@Dynamic He was telling me that he is learning Arabic and he asked useful sites where you can learn Arabic, well I gave 2 to Him, even though this proposal might be in the follow stage, when it becomes beta he might find it interesting
@goldPseudo I found out what went wrong when I created that chat room the other day, I did not make Islam.SE a related site.
I am not sure if this is early or not , but I believe it is a good one to ask before the public beta. I got this from the seven essential question for every meta
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The difference might not be clear but it is a bad practice to first down-vote. If an answer is incorrect/incomplete use comments and edits to help them improve their post. If they don't follow up and address the issues then down-vote. You might think that you can take back the down-vote after the...
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the charities question was dodgy. it could be reworked to be more clearly on-topic.
as worded, it was a bit too "list question".
if it was coming from a different angle, e.g., "Does such-and-such a charity distribute funds in an Islamically-acceptable manner?", i think it would be very much fine.
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@goldPseudo Well... within limits of the in-software tools that are provided for them. The SE team, on the other hand, is the one that really can do anything. :) /pedantic
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@AlUmmat Too much sugar isn't good anyways. Low and high blood sugar levels can both cause a variety of symptoms including mood swings (livestrong.com/article/…)
Ethanol and glucose are quite similar in chemical make up.
@muntoo yes, but did you know honey destroys what sugar does, no wonder why the Prophet liked honey, of course that is only one reason of Him liking honey. And when I say honey I mean real honey
well Asalamu wa alikum, speak to you guys tomorrow, and if Mohammad Yaseen comes into this room and I am not here please tell him about the Arabic proposal if you do not mind :)
@muntoo yes but first I must see if he is online, and if he isn't online when I am online than I can not chat with him, or when I am not online and he is
we seem to be operating well within acceptable parameters.
even Robert thinks we'll have no problem getting a good question flow.
"From all early indications, this site will have no trouble gaining genuine, organic participation from people who are actually having these problems."
the Qur'an is proof. substantial evidence from hadiths would at least indicate it's against the sunnah (may or may not be proof, depends on the evidences).
everything i have read on this topic indicates the prohibition is cultural, not religious.
it roughly translates to " You commit no sin by announcing your engagement to the women, or keeping it secret. GOD knows that you will think about them. Do not meet them secretly, unless you have something righteous to discuss. Do not consummate the marriage until their interim is fulfilled. You should know that GOD knows your innermost thoughts, and observe Him."
yes it does. it is not, however, proof against dating. unless you're claiming that dating automatically involves secret meetings of unrighteous discussions.
the Qur'an gives explicit commands how how believing men and women are supposed to behave. "Lower the gaze" and "guard your modesty" and all that. As long as the Quran'ic commandments are followed, I know of no evidences that "dating" is haram.
And i will NOT call anything haram without explicit evidences.
(a) that implies that looking at her is necessary for dating. (b) that implies that a man isn't allowed to look at a woman he intends to marry (there are hadiths allowing it, i can dig them up if need be). and (c) it implies that "lower the gaze" means "don't look at her at all".
i don't want to make this sound like i agree with the form of "having a girlfriend" dating that is popular nowadays. But dating someone with the intention of marriage, I see absolutely nothing against.
"While the term has several meanings, it usually refers to the act of meeting and engaging in some mutually agreed upon social activity in public, together, as a couple."
@goldPseudo Islam always thnks of the future prospects of any action. So getting into dating while some like us do it halal way most people cant control themselves and lead astray into the haram world. I think thats y it is considered haram... but your point makes sense too
"While the term has several meanings, it usually refers to the act of meeting and engaging in some mutually agreed upon social activity in public, together, as a couple."
but it sometimes happens that late at night you are in a train and voila there is a lady in the same compartment and no one else... then what do you do... thats khalwah isnt it
i read scholars, i follow their logic and their evidences. but i do not allow scholars to prohibit what God has not prohibited, or allow what God has not allowed.
ok let me be pedantic and reword my earlier statement
check what the scholars you respect have to say about this topic and examine their evidences (if you are qualified to sift through dala'il) and leave it at that
That's probably worth it's own question. I know of no evidences outright forbidding it, but the hadith of the 360 idols alone would clearly suggest it's against sunnah.
if you wanted to make a decision, you would write your choices on arrows and pull one at random.
or something like that. i'm not really familiar with the exact practice, but it's clearly haram.
