Celibacy in World Religions | Dr. Shabir Ally

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I'm a graduate student in psychology and I started reading more in depth of the Holy Quran. I'm constantly making connections between the Holy Quran and renowed theories in the world of psych. Thank you so much for your all your work, it has definitely helped me to foster a deeper understanding of this peaceful religion. Thanks again!

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You are most welcome! So happy to have you watching Let the Quran Speak!

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Islam is the original message of Abraham Moses and the messenger Jesus without the idol worship of other religions. That's basically Islam in a nutshell. I invite you to embrace the unity of pure monotheism in word and deed as Abraham Moses and Jesus taught. Religion was once simple: worship God directly and do not create partners beside God/Allah (organised religion statue worship etc) and set the example of unity to others. The truth is clear when you see it.

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@@internetmail3888 Say (O Muslims), "We believe in Allâh and that which has been sent down to us and that which has been sent down to Ibrâhîm (Abraham), Ismâ‘îl (Ishmael), Ishâq (Isaac), Ya‘qûb (Jacob), and to Al-Asbât [the offspring of the twelve sons of Ya‘qûb (Jacob)], and that which has been given to Mûsâ (Moses) and ‘Îsâ (Jesus), and that which has been given to the Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we have submitted (in Islâm)." (2:136)

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Hi. It would be great if you could share your findings on blog if possible. Thanks.

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I love the work you guys are doing. It’s super important for people to learn about other faiths to build a better global society. It’s my firm belief that we can’t understand each other unless we understand the religious faith that governs our lives.

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@Jeremy R, thank you! We really appreciate you watching. And we agree with you...we need to work to build and understanding and connections between communities, religious and otherwise.

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Im not Muslim yet but I love the doctor's objective viewpoints and I love my Muslim brothers and sisters

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Love U too bro... May God Guide you❤️

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@@ss-hj9rc Thank you brother. Peace and blessings I pray for you and yours

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[@aneesh8311]

Very little explained behind the science of celebecy here although it's not possible to describe in such short time.. In Vedic period it was mainly followed to save the youth from any materialistic destraction during puberty period.Thats where the Gurukul concept developed and celebecy was strictly followed between the age group of 13 to 25 yrs.. not after 60 as it described here..

[@Hamza000h]

Great talk, jazakallah sheikh

[@thehourglassfan3515]

Great video as always. Also, is celibacy a possibility since marriage is a lifetime commitment and a big responsibility.

[@beardrn]

An example from Islamic history is Imam Nawwawi, who refused to get married because he knew his studies would keep him from appropriately fulfilling the rights of marriage and usurp the rights of his spouse.

[@NeoLegendX]

If i can ask a question? What's Islam perspective on Enuma Elish

[@Mark-ll5lm]

Its haram

[@DBDalvi]

Celibacy in Hinduism is one of the prime virtues that helps a devotee or a seeker build his or her close relation with God. There are two different sections in Hindu society that practice celebacy at two different levels: those who are dedicated to religious preaching or those who live in monasteries, practise celebacy permanently, they don't marry. And the common Hindu householder populace also need to practise celebacy many days a month, if they want to be successful in connecting with God. In Hinduism, it is adviced to overcome sexual desires, and all other desires, slowly and wean one's mind fully to the devotion of God. Mental celibacy is more important than a mere physical celebacy. A householder has sexual relation with his wife but he shouldn't mentally or psychologically indulge in it. The more a seeker is psychologically devoted to God (and less to carnal desires), the quicker he or she can attain the spiritual realisation. Once a seeker attains spiritual light, maintaining celebacy becomes effortless.

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Thank you for sharing with us! This is fascinating to read!

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Masha Allah very beneficial BarakAllah feek

[@luminous6810]

Excellent brief description and explanation of celibacy...

[@anneeq008]

Really good topic 👍

[@gleasonparker1684]

In the videos from the Dallas conference Omar seem to quote the Quran more than the others who just said we think. Also when they did quote the Bible he knew more of the Bible than they did. It makes me wonder who is really following the scriptures and who is not. I need to know more about the Muslim religion and I like recommendations on where to look?

