Xmuslim:


I'm agnostic about God. I don't know if he exist but I'm willing to accept that there is probably someone behind everything we see in the world today, including ourselves.

Despite this, I can't accept religion because of flaws I found in them.

Even if there is a God or group of gods, I don't think he want anyone to worship him. I have not found a religion book that is clean from flaws

Notyamate:
I went to greet a friend who recently gave birth to a baby girl. I carried this baby and she was so cute, and the hair, oh my God! This baby has hair, I mean the hair was just too much on her head. Dark curly, beautiful shinny hair.

I complimented the mother about the hair saying if I have a baby I want her hair to be plenty as hers. She replied that I better not be too happy about the hair, that they'll cut it before the naming ceremony. I was like why? She said it's a Muslim thing.

Although I know the hair will grow back, but I would like to know the reason behind this cutting of a thing.

Is it done to all Muslims over the world, or is it just in only Nigeria?

Xmuslim:


I'm no more a Muslim, but I have answer to your question.

Shaving children hair and killing animal as a sacrifice on behalf of the baby is a popular pegan pre-Islamic practice.

Muhammad/Islam adopted the practice with little modifications

1. Muslim kill the animal on the seventh day after birth
2. Muslim don't stain the head of the baby with the blood of the animal like the pegan use to do.

Summary

It is a culture that Muhammad met in his community and adopted into his religion. But many today's Muslim do not know and they are not ready to modernise their Islam to suit the current century because they are afraid of hell fire. Maybe they think their God is brutal

Elzakzaky:
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one enters heaven except through him

Elzakzaky:
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one enters heaven except through him

Xmuslim:


I'm no more a Muslim, but I have answer to your question.

Shaving children hair and killing animal as a sacrifice on behalf of the baby is a popular pegan pre-Islamic practice.

Muhammad/Islam adopted the practice with little modifications

1. Muslim kill the animal on the seventh day after birth
2. Muslim don't stain the head of the baby with the blood of the animal like the pegan use to do.

Summary

It is a culture that Muhammad met in his community and adopted into his religion. But many today's Muslim do not know and they are not ready to modernise their Islam to suit the current century because they are afraid of hell fire. Maybe they think their God is brutal

Xmuslim:
Many Muslims have not seen the hadith of the origin of baby shaving before today. Now they are mute

If you want, I can give you authentic hadith on the origin of hijab too, nothing is divine about hijab origin too.

I can give you authentic hadith about the Yemeni kaaba too, which Muhammad sent his boys to destroy. Kaaba isn't divine. It's a Arab shrine and Yemeni had a version too before Muhammad destroyed it.

We don't leave Islam because we hate it. We leave it because we realised it is not divine

gentleibraheem:


Now think of it. That supreme being created you, the earth with Water and plant emanating from it and animals who live by them. ( a permanently self dependent place) then other planets, imagine how magnificent. And the universe (space) which is beyond human comprehension.
Then the jinn, and human. How unique from an invisible spermatozoon, to an embryo, then a cloth of blood, through stages until you're born. You can't open your eyes, can't comprehend, can't speak, can't walk. You'd grow beyond what you your comprehension as a child, then die and that's it
Don't you even think of life after earth. You need a liberal and objectively willing mindset to believe in the divine book ( Quran) and Allah would guide you from there

Corporate2020:


Definitely, your heaven is different from my heaven. Therefore, hold on to your heaven while I hold on to my own heaven.

gentleibraheem:
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I love the fact that you research so much about Islam. And this makes my job easier.
Now most of your posts are based on the need to dissociate self from pre Islamic Arab peganism. However, one step further is what make the picture a bit blur to you and that us going beyond pre pre Islamic Arabs.
Now did you know that most of the pagan Arabs parcyice before the holy prophet Muhammad is a corruption of what prophet Ibrahim practices before his death?.
Now check out the origin of ka'abah, hajj, and other Islamic doctrine which see like a little moderation to the pre Islamic paganism. And you'd realise that it is not a moderation, but a sort pf correction and reinstitution of the lost Ibrahim's practices

Xmuslim:


I'm no more a Muslim, but I have answer to your question.

Shaving children hair and killing animal as a sacrifice on behalf of the baby is a popular pegan pre-Islamic practice.

Muhammad/Islam adopted the practice with little modifications

1. Muslim kill the animal on the seventh day after birth
2. Muslim don't stain the head of the baby with the blood of the animal like the pegan use to do.

