As for the drug trip etc., well this is just my opinion- but I would like to know why it would be hard to back up from a islamic point of view.
Well...I doubt that drugs with that much power existed back then, especially in Saudi Arabia. But, I also believe that whatever happened, was truly an act of God. For a man to take a drug, trip out, and redefine their whole life based on it, is highly unusual, and quite improbable. It is also said that his goodness as a child with no parents was remarkable, so I doubt he'd be a drug-taker even if they
were available. And all the things he did afterward, many of them were not possible. If I recall correctly, I don't think he could read or write, and yet he channeled God's teachings and turned them into the written word. No matter how much LSD you give the hobo on the corner, he's not gonna write a Nobel Prize-winning dissertation on fluid dynamics. See?
It does make me uncomfortable to make such statements, not because I am a follwer or a mindless sheep, but because I strongly believe thinking such a thing is blasphemous.
I'm not questioning an aspect of my faith, I'm pondering if the Holy Prophet himself took drugs and accidentally came up with a whole new way of life. That just bothers me. It just seems so out of the question, that I feel sinful to think of it.
You are right, Islam is sort of under attack in America, the mosque in my city had three or four cop cars guarding it every Fri service- and a cop car always out for security. I know of no other religion that fears an attack against it in america.
Yeah, isn't that horrible? That's why I get mad when I hear Satanists feeling like the 'mindless Christians' are oppressing them. They're not being oppressed! Christians and other monotheistic religious follwers such as Muslims and Jews are threatened by Satanists, because to them, the Satanists worship the exact antithesis of all that is good in Earth and in Heaven. But no one has yet driven a truck into the Church Of Satan, and the Satanist kids at school aren't looked at funny or threatened with violenence for their 'faith'. I think intelligent people should know when to make a point about something, and when to jump in the other person's skin and walk around for themselves and see what the other person feels.
