Posted on 07/04/2008 2:28:41 AM PDT by A Navy Vet
I have a legitimate question to my American Muslim brothers:
As an agnostic, how would I be able to convert to Islam? What is the procedure??
Do I have to renounce my childhood Christian background? What Islamic rites must I recognize? What ceremonial process need I go through to give my soul to Allah and his Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon Him)?
As I read the Koran and the Hadiths, I am starting to get a better picture of Mohammed's (Peace be upon him) message.
I am now desirious of leaning more, but don't know where to start.
After reading much on the Internet, including ancient scribes in the Koran, I am learning that Islam just may be the avenue to peace on Earth and eternal life.
I am seriously fed up with the direction our country is heading.
I NEED and WANT to believe that there is a higher power that will bring my human brothers together and fight for a rightous moral concept that only Allah can provide.
Seriously, help me to understand. I am at a lost and looking towards Islam to provide the moral answers I need in my life. Christianity and Judaism and agnosticism have not provide the answers.
I live in Orange County, CA. Can you guide me to a local Mosque so I can hear and experience the wonderful teachings of Mohammed (Peace be upon him)? Too much rum has made me lost and I want something more. My wife is willing, also.
NOW you are fodder for Islamic clap trap..
MoMo was a sexual deviant and a murderous social criminal..
The pagan people that followed him were Sand Pirates..
The veneer of religion was added later..
If the Christian God has given YOU up to a retrobate heart.. then you could make a good Muslim... otherwise you would eventually see what a lame and hateful excuse for a religion Islam is.. Love is foreign to Islam except for the love of money and other stuff..
Well, he is from Kali-for-KNEE-uh, the land of Fruits and Nuts.
Islam is like the Roach Motel.
Once you check in, you don’t check out.
Agreed. Very well said.
This account may have been hacked. “A Navy Vet” has been here 10 years, but this post seems out of character from his previous posts.
Yeah, I'm a Muslim.
What's ya problem?
There is so much more! Please consider Jesus who brings the only true and lasting peace. Wouldn't peace and joy be such a relief? He loves you so and longs for you. Please FReepmail me. I will talk with you on the phone if you like. And I will pray for you to the Father (through His ONLY son)and please, any other FReepers reading this, stop this minute and pray with all your hearts.
Happy 4th Larry!!
Doin a Pig Roast and 4th bash on Scott Lake today/tonight in Waterford. I made an audition Wednesday night for a fill in because their normal drummer could not make the gig. Should be a major Bash bro... (hint hint, wink wink... lotta bikinis!!)
Oh... as far as the article? Anything muslim these days only drives me to spit... But, I restrain myself!!
lol...
CORRECT PATH!
My unstable soul
(John Fawcett, “Christ Precious”)
“O Lord, pardon my iniquity—for it is great!”
Psalm 25:11
If men have no inward grief on account of their ingratitude to a dying Savior—it indicates a lack of love to Him, and that they have not a just sense of the evil and malignity of their sin.
To think of the love of Jesus to my poor soul—manifested in His sorrows, His sufferings, His agonies, and the shedding of His precious blood—pierces my heart, and makes me loathe myself in my own sight! While I look to Him upon the cross whom I have pierced by my sins—surely I ought to mourn, and be in bitterness, as one who mourns for the death of his first-born. Shall not I shed tears of grief for those sins, for which my Redeemer shed His precious blood!
Blessed Jesus! how cold, how feeble, how languid is my love to You—the altogether lovely One! Alas! how readily are my fluctuating passions captivated by worldly things! O, let me not live so estranged from You! Warm my cold and frozen heart—and kindle in my bosom, a flame of holy fervor towards You.
At some seasons, the believer’s mind is so oppressed with a sense of his own vileness—that he is ready to sink into despondency. In his retired moments, he pours out his complaints in such language as this: “The clogs of guilt, and the clouds of darkness hang heavy on my soul. What language can express the depth of my distress on account of my sin! A sense of the vilest ingratitude to the best of Beings—stings my heart, and deprives me of comfort. What returns have I made for the abundant divine favors which I have received? I cannot bear the sight of my own vileness! I abhor myself, and repent as in dust and ashes. My life has been marked with repeated instances of ingratitude to Him, who is the giver of every good and perfect gift, whom I desire to love, and to obey with my whole heart. My unstable soul has been perpetually departing from God, inclining to folly, and verging towards that which is evil. This, this is wretchedness indeed! For this I condemn myself almost without ceasing. My spirits droop, my heart desponds, my soul is disquieted within me. O Lord, be merciful to me, pardon my iniquity—for it is great!”
“Lord, I abhor myself on account of the defilement which cleaves unto me. Behold I am vile, I will lay my hand upon my mouth, and put my face in the dust! I have experienced a thousand proofs of your goodness—the remembrance of which, fills me with shame, because of my ingratitude. The height of my folly lies in having so often sinned against infinite goodness and love! I have abused your kindness, and affronted your mercy. O Lord, I beseech you, pardon my iniquity—for it is great.”
Such exercises of mind as these, strongly indicate the sincerity of our love for the divine Savior.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
We have completed the next section of Fawcett’s precious book—
The evidence believers give, that Christ is precious to them:
1. They trust their everlasting concerns in his hands
2. They delight to think of him, to hear of him, and to speak of him
3. They are grateful for the benefits they receive from him
4. They prefer him to every other object, and give him the chief place in their affections
5. They sincerely desire his presence, and long to enjoy intimate communion with him
6. They are concerned that others may know and love him
7. They are grieved when he is dishonored
8. They are ready to deny themselves for him
9. They are distressed by their lack of conformity to his blessed image and holy will
10. They adhere to him in all conditions
11. They are concerned to make his glory the chief end of their actions
12. They long to be with him forever
66 POINTS!
Go for it! If you don’t like it you can always quit with no penalties! Right?
As a moslem "A Navy Vet" will have to give up the Rum. However, he can still have the lash and sodomy.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Thank G*d I drink Scotch!
LOL! Those would probably be fine with him.
Lucky for her...if she wasn't you could just slit her throat. Once you become a muslim that is.
What a wonderful devotional!
“Any Muslims here?”
That’s a VERY interesting question to ask on FR.
I have seen very few (any?) posters to this forum declare themselves to be Muslims.
I _have_ seen a few who - by their comments and by their screennames - suggest that _perhaps_ they either are Islamic or were raised that way.
Frankly, this isn’t the forum on which to declare your submission to Muhammed and allah... :)
- John
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