Islam

No, homosexuality is strictly not allowed in Islam. It is sinful to practice any homosexual activity.

Answer 2

First of all, a gay person is gay whether their religion allows it or not. It's not a choice.

Second, Progressive Islam is the only branch of Islam that accepts gay people. (They are also called Muslims for Progressive Values).

All other branches of Islam reject gay people, regarding homosexuality as a serious sin. Some Muslims also support the idea of prison or the death penalty for offenders.

That is why we confirm again that: homosexuality is strictly forbidden and is sinful per Islam and Quran teachings. Who is gay or lesbian by nature; as claimed; should stop to practice any homosexuality to satisfy his/her Creator and to avoid being judged as sinful by God on the Resurrection Day .

It's forbidden for a Muslim man to marry a Hindu girl. He is only allowed to marry either a Muslim, Christian, or a Jewish girl.

The rule, per Islam religion, is that Muslim man is allowed to marry a woman of any of the three religions Islam, Christianity (Caholics, Orthodox, ... or other denominations), and Judaism. He is forbidden to marry any woman from any religion other than these three religions.

However, a Muslim girl is allowed to get married with only a Muslim man and she is forbidden to get married with a man of any different religion.

Hint: Some other people have the view point that any person of any faith can marry anyone they want and that love conquers all, even religion. However, this is true only if you are not committed to a religion with God or not believing in God at all. If you are committed with God through any religion, what so ever, you have to fulfill this commitment. This is in analogy to one committed with an employer through a work contract (despite the difference between commitment in contract with God, the Creator, and commitment in contract with an employer, creature). Does falling in love with someone entitle you not to go for work or not to fulfill your work commitment? The same answer applies to your commitment with God when you fall in love and thinking of marriage. On the other hand, of course you have full right and full choice to select either to fulfill religion commitment or to abandon the religion you committed to and throw it behind. However, choice is responsibility. You should be aware that your choice defines the consequences that you get.

Refer to the related questions below for more information.

No, there is no punishment on who converts out of Islam. God (Allah) says in Quran that no compulsion in religion. God says that the righteous path to Allah is clear and the wrong path is clear and every one is responsible of his/her choice. Only on the Day of Judgment, every one will be judged if he/she did right or wrong in his/her first life.

Quran says:

لَا إِكْرَاهَ فِي الدِّينِ ۖ قَد تَّبَيَّنَ الرُّشْدُ مِنَ الْغَيِّ ۚ فَمَن يَكْفُرْ بِالطَّاغُوتِ وَيُؤْمِن بِاللَّـهِ فَقَدِ اسْتَمْسَكَ بِالْعُرْوَةِ الْوُثْقَىٰ لَا انفِصَامَ لَهَا ۗ وَاللَّـهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ ﴿٢٥٦﴾

(Meaning English translation):

{There is no compulsion in religion. Certainly, right has become clearly distinct from wrong. Whoever rejects the devil and believes in God has firmly taken hold of a strong handle that never breaks. God is All-hearing and knowing. (256)} (Quran, Chapter 2, Verse 256)

This rule is explained by another Quran verse (Quran, Chapter 5, Verse 48) that says:

The above is incorrect, the below is correct. No one leaves Islam without severe penalties, at minimum outcast from society, disavowed and disowed by family, loss of job, home, property and family to death to the apostate.

CORRECT ANSWER: Those who apostate, leave Islam, are to renounce any other religion and return to Islam or they are to be killed.

"Allah's Apostle said, "The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in three cases: In Qisas for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims. See the Related Link below.

Answer 1

Judaism was founded in approximately 2000-1500 B.C. in the Bronze Age in Mesopotamia (Modern-Day Iraq). Many say that Abraham is the father of the religion, but scholars still debate it today. Some say that Judaism has not one, single founder, but is a religion where beliefs and customs were added over time.

Answer 2

The tradition of the Jewish people, and their Sages and Talmud, has always been that Abraham founded Judaism. This is implicit in many passages in the prophets (e.g. Isaiah 41:8) and throughout the Talmud (e.g. Yoma 28b) and is clearly borne out by a reading of Genesis, even without commentaries.

God calls himself "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" no fewer than eighteen times in the Torah, and that is how we address Him every day in the Shemoneh Esrei prayer.

However, Abraham and his descendants observed their traditions voluntarily, until the Giving of the Torah to Moses, when God made it obligatory.

