u/Midnightclouds7

So when you're stoic, I believe you don't subscribe to the belief in karma or blessings, right? Like things just happen because of events in the world that we cannot control. So do stoics often do things like donating to charity or helping out a random person? I'm asking because one of the reason many spiritual or religious people do good deeds is that they expect to get rewards or blessings from a higher power. So what would motivate a stoic person to do good? And like if someone asked for help with money and you said you don't have, but in actual sense you do, would you feel bad about it?

I hope my question doesn't sound as stupid as it sounds now that I've typed it out 😭

One thing that people who are born within Ialm don't understand is that all our brains function differently. The way you're quick to pick up Islamic faith, women be the same that people who grew up outside that will. You have been conditioned from birth to beleiev in Islam and that's all you know. And people alsewhere have been conditioned to believe in what ever they believe in. The way you'll defend and vouch for your Islam is the same way someone born into a different religion will do for their belief. So making fun and demeaning people who aren't Muslim isn't very smart. And those who claim that "oh but they are preached to by Muslim scholars and they still refuse to change so they all deserve Jahanam" is not okay. Because they way you'd dismiss what they preach about their religion to you, is the same way they will reject it.

Also, I feel like believing in something isn't a direct choice. We all have different processing systems in our brains, for some, you'll preach and they'll process that and then start believing. But then for others, even when you preach, they may still fail to believe, because their brains haven't been convinced. Like me, I've really tried to come back to Allah (I used to be a devout Muslim) but I've failed. I've gathered so much information in the past years to the point that I really can't believe again. Whenever I try, there is a part of my brain that will debunk whatever I was holding onto to beleieve again and then I'll be back to not believing. When I tell my Muslim friends about it, they be like I'm not trying hard enough, or I have darkness in my heart and look at me like a bad person. I don't want to be like this. I want to believe again.

Like that's so unfair. And Arabs claim that oh, it's complicated Arabic for us too. The fact is that it is STILL Arabic. Don't piss me off

Like why didn't He choose a mature lady instead of a literal child? Let's say He wanted to choose a virgin, there must have been virgin women above 18 onwards.

So, I'm gay and Muslim. I don't want to be. I don't want to get with a man or anything like that because that is really haram and shameful to my family. I am in my early twenties and once in a while, my family and relatives keep asking me about whether I've met a girl I like and all that. Soon they're gonna start asking me about marriage and all that. Truth is, it can't get with a woman. I feel completely nothing sexual or even romantic with them. That option if pretending to love a woman and getting married to her is really unfair to her. She deserves someone that truly loves her. And I really can't live that life of pretence till I die. I also don't really have an option of not getting married because my family is super traditional and I'd be such a disappointment if I don't. My best option is to have a lavender marriage, but what are the chances of me finding a lady like that . Damn, I just want to disappear or to die even.

I've read a few posts and comments on here and realised that seem people love different versions of deism. So, what is deism to you? I want to establish the common group more clearly and the differences too

Whenever I start a conversation about Allah and how u merciful or unempathetic he is, people are always quick to tell me of all the things he has done for me. Things like he ensures every cell in your body to work and keep you alive or whatever. But I didn't ask for these things. I don't want to be alive. I wish I didn't exist. But I'm supposed to be eternally grateful for something I don't want. The fact that even killing myself instantly takes me to Jahanam because I'm not grateful fir this thing that I don't want 😔

What do you mean that those who haven't lived up to His expectations are going to be burnt for eternity? The fire getting hotter and hotter every second. Humans don't even live on earth for eternity. And you mean to tell me that Allah is merciful. Even here on earth, when people disobey the law, we put them in prison. If their crime is so so baf, them they're executed, but that's it. No actual torturing? How can humans be more empathetic than Allah? Please help me make it make sense.