u/SoulForListening

Isn't it truly astonishing that of all the belief systems we have in this world, whether spiritual or material nature, God guided us to this true religion? This is not something we can be proud of as an achievement, because it is only God's mercy that lead us to this path.

How improbable is it to be bombarded with so much misinformation in life and still end up on the right path by the sheer benevolent will of God?

How mindblowingly awesome is it to have the absolute, fully detailed guide to true purpose and a fulfilled life in this world and the hereafter in a single book?

To have the creator of the universe choose us as his servants and therefore have the support of the mightiest, most benevolent force to ever exist?

To have the chance of attaining eternal bliss, if God wills?

To be able to completely mess up in life by sinning and having the promise of God that he forgives all sins (except shirk)?

Even the most devastating situations a human can endure are NEVER meaningless and always full of purpose

"وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِ"

"And when I am ill, it is He who cures me" (26:80)

The list goes on indefinitely, because even if we were to count the blessings of our Lord, we would never be able to grasp the full extent of His mercy.

What more could a living being possibly want?

Someone recently sent me some verses apparently proving that the Qur'an contradicts itself. This is very specific and I still want to hold on to Islam but I don't have the knowledge to properly deal with this, so I'm asking you:

In 66:12

وَمَرْيَمَ ٱبْنَتَ عِمْرَٰنَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا فَنَفَخْنَا فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِنَا وَصَدَّقَتْ بِكَلِمَـٰتِ رَبِّهَا وَكُتُبِهِۦ وَكَانَتْ مِنَ ٱلْقَـٰنِتِينَ ١٢

"˹There is˺ also ˹the example of˺ Mary, the daughter of ’Imrân, who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her ˹womb˺ through Our angel ˹Gabriel˺.1 She testified to the words of her Lord and His Scriptures, and was one of the ˹sincerely˺ devout.

Mary is described as the daughter of Imran, using the arabic root ukht which could mean biological sister or sister in faith or sister in a tribe

In 19:28 it says

يَـٰٓأُخْتَ هَـٰرُونَ مَا كَانَ أَبُوكِ ٱمْرَأَ سَوْءٍۢ وَمَا كَانَتْ أُمُّكِ بَغِيًّۭا ٢٨

"O sister of Aaron! Your father was not an indecent man, nor was your mother unchaste.”

So since in the last verse they're taking about her biological parents so it must be ukht/sister in a literal sense. So if she is the biological sister of Aaron, brother of Moses and also the mother of Jesus, that would mean that there is a time span of more than a thousand years between them. That would only make sense if it's sister in a non literal context, but then 19:28 gives the context as a literal translation.

So how is it to be interpreted? I don't know arabic too well to argue with that? I find it hard to believe that the Quran makes an error in a simple sentence like that but i want to verify everything with knowledge - knowledge i dont have yet.

Edit: It's always amazing to see how much depth lies in single verses like these. Very interesting to read all of this. All thanks be to the Lord, the wise, the one who knows while we do not

In my Country, Islam as a whole is very marginalized and whenever I mention that I'm a 2 year revert muslim people either get open-mindedly curious (most of the time) or try to start a critical discussion (respectfully).

I find this question very difficult to answer. For me personally, I tried prayer, I tried reading the Qur'an and just ... knew. Whenever I take a look into reality and its mechanisms EVERYTHING aligns perfectly with the word of God as long as you dodge some sketchy sunni translations and extra tafsir. I didn't become muslim because I researched everything about it and then came to a logical conclusion that this is it, it's rather like a deeply rooted knowledge insode of that I simply discovered again.

Whenever I follow the Qur'an life gets better (not to be confused with easier) and it is a true healing for me. It's the code of life and a manual of how to be an actually good person. When I think about worldly matters and then look at the Qur'an's way of dealing with it, my intution tells me that God's rulings are the most efficient way to deal with anything.

Also I percieve certain anomalies/"coincidences" in reality that don't have an apparent worldly cause but reflect exactly what God's promised us.

(Example: A person I knew donated some money to a good cause, didn't have much of it to begin with, went out to eat and through seemingly random events she got two whole meals for free, which cost more than she donated)

But often people aren't content with this because it's too vague, too esoteric, or not comprehensible for them since they made subjectively very different experiences in life.

I'm not trying to persuade anyone to become muslim because that's only God's job but I want to make sure I phrase my words in a way that doesn't make people averse to Islam. So maybe you fellow believers have more experience with this question and it's explanation for people new to the subject.

tl;dr How do you respond to the question on why you are muslim?

So I've freshly installed Linux Mint with Cinnamon and this issue basically made it impossible for me to even start using the system (I have issues with my eyes and it physically hurts to look at the screen while scrolling)

It's difficult to describe but when I'm scrolling it's jittery and feels like the scrolling leaves some kind of irregular tracer/after image. I've searched for like three hours, tried to find something in the nvidia drivers, installed some extentions, tweaked firefox's smooth scrolling settings, disabled fractional scaling and even tried the wayland desktop - nothing worked.

I've had to ignore anything related to the terminal so far because I didn't know what to do with anything that isn't a copy and paste answer (they wanted to fix screen tearing)

So everyone said Linux Mint just works and I haven't even started to use the system and I'm contemplating to leave again. I never chose Linux to have a too hard time (having to learn is fine but the curve is too high). I'm a simple guy who just hates big corporations and their spying bullshit.