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I think the first thing is to clear this misconception about the word "Allah".Allah is the arabic word for God.Just the way God is Olorun in yoruba and God in english.The reason it is favoured by muslims is because it's unique.it cannot be attributed to other beings and it cannot be feminized.Other languages' words for God can be attributed to other things.For instance,Someone that believes that a stone is his God can pray to a stone and refer to it as "Olorun",God in english can also be feminized to become "godess".Allah is God(or God is God whatever!).He's the creator and sustainer of all that exists simple!

Telly B:
If every Muslim faces East, they cannot all be facing the kaa'ba.

If every Muslim is facing the Kaa'ba, they cannot all be facing East.

I can assure u that myself and an ss1 student would be at par as regards geography .,so i'm not going to dable into someone's east is another person's west!.Facing the east is about unification.I can get to any strange land and blend in with the local muslims at once.I get to worship my God exactly the way i worshipped Him at home.i don't feel uncomfortable because they are facing north or west.And,as quoted in previous posts,yes God is everywhere.He affirms that in the Quran and when you don't know where the east is,no problem,He says in the Quran,face anywhere when u're not sure.

Sometimes,When God gives a command,there seems to be no logic to it because of our limited understanding as humans.But,No body can deny the fact that muslims are the most united people on earth.Something as "illogical or trivial" as facing the same direction is what has given us our unity.

Finally,lets assume there's no unity dimension to it.the command is just there "face the east" I really don't know what the fuss is about.It's God's world,it's His rules.Many before us were given outrageous things to do.Abraham was asked to kill his son!(i'm sure that didn't make sense to him),The mother of Moses was asked to put him in a basket and put him in the river(i'm a woman and i know that is really hard to swallow ).The point is faith is what drove them to obey.and faith is what drives us.

@TellyB

It seems to be,(but i hope not) that u're one of those that God refers to in the Quran as those who will not beleive even if angels were to come down to give the message.And who am i to dispute.He created you and He knows your type.I can only pray that He softens ur heart for u to c the truth.You ask a question and when u get the answer,you debunk it on the flimsy ground that the authority quoted is not reliable. i wonder who made u an authority on all subjects.Guess u must have lived about 1000 years b4 Muhammad and known so much about embryology.And guess you would know more than Keith Moore who revised his book on embryology to include facts that he found in the Quran.

your claim that muslim traditions have been changed really is laughable.No body can change the laws of Allah.Ever since man was created,Some have obeyed God and some have not.Does that take away the rules?you need to apply some logic here bro.

#1. Muhammad prohibited the making of pictures, threatening that anyone making them will be punished with the severest punishment of Allah on judgement Day. Guess what?? Muslims today pay no attention to his threats; and most of the pictures I posted are from Muslim sites!! 

Ans: Pictures of animate objects are those that are disallowed.And even if some muslims take pictures of animate objects.Does their disobedience change the law?

#2. The claim has been made that Muhammad performed miracles. Guess what? Most muslims today simply don't buy into that for the simple reason that none of his were recorded in 'Allah's book - the Qur'an!!'

i don't know which muslims u've been talking to,but our books are the Quran(the word of God) and the hadith(the sayings and deeds of the prophet).Any muslim that says he doesn't beleive in the hadith is wrong.The only issue with hadiths is that some mischeif makers try to fabricate stories which is why there's a science of hadith and those that have been fabricated are exposed.
Besides,the splitting of the moon that was performed by the prophet when the pagans told him if he did that,they would beleive is documented in the Quran!

#3. The rascal joke of Human Embryology in Islam has been debunked - and solidly so!! Guess what?? Scholars in Islamic science no longer pay attention to the show man naik Zakir!!

Great! u're now so knowledgeable,u know who is and who is not an islamic scholar.U may want to mention them if u know them.

#4. the claim has been made by the same set of apologists that the Torah of the Qur'an is LOST!! Guess what?? That idea is fast losing popularity among reasonable Muslims who don't stoop so low to make that al-taqiyya claim. In the Hadith, Muhammad handled confessed that he believed in the Torah that the Jews used - the very same one that the Jews still have!!

You may want to take this topic to your fellow christians coz even you folks are still trying to decide whether or not ur book is accurate.You may go thru the cnn archives to get details on their documentary on the errors found in the bible.Don't even try to bring the up topic of authenticity of the bible.even an unborn child know the bible has been tampered with and has a zillion errors!


Now my question:
(1)Can someone tell me why we have christians in naija when Jesus Himself said he was sent to the lost sheep of isreal and that the message would not have gone round by the time he comes back.[/color]

(2)God says in the Quran that Jesus didn't die.He was raised up and it was made to appear to his persecutors that they killed him.Interestingly,Hebrew 5:7 says Jesus prayed to God not to be killed and his prayer was answered.Where does that leave the whole crucification thing?[color=#000099]