To sam

Submitted by Lynda (United Kingdom), Feb 14, 2007 at 07:45

Hi Sam,

Thank you for your comment! I'm a very confused individual. I was born a Muslim and love my faith. However I wasn't brought up in a religious environment. My mother had only started to become religious during my teenage years where i wasn't at all interested as most teenagers dont at that age. I find Islam very confusing and as I hate to say some things I don't agree with or I should say do not understand. When I ask my mother she just snaps at me and tells me not to question the word of Allah (swt).

I love the quran and when I read it I don't see rules and regulations as the hadiths do. I do not believe the hadiths as I do not believe in books written after the Prophet (sas) had passed away. I feel really confused and I am scared. The only reason why I had said that was I have a friend who is Muslim who is married to a man from a catholic background he isn't religious and she has two kids with they dont eat pork nor does he and they dont drink. the kids are brought up muslim. Her husband believes in God just that he doesn't like to follow any religon. What is your view on this?

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