#qur'an says

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Follow the Message

Any act of making an edict that is not directly outlined in the Qur'an, is an act of Shirk. Only God makes the rules, and if you decide you or anyone else can make rules too, you are setting yourself up as a partner or equal to God.

There are no dances you can do to get around this, though many Muslims will do backflips of Olympic levels all day every day to ensure they don't have to give up their precious hadiths; but, it does not stop the truth from existing:

🅐 God told us the Qur'an is complete

🅑 God told us to beware of hadiths

🅒 God gave us the rules -- everything is permissible for us except that which is outlined specifically in the complete book.

🅓 God told us to beware anyone else trying to make rules

God's "hand on the community" still does not give anyone the right to make a rule not directly outlined in the Qur'an. As well, people who knew the Prophet, and even the Prophet himself, did not have the right to make rules outside of the Qur'an. Following the Prophet as an example of behavior is one thing, but using him to make edicts about that behavior being 'mandatory' is a clear act of shirk, and following those rules is a deviation from Islam and God's word.

Meanwhile, below is a good reminder, while we are all immersed in and bombarded by mainstream Islam that insists on elevating a Prophet so high up that he has become partners with God... following the messenger is following the message (not the man):

(3:79-80) It is not for a human that God would give him the book, the authority, and the prophethood, then he would say to the people: "Be servants to me rather than to God!", rather: "Be devotees to what you have been taught of the book, and to what you studied." Nor does he order you that you take the angels and the prophets as lords. Would he order you to reject after you have peacefully surrendered?

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COULD YOU ELABORATE ON THE BLACK MAGIC IN THE QURAN RECITATIONS :( THATS SO AWFUL AND ITS RAMADHAN TOO

apparently some people make youtube accounts to post "quran recitation videos" for muslims to listen to, but in the background there are whispers of black magic :( islamophobes are making quran videos with black magic and muslims are accidentally falling for it. the lengths people go to hate on islam and harm muslims is disgusting

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Oh Allah, bless this kind of love 🪽

“And from him, He created his wife”

Hawwa (eve), who was created for Adam's left rib, from his back while he was sleeping. When Adam woke up and saw Hawwa, he liked her and had affection for her and shee felt the same towards him and Allah swt bind them in the beautiful relation Husband -Wife. An authentic Hadith states.

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Uh oh workmate is racist

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HEY SO YOU KNOW HOW MY MIDDLE NAME IS BASED ON THE NAME OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S WIFE (aisha)??? AND YOU KNOW HOW THE NAME ALI IS NAME OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S COUSIN????? SO AISHA AND ALI WOULD BE COUSINS IN LAW????

MY COUSIN IS NAMED ALI. THIS IS VERY WEIRD DUDE

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I fear that the extremely vivid sexual fantasy I started having immediately when my Qur'an through History and Cultural classmate started her presentation on al-Naba (essentially the Day of Judgement surah) (also, not about her!) is exactly what would happen if the whole religion thing were true and jinn really do try to get in the way of God's word reaching your heart and reverting you.

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Aqeedah series XXVI

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The fact that on game nights I'm still milking the pope saying frociaggine for all it's worth

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I tried to tell my arabic tutor that i memorized four verses (of a poem) but instead i said i protected four houses, how is y'all's friday going

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i stumbled across a Rumi quatrain on tumblr today and it reminded me to go looking for my favourites, so here's a few, all taken from Kulliyat-e Shams-e Tabrizi, with the caveat that i do not speak Farsi and I have read them all as translations only. more notes on translation at the end, but all of these are translated by Zara Houshmand, and taken from the archives of The Iranian.

#1771

#57

#1584

#1316

and the note on translation: these are of course not the Coleman Barks translations, the most popular English translations. i think the orientalism and... de-Sufi-fying and de-Muslim-ifying of the Barks translations and a lot of English-language and Western perception of Rumi is much more discussed now (Jawid Mojaddedi, who is writing a translation of Rumi's multi-volume Masnavi, says, "The Rumi that people love is very beautiful in English, and the price you pay is to cut the culture and religion.") if you're interested, Persian Poetics has a great twitter thread about it and their website has text, audio, and video resources where they've talked about it. and this article from Ajam Media is a short read and an interesting comparison of a few different translations.

if you enjoy Zara Houshmand's translations, she has a book of translations of Rumi's quatrains, Moon and Sun. there's many translations of Rumi's works not by Barks, that prioritise different things: you can 100% find a translation that isn't Barks, and Rumi's work is. so beautiful and so much better when you are not reading whatever uhhh... interpretation Barks came up with.

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In the name of Allah

the most Gracious...

the most Merciful...

Bismillah is the grace of Allah... Saying His name to begin an action shows just how much we trust Him to look over our lives... that no matter what... Allah is ever Present... and He is the most Gracious... most Merciful Lord...

What do you say Bismillah to, that - according to you - is most exclusively beautiful?

(Mine is that we wake up and go to sleep, with Allah's name as our protection ❤️... Think of it... isnt there always that one person we think of as soon as we wake up... and theyre the last person we remember before we sleep... How beautiful is that, our Rasool ﷺ taught us to remember Allah like that in absolute gratitude...)

[snowfelledayah]

Breaking News: Killing is still wrong

And so God told the Israelites that whoever kills an innocent soul, he has killed all of humankind -- the earth is either corrupted or salvaged in the very act of extinguishing or preserving the breath of God (Q5:32). Thus, if in one time and place, the sanctity of the Divine breath is violated, is the solution to further snuff out the breath of life?

(Source: Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam)

Reference (Qur'an 5:32):

It is because of this that We have decreed for the Children of Israel, "Anyone who kills a person who has not committed murder, or who has not committed mischief in the land; then it is as if he has killed all the people! Whoever spares a life, then it is as if he has given life to all the people." Our messengers had come to them with clarification, but many of them are, after this, still transgressing on the earth.

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hiii! 'tis me.

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🌟 ❛And whosoever have taqwa of Allah, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).❜ [QS 65:2]

🌟 ❛And He will provide him (the person of taqwa) from (sources) he never could imagine…❜ [QS 65:3]

🌟 ❛...and whosoever has taqwa of Allah, He will make his matter easy for him.❜ [QS 65:4]

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Hasan Basari رحمة الله says ;

And I knew the road was lonely and I did not have a companion. So I memorized the Qur'an