Teachings of Ra/Islam

[GentleReckoning]

I'm well versed in Christianity, and have a good grasp on Buddhism however I'm quite unfamiliar with the teachings of Ra through Islam.

Could anyone recommend some good summaries of the spiritual side of Islam?

I'm thinking my book will have 4 sections based on reality, and three on how to react to reality.

I already know two of them:

Buddhism: All is illusion, all is awareness.
Christianity: Choose love through good and bad.
Islam: ????

Any help greatly appreciated!!!!

[Cameron]

Well I look for the teaching of the Golden Rule relating to the Law of One. Here is the Islamic Texts on the Golden Rule 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you':

The Quran:
“Serve God, and join not any partners with Him; and do good – to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbors who are near, neighbors who are strangers, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (ye meet), and what your right hands possess [the slave]: For God loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious” (Q:4:36)

In fact the Quran goes beyond saying the Golden Rule by stating in more than four places that “Return evil with Kindness.” (13:22, 23:96, 41:34, 28:54, 42:40) In Verse 41:34 is a Meccan verse where Muhammad preached patience and said "repel evil with good so your enemy becomes as friend."

In other Islamic texts Prophet Muhammad said:

“None of you have faith until you love for your neighbor what you love for yourself” (Sahih Muslim)

“Whoever wishes to be delivered from the fire and to enter Paradise…should treat the people as he wishes to be treated.” (Sahih Muslim)

“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself” (Forty Hadith-Nawawi)

“None of you is a believer if he eats his full while his neighbor hasn’t anything.” (Musnad)

“Do unto all men as you would wish to have done unto you; and reject for others what you would reject for yourselves.” (Abu Dawud)

“Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you.” (Farewell Sermon)

“There should be neither harming nor reciprocating harm.” (Ibn- Majah)

But I do find The Quran is a book of contradictions - probably introduced distortions, similar to large swathes of the old testament and to a lesser extent the new testament of the Bible.

The Quran tells Muslims to slay the unbelievers wherever they find them (2:191), don’t befriend them (3:28), fight them and show them harshness (9:123), smite their heads (47:4). Ouch! Islam is the only doctrine it seems that calls upon its believers to do evil to others for the simple fact that they are not believers. Yikes...

So somewhere along the line, the teachings were distorted, either originally or through controlling entities, whereby it was determined that it is not the Golden Rule that defines the good and bad, it is Muhammad and his representatives who determine it. They believe that what is good for Islam is the highest virtue and what is bad for Islam is the ultimate evil. This is the definition of good and evil in Islam. Now this is getting dangerous!

From Asahara to Jim Jones to Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church to David Koresh's Davidian Branch, they taught that the cult’s interests override human understanding of right and wrong. In order to protect or advance the interest of the cult, which is regarded as the ultimate good, everything, including lying, and even murder and assassination are permissible. The end is deemed to be so lofty that it justifies the means. This is the same idea of fascism where glorification of the state and total subordination of the individual to it are enforced!

But I suppose this is like many religions whereby control and power become the modus operandi, and the true teaching of the Law of One that was probably clear and evident in the original teachings has been subverted and distorted.

[BlatzAdict]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism

what about this

[Shin'Ar]

I'm well versed in Christianity, and have a good grasp on Buddhism however I'm quite unfamiliar with the teachings of Ra through Islam.

Could anyone recommend some good summaries of the spiritual side of Islam?

I'm thinking my book will have 4 sections based on reality, and three on how to react to reality.

I already know two of them:

Buddhism: All is illusion, all is awareness.
Christianity: Choose love through good and bad.
Islam: ????

Any help greatly appreciated!!!!

I think your final chapter should be the means to sum up how all of these religious cultures are rooted in similar origin, if you are able.

I would also not use Sufism to describe Islam, as Sufism is far more ancient and could possibly be closer to the roots of origin than any of these other religions.

I also think that to properly portray these religions one should be using their sacred texts to sum up their belief structures, and not the commentaries of them via man's opinions.

Otherwise your book will be just a commentary on commentary rather than a summation of the actual creeds of those religions.

[GentleReckoning]

I'm well versed in Christianity, and have a good grasp on Buddhism however I'm quite unfamiliar with the teachings of Ra through Islam.

Could anyone recommend some good summaries of the spiritual side of Islam?

I'm thinking my book will have 4 sections based on reality, and three on how to react to reality.

I already know two of them:

Buddhism: All is illusion, all is awareness.
Christianity: Choose love through good and bad.
Islam: ????

Any help greatly appreciated!!!!

I think your final chapter should be the means to sum up how all of these religious cultures are rooted in similar origin, if you are able.

I would also not use Sufism to describe Islam, as Sufism is far more ancient and could possibly be closer to the roots of origin than any of these other religions.

I also think that to properly portray these religions one should be using their sacred texts to sum up their belief structures, and not the commentaries of them via man's opinions.

Otherwise your book will be just a commentary on commentary rather than a summation of the actual creeds of those religions.

Well, I'll just be using them as examples of how manifesting is accomplished. If my intuition is correct, there will be four chapters on reality, then 3 chapters on how you use the teachings of these three major religions to correctly respond to reality with each religion offering very valid lessons for creating your reality.