"... and [prohibited is] that you seek decision through divining arrows. That is grave disobedience..."Qur'an 5:3
if you're worried about the idols question being too localized, you could just expand it to "Is it acceptable to store haram things in a masjid?", which would open it up to idols, as well as things like tools used for gambling, or for pork, or etc. use the story about protecting the idols from the rain to give context.
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@AlUmmat can i get some Arabic textbook taught in elementary classes. I tried newspapers but they are of too high standard. MadinahArabic seems not to be updated now.
Well i recently came across this problem. The problem is that arabic font cannot be put on two separate lines
eg
The text was typed like this.
But it ends up like this.
What ever i did the text never went on two separate line. Any solution for this?
@MohammadYaseen oh, well the tanwin and all the punctuations go above words, they are there for understanding, if you know how to manipulate these punctuations you will be able to change the meaning. Now ھذا is "Why?"
Reddit is a very bad idea,.. I am not sure if they are aware of our stackexchange site gaining momentum, because here's the recent news. I wouldn't suggest posting our community there once we get out of private beta.. or else expert a flood of flaming, trolls and all that stuff..
@AlUmmat I guess i am wrongly understood, :) I do know how to write arabic with and without marks. What i was asking is that "How do you get these from keyboard".Like what font (or some other software?) you use.
Now I have no Idea about that, I am using windows XP, and I have the Arabic language enabled. I have a english keyboard but I have memorized where all the Arabic keys are, but if you want you can use the Google translate keyboard
My question is with reference to this answer. Though the conclusion is agreed by both Shi'a and Sunni, the Shi'a have a problem with the source of the evidence. Considering that it is one of the largest (second highest actually) source of Sunnah of the Prophet (May Peace be upon him) in Sunni Isl...
Did Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) have epilepsy? Searching all over the net gives me vague, contradictory and sometime infuraiting, derogatory results. Could someone clear my dilemma?
I actually made a prophet-muhammad. This way, if we are talking about Rasulallah himself, we use that tag. If we are talking about prophets in general, we use the prophet tag.
@Dynamic that is a waste... it is better to have only a general tag... later on somebody will tell i want to have a tag for adam , jesus etc, then what?
We'll need to merge tags/clean up. In the answer below is a list of tags that need to be turned into synonyms.
Concerning which tag should be made 'dominant', this answer says:
The practice on similar sites (e.g. Judaism ) is to make the English word a synonym for the transliteration. In tha...
Going through tags, I noticed there are some tags that don't make much sense.
I think we should list them here so that we can avoid using them and they'll be automatically deleted. I'll post a community wiki answer and everyone can edit it to add and remove tags.
At least Koran, Coran, Quran, and Qur'an are alternate English spellings for the name of the religious texts.
Is there a preferred spelling, and if so why? I've seen, for example, some discussion that Koran is preferred to Qur`an, but that's one person's opinion and doesn't address the other al...
My question is with reference to this answer. Though the conclusion is agreed by both Shi'a and Sunni, the Shi'a have a problem with the source of the evidence. Considering that it is one of the largest (second highest actually) source of Sunnah of the Prophet (May Peace be upon him) in Sunni Isl...
Well, our Salah is more than just physical movements. When one is in sujud, that is the most peaceful time in the world..most closer to lord. Say if a non-muslim looking for answers...
I am not sure if this is early or not , but I believe it is a good one to ask before the public beta. I got this from the seven essential question for every meta
How do we promote our site?
This is rapidly becoming a hot issue across the entire network: how to promote your site and how to rea...
I recently closed a question which raises an issue we've only just been skirting around.
Remember that the purpose behind an "Islam Stack Exchange" is to build a compilation of knowledge about the subject of "Islam" — You cannot reasonably hope to cover any possible questions of interest t...
IS it allowed for non muslims to enter a prayer room?? i have seen some non muslims coming into a muslim prayer room and praying is allowed?
Well i recently came across this problem. The problem is that arabic font cannot be put on two separate lines
eg
The text was typed like this.
But it ends up like this.
What ever i did the text never went on two separate line. Any solution for this?
At least Koran, Coran, Quran, and Qur'an are alternate English spellings for the name of the religious texts.
Is there a preferred spelling, and if so why? I've seen, for example, some discussion that Koran is preferred to Qur`an, but that's one person's opinion and doesn't address the other al...
If a non Muslim wanted to join a Muslim in his prayer, would it be allowed ? and would it be counted as Salat Gama'a for the Muslim ?
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