Comments on: You http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/you/ Life, Liberty and People Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:08:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: naveed http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/you/#comment-17 naveed Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:24:25 +0000 http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-17 The answer to all of your questions is very very simple: "We have converted Way Of Life (Arabic: Deen) to Religion (merely a set of rituals and dogmas)". Unfortunately this happened in the course of centuries. And you know religion, by definition is not flexible. So here we go ... :) Study your book (Quran) with an open and critical mind, you would reach the conclusion that it never talked about religion, never argued over traditions/rites/rituals/dogmas/individual salvation/priesthood/monarchy etc. In fact it presented a challenge to all these. Since mankind requires guidance about permanent values (otherwise these values come from within the society which itself is a chaos because people differ), so it just gives you the basis upon which you have to build a system using your intellect. But as I said, priesthood and monarchy in its own benefit changes the original message. This happened with Christianity, Jewism and with Islam as well. In case of this book (Quran) though the original language was not changed, but wordings and terms were made to lose the splendor they so beautifully conveyed in the original form. (Mostly through traditional/cultural philosophies and baseless/fabricated stories) The answer to all of your questions is very very simple:
“We have converted Way Of Life (Arabic: Deen) to Religion (merely a set of rituals and dogmas)”. Unfortunately this happened in the course of centuries.

And you know religion, by definition is not flexible. So here we go … :)

Study your book (Quran) with an open and critical mind, you would reach the conclusion that it never talked about religion, never argued over traditions/rites/rituals/dogmas/individual salvation/priesthood/monarchy etc. In fact it presented a challenge to all these.

Since mankind requires guidance about permanent values (otherwise these values come from within the society which itself is a chaos because people differ), so it just gives you the basis upon which you have to build a system using your intellect.

But as I said, priesthood and monarchy in its own benefit changes the original message. This happened with Christianity, Jewism and with Islam as well. In case of this book (Quran) though the original language was not changed, but wordings and terms were made to lose the splendor they so beautifully conveyed in the original form. (Mostly through traditional/cultural philosophies and baseless/fabricated stories)

]]> By: The Disection | Tea Break http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/you/#comment-14 The Disection | Tea Break Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:56:51 +0000 http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-14 [...] Masood, a UET alumnus, a Software Engineer and a close friend of mine to the Pakistani BlogoSphere. Checkout one of his interesting posts where he discusses the blind following and conservative nature of [...] [...] Masood, a UET alumnus, a Software Engineer and a close friend of mine to the Pakistani BlogoSphere. Checkout one of his interesting posts where he discusses the blind following and conservative nature of [...]

]]> By: ALE-Xpressed http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/you/#comment-13 ALE-Xpressed Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:36:34 +0000 http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-13 The changes in the design/layout are good, looks better now. Try adding the 'Read more link' widget to the posts, it will improve loading time of the blog. The changes in the design/layout are good, looks better now. Try adding the ‘Read more link’ widget to the posts, it will improve loading time of the blog.

]]> By: kattwinson http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/you/#comment-12 kattwinson Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:14:30 +0000 http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-12 good post keep it up i am from Pakistan n would like to see such postings daily. thanks. httP;//www.worldoffashion.wordpress.com good post keep it up
i am from Pakistan n would like to see such postings daily.
thanks.
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]]> By: ALE-Xpressed http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/you/#comment-11 ALE-Xpressed Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:12:07 +0000 http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-11 Welcome to Pakistani Blog-o-Sphere and what a nice post to kick start the job. Hope you continue blogging and provide us with such quality stuff :) Loved to read the post and relieved to know there are people who think like me :P Welcome to Pakistani Blog-o-Sphere and what a nice post to kick start the job. Hope you continue blogging and provide us with such quality stuff :)

Loved to read the post and relieved to know there are people who think like me :P

]]> By: The Disection | ALE Xpressed http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/you/#comment-10 The Disection | ALE Xpressed Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:16:08 +0000 http://awaismasood.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-10 [...] Masood, a UET alumnus, a Software Engineer and a close friend of mine to the Pakistani BlogoSphere. Checkout one of his interesting posts where he discusses the blind following and conservative nature of [...] [...] Masood, a UET alumnus, a Software Engineer and a close friend of mine to the Pakistani BlogoSphere. Checkout one of his interesting posts where he discusses the blind following and conservative nature of [...]

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