The Greatest Jihad

[Anne Marie Habibi (Guest)]

The Greatest Jihad I believe would be to ensure all the schools of the Wworld and even temples and churches have a copy of the King Fahd's English Arabic edition of the Holy Quran.

I believe this is a worthy Jihad.

[Luque (Guest)]

Assalamualaikum, sis.

Why?

If me, I want to see where even without law or any holy book (Qur'an, Bible or Torah, or etc), no one do the wrong thing.

This is the greatest Jihad.

[Lulua]

Assalaamu alaikum.

The thing is, that according to human nature, the sunnah of life itself...because all of man is related to Adam...and we follow in his footsteps...then we cannot know the difference between good and bad, or right and wrong...until and without guidance from our Creator. That means...that some sort of Divine Book is necessary for instruction for mankind to eventually know and understand the proper way to find their way back to Allah and to Jannah.

So...the ultimate Jihad, really, is that struggle in that cause...to find the path to the Creator...and to Jannah.

Lulua.

[pokka]

>Assalaamu alaikum.
>
>The thing is, that according to
>human nature, the sunnah of
>life itself...because all of man
>is related to Adam...and we
>follow in his footsteps...then we
>cannot know the difference between
>good and bad, or right
>and wrong...until and without guidance
>from our Creator. That means...that
>some sort of Divine Book
>is necessary for instruction for
>mankind to eventually know and
>understand the proper way to
>find their way back to
>Allah and to Jannah.

How is it we know that what we are doing is good and not bad? The answer becomes, because God wills us to do so. But, if we cannot know the difference between good and evil, whatever we do is then arbitrary to us. 'Trust in God because He knows what is good' overcomes this reasoning.

There is one question I have then. If we can only know that we are good based on the fact that we follow God's word, how can we know God is indeed good? Wouldn't it mean that God would need to follow his own God to be considered good? Which is obviously absurd, and blasphemous.

The dilemma I am trying to highlight is that it could be argued that Satan himself could be posing as God, since we do not know the difference between good and evil. God can be seen as great, indeed. But without our own sense of good and evil it is difficult to reason that we automatically can assume with 100% certainty that God is good.

Please, somebody help me with this dilemma. Thanks

[Lulua]

Perhaps it is the innate sense of good and bad that most humans have.

I mean, most persons (even the worst of criminals) know that it is wrong to kill, or wrong to steal, or even wrong to lie. These are basic moral codes of conduct. Even amongst criminals, let alone law-abiding citizens. Even though what constitutes a criminal is someone who has surpassed the law in something or in some degree.

However, there seems to be an innate nature in man to be able to determine wrong from right, yet at the same time needing direction for that as well.

Sounds confusing, yes? Perhaps. Sorry.

But when looking for the divine guidance, there are many evidences in the Quran itself which is proof of itself as the Book of Guidance. Things such as explanations of things of nature, such as the birth or conception process, or the formation of the clouds or even the mountains, or the process of rain...all things which were not discovered in modern science until quite recently, yet were revealed in the Quran 1400 years ago. And by a man who was admittedly illiterate, and uneducated.

Or perhaps the miracle of the Quran itself...it's poetic phrase and yet meaningful prose, along with the beautiful cadence of it all, and yet the mastery of the grammatical form, all combined into one masterpiece, which no one has yet to come up with something similar much less better.