Dr S.M.Tariq Zafar
Professor Finance
D.I.T, Dehradoon
India

smtz2005@yahoo.co.in

Don’t you think it is unscientific and a wrong scholarship to think that the West will continue to indulge in scientific and technological enjoyments even when Islam starts to advance in an ‘alarming’ rate? Don’t you think the West is relatively indifferent to the ‘fast’ growth of Islam largely because Christianity has the highest number of followers? The fact is that, while Islam is desperately trying to catch up with Christianity, the later is taking things for granted largely because it thinks with tremendous scientific and technological powers, Islam is not a threat. However, it would naturally react when the population of Muslims in the World threatens Western pride and paramouncy!!

That’s pure conjecture. Besides, even if your reason was true, it doesn’t have to be Christianity that they rally around.

Muslims will NEVER overtake Christians in number. This is because the West has the tendency to wake from too much indulgence in scientific and technological destractions to promote Christianity, once the population of Muslims becomes ‘alarmingly’ high. The West would so response not necessarily because of God but because of self pride and security aswell.

The main message has always been beautifully simple – to worship God alone, and associate no partners in that worship with Him, and to obey the teachings of the Prophets and Messengers that are passed to them from God.

Siraaj

And no one cared! That seems pretty norm and widespread to me.”

LOL, Murphy, bro, I think you ought to look up the definition of the word norm:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/norm

I assume you went to a public high school? 7 pregnancies out of on average 2000 students is NOT what is called a “norm” let alone a widespread norm.

I think what you meant to say is that we don’t want to get to the point where we have widspread “apathy” towards pregnancies as our norm.

I agree we’re not at that point yet – look what I said in my previous post:

“…and due to the cultural stigma and closeness of our communities, more pains are taken to hide it…”

But since Saqib’s post indicated you were talking about numbers of pregnancies, and not perceptions on pregnancies, I addressed it in those terms.

Siraaj

It’s just baffling how media degrades the religion. I’ll never forget about my first visit the the masjid. I came out wth feelings of relief( far as learning the truth about it) and at peace. My classmates and I (it was 7 of us who visited the masjid) was talking about how the great times that we had going there and learning the truth about it. The Islam that we learned teaches peace, about nurturing families and to stray from violence. (Ironically, that was the initial feeling I got from the faith, when i noticed the civil atmosphere in the masjid). The people didn’t just want for us to accept their words, they got their words from the book of the Qur’an.
Even if other people may not obey the words in the book, I just like what the religion stands for.

There is no worse crime than trespassing the Rights of God Almighty.

The muslim is only a muslim, because he *knows* it to be the truth and the Divine guidance. Otherwise he would not be a muslim in the first place. In fact such is equally the case with many other religions, by definition. Of course the difference here being that Islam demands humans to use their minds based on Proof and Evidence in this journey; and engage in dialogue with others. How well that second (or even the first) is practically conducted by some is not the point here.

Truth, Solomon, stands clear from falsehood. It always has, and always will.