1. What is religion—some rituals and super-natural beliefs or complete code of life for this world and hereafter?
2. Do we need religion?
3. While living in an organized civil society, strictly law-abiding in its nature, why don’t we wish to follow an organized religion? Is it the theocracy (rule of clergy) or organized religion we are scared of?
4. What is the definition of a true religion?
5. Isn’t it important to follow a true religion which perfectly satisfies our spiritual and temporal needs?
6. Why are there so many religions and why these religions are further divided into many sects?
7. Does the Holy Scripture you believe in allows its followers to get divided into different sects?
8. Is it ok to feel content by believing that we are on right path even if it is not leading us to our cherished goal and does not help us to become a good human being?
9. Isn’t it the individual responsibility of every one of us to find out the true religion?
10. We decide our secular disputes by resorting to a common standard. Shouldn’t we have a common standard to settle our religious disputes and disagreements?
11. Isn’t it necessary to search for the true religion?
12. Do we need to be scholars to understand religion or common sense can work?
13. In worldly matters we seek, even ordinary things, ‘by choice’. Why do we remain satisfied in religious matters ‘by chance’?
14. How to do the research about religion? What standards should be adopted to reach the conclusion?
15. What if one finds out that he/she is on wrong path and another religion, which one used to consider false, is the true religion?
16. Shouldn’t one forsake the wrong faith and accept the correct belief system as we do in our worldly matters?
17. Do you think that after revealing a religion and sending the Prophets, God has become indifferent and made clergy and scholars responsible to protect the religion or is there a divine protection and reformation system?
18. Has there ever been a time in the history when a declined religion was revived by the clergy and not by a divinely raised man of God? Do you find any promise in your scripture saying that in the event of any decline in future, scholars and clergy shall revive and rejuvenate the faith?
19. Haven’t the clergy failed to keep the faith united and safeguard it, rather created more schism and divisions in the religion?
20. Shouldn’t we follow the Divine Scripture and not depend upon the clergy to decide between right and wrong religion?
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very right! good and thought provoking realistic questions.
I wish everyone spared sometime and pondered on these important questions on which depends our real destiny and salvation.
Thanks for a good sharing. God Bless you.Amen
The questions are quite valid. But why this question is being put to only Non-Muslims, why not to the Muslims who are also “divided into schisms and sects”?
Perhaps these questions should be addressed to all the human beings, irrespective of their “religious brand names”, and ethnic groupings, because all human beings share one common denominator which is “Human Nature”, which has its material and social demands and also spiritual demands.
And, in meeting those demands, human nature will only be convinced if the their spiritual demands are met keeping in mind the “logic” and “rationality” as the basis of arguement and not merely “blind faith” which creates “doubt” and keeps the “human nature” wandering and in a state of “unrest”.
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