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Can anyone clarify on this? Islam allows freewill and we are responsible for our deeds. And punished or rewarded accordingly. Then why islam instructs to kill someone who leaves islam? Pls someone clarify

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The way that the early Muslim community seems to have understood apostasy differs strikingly from the decisive rulings of the later schools of law. This is most clear in the rulings of the Prophet ﷺ himself. There is no reliable evidence that the Prophet ﷺ ever executed anyone for apostasy, as was observed by the famous scholar of Cordoba, Ibn al-Ṭallāʿ (d. 1103). When one of the Companions, ʿUbaydallāh bin Jaḥsh left Islam and became Christian while the Muslims were seeking refuge in Ethiopia, the Prophet ﷺ did not order him punished. The Treaty of Ḥudaybiyya, which the Prophet ﷺ concluded with the Quraysh, stated that if anyone decided to leave the Muslim community in Medina no harm would befall them. There was no mention of a punishment for apostasy. In fact, when a man who had come to the Prophet ﷺ just the day before to pledge his loyalty to Islam wanted to be released from his oath, the Prophet ﷺ let him go. Imam al-Shāfiʿī himself notes how, during the Prophet ﷺ’s time in Medina, “Some people believed and then apostatized. Then they again took on the outer trappings of faith. But the Messenger of God did not kill them." This is equally clear in the conduct of the early caliphs. When six men from the Bakr bin Wā’il tribe apostatized during a campaign in southern Iran, the leaders of the army had them killed. When the caliph Umar was informed of this, he upbraided the commanders. Had he been making the decision, the caliph explained, he would have offered the men “a way back in from the door they took out,” or he would have put them in prison. When the pious Umayyad caliph ʿUmar bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (d. 720) was told that a group of recent converts to Islam in northern Iraq had apostatized, he allowed them to revert to their previous status as a protected non-Muslim minority. Even the worst examples of patience and tolerance in the early Islamic period, the Kharijite extremists, seem to have been at least partially misunderstood by later scholars on the apostasy issue. Their policy of killing any other Muslims whom they saw as having committed grave sins is usually explained by them having concluded that these people were apostates (their supposed reasoning: if sinners really believed in God, would they commit sins?). But according to an early Kharijite source, the Kharijites seem to have done so more because they viewed their opponents as having egregiously defied God’s law than because they were seen as apostates pure and simple. After the Muslim armies conquered the city of Bukhara in 673-4 CE, its inhabitants kept converting to Islam and then returning to their previous faith of Zoroastrianism as soon as the Arab armies left town. The army had to keep returning to reestablish discipline. At no point was anyone killed for this. Of course, some people were executed for apostasy in the early Islamic period. Yet, in instances where details are provided, what stands out is their public nature. The apostasy occurs not in private but comes with a very public announcement by the person in question. This is exemplified in the famous story of the caliph Ali (ra) reportedly executing a man named al-Mustawrad al-ʿIjlī for converting to Christianity. Although reports of this event overall are unreliable according to most Muslim scholars, what seems to have condemned al-Mustawrad was not converting but rather rubbing this in Ali’s face publicly. A recent study of books in which Arab Christians detailed the heroic exploits of Christian saints under Muslim rule bolsters the impression that apostasy was punished only when it was perceived as a threat to public order. These Christian ‘lives of saints’ works tell of a number of Muslims who embraced Christianity in the early Islamic period. According to these stories, each apostate/saint made a public confession of his new faith, and each was subsequently executed. The one story in which the apostate was not executed, a case in tenth-century Egypt, was a man who was told by the monks he joined that he had to repudiate Islam publicly. He did not, however, and he was never executed (despite his own father writing to the caliph asking to have his son put to death). In fact, the man lived out his life as a monk, establishing a monastery and even writing Christian criticisms of Islam that survive until today. How Muslim states dealt with apostasy throughout the pre-modern era shows a similar concern with apostasy only when it became a public matter. A renowned Arab poet, Abū al-ʿAlā’ al-Maʿarrī (d. 1058), was openly skeptical about prophecy and formal religions, mocking the Hajj and writing, ‘There are two types of people in the world: people with brains and no religion, or people with religion and no brains.’ Al-Maʿarrī died of natural causes, as did numerous other famous ‘free thinkers’ in the medieval Islamic world. Similar findings come in a recent study of sixty cases in which people were executed for apostasy or other types of heresy during the Mamluk period (1260-1517). Those who were executed for declaring their apostasy were mainly Christians who had converted to Islam and then made a public show of renouncing it, as in the case of two Coptic Christians in 1383 and a whole group in 1379. In the latter case, they were given numerous chances to recant their apostasy before being punished. Later, in the Ottoman Empire, a Muslim who had converted to Christianity and become a monk was brought to court to repent before a judge. When the judge offered the man coffee (presumably Turkish), he threw it in the judge’s face and began cursing Islam. The judge decided the man was insane. Only after he publicly insulted Islam three more times was the man executed.

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In the Quranic Universe Belief is not just in relation to a notion or idea or Intellectual argument .....Belief in the terms of the Quran is what you actually do .....a Believer is a person who has achieved a Righteous history .....and not a person who talks righteousness but loves the Good of This Fleeting World .....of Women, Wealth and Sons ....according to this view Most Muslims talk One God but in reality Submit to their Greatest Idol .....their Low Desires ....(Q 25: 43 & 44)

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It's written in the quran and bible...you gotta find it. What it states about the man and the woman. There's a difference....

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