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Abu Zola:
@isale- There are things that makes it abominable/church forbidden such as to go and receive blessing, healing but reason other than that is permissible

Thank you for you reply.

-Omo Isale-Gangan

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Abu Zola:
Wait a minute, did you say you attend church service

Salaam Aleikum, 

This wasn't addressed to me, but I have to answer in the affirmative.  Yes, I have attended church services when invited by friends and family members who have (unfortunately) converted to born-again.  On the whole, maybe half a dozen times.  For me, it was educational, and as long as I do not stand up to make statements I absolutely do not believe, like, being born a sinner and God and man are one, etc., I don't see it as violative of my faith.

Attending church never for one minute made me interested in switching to that side.  On the contrary, it strenghtned my faith because I saw what I never want to be associated with: girls and women dancing around shaking their butts like they were at a party instead of a house of worship.  What in the world!  No offense to anyone if this is your way, but seriously, after the solemnity of salah, it was an experience to see that.  As I said, there are people in my extended family who have changed to born-agains.  This is not only affecting Islam, but even other traditinal Christian denominations.  Even here in the USA, many Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran churches are full of older parishioners because there is a huge movement to the evangelical/pentecostal style of worship.  It is not only in Nigeria and Africa. 

The desperation and hardship of life in many places may be contributing to this.  To be perfectly frank, the style of worship in churches will attract many, compared to the serious disciplined way of muslim prayer.  They get to talk in tongue and be demonstrative, and dance to live loud music and drums?  Once the glamour wears off, and more people are fed-up with the constant harrassment to donate money they do not have, while news breaks about another super-rich preacher defrauding the commoners, there will be a shift back.

Yes, "churches seem to be more successful," but things aren't always as they appear. 

NOTE: If there is a hadith or sunnah discouraging Muslims from attending a church service as a mere observer, I'd like to know it.  I certainly don't pretend to be scholar in the deen, so I'm open to knowledge.   
Respectfully,
I.G.

2 years' salary. I just made it up.

Similar to the 2 months' salary for engagement rings.

I kid I jest.

EmperorOlu:
Men fxck the USA ,Osama is an asshole, why did the USA not put Britain on the terrorist list when that British guy (reid) tried to bomb a plane with a shoe bomb in 2001?

Typical Americans being racist, it is just because we are a black nation, to hell with them.

They have caused Nigerians more harm than good. I don't care if they put us on a terrorist list, I don’t have any intentions of going to the USA. If one is comfortable where he is what is the person going to USA for? I say it again FXCK the USA.No more ,i will never sit back and let those bastards degrade my country or my people.

Yankie no dey rein again so make dem hold themselves. They should go and sort our their economy and leave Nigeria alone.

I concur.   

Anyway, regardless of religion or ideology, we can all agree that we love our country and we will not sit idly by while we are invaded (under the guise of rooting out a non-existent terrorist cell) and turned into another Iraq, Lebanon, or countless other booming countries that posed a threat to the true rogue states of this world.  Stand together or you'll fall together.

I temporarily reside in, and post from, the usa.

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-Isale Gangan