Jaami'at StackExchange al-Islamyya

Asalamu wa alaikum

8:18 PM

We are now in Beta Alhamdulillah :)

wa'alikum as-salaam

the questions seem kind of basic right now

yes

I tthink we should be careful on questions about sects because this is where the division among Muslims come in

well, non-Muslims genuinely want to know about it

it's an opportunity to debunk a lot of myths, but yeah

I think one needs to post a question carefully, there are wrong information about the religion all over the internet already!

Asalam wa alaikum, BTW.

wa'alikum as-salaam

8:32 PM

Wa alaikum salaam

hkBattousai

Salamun alaikum. I'm Ahmed from Turkey. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you too

I am Al Ummat from Syria

why do they ask if a certain thing is a subset of Islam?

Which question are you referring to?

This one islam.stackexchange.com/questions/18/…

9:07 PM

@ashes999 I wonder why you say something that you know nothing about.

10:33 PM

Sorry if I offended you @ashes999, I meant we should have strong resources to support our answers.

hello every one..

salam 3alaykum

Wa alaikum salaam

Q: Is evolution compatible with Islam?

This is Mohammed Halabi, From Saudi Arabia..

I just answered a question, I would love to hear your comments

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Is the theory of evolution, and specifically, theistic evolution, compatible with Islam? That is to say, is there any official doctrine in Islam (or if not agreed upon in Islam as a whole, in a specific sect or area of Islam) that teaches that evolution is expressly wrong?

looks good

شكرا

10:42 PM

عفوا

انهاحسن الله أكبر

مافهمتك

جوابك ممتاز

تسلم

user19161

Hey @halabi!

hi there

whats up @JasperLoy

10:51 PM

@JasperLoy How did you get to this room?

I see, stalking me.

user19161

@Gigili I am interested in all religion.

user19161

@HaLaBi I see you deleted your account.

Good.

user19161

@Gigili Don't worry. I am not exactly looking for Maria now.

@JasperLoy Be careful, it happens all of a sudden.

10:53 PM

I do not like this discussion of you two, I request you stop it

user19161

@Gigili I am currently of the belief that I will stay single this life. But like you said, things might change.

@JasperLoy Right.

@JasperLoy yup I did,, I told you I would ;)

user19161

@HaLaBi It happened too quickly that day. Anyway, I loved listening to Zakir Naik.

Whats that

user19161

10:57 PM

His youtube videos are very impressive.

user19161

The Islamic scholar I mean.

yup I go tit..

user19161

Have you heard him speak?

I saw some of his videos.. just never knew his name

Isn't this room strictly for Islam only?

10:58 PM

No

All are welcomes

no I meant the type of discussions?

We show the real face of Islam... Muslims has no problem being in touch with any other group :)

Its chat room... The rules allows us to speak about anything :)

anything anything?

user19161

@AlUmmat Well, most SE chat rooms are not really limited to the topic itself. I think as long as other users don't mind and we don't post offensive things it is alright.

exactly..

غرف الشات مفتوحة.. المفترض انه نسمح للكل يجي ويتكلم.. مابدنا نظهر بمظهر المتزمتين...

11:00 PM

exactly

@JasperLoy so how is English.SE?? still miserable??

user19161

@HaLaBi What does that mean?

Miserable ? or the arabic?

user19161

@HaLaBi Still full of downvotes. I have cast 1050 downvotes there but I will stop casting downvotes on SE from now.

user19161

@HaLaBi Arabic. You can use the arrows to see which I am replying to.

11:03 PM

Man, I have read a comment from Jon Skeet in one of the posts.. when one guy down voted him and said "I am down voting you because the other answer is better"... so jon replied "well, you could have upvoted him"

so, you can always up vote the good things... better than "down voting" what you think is bad..

user19161

@HaLaBi Exactly. Downvotes are for wrong answers. I think it is silly to downvote otherwise.

I was saying that This chat room is for all topics. we do not want to give impression to people that Muslims are difficult people.

user19161

Of course, people are free to vote as they please.

user19161

So what do you recommend me if I want to study Islam?

yup.. but also,, there is the half full half empty thing... Mods should concentrate on the half full... otherwise people will leave the site.. like me and MANY others..

I recommend youtube..

just find some one you like.. and listen to..

11:05 PM

I recommend HalalTube

user19161

If I want to get a copy of the koran, which version should I look for?

there are many lessons in English to show what Islam is..

There is one version of Quran..

@AlUmmat Do you know what are flags for?

The arabic version

The other versions are just translates and they are not accepted in prayers.. they are for the purpose of making non arabs understand the context

Yes

user19161

11:07 PM

But if I want to read it in English?

but the real quran is one version only.. and in Arabic.. thats why Quran been there for 1400 years and never changed or got revised...

@AlUmmat Why did you flag my messages and Jasper's then?

user19161

@Gigili Did he do that?

yes surely you can read the translation.. but as I told you. for muslims who are non arabs they have to Pray in Arabic.. Saying prayers is ok in any language.. but praying as in five times a day the quran has to be read in arabic

@JasperLoy Yes, that's why a mod was here.

11:09 PM

@Gigili because I didn't like how the conversation is going, you do not talk about being single or stalking someone is a Islam room, I do not consider that a good discussion

user19161

@Gigili Which mod by the way?

@AlUmmat That's why I asked "do you know what flag are for", you shouldn't flag what you dislike.

@JasperLoy Otavio.

We didn't say anything offensive. It's called abusing flags, in case you want to know more.

I am sorry

I didn't like your Arabic conversation but I didn't flag them.

user19161

@Gigili Well, people are free to flag too. Let's just take it as a misunderstanding that happened because we are on different wavelengths.

11:11 PM

@JasperLoy Noted.

user19161

@AlUmmat No, it's OK.

Alummat thought that it is not allowed to discuss things off-topic

hence he flagged..

user19161

But back to the English translation of the koran.

I was telling him this is not the appropriate way of using flags. We have no problems now.

@JasperLoy Quran

user19161

@Gigili Alternative spelling.

11:14 PM

@JasperLoy I dislike that spelling.

user19161

What translation should I read and why, in your opinion?

Why don't you ask on the main site?

What do you mean by why?

user19161

I mean the pros and cons, in your subjective opinions of course.

Yusuf Ali is what most people would suggest

Agree wtih @AlUmmat

user19161

11:22 PM

So usually these books will have the Arabic and English side by side right?

yes

usually

user19161

Anyway this site is still in private beta, but once it goes into public beta I can view the questions.

yes

you didn't commit?

user19161

Nope. Only those who committed will be able to view for now.

@JasperLoy you asked about translation. The best translation is by "Saheeh International," which is a group of scholars.

user19161

11:30 PM

Christianity is in beta. Buddhism? Not up yet.

Arabic scholars, Islam scholars, and language scholars (English).

user19161

@alummat I see you are a mod on the other site! It looks exactly like SE!

islam.com?

user19161

Yes.

it is running osqa, osqa is kind of like a clone

user19161

11:39 PM

@AlUmmat Ah I see. More and more such sites exist now.

@JasperLoy Umm, that's a difficult question. Namely, yes. But it would be nice if you could avoid announcing my nationality here and there.

but they have different features so they are not exactly the same

user19161

@Gigili OK deleted.

@JasperLoy Thank you.

goldPseudo

OSQA (e.g., islam.com) is okay, but it's really nice having a proper meta and chat built-in like you get with SE.

11:49 PM

Yeah I know

Asalamu wa alaikum @goldPseudo

goldPseudo

wa 'alaykum assalaam

Looks like we're getting some good activity on the site already. Good to see.

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