The One Word Muslims Fear Above All Others
Channel: Reasoned Answers
Date: 31/01/2022

We are sometimes told that one shouldn't raise sensitive topics to a Muslim audience, that doing so will scare people away before the conversation starts.  That simply isn't true, but I have found there is one word that does strike fear into the heart and end conversations quickly.  I look at why that is, referencing both fiqh and Quran, and revealing the small god of Islam.  This is then contrasted with what Christianity teaches to reveal a bigger, better picture of God.

Indonesian translation of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERy1lYC87BE

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Sources quoted: 
- Reliance of the Traveller, a7.2 "Unlawful knowledge includes:
... (6) and anything that is a means to create doubts (n: in eternal truths), Such things vary in their
degree of unlawfulness."
--a4.2  "As for the basic obligation of Islam, and what relates to tenets of faith, it is adequate for one to believe in everything brought by the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) and to credit it with absolute conviction free of any doubt. Whoever does this is not obliged to learn the evidences of the scholastic . The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) did not require of anyone anything but what we have just mentioned, nor did the first four caliphs, the other prophetic Companions, nor others of the early Muslim community who came after them. Rather, what befits the common people and vast majority of those learning or possessing Sacred Knowledge is to retrain from discussing the subtleties of scholastic theology, lest corruption difficult to eliminate find its way into their basic religious convictions."
- "Doubts in Islam", Islamweb.net, https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/90226/doubts-in-islam "A person who doubts is not a believer, as being firm upon belief is a condition for the validity of belief."
- "One type of disbelief (kufr) is disbelief because of doubt", IslamQA.info, https://islamqa.info/en/answers/243974/one-type-of-disbelief-kufr-is-disbelief-because-of-doubt "Whoever has doubts about Allah, the angels, the messengers, the resurrection, Paradise, Hell, or anything that has reached him of what Allah said (in the Qur’an) or that was conveyed by His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) is a disbeliever."
- Surah 49:15 (Sahih International) "The believers are only the ones who have believed in Allah and His Messenger and then doubt not but strive with their properties and their lives in the cause of Allah. It is those who are the truthful"
- Mark 9:22b-24 “But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can? All things are possible for one who believes.” 
 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
- Additional Biblical allusions: 1 Corinthians 13:11, 1 Corinthians 3:6-7

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