Summary

It is a culture that Muhammad met in his community and adopted into his religion. But many today's Muslim do not know and they are not ready to modernise their Islam to suit the current century because they are afraid of hell fire. Maybe they think their God is brutal

Xmuslim:


I'm no more a Muslim, but I have answer to your question.

Shaving children hair and killing animal as a sacrifice on behalf of the baby is a popular pegan pre-Islamic practice.

Muhammad/Islam adopted the practice with little modifications

1. Muslim kill the animal on the seventh day after birth
2. Muslim don't stain the head of the baby with the blood of the animal like the pegan use to do.

Summary

It is a culture that Muhammad met in his community and adopted into his religion. But many today's Muslim do not know and they are not ready to modernise their Islam to suit the current century because they are afraid of hell fire. Maybe they think their God is brutal

drlateef:



This is very wrong indeed. You are deliberately peddling falsehood. Allah says in holy Quran that Muhammad is the best example for mankind. And Muhammad said all jahiliyyah pagan customs must be stopped by Muslims. He brought examples only from God almighty. When the prophet ordered muslims to circumcise their males, ignorant folks like you were saying it is pagan custom and no benefits but mutilation. Now you know the health benefits of it and you are silenced for ever.
The hair of newborn contains debris from amniotic fluid waste and dead tissues and cells. The hair also takes the dirts from birth canal and vagina of the mother. It also contain dead cells from the skin of the scalp. These impurities cannot be easily removed by wiping and soap and water. That’s why it is hygienic to shave it all off and allow new hair growth.

When next you are ignorant of anything, make your research on google. All it will cost you is some mega bites and few minutes of your time.

Xmuslim:


If the practice has any benefits, the credit goes to the Arab pegans, not Muhammad.

Xmuslim:


All these does not justify religion. Bible is equally divine to Christians. Other hundreds of religions also have divine books. Why do you think your own is unique?

gentleibraheem:


Lol. How rational does it sound to modernise a religion. So it is now like a software you update to suit your desire

FunFact:

Didn’t Christianity do the same thing, from the Old to the New testament? and even some Christain churches in the 21st century now accept LGBT+ people, honestly every religion has to evolve bc the people are evolving. Islam is too barbaric to work out in this generation, people now have freedom of speech, women and children have rights now and gay people too have rights. Sorry but Islam needs to evolve. Inshallah brothers.

Elzakzaky:
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one enters heaven except through him

Xmuslim:


First, Jews and Christian never agree that Abraham set foot on makkah. Tell me why I should agree with Qur'an on this matter and discard jew and Christian reports?

Second, pre-islamic pegan similarities to Islam is the least of my problem with Islam. Check my threads and see for yourself.

Infact, any religion that claim that people will burn in hell for eternity is a false religion or such religion is having a Hitler kind of god

Also, religion of Islam and Christiannity primary based salvation on the belief in jesus and Muhammad respectively.

So, if I believe jesus died for my sin as a Christian, I will enter heaven.

If I believe in kalimatu shahada according Islam, I will enter heaven even if I commit other sins. I may spend some time in hell, but will later get to paradise.

Both of these theories are against common sense and this is why Muslim always see Christian as useless religion and vice versa. It is because both are viewing the religion from 3rd party perspective

I see both religion as false because I'm looking at both from neutral, unbiase, 3rd party perspective.

To see other problems with Islam, check my threads

gentleibraheem:


Lol. How rational does it sound to modernise a religion. So it is now like a software you update to suit your desire

gentleibraheem:


Firstly, you don't need the Jews and Christians to agree on a matter about Islam before you believe it. As you never disbelieve in Jewish assertions because Islam is mute about it. And you don't need to discard what the Jewish and Christian books are saying about Abraham setting foot in Makkah as these books kept mute about the slave wife of Abraham who the Qur'an reported to have put to bed and visited by Abraham. Have an objective mindset and don't let a Christian or Jewish book hinder you from believing what you want to believe.
Secondly, pre Islamic paganism seem to be the bigger of your problem as you base most of your post on them.
Then if you believe in any form of organised state with laws ( I.e dos, don'ts and punishment for offenders) then you practice hypocrisy. Besides how does it sound to you self. All the rapists, murderers, robbers and corrupt leaders should not be punished abi.
Last paragraph. Considering the fact that you're an xmuslim, you should know the five pillars better and not only the shahadah would guarantee jannah.
I think No divine book or religion is compatible with common sense. Not even how your heart works, how the earth rotates in its orbit, how you turn from semen to human, and the existence of jinns you can't see, feel, or touch, And how life leaves your body.
Think. It's all before your eyes