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J@n@
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 Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:25 am Post subject: The Highest Thing In Life |
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hey 
What do you thing is the most important thing in life? The highest thing?
A friend of mine made a list like this:
1. God
2. Love
3. Passion
What do you think? (I could tell you right know what i think, but i'll do so later... if you wrote me back
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ad-miral
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: |
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1. My girlfriend
2. Money
3. My friends |
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beancurdturtle
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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1. acceptance
1. respect
1. integrity
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hoshi
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:19 am Post subject: |
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1-god
2-My girlfriend
2/3-my friends
3-PaSsIoN 
4-money 
5-Performance
6-Respect
That's my list
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Sarraa
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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Hello
My list:
1- Allah (God)
2- Islam (my religon)
3- Anything that comes with Islam (i.e. peace, love, respect for others etc)
4- My Muslim family
5- My Muslim friends (I don't really have any other proper friends besides them anyway  )
6- Every single pious, good Muslim in the world.
And they are the most important things in my life. ^_^
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hoshi
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Sarraa wrote: |
| My Muslim friends (I don't really have any other proper friends besides them anyway ) |
why?
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Sarraa
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| My Muslim friends (I don't really have any other proper friends besides them anyway ) |
why? |
Because I go to an Islamic, Arabic school : ), so I don't get to see non-Muslims much.
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beancurdturtle
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: |
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Because I go to an Islamic, Arabic school : ), so I don't get to see non-Muslims much. |
Well that's too bad that you don't see non Muslims much. Isn't it?
Then how do you get to learn and practice "love, respect for others etc.?"
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Sarraa
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| Then how do you get to learn and practice "love, respect for others etc.?" |
? Can one not practice love and respect to the people of their own religion, their family, or to their friends? I don't have to be around non-Muslims to practice respect.
Besides, it was only a few years ago that I stopped having 'proper' non-Muslim friends, which was when I quit my ''English'' school (normal school, not Islamic) because of racial bullying and 'disrespect' from the majority of the pupils in my school. So I did get a chance to 'practice respect for others etc' then. And I still do now. Just because I don't get to see non-Muslims at school, does not mean I don't get to see them at all, and just because I don't really have non-Muslim friends, does not mean I don't have non-Muslim 'acquaintences' or that I don't know any non-Muslim. I'm in the UK, mate , and have been for over 10 years : ).
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beancurdturtle
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| Then how do you get to learn and practice "love, respect for others etc.?" |
Besides, it was only a few years ago that I stopped having 'proper' non-Muslim friends, which was when I quit my ''English'' school (normal school, not Islamic) because of racial bullying and 'disrespect' from the majority of the pupils in my school. |
There's too much fear and inhumanity in the world. That's why my choices were:
1. acceptance
1. respect
1. integrity
Sorry people act out their with their fear on you. I have good friends who are Muslim.
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hoshi
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| Then how do you get to learn and practice "love, respect for others etc.?" |
? Can one not practice love and respect to the people of their own religion, their family, or to their friends? I don't have to be around non-Muslims to practice respect.
Besides, it was only a few years ago that I stopped having 'proper' non-Muslim friends, which was when I quit my ''English'' school (normal school, not Islamic) because of racial bullying and 'disrespect' from the majority of the pupils in my school. So I did get a chance to 'practice respect for others etc' then. And I still do now. Just because I don't get to see non-Muslims at school, does not mean I don't get to see them at all, and just because I don't really have non-Muslim friends, does not mean I don't have non-Muslim 'acquaintences' or that I don't know any non-Muslim. I'm in the UK, mate , and have been for over 10 years : ). |
That's true, but almost all the people want to have friendship with people with the same believes, that's bad for me, I believe in tolerance, and we're missing it nowadays  just imagine what people can do, with tolerance, or how the world can be with it? A real world maybe?
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Sarraa
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| Sorry people act out their with their fear on you. I have good friends who are Muslim. |
And I've had good friends who are non-Muslims, and I still sort of have some, online. That's what's great about the internet. ^_^
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| That's true, but almost all the people want to have friendship with people with the same believes, that's bad for me, I believe in tolerance, and we're missing it nowadays Sad just imagine what people can do, with tolerance, or how the world can be with it? A real world maybe? |
I'm sure almost everyone feels more 'comfortable' when around people that are the same as them (i.e. with the same beliefs). But like you said, that doesn't mean we should not get to know people from different cultures and religions at all. No one would tolerate anyone, if that were the case. Allah says in the Qur'aan [O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know eachother...] (Al-Hujuraat, 13).
I was in some way upset that I had to leave school (although I still wanted to), because it meant I wouldn't be seeing as many different people as before, and wouldn't have as many friends from different backgrounds and cultures. But, alas. : (
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J@n@
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:48 am Post subject: |
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mmmm interesting...
well, i myself don't really know how to answer my own question. There are many important things in life and i think they are all most important!
All in all the things are the same: If Love is most important for somebody, he'll see that in this love there are many other things. And God, on top of that, is in everything -- if you believe in kind of God or something/ somebody like him.. Of course you should feel passion and do everything with enough passion. I think that living without passion was like... not living! but all these th ings are already included in (my) life... [or that's what i hope]  So if God is already in everything, if love is everywhere around us -- of course, these things are high and important... i'm sorry i'm just writing the things i'm thinking without understanding them And even to me they don't make sense..
Well. I think there are many people that are important to me. Everyone i love. So many people! So through these people love is also parth of the list, isn't it??
The most important people/things in my life:
- my boyfriend
- my friends
- my family
- love
- tolerance
- life
- peace
- music
- the world around me.. |
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beancurdturtle
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| J@n@ wrote: |
Well. I think there are many people that are important to me. Everyone i love. So many people! So through these people love is also parth of the list, isn't it??
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Sounds good to me. 
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hoshi
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Sarraa wrote: |
| hoshi wrote: |
| That's true, but almost all the people want to have friendship with people with the same believes, that's bad for me, I believe in tolerance, and we're missing it nowadays Sad just imagine what people can do, with tolerance, or how the world can be with it? A real world maybe? |
I'm sure almost everyone feels more 'comfortable' when around people that are the same as them (i.e. with the same beliefs). But like you said, that doesn't mean we should not get to know people from different cultures and religions at all. No one would tolerate anyone, if that were the case. Allah says in the Qur'aan [O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know eachother...] (Al-Hujuraat, 13).
I was in some way upset that I had to leave school (although I still wanted to), because it meant I wouldn't be seeing as many different people as before, and wouldn't have as many friends from different backgrounds and cultures. But, alas. : ( |
by the way, I met a muslim man in the university, he is very friendly
I think it's nice to meet people from another culture
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