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and happy celebrations to you my friend
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I love loonwatch, especially danios

Allah is actually the arabian way of calling the monotheistic God (captial G), Arab jews and arab christians also call there monotheistic God allah. Allah is not a name, just a way of saying the "the one and only God" in arabic.
If im speaking spanish i would say El Dios, if i was speaking persian i would say khuda, in turkish, my turkish friends sometimes say TanrI, when they are refering to god (smal g), but when they are referring to God (captial G) they say allah. so when speaking turkish, i cannot say since im not a turkish, but i think its allah.
In spanish and English there are captial letters, when we are taking about the one and only God, i think we should use God capital g. but when speaking we should use God.

As for music, it is not haram, although that is one view, you pick on which is right, some of my reasons are based on this article http://islamicsystem.blogspot.com/2012/04/q-shari-rule-on-songs-music-singing.html, and alkso this one http://www.renaissance.com.pk/Marrefl2y5.htm, although the former more than the latter.  Mostly because most of the hadiths that prohibit music are weak.

You father is right anbout the pictures, there is a hadith in islam, "In al a3mal bin anniyat", which roughly translates to, your action is justified by your intentions/will.

http://www.correctislamicfaith.com/picturesinislam.htm

read this for more clarification.

do your own research and read the links i gave you, they are useful.
I wish you luck kardesim (hope i spelt that right)
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you should see danios's understanding jihad series, very informative.
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also see spencerwatch.com

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/Sarh/

remember, konly the quran in 100% authentic, other sources like the hadith and sirah can be reliable if they fill the criteria of having a complete chain of transmitters, authentic narrators, uncut chain, etc. otherwisethey cannot be trusted.

You can celebrate culture and still be muslim.
You can wear a chinese dress, pre islamically and still be muslim, you can wear your pre islamic dress and still be muslim, you can eat your pre islamic food dishes (AS long as its not pork, alchohol, etc.). people think that once you convert to islam or if you are muslim, you have to take up arab, turkish and/or persian cultur, thats false. "muslim" culture is actually world culture expressed in an apropriate islamic way because because muslims are all over the world.
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abrogation =/= lost
remember that
abrogation means the surah is still there in the quran, but is overpowered by another surah.

peace my bros
stop with this
I want to tell you this both of you guys, Mr. Abdallah and Reza this
mr abdallah, you created this website and im thankful for this, more people should be like you, you are very moderate and dont like over censorship, this is what the muslim world needs
reza, you dont consider yourself sunni or shia, same with me, you're actually one of the few, so cool beans.

But both are making mistakes
first reza
Arabs have a civilization, a great civilization, its true we were not scientifically developed as the persians but we still had a civilization and culture before and after islam. i see some of your comments are anti arab, we have a culture and a civilization, true,m our politics needs help, but then, look at iran, afghanistan, tajikistan, azerbaijan, pakistan (traditional iranian territories). we had great scientist, jabir bin hayyan was an arab of the azd tribe, ibn khaldun was also one, and there was also persians like biruni and al razi, and never forget there were arab scientist working along side there persian collegues.

Mr. abdallah, i dont deny that there are some shia that worship ali and over emphasis his imporatnce, some are even going to the extent of commiting shik and (forbidden) innovation, the videos on youtuvbe prove this. However, you should know that the majority of the shias, although they over emphasis ali, odnt worship him or say that he is god, the twelver and the zaydi sects are proof of this, some ismailis also follow this doctrine. The alavis and the alawis sometimes worship ali and this is fact, or consider him in a trinity, but we shouldn't use this to portray all shias. in addition, the sources you used, the youtube videos have biased agaisnt shias in them, i.e. the were made for the purpose of bashing and/or refuting shias.

as a brother once said "instead of killing each other on whther to fold our arms during prayers or not, we should fight the people who want to chop them of", it was a comment on hyoutube that i found.
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