Originally
posted by
tellarion:
Originally
posted by
iNouda:
Unlike you asshats who follow random crap, Islamic law has two sources; the Quran and the Hadith. Everything else is bullfluff/pseudo-modern spin/JewishPlot2BringIslamdown. Trufluff.
So tell me why so many radicals decide to willfully ignore the teachings of the Quran? I would say they are asshats that follow random crap(or random people more like it).
True. The purists are very few in number (I'm not one of them) and most people are relatively ignorant of what the Quran or Hadith actually says since so few bother to study them at all. In fact they leave it all up to the so called Ulama (religious scholars) and Mufties (not real sure what their function is) who hold huge religious/political power over the masses. It only takes one asshole to incite the ignorant masses.
When it comes to it, worship consists of only you and God; there are no intermediaries. The Prophet cannot protect a person. He cannot forgive your sins or intercede for you (beyond a certain limit) Despite all his prayers to God for his beloved Uncle Abu Talib (who protected and raised him), all he managed to do was raise him up to a less severe part of hell (Bukhari Book 58 Hadith #222). Despite that it's still hell and still a permanent stay. All he can do is teach and hope you follow, and the rest is up to you. You make your own choices in life. That's the beauty of it.
I don't like the path Muslims have taken. It's only going to get worse, believe me. A huge percentage of them have questionable morals and they're only Muslim in name. A lot of what they do is influenced by culture and not religion. Islam is a double-edged sword. Unless you properly study (all) its teachings, it's very easy to go down a radical or deviant route. It's easy to talk about Jihad but not the prerequisites behind it.
The modern radicals may believe that God will forgive all their sins but unless I'm mistaken, dying during Jihad only wipes the minor sins and the major ones related to God, and not that of sins involving other humans (relations with other humans which has its own category of sins). So unless they were really good people and wronged no one during their "normal" pre-Jihad life, according to their religion they're still going to hell if they were douchebags to other people and the people involved did not forgive their wrongs.