God, Majestic is He and Merciful, had created all that we see save man; and in what He created there was none who could be to Him a companion and friend, to know Him and love Him as He should be known and loved. All that lived and all that had sentience which He had created in them knew their Creator and Lord and all did as He intended for them by the nature of their creation. But to none could God Open His Mind and share what He in His Omniscience knew and what He in His Omnipotence had done in creating the Creation as He had. None living and breathing and thinking could know the magnitude of His Mercy or the breadth of His Dominion or the magnanimity of the gift He had given to each by breathing into it of Life, while He is The Living. For this reason He created man.

So just as He had called every thing into existence with His "Be!" and it was, so then did He create our father Adam by saying to him "Be!"

But the first Adam did not know Him and love Him as He deigned to be loved and known, and after thousands and thousands of Adams were created and with their own volition that He had created in them chose other than what God would have had them choose, then He created Adam who is our father. God has said that our creation in Adam is the finest thing that He has created.

Our father knows no peer or equal since his time among us, his children. And he knows each and every one of us, our families, our children, our joys and our trials, our failure and success. Because that is what God created in him: all of us. And God Opened His Mind to Adam, that whatever God knows that the mind and heart of man can know, Adam knew. Looking at all of us in the Palms of God's Hands, Adam knew of us what God knows; saw of us what God sees; loved of us what God loves, in Communion and Companionship with God, as he was created to do.

And then Adam displayed his singular feature that is man and human and makes of us what we are and in its operation is what endears us to God, Who created it in us and brought it to fruition as the nature of humanity in Adam: he forgot. And in a forgetful moment, he tripped, partaking of the argument of the rebellious Satan, his enemy and arrogant out of envy against God's creation of Adam, entertaining for the briefest of moments what this liar said of God and His creation, humanity. And God closed His Mind to Adam and he fell from Communion with Him and His Knowledge, taking a hundred years to reach the ground upon which we walk and in which we will be buried.

The rest, as they say, is History. And this is a poor sample of its beginning, the story is so much more than we have placed upon this page. And History, likewise, is partly shown and mostly hidden, as Satan continues to prove his case against man that, even though Adam knew God and loves Him, he is not the better suitor for His Affection and Friendship than is the Deceiver of man, who tripped Adam when he was forgetful of His Lord.

And beyond History is Faith: that as God promised Adam in consolation after the Fall, and that as God promised Noah to assuage his grief after the Flood, and that as God has made known to all of those He has sent among us to tell us of His Ways that He has designed for us, that He will again Open His Mind to Adam, and to the children of Adam, flooding the earth with His Knowledge and His Mercy, that He might be Known and Loved as He should be Known and Loved.

And this story is known to the keepers of every faith, of Judaism, of Christianity, of Islam; and of the sons of Noah all three are to share in His Mercy and their time has come.

Are you seeking matyrdom?

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Rejoice, muslims, in martyrdom...

Are you seeking martyrdom? Are all muslims seeking martyrdom?

Rejoice, muslims, in martyrdom...

Are you seeking martyrdom? Are all muslims seeking martyrdom?

God has taken 6,196 martyrs in America in the last three weeks, along with nineteen or more who are not martyrs but are for the Fire, for sending the six thousand to paradise. The hypocrites will deny this, saying that the six thousand cannot be considered martyrs. They are liars, the law says they are martyrs and enter paradise without account, their future is assured by the Word of God.

Sure, I'll admit I'm envious. What I have to answer for is already more than I can bear. I'd like nothing better than to not carry this burden of my own wrongdoing in my life, but there's no one responsible for it but me. Can you think of a better reason to stake everything imaginable on a belief in a Merciful Creator Who also visits His Wrath where it should be visited? (And that surely includes me!)

But seek it? I'm not sure I'm allowed to do that. I happened to notice that three people were murdered for no other reason than that someone thought they were muslim. They went to paradise, too. That's "martyrdom without fighting."

I want to make sure that any muslim with the wit to see it doesn't lose out on a perfect deal by fighting against someone trying to kill him, unless they want to defend themselves. Some people have a pretty expanded idea of "defend themselves" and I don't want anyone to get hurt. But we muslims were told fourteen hundred years ago of some very specific situations in which we should not attempt to defend ourselves, and I think today is one of them. That doesn't mean I'll be able to follow that good advice, I'm not expecting it to come up. I don't deserve that kind of an opportunity.

Two truckers hauled a third trucker out of a truck stop that first weekend and literally -- and unquestionably -- saved his life. The muslim waitress he was threatening was armed and a crack shot, and the police and the truck stop manager knew and approved her carrying concealed and possible use of a licensed pistol, she was ready to put a hole right square between his eyes and no one would have asked her about it at all. He doesn't even know it, his brothers grabbed him before she needed to pull the pistol. She's raising three children, doesn't have time to be a martyr.

Otherwise, ...

Are all muslims seeking martyrdom?

... sure, why not? I've seen the re-runs, lived in the land of broken promise, watched live demonstrations of our inhumanity inspired by God-Knows-what (and-He's-Told-Us) but we don't seem to get it, what's this life worth? But am I allowed to seek it, exactly? I don't know, that's pretty dubious, more like suicide stuff it seems to me.

So I guess I'll keep my defenses up, just in case? Is that all right with you, since so many people are already trying to kill me and just can't get started yet?

Where were you trying to go with this, anyway? We're all terrorists bent on martyrdom in a blaze of glory taking the devils and their followers with us? Where do you pick up that kind of ridiculous fantasy? That's not martyrdom, that's Hollywood.

was-salaam,
ankaboot
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Rejoice, muslims, in martyrdom without fighting,
a Mercy for us. Be like the better son of Adam.

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Where am I going with this?

Right now, the USA is trying to make a clear distinction between muslim terrorists and non-terrorists muslims, to make sure that no harm comes to the latter but surely to the former. Those who call themselves muslim terrorists claim to be seeking martyrdom. It seems that the muslim community spends a good deal of effort lately defending all muslims---including terrorists--and yet the same muslims have not come forward to help the USA make the clear distinction between terrorists and non-terrorists.

What I hear and read coming from the muslim community is that they are being unfairly singled out for retribution. You even site a few examples. It would seem to me that, in the light of the recent terrorist atrocities committed agains the USA, muslims would want to put clear distance between themselves and those muslims who support terrorism. Yet, the silence of the muslim community in this specific regard is conspicuous.

What I was interested in was your post that says nothng about the atrocities, glorifies martyrdom, does nothing to clarify the distinction between teorrorist muslims and the rest of the Islam---where do you stand on this issue which should be of critical importance to all muslims?

Or, to paraphrase GW Bush: 'You're either for us or against us.'--Which is it?

... and you will surely find that of all people, they who say: "We are Christians" are closest to feeling affection for those who believe. This is because there are priests and monks among them, and because they are not arrogant (5:82)

Peace be upon you, ankaboot.

Let's jump to the Abrahamic part of history...

Either Ishmael, or Isaac is a liar.

Which in turn makes either Mohammed, or Jesus a liar.