Audzubillah himinash shaytoon nirrojiim (I seek refugee to Allah from the cursed satan)

Bismillahirohmaanirohiim (In the name of God, The Most Gracious The Most Merciful)

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarokatuh (May The Source of Peace, blessing of Allah and the barokah be upon you)

Well as you want to learn about Islam, these things above are the adab or ethics when we muslim start to do something. And because I'm belong to this brotherhood or ummah, I have obligation to stand for this way of life and correct anything not right and enjoin anything right and truthful.

Hello Chinafan, glad to know that you are open to know the truth, those who come to islam mostly someone who questioning on the truth behind our existences and the purpose of life, may Allah bless your journey on seeking the truth. Ok now I gonna give my oppinion on this matter.

First, you state that you want to combine Islam and Christianity. Well there is no need such combination because Islam and Christianity are not exactly  seperate religions, just like Judaism and Christianity, they are not seperated existences that are revealed by the different God, no, but they are one doctrine and one philosophy that came from one God. God of Adam peace be upon him, God of Abraham peace be upon him (PBUH), God of Moses (PBUH), God of Jesus Christ (PBUH) and God of Muhammad salallah alayhi wasalam are the same One God, He is my God and your God, your father's God, your grandfather's God, God of whole universe.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the continuity of the religion of God. Moses (pbuh), Jesus (pbuh) and Muhammad (PBUH) are chains of the prophets of God. And Islam came as finalization of the message of God, just imagine there are river came from many different places, there are rivers in Hindust, there are rivers in Nazareth, there are rivers in Judea, and they are all carrying their own water for their own tribes.And all of these rivers in the end gather in the same water fall, that giving water not only for people of nazareth, or people of judea, or hindust, but this water fall supplying the water for the peoples of all over the world. This water fall is Islam, it is the end of the prophetic chain, and the end of God revelation that will valid for guidances to human until the day of judgement.

So you can't combine christianity with Islam, because we as muslim are told by our God, which is your God and my God and Jesus son of Mary God that ; there are corruption and falsety that are made by the hand of man, that they are hidden part of the verses of God and man added their own words and they decleared it as the verses of God. We have been informed this on our scripture.The Quran, thousand years before Davinci Code and Dan Brown blowed up the world about the corruption in bible, thousand year before Karen Armstrong spoke up about the illegitimate way of the christian in nicea council to change Jesus from a prophet of God to son of god. So if you combine the true monotheistic doctrine with unitarian or trinity, you will add nothing but ashtray.


Second about Ramadhan. Ramadhan as the spread of the ummah history, is never considered as the source of our weakness. Ramadhan Chinafan, doesn't make us lay down like someone sick in the hospital and doing nothing. Chinafan, if you want to know one of the source of Muslim strenght, it is our fasting, the Ramadhan. In Ramadhan muslim do the job as usual, and there are no such things as not going to work because it is ramadhan because despite it should be our source of strenght. And if u look at the history, the most important battle when the believer are outnumber in battle, fighting the disbeliever ,were being fought in ramadhan, and we never lost the battle of Ramadhan. For example the battle of Badr, when the 314 muslim in the time of the prophet, fighting with thousands of quraish who were genociding them in Makkah.This battle happened during ramadhan and each of the soldier were fasting while they go to war and they were winning.

The Battle Conquest of Spain (Visigoth) that been lead by Tariq Ibn Ziad (ra), this battle been execute in ramadhan and resulting total victory. Also when the army of Hulaghu the Mongol came invading Egypt, resulting the battle of Ain Jaloot, this also execute in ramadhan, and all of them were fasting, and none of them die because of hunger and this fasting doesn't make them weak and loosing the war, oppositely the muslim always winning battle in ramadhan, so we can say ramadhan is the bless month and the source of power for the muslim ummah.

My advice is, try ramadhan. And try also to look at and check muslim revert, see their experiences and how they find Islam when they are doing it. Also my advice for u when u r doing iftar or finish your fasting during the night, just drink water and dates or small biscuit, after that pray. After u pray, then u can eat decent food and u will suprise even you still feel hungry after you grab the glasses and start drinking water you will get easily full not long after that.

Good luck to you Chinafan, Im not the best from my muslim brother, but may Allah make you benefiting in a good way on what I know about this beautiful way of life, and what ever truth or good coming out from me then know it is from Allah, what ever bad then it is from my own limitation.

This is a video of one from the muslim convert, he share his experience and things, if you want you can watch it :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gr54pYc3Ak&feature=relmfu

Wassalamualaika Chinafan (Peace be upon you Chinafan)

Pease and blessing of Allah be unto you all.

This is rather an intresting discussion. And brother Chinafan,I see you seeking so I too must impart some of the knowledge that I may have as it is obligatory on us to share our knowledge.

When Muslims say "Allah" whom do they mean? We know who God is by his attributes.

Muslims Believe in Allah which is the arabic word for "The One God". He is one God without any partners. He is unique and nothing is comparable to him.

He is the creater of everything in existance. All the created things are in total need of him while He is in no need of anything. He is God, He neither begets nor is he begotten. He existed before everthing and does not have a beginning and He does not die; He is the everlasting God.

He created the Heavens and the Earth and then established himself on His Throne outside of his creation. He does not live within the creation nor does he menifest down to Earth for he has no need to do so. He is All-knowing and All-Hearing and All-Seeing; He knows what every female bears, and what every womb releases, or gains and Not even a leaf falls without his knowledge. Would not the Creater Know?

Everyday he runs the affairs of the Universe; He does he get tired doing this. Neither sleep nor slumber overtakes him. To him belongs what ever is in the Heavens or the earth. He knows what actions we do, Our secret desires in the hearts and the glimpse of our eyes; Nothing ever is hidden from him for He is the all knowing while we know nothing of him except what he has taught us about him. He is the master of everything while everything else remains as his slaves.

He is "The Merciful" God who accepts repentence from his slaves and forgives the sins of those who ask from him. He guides those whom asks guidance from Him and obeys Him and His messengers.

He does not like ungrateful servents of His and He punishes those who do not obey Him and prevent others from Him. But He does not punish mistaken actions of his servants. Rather He forgives all the sins of those who repent to him. However, He will  not accept repentence from those who continue disobeying him all their life and then try to repent at the time of their death.

He who causes death and give life to the dead. It He who will cause the death of everything in existence at the end and then raises us from our graves for the day of judgement.

This is God, the only God whom worship is due without any associates or intermediates. This is the God whom Muslims worship.

If this is the God that you worship then you are on the right path. It does not matter if you call him Allah, God, Lord, Rabb or any other name.. as long as you do not reject any of his attributes and rejects his divine majesty and worships Him the way He commanded us to.

If anyone claims to be God, put him to test: Was he born? Did he die? Does he know everything in Heaven and the Earth? Can he cause death and give life to the dead? Does he hear when you call unto him? Does he depend on food for his survival?