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But brother what evil would one encounter in Pakistan? Sure the country's undeveloped, but does it really matter if one has faith? Everything else will leave us, our lord will only ask about our faith in the end. Surely we belong to Allah and to Him we will return.
Pakistan does have issues of corruption but your average Joe can stay out of that, and my future kids knowing about corruption (just money basically) is better than all the glorification of sex, drugs and other sins. One thing that ESPECIALLY infuriates me is this love of homosexuals and transgenders. "It's just natural!" they say. So is murder!

Alhamdulilah. No qualms there. TSR bay'ah?

But brother what evil would one encounter in Pakistan? Sure the country's undeveloped, but does it really matter if one has faith? Everything else will leave us, our lord will only ask about our faith in the end. Surely we belong to Allah and to Him we will return.
Pakistan does have issues of corruption but your average Joe can stay out of that, and my future kids knowing about corruption (just money basically) is better than all the glorification of sex, drugs and other sins. One thing that ESPECIALLY infuriates me is this love of homosexuals and transgenders. "It's just natural!" they say. So is murder!

There are many problems in Pakistan - ranging from the dishonesty in food production and the use of immoral methods, to the abuse of dead bodies for monetary gain, to the practice of sihr, to the corruption at almost every point in the governmental system, to the indecency of some, to the 'modernist' approach of some, to the blind emphasis on materialism (see TV), etc.

Yes, it is a 'Muslim country'. Yes, there are learned people of calibre there. Yes, there are religious Muslims there. But it still has many problems because of ignorance, lack of education (religious and secular), corruption, loss of religious practice at the hands of secularism, and so on.

I don't think it is realistically possible to stay out of corruption in one's lifetime in that country - this encompasses both receiving money and giving it.

But what's worse, corruption/bribery or sex, nudity, pornography, drug use?

But we aren't pitting any one sin against any one other. Nor am I saying that one place is better than the other. I'm just showing that in reality, the gap is smaller than seemed apparent from your post, brother. Furthermore, the examples weren't an exhaustive list. They also have things like rape, acid attacks, etc.

Hmm yeah that is true. Just goes to show this world is far from perfect. May Allah grant us Jannah inshallah. Jazakallah everyone. Apologies to any who were offended by me. Goodnight,

Maybe.

Its the chandelier that dangles from the dome at Regents park Mosque

That was aaaaages ago, when my faith was really bad

Now i only say that i am agnostic

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Agnostic-theistic muslim?

This is quite an interesting position and I'm seeing more Muslims adopting agnosticism. A user from the CEMB (Ex-Muslim) forum recently took it up explaining it as such:

http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=28556.0

It's one thing saying that God cannot be 100% proven objectively, but he destroyed his own position by stating at the end that the Quran is a fallible human work, and therefore it could very well make him a kafir. Based upon that last paragraph, anyone who holds his view is arguably a non-Muslim.

This person isn't really an Agnostic muslim, rather he is an Agnost wih islamic influences, and a reformist who would corrupt the religion if people listened to him.

+ 1

Yh agreed. There is no such thing as an agnostic Muslim. In this case, either you're muslim or you're not.

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AoA
Any duas and wazifas for exams and for controlling exam tension and anxiety?

What if someone is unsure

Like they're torn between thinking islam is legit, qur'an is word of god and islam isnt legit, qur'an was man made

Are they a kaffir
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Subhanallah

I just got my first ever 75/75 maths mark in c2

Insha'allah i'll batter the real exam up just like i did with this past paper
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Its the chandelier that dangles from the dome at Regents park Mosque

Ramadan is a time where we must control our desires (nafs) aswell as our tongues:

Rasulallah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said: “Fasting is not (abstaining) from eating and drinking only, but also from vain speech and foul language. If one of you is being cursed or annoyed, he should say: ‘I am fasting, I am fasting.” (Ibn Khuzaimah, Ibn Hibban)

Therefore we must protect our tongue from vain speech and foul language. Protecting the tongue is preventing it from lying, back-biting, slander, tale-carrying, false speech and other things that have been forbidden in the Qur'an & Sunnah.

Those who control their tongues are of the best of Muslims:

The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) was asked: “Which Muslim is best?” He responded, “One who the other Muslims are safe from his tongue and his hand.” (Tirmidhi, #2504)

We must not deceive ourselves into thinking that by the time Ramadan comes we will all of a sudden break a lifetime habit and control our tongues. Again this is another big deception. We must start controlling our tongues now for we cannot for changing lifetime bad habits is not an overnight process.

So how can we begin to control our tongues? This can be done by "THINKING BEFORE SAYING ANYTHING". Not just talking without even thinking what we are going to say.

We must think before we speak and before saying anything we should think whether or not what we are going to say is going to please or displease Allah.

If we doubt that what we are about to say may anger or displease Allah then we should refrain from saying it. If we have nothing good to say then surely it is better NOT to say anything at all. Remember we WILL be accountable for everything we said in our lives so we MUST start taking responsiblity for what comes out of our mouths NOW otherwise we will regret it later when it is too late. Therefore we must get into the habit of "thinking before speaking".

So let us begin to control our tongues now so that by the time Ramadan comes we would have adopted good habits and would have been used to controlling our tongues and refraining from saying anything which may anger or displease Allah.

You're having doubts but I'd be hesitant in calling yourself an agnostic though, I've always taken agnostic to mean "I don't disbelieve in God's existence but I don't believe in it either". In Islam that belief is vital, you need to have it. You can't decide to stop and take a middle standpoint for the rest of your life because that will take you out of Islam.