9 Questions for traditional muslims

Peace to the world,

This post is meant to raise questions for your inner self. Not for the person that others know as "you". But for the person that you and God alone knows as "you". The true "you", your inner self. I would assume that you can read, if not write aswell.

Imagine a room inside which you can find instructions that will give you eternal success. Imagine that the room is known as a miracle of God. Imagine that the informations in that room are given by God Himself and is preserved by Him for you. Imagine God giving you not only permission to enter, but an invitation to enter the room.

Now Imagine that only few people that you consider as "smart" go inside the room to see the instructions. When these people come out of the room, they claim to have recieved the instructions. However, they dont agree between each other on details of the instructions.

1. If you have never been to the room yourself, can you honestly say who among the ones that entered the room is correct ?
2. You can always have faith in one of the people that go to that room, BUT, is faith in that person the same as faith in God ?
3. If your reason for having faith in your favourtie person that visited the room is that the person is very knowledgeable, do you not know that scientists like Isaac Newton was Christian, Albert Einstein was agnostic Jew and Stephen Hawking does not believe in God ? What does this tell you about blind faith on smart people to understand what God kept in that room ?
4. If smart people are correct in their opinion, why do many of their opinions go against each other ?
5. If having different opinions is not a big deal, why can't "you" have your own opinion ?
6. You can't have your opinion because you are not "as smart as those few people that enter the room" ?
7. If it is guaranteed that their opinion is better than yours, why would God give you permission with an invitation to that room ?
8. Did God mistakenly give you the permission and invitation to the room ?
9. Or did you make the mistake of not accepting the invitation and putting your faith in a human being instead of God ?

The room that we are talking about in this post is the kitaab(book) from God. Muslims know this book as Al-Qur'an.  God detailed His book and invited you to read and learn it. God asked you to spread the message. Think about what your trusted people told you about what is inside the Qur'an.. Ask your self these 9 questions . Are you really on the Straight Path of God ? or you risk your life following a human being who can be wrong ? Do you want to simply repeat what you hear from them instead of checking God's message yourself ? Just because alot of people do that ? Just because your family taught you that ?

"And if they are told: "Follow what God has sent down," they say: "No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing!" What if their fathers did not comprehend anything and were not guided? And the example of those who disbelieve is like one who repeats what he has heard of calls and cries; deaf, dumb, and blind, they do not comprehend."

[Qur'an 2:170-171]



May God increase you in knowledge and open your eyes so that you be guided to success in this life and the next.

Peace be on you

-------------------- Student of Allah