MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ISLAM

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MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ISLAM

• Lim Jooi Soon
• abdlim_at_gmail.com

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Cause of Misconceptions

• Media
• Islam Culture mix-up
• Cultural differences
• Fatwa by the non-experts
• Muslims

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Purpose of Removing Misconceptions

• A dirty glass needs to be cleaned before pouring
  clean water into it

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Methodology

• Listen attentively
• Understand the question
• Keep calm
• Rational, logical, objective
• Scientific
• Quote reference, data, ststistics etc
• Never go against Quran and sunnah

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GENERAL ISSUES Islam is difficult

• 2278
• 2185
• 2286
• Hadith Make things easy...
• Fitrah
• Very few dos and donts
• Benefits humans
• Analogy Child fire
• Islam easiest, most rational, scientific

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GENERAL ISSUES All religions are the same

• Spelling
• Invitation
• 319
• 448, 116
• Concept of God in Islam, Christiniaty, Hindu etc
• Tawheed, Rubbubiyyah, Al-Asma Was-sifat, Ibaadah
• Islam also shows how to achieve Good
• Islam Comprehensive

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GENERAL ISSUES Muslim God Cruel

• All born in state of fitrah
• Piety not inherited Adam, Noah etc
• Muslim by conviction NOT blind following
• Shahadah can be nullified
• 1715, 1099, 672
• Born muslims and non-muslims
• Opportunity and doing their best
• Analogy marks depends on difficulty of test
• 440
• Heaven hell belong to God

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GENERAL ISSUESSinners go to hell-fire

• Yes
• Concept of repentance
• RSL (saw) repented 70X/ day
• 3953-54, 448, 116, 2570
• Never stops forgiving
• Rewards punishment

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GENERAL ISSUESGood kafir vs Bad muslim

• Kafir
• 5156
• 1031-3
• 448, 116
• Analogy Kad Mesra Petronas

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GENERAL ISSUESDoa not granted

• Allah answers prayers
• Allah is The best of all planners
• Rich - wife
• Sometimes our request is granted
• Some requests granted later
• Grants even when not requested
• Grants in the Hereafter

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VIOLENCE

• 9/11
• Terrorist
• Fundamentalist
• Muslim countries love war
• Islam spread by sword
• Jihad
• Suicide bomber

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VIOLENCE9/11

• No proof to date
• Official version vs evidence
• Passenger list
• Still building collapsed in fire
• Building 7
• Free fall - control demolition
• Pentagon
• Testimony of last survivor
• Attack on Afghanistan
• Who is terrorist?

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VIOLENCEMuslim countries love war

• True many wars lately include muslim country
• Are they the aggressors or victims
• Bosnia
• Afghanistan
• Attack on Iraq - nuclear weapon/ WMD
• Palestine
• WW1 WW2
• Ireland vs United Kingdom
• Analogy Robbers attack your house

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VIOLENCEFundamentalist

• Media Oklahoma bomb
• Fundamentalist - doctor, scientist, mathematician
• Not all fundamentalists the same
• Proud to be muslim
• Fundamentalist - dictionary meaning
• Every muslim should be fundamentalist
• Islampeace

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VIOLENCEIslam spread by sword

• Islampeace
• Force is sometimes needed
• Spain, India, Arab, Indonesia, Malaysia
• Thomas Carlyle
• 2256
• 16125 (islamic sword)
• 1934-1984 plain truth Islam 235 Christian 47
• Fastest growing religion in America Europe

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VIOLENCEJihad

• Jihad is not holy war
• Holy war crusader war
• Jihad means to strive
• Jihad also means holy struggle

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VIOLENCESuicide bomber

• Suicide forbidden is Islam
• 532
• Vietnam, Iraq, Sri Lanka
• Bali vs Palestine
• Scholar opinion that all adults in Israel are
  trained army personnel
• What is the cause?
• Hadith regarding war
• Judge Islam by source

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WOMEN

• Polygamy
• Hijab
• Inheritance
• Witness
• Man one degree higher than woman (2228)
• Wife beating
• Leadership
• Imam / saff

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WOMENPolygamy

• Polygamy, polygeny, polyandry
• Not introduced by Islam
• Islam set a limit
• Permissible - not compulsory
• A solution - women more than men, wife paralysed,
  childless

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WOMENPolyandry vs polygeny

• Western view of equality
• Islamic view - equal but not the same
• Physical differences
• Men can marry 4, women cannot - why?
• Mother/father known identity, menses, fitrah,
  STD, physical capacity
• 4/4 - everybody will be related!
• HIV - history - perished nation!

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WOMENHijab

• Past history - women degraded
• Islam uplifted status of women
• 2430-31
• 6 criteria
• Include moral, behaviour and intention
• 3359
• Capital punishment for rapists
• Current global status of women?
• Rape statistics in the USA

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WOMENDivorce

• Not true
• Both agree - return mahar, court order
• Talaq protects women

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WOMENWife-beating

• Not as judge, do not execute punishment
• Part of guiding process
• Husband-wife relationship - rights
  responsibilities (434)
• Conditional - nusyuz
• Steps
• Systematic problem-solving

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WOMENWitness

• 2282 - business transaction
• Murder - scholars views
• Men - breadwinners
• Tazil
• Will (5106)
• Talaq (652)
• Accusing a woman unchaste (244)
• Accusing spouse of adultery (245)
• Aisyah - 2210 hadiths
• Male witness not acceptable

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WOMENas leader

• Quran does not mention
• Hadith
• Aisyah - Perang Jamal
• Allah praise Putri Balqis
• Prophets time vs today
• Scholars opinions
• E.g. Liberia

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WOMENas Imam / position during solat

• Yes
• Why woman cannot be Imam for men?
• Distraction
• Side-by-side
• Achieve khusyu?

