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Hey Pandas, I’m A Bit Sick Of This. What Are Your Questions About Islam?
Perhaps the title is slightly aggressive. But whilst I’ve had some wonderful experiences on this website, the bad unfortunately weighs out the good. Instead of simply enjoying posts, I’ve had to spend my time convincing everyone that I’m not oppressed simply because I choose to wear a hijab. I wish we could all just spend time looking at cute dog pictures together, but alas.
So I’ve decided. If anyone has any questions at all, please, I invite you to ask them here. I will do my very best to answer as a hijab-wearing woman (teenager, really). I’m not a qualified scholar of my faith, so I’ll only answer if I know for certain. If not, I’ll direct you to accurate resources that can explain it better than me. I’m also not trying to preach my religion to anyone - I just want everyone to understand better, for the sake of the Muslims in your individual communities. Some comments I’ve seen on here make me hope that the writer is not living near me, or other Muslims, or actually anyone at all. :(
I don’t mind any sort of questions but I certainly won’t tolerate hate speech, and I’m sure my fellow pandas won’t either; you’ll most likely be downvoted into oblivion. So keep the negativity away please! Thank you :)
Maybe no one will ask questions, but i tried.
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Actually I have a , probably random, question and request.... I am very interested in a muslim's view on this...
If you're not familiar with the band, please look on u tube at a band from Indonesia called " Voice of Baceprot"..
They're an all girl heavy rock band, all devout muslims..... I find them quite revolutionary, but I've always wondered how they sit with other muslims? ( I suggest the song " God( please) allow me to play music ")
( And don't worry about hate speech, if I find any on this post, I for one , will come down on them like a ton of bricks!!! I have zero tolerance for that kind of stuff!!!)
Thanks for asking :) The short answer is, there are generally different opinions in Islam on whether musical instruments are allowed or not, though it does say fairly clearly in the Qur’an and several hadith that they are not. So it all depends on which opinions you follow. Some may allow it completely, some may disallow it completely, some may only listen to instrumental… But you may have heard of ‘nasheeds’ which are basically Muslim songs - some are remixes of songs that replace the instruments in the background with voice. So some use that as an alternative. I hope that answers your question
As-salamu alaikum! Fellow Muslim here. I know recently Islam has come under scrutiny from whatever the government of Iran has done. I think it would be worth talking about, especially from your perspective of a Muslim hijabi woman, of the situation.
I will say that Iran’s government is in the wrong, that they have violated a woman’s, a human’s right to make their own choice about their religion. A key point of Islam is that people come to it by choice, and only an Islamic state that tends to each of its divinely ordained responsibilities has the right to enforce religious conformation , something that Iran is very far from, or any self-proclaimed “Islamic state” in the world today for that matter.
Wa alaykum salaam - yes, that would definitely be a topic worth talking about. I think what it boils down to is the Islamic view of it, which can be neatly summarised in a single verse: "There is no compulsion in religion." (2:256) There's literally no point forcing an entire country to wear the hijab when a huge group of them don't even believe in the God that you believe ordained that - and also, as you said, the government claims piety but is very far from it.
Hi! ( Salam Alaikum) I studied Islam for about 2 1/2 years out of curiosity. Just want to send my regards to you for putting up with all of the hate speech on bp because i barely do (even as a nonmuslim). I just have one question.
What (in your opinion/experience)is the most accurate translation of the Quran?
I know since that there are about 2 billion Muslims speaking many different languages that things can get misinterpreted/ mistranslated, and that there are many translations of the Quran (i also know from personal experience).
Wa alaykum salaam :) Thank you for taking the time to learn more about it! As for accuracy, I can't really say - I'm not a scholar of the Arabic language. Plus, translations would only vary in the extreme intricacies of language - general laws derived from the text would remain the same over several translations. (Also, if you're deriving laws anyway, you'd do it straight from the original Arabic text after studying the language.) So things rarely get mistranslated - mostly just misinterpreted, and that's because of human error rather than unclearness within the text. Personally, I like MAS Abdel Haleem's Oxford translation of the Qur'an for the way it tries to capture the flow of verses unlike other translations. Also, it's a whole lot easier to read. Sahih International would also be highly recommended because it's quite easy to read and has very accurate translation. The latter is a very well-known translation (fun fact, it was completed by 3 women, all of whom weren't born Muslim)
yes finally, someone’s addressing this issue. thank you jefferina :) you go!
yes finally, someone’s addressing this issue. thank you jefferina :) you go!
