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I handed her a flyer and she goes "this is haram". I try to tell her that it's chicken and she goes off on how you need to cut half of the chicken's head off and let it bleed out to get all the disease and blood, otherwise it is haram.
I play along with her because irl I'm a pretty respectful person.
She then talks about how the Quran is a perfect book without any error. I just let her say as she pleases.
I ask her who the successor to the prophet Muhammad is. She's bewildered.
I remind her that Sunnis believe that Abu Bakr is the successor and Shias believe that it is Ali.
She then goes "ahh right, I remember now" and then says that I am so knowledgeable and that Allah "blessed me with the thirst for knowledge that will invite me to Islam".
I take the flattery and then ask her about her specific branch. Apparently she's a Sufi mystic. She said that Allah can be felt by many people, not just Muslims, but that the Torah and Bible will lead to the Quran and that Muhammad perfected the corrupted texts.
It's pretty wild to me.
She then asks "why aren't you a Muslim?"
I jokingly reply "I love beer too much"
She then says it's ok and that many Muslims drink beer.
It's at this point where the numbers don't add up.
How so it that someone who is so invested in Muslim dietary restrictions that she won't eat fried chicken if it wasn't beheaded in a specific way, but she's cool with alcoholics among the faithful?
She then brings up how morality comes from the heart and some other mystic mumbo jumbo. I respond asking that if my heart tells me to kill a bunch of innocent people, if that is acceptable.
She then talks about the word of Allah and how murder is wrong because it goes against Islamic law.
Now, I'm no theologian, but I'm completely perplexed. She was a kind woman, but I just couldn't wrap my head against her logic. Is this messy theology exclusive to the mystics?
She's got me interested in Islam as a topic, but it would take Allah talking to me directly to convert at this point.
I play along with her because irl I'm a pretty respectful person.
She then talks about how the Quran is a perfect book without any error. I just let her say as she pleases.
I ask her who the successor to the prophet Muhammad is. She's bewildered.
I remind her that Sunnis believe that Abu Bakr is the successor and Shias believe that it is Ali.
She then goes "ahh right, I remember now" and then says that I am so knowledgeable and that Allah "blessed me with the thirst for knowledge that will invite me to Islam".
I take the flattery and then ask her about her specific branch. Apparently she's a Sufi mystic. She said that Allah can be felt by many people, not just Muslims, but that the Torah and Bible will lead to the Quran and that Muhammad perfected the corrupted texts.
It's pretty wild to me.
She then asks "why aren't you a Muslim?"
I jokingly reply "I love beer too much"
She then says it's ok and that many Muslims drink beer.
It's at this point where the numbers don't add up.
How so it that someone who is so invested in Muslim dietary restrictions that she won't eat fried chicken if it wasn't beheaded in a specific way, but she's cool with alcoholics among the faithful?
She then brings up how morality comes from the heart and some other mystic mumbo jumbo. I respond asking that if my heart tells me to kill a bunch of innocent people, if that is acceptable.
She then talks about the word of Allah and how murder is wrong because it goes against Islamic law.
Now, I'm no theologian, but I'm completely perplexed. She was a kind woman, but I just couldn't wrap my head against her logic. Is this messy theology exclusive to the mystics?
She's got me interested in Islam as a topic, but it would take Allah talking to me directly to convert at this point.