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WOMENMen one degree higher

• 1715
• Not power, but responsibilities

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WOMENInheritance

• Men have financial responsibility towards the
  family
• Women have no financial obligation
• Gross vs nett
• Example

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MUHAMMAD(SAW)

• Many wives
• Pedophile
• Married daughter-in-law
• Can read

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MUHAMMAD (saw)Many wives

• Total of how many wives?
• Monogamy with Khadijah
• Polygamy was a norm
• Remained unmarried
• Allahs commandment
• 3350
• 3352
• 336
• Social, political, moral, education,
  humanitarian, legality

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MUHAMMAD (saw)Pedophile

• Previous culture vs present
• Chinese culture - engaged at birth
• Marriage to Aisyah - 6 years old, parents
  consent, strengthen siraturrahim
• Never an issue during that time but full of
  praise
• Permissible age for sexual relation

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MUHAMMAD (saw)Married daughter-in-law

• Existing culture - adopted son considered as own
  son
• Allahs commandment is intended to break the
  culture

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MUHAMMAD (saw)Can read

• 961
• 2948
• Meanings of Iqra
• Read
• Recite
• Proclaim

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Common Questions By Christian Missionaries

• MUHAMMAD AND JESUS MENTIONED IN THE QURAN
• Muhammad mentioned 5 times
• Jesus mentioned 25 times
• 1st Person VS 3rd Person
• Mention of Moses
• Satan VS Jesus
• MUHAMMAD IS DEAD BUT JESUS STILL ALIVE
• All Prophets are dead except Jesus
• Why?
• Only Jesus mistaken as God by followers
• Will return in End Times to correct followers
• Bible Matthew 721-23

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• WHO IS THE LAST PROPHET?
• True Jesus coming in End Times
• Last Prophet not by Appearance but by Birth
• Analogy 2 sons
• 2nd coming of Jesus as follower of Muhammad
• ALLAH SAYS WE IN THE QURAN
• Allah refers Himself as Ana ( I ) and Nahnu
  (We)
• Two kinds of Plural in Arabic
• Plural of Quantity
• Plural of Respect
• Queen Elizabeth

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• JESUS HAS NO FATHER
• Article of Faith
• 359 (Jesus Adam)
• Bible Hebrews 71-3 (Melchisedec)
• Cloning
• QURAN COPIED FROM THE BIBLE
• Not a single verse of Quran same with Arabic
  Bible!
• Style of Language
• Contradictions, Scientific errors in Bible not in
  Quran
• Modern Science, Prophecies, Historical facts in
  Quran
• Analogy Genius copy from fool
• Cause of Similarities Same Source
• Mark 1229 copied from Deuteronomy 64
• Bible copied from Hindu Scripture

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• QURAN WRITTEN BY SATAN
• Author of Quran 482, 452
• Verily Satan is an Enemy to you 356
• You should not worship Satan 3660
• Satans promises are nothing but deception
  2529
• When you do read the Quran, seek Gods
  protection from Satan the accursed 1698
• Not a single verse in Quran teaches Evil

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COMMON QUESTIONS BY HINDUS

• MUSLIMS WORSHIP KAABAH
• Unity in Islam
• 1st House of Worship
• Earlier Qiblat Jerusalem 2225, 250
• Stepping Kaabah
• Stepping picture of Kaabah
• Kaabah removed to KLCC
• Worship Kaabah Hellfire

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MUSLIM SLAUGTERING CRUEL

• Pre-Conditions Sharp knife, away from other
  animals
• Calm the animal
• Slaughter swiftly
• Blood vessels severed without damaging spinal
  cord
• Maximum blood drained
• Animal kicking struggling
• Disconnecting blood flow to brain nerves
  responsible for pain
• Meat remains fresh for longer time

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RAMA, KRISHNA, BUDDHA ARE PROPHETS OF ALLAH

• 3524, 137
• 1636 Serve God and eschew Evil
• Cannot say for sure Yes or No
• If they were Prophets Time bound Their People
  only
• Muhammad our Prophet 3428, 21107
• Muhammad Final Prophet 3340

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EATING NON VEGETARIAN

• Permitted by God 165
• Pointed Teeth
• Digestion System
• Vegetation too have lives
• Killing less senses being
• Lives killed to feed one person
• Universal Religion Desert, Eskimos
• Vegetarian too can be good Muslim

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• Linggam In Kaabah
• Eating Non-Vegetarian
• Muslim Slaughtering Cruel
• Idol Worship Only For Concentration
• Rama, Krsna, Buddha Prophets of Allah?
• Hinduism the Oldest Religion (Sanathana Dharma)

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CONTRADICTIONS IN THE QURAN

• 1 day 1,000 or 50,000 years?
• Man created from water, sperm or clay?
• Heavan earth created in 6 days or 8 days?

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1 DAY 1,000 OR 50,000 YEARS?

• 2247
• 325
• 704
• Time in Human Concept not the same with God
• Different Context
• Yaum Day or Period or epoch
• Analogy Journey to 3 Destinations

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MAN CREATED FROM WATER, SPERM OR CLAY?

• 2554
• 762
• 62
• Contradistinction
• Analogy Making Coffee
• Water Sugar Coffee

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HEAVAN EARTH CREATED IN 6 DAYS OR 8 DAYS?

• 754, 103, 117, 2559
• 419-12
• 4111 begins with Thumma (Moreover /
  simultaneously)
• Analogy Construction of Building Fence
• Yaum Day, Period, Epoch

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