Tyler,

I do not feel any fervor or been in zeal…I am just wonder how you people could not understand what I said…

It is very simple…

Let us take as a logic rules..

Rule # 1
You are not entitled as a Muslim to ask for explanation of any thing comes to your mind because you think it is not logical or accepted by yourself.

Or because you see it as it was prohibited because it was thought harmful and then we discovered it is not harmful, then we make it Halal or permitted. It is not going like that…

I can as a Muslim state dozens of daily things I do myself without knowing why I do it that way… or why it should be done that way and not other ways. That is what we call a belief and obey to Allah's Orders.

Rule #2
Who is entitled to say for a thing is forbidden or permitted?
Allah who only stated what is Haram or forbidden and what is Halal or Allowed.
A lot of Haram stuff is mentioned in Quraan, and others are mentioned in Sunah (Prophet Mohamed’s life).

Islam, was the last religion on earth, Allah sent his prophet in Arabic for a lot of reasons.

As you see Tyler, Arabic language is very reach in meaning for the same writing script.

But how you can understand the meaning of these scripts, it is a very complex branch of linguistic, specialists in Arabic can help you in this…

Although, the scripts may have a lot of meaning but those all meaning banded under a wide concept…like the modesty you talked about…you can understand it as being different, respectable, not excessive and a lot …but all meaning in the end will give you one concept…be modest or simple.

FYI,diamonds and gold are forbidden for Muslim males and permitted to Muslims females.

There is another important rule in Islam which the closet translation to it is syllogism. "Al-keayas"

Using this rule, Muslims can deduce what is haram and what is halal in their modern life...

And this one will answer you and Ram questions about why …cars, mobiles, or any of these stuff is not Haram yet…

All Muslims know about the “Hadith” (Prophet Mohamed’s says) “There must be no harm and no harming”

I hope I succeeded in the translation, …the meaning of this speech is very simple and in the same time is very wide to include anything that may cause harm…

A lot of Islamic specialists define the harm …to be actions that lead to death ….

But who will decide if an action will lead to death…I…Ram…you…

They should be the specialists in this field…and the decision should be submitted with a keen proof

In another words…cigarette was never been entitled as Haram and forbidden 20 years ago…

However after the scientists and medicine doctors approve and provide a strict proof that it leads to death and it certainly causes death to even non smokers who sit beside you …Muslims scholars find it must be prohibited according to the above Hadith…

Look what you are doing in the WEST to prohibit smoking…I saw in England how the NHS showed a lot in the TV how smoking kill you and your family…

In France, all the subways were showing ads to stop smoking…what is the problem with you Ram …you look like a heavy smoker…!!!

For mobiles, cars, villas, etc …If you have a proof from most specialists in these fields, that it will lead you to death …then I promise you I will give up my car, mobile. Etc…

You know, in Islam…driving your car in a way that lead you or others to death… is Haram…and people who drive their cars like crazy are committing sins…

I remember one Iftaa to Shaykh Al-Baz in Saudi…if some one drive his car above the speed limit advised by the governor of Muslims in an area he is committing a sin and Allah will punch him for doing that… as he subject himself and others to death...and if he died because he was speeding he committed a suicide...

Now after this,if a true Muslim heard that what you think he is going to do...he will drive crazy because there is no traffic camera watching him...or he will remember that Allah watching him all the time...

So, as you see Islam, is not to kill you, or to prevent you pleasing your modern life…

Islam if you really understand it, for the benefit for Muslims and non-Muslims.

I have experienced myself a heavy fight against wine and drinking while I was in the UK…and sometime told me …you are lucky people …you did not drink...as we do..

The BBC and Channel 4 adopted hundreds of MD. Doctors talked about how teenager killing themselves every Saturday night…

Ram, excuse me if my previous words appeared to be tough…I never intend to be tough and do not like hard talk, however sometimes I got nervous if someone insisted not to understand what I try to explain…

Ram,I believe you are a one of the heavy smoker Muslims
May Allah help you to give up.

Regards,

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"Did ye then think that We had created you in jest, and that ye would not be brought back to Us (for account)?"

Surah "Al Mo'Emnon" verse (115)
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