed:
Religion and Belief: A practical guide for the NHS.
I'm just scanning through some writing, and it says here:
In the United Kingdom, the right to follow your religion and beliefs is protected under article 9 of the Human Rights Act 1998, which covers freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.
I didn't know this but people who follow the Jehovah's Witness refuse blood products because of their beliefs.
Anyway, coming back to what I really made this thread for:
- It occured to me just now (yes, I am slow), that there are many vaccinations I have taken in the past.
- It never occured to me at the time whilst having these injections about whether what is going inside me is halaal or haraam.
- Reading this paper, I find that the MMR jab, is a Porcine drug.
- A porcine drug is something from a Pig.
- Iv had the MMR jab twice in my life.
- Also, alcohol is found in creams and formulations.
- In 2007, there was a debate, after someone from the Head of the Islamic Medical Association and UK NHS psychiatrist, and also Muslim advised British Muslims not to have the MMR jab, because it was 'full of haraam substances'.
So what do you think people?
1) If you dont have the vaccinations, you are yourself or your children are left vulnerable to these diseases.
2) However, if you have the vaccinations, you are inserting haraam products into your system.
What is more important?