Abraham (18th century BCE) came from ancestry that had been God-fearing a couple of centuries earlier but had slipped into idolatry in recent generations (Joshua 24:2). Nimrod, the idolatrous tyrant, had brought Abraham's father (Terah) from the Semitic ancestral seat near the conjunction of the Balikh and the Euphrates, and instated him in a position of power in his army in the royal Babylonian city of Ur. Nimrod persecuted any who would question his idolatrous cult.

The Kuzari (Rabbi Judah HaLevi, 1075-1141) states that Abraham was gifted with high intelligence; and, as Maimonides (1135-1204) describes, Abraham didn't blindly accept the ubiquitous idolatry. The whole populace had been duped, but the young Abraham contemplated the matter relentlessly, finally arriving at the conclusion that there is One God and that this should be taught to others as well. This is what is meant by his "calling out in the name of the Lord" (Genesis ch.12). As a young man, he remonstrated with passersby in public, demonstrating to them the falsehood of their idols; and our tradition tells how he was threatened and endangered by Nimrod. Later in life, God said to Abraham in prophecy to move to the Holy Land, which is where Abraham raised his family.

He continued his contemplations, eventually arriving at the attitudes and forms of behavior which God later incorporated into the Torah given to Moses. Abraham taught disciples (Talmud, Yoma 28b), gave tithes (Genesis ch.14), strove to raise a family (Genesis ch.15, 17, and 24) which would serve God, made a covenant with God (Genesis ch.15 and 17), welcomed guests into his home (Genesis ch.18) unlike the inhospitable Sodomites (Genesis ch.19), prayed for people (Genesis ch.18), rebuked others when necessary (Genesis ch.20), eulogized and buried the deceased (Genesis ch.23), and fulfilled God's will unquestioningly (Genesis ch.22). He became renowned as a prince of God (Genesis 23:6).

It is therefore clear why God expresses His love for Abraham (Isaiah 41:8) and calls Himself the God of Abraham (Genesis 26:24), and says that Abraham obeyed Him fully (Genesis 26:5). And this is why, according to our tradition, Abraham is credited with having founded the religion which became known as Judaism.

Answer 1:

The same with the christian belief system with one slight difference. the difference is that Jesus(Esa) is believed as the prophet of god, not the son of god. additionally Jesus is a well respected prophet in the Islamic perspective and Virgin Mary is the name of a separate chapter in Quran(Meryem)

Answer 2:

Jesus [isa.a.s.]is a prophet of God,

if he is god ,who has creation sky and earth and in the middle them ,before he has born ?

GOD[ALLAH ]is He who has creation ALL before everything. HE is first and last...,He is only ONE for everybody and everything...,

Answer 3:

- Muslims believe in the virgin birth of Jesus PBUH who was born miraculously without a father.

*.(Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah.

46. "He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the righteous."

47. She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: Allah createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is! ).

Holy Quran,(3 : 45-47)

The Almighty Allah says:

(For God the likeness of Jesus is as that of Adam whom he created out of dust, then said to him "Be", and he was).

Holy Quran,(3:59)

So, it's illogical to attribute the divinity to Jesus PBUH since He was created without a father because Adam PBUH was created without neither a father nor a mother. Allah, the Omnipotent is capable of creating anything just by command 'be' then 'it is'.

The recent scientific discoveries and advancements, in all different fields of science, validated and proved the correctness of the scientific statements that had been mentioned in Quran in the 7th century. This is one of the proofs that Quran is God revelation and not a text written by human.

Refer to the related link below for more information on scientific miracles of Quran.

They are the Five Pillars of Islam.

1. Shahadah: declaring there is no god except Allah (the Arabic word for God - literally means "the God"), and Muhammad is God's Messenger
2. Salat: ritual prayer five times a day
3. Sawm: fasting and self-control during the blessed month of Ramadan
4. Zakat: giving 2.5% of one's savings to the poor and needy
5. Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime if he/she is able to do so

This business scheme resembles a chain of brokers; whereby each broker employs others and gets a certain commission, and so forth.

In general, being a broker is permissible, with or without compensation, but it may be forbidden if it leads to any violation of the general purposes of Islamic Law.

One such case is the ruling in Islamic Law that prohibits a person from a city going out and doing business with incoming merchants before they reach the city. Some scholars pointed out that the reason for the prohibition is that the city dweller is acting as a broker in order to raise the prices of the commodities for the cities inhabitants, whereas one of Islam's aims to ease people's life and lower their costs of living.

Therefore, it is not preferable to have an excessive number of brokers and middlemen, because their combined profits would translate into an increase in final price to the consumer.

If prices are not aversely affected by this increase in brokers, then such a selling scheme is lawful.

And Allah knows best.