Disclaimer : these are my views..they are not meant to be offensive in any nature to any one...it is my perspective of the world and communities mentioned here and i am using the right of freedom of speech in my country to write this. if you are a fanatic muslim, please do not read this. I am not trying to cause war, neither am i trying to cause hate speech...it is my perception and i am allowed to write my views..
sooo if you're my really close friend, you know what my sentiments on religion are...it's a whole load of CRAP...
please don't get me wrong...i Believe in God, and i believe in the prophets and his word...but I also believe that man, in his own selfish way, concocted his own version of what, wher, how and who God is and expected every one to follow it and hence put boundaries...
since i was a child, i have asked questions, to the point that even my folks got mad at me..and i was only 14...so u can imagine my quest for God...
and now i'm 25, and i think i finally got my answer...so to all the muslim ppl who think I am not muslim-thank you. had it been a week ago i would have probably told you, Fuck you..but i have realised that I have found my God.I have found my oneness with him..and it didn't come from praying 5 times a day, fasting every tuesday and thursday, fasting in the month of ramadhan, giving to every poor person i see on the road...heck half of them are richer than i am...and i didn't find Him, by judging other people and calling them Kafir and non believers...sheesh...how do i know my religion is right and theirs is wrong???
i went to a catholic school, and i think that is where my Quest for God started..i wanted to know, why we were all different. why some people believe Jesus is the Son of God and others a Prophet of God...and why we do not have the same mode of prayer...if i look at it now...we have pretty much the same mode of prayer...just different words...we all stand, sit, kneel, prostrate...its like an aerobics class...
and any way, how many of those people actually know why they're standing, sitting, kneeling and prostrating??? how many people actually know what they're saying when they pray?? how many people actually pray without being obliged...as in you live in my house, and so u have to pray 5 times a day, u have to go to church on sunday etc..or its friday so i have to go to the mosque...i mean seriously...do u even go to pray, or u go for the food that they serve after???
ok am not hating on muslims, but i only know of them and their cultures..am sure chistians, hindus, jews, bhuddists have their own versions as well...
so back to my philosophy on finding God and how i found Him and am happy..
the whole world population is 6,775,235,700 ( i clearly googled that). that means that there are those many people out their with their own verison of what religion and who God is..people are like finger prints..each one is different..so according to wikipedia, the no 1 followed religion is christianity, followed by islam, hinduism, budhism, folk religions, chinese folks religions, shinto, sikhism, judaism, jainism, bahai faith, cao dai, cheondoism, tennrikyo, wica, church of wold messiantity, seicho-no-le, rastafari movement, and unitarian universalism. heck i can't even pronounce half these things but i am guanteeing that not any 2 people, of either of these divisions have the same idea of what they believe in...
so that brings me back to my religion, my faith...Islam...I know am probably gonna lose alot of friends because of this but am tired of being labelled non believer just because i am a follower of the Aga Khan...Get this right-we don't believe he is God, we believe he is the messenger of God...and i don't need to prove anything to any one...but it's part of my story,..no we do not lay our hair down on the ground for him to walk on and no we do not do any of the other crazy things that you believe we do...Ismaili's believe that there is the Din and Duniya..which is the spiritual world and the physical world respectively and that there is a balance between the 2 and it is upto you as an individual to find your balance..
so come's my question..what makes people out there say that we are not muslims??? the fact that we pray differently, dress differently, speak differently and follow an Imam of the time...why not prejudice the bohora's or ithnashris and why discriminate against those from your own because they feel differently??? just a question :)
why is it that when a person is different, they are discriminated against...alot of "real muslims" that i have talked to wear blinkers...no offense...we all say the shahada where we proclaim that Allah is the only God and that Muhammad is his messenger. we all have our Imams...in our respective mosques...so why is it that Muslims are able to call other Muslims non believers..
an imam is one who guides you...in the present living situation..so for a man to come up to me and say that ismaili's are a sect that came about to break and destory Islam, my friend you have it all wrong...
and now my quest for God has stopped because I have found him...
and here is how...
we all say that we have to help, we have to accept people, we have to love people, we have to pray, we have to respect etc etc etc...
and it is, i am sure in all the religious books that we read...Human's are but vessels in which God uses to transport his word...and God has not specified in any book, how we are to find him...if people needed guidance all those many years ago on religion, why do we in the 21st century not need it???? what makes us so special??? sheeeessshhh kabab...infact i think we need it more now then they needed it that time coz there are so many more satanic paths now...
when we read something, we all get a different perception of the same thing that we read..and that is where religion has stemmed from...
the fact that man wanted answers and all of them differed..and so they all came up with their own ideas...yes as muslims we have hadiths and sunnahs, but sunnah is not a must...it is a preferred..we are but human...so dear muslim brother and sister, DON'T JUDGE ME FOR YOU KNOW NOT WHAT AND WHERE I HAVE BEEN AND MY ACTIONS :)
that is how i found my God...
i learnt that we say are muslim and that we follow the prophet..but do we really??
the Qu'ran says, to accept a person for who they are-and yet as muslims we have hate speech between each other...about how one is better than the other and how one cannot be seen in the vicinity of another..we do not even have the same date to start the month of ramadhan for crying out loud..atleast the christian's have the same christmas and the same easter and the jews have the same hanukkah...so before we start pointing out other's flaws, let us look at ourselves as individuals and communities...
and not to judge...yet we are the first one's who critisize and condemn people when some one does something or they come from a different back ground from us..
we categorize fear as respect, when the only one we are supposed to be scared of is God, for he can do to you whatever no human can..why should i be scared of voicing my opinion, to a mere human being and what gives him the right to tell me that i am wrong??
we help only the beggars on the street and woooww, u have done such a lovely thing-dude, that beggar probably drives a mercedes while you're in your little toyota..am not saying they are all that way, but i have seen it happen...what about your neighbour who is sad?? does he not need to smile?? is that not a help?? is that not a biggest blessing rather than giving a man 20bob on the street so that he can buy glue to sniff?? or what about the little girl from your community whose parents cant afford school fees but she sits at home while you judge their family?? or that old lady, who lives alone and needs company even if its just for 10 minutes but you're too busy watching tv or doing whatever it is that you do...or your mother, when she has had a bad day and needs help to cook or clean the house....is that not what help is meant to be??
when we love some one, why can we not love them no matter what?? why do have to only love people who are of the same social standing? or of our same kind?? why can we not love animals the way they love us-why do we have shooting ranges and poaching ranges? why do we create hatred amongst each other and yet the only different thing about us is our culture and color...do u have 4 kidney and me 2?? or do i have 6 heart chambers and u 4???
if i remember correctly, we are all made in the image of God...and because of that, we have to respect the other person as if we see God in them...but how can u see God in some one else if you can't find Go within yourself...
Find the God within you, don't change yourself, change your attitude...don't say how your religion and faith is better than mine, you have no point to prove to me...but a point to prove to yourself...
and when you find your God, you will understand, that what I have written today, is not meant to offend any one but meant to show you, that every one has their interpretation of what religion is and a human, although is not perfect, they are not allowed to be prejudiced against any one nor any thing for every individual is special and a believer HOWEVER IT IS THAT THEY CHOOSE TO BELIEVE...
