Meditation

Ervin

What are everyones thoughts on sufi and Budhist meditations. I don't know much about sufi meditation but I have done some Budhist meditation in the past and it kind of felt pleasent.

Thanks

**AhmedBahgat**

Salam mate

I found my meditation very relaxing when I ponder upon Quran, it is amazing

Cheers

Ervin

**AhmedBahgat**

Salam Ervin

Forget the Sufi sect and Buddhism, I would like you to share with us how you managed to revert back to Islam (I assumed that you are a Muslim, not that it is important what religion you follow), however I noticed that you said that your background was Christianity, so I assumed that you reverted to Islam from Christianity

Now I consider those like you to be far more stronger in belief than many who were born Muslims already, this is because I believe that changing the religion which we were born with is something that is really hard, so I applaud you if you did that, but I still would like to know how you managed to reject the religion of your fathers and grandfathers then embrace another religion

Cheers

**AhmedBahgat**

Ervin

Thanks for your advice Ahmed, I supose there are many distractions away from true Islam.

My father is Muslim from Montenegro and my mother is orthodox Christian from Serbia. So I do have half Islamic background. However religion was never forced on to me by my parents. I have gone through a stage were I was a Deist for example because Theism seemed a bit rough.

My intuition and experiences tell me that Quran is the truth and that it makes sense(after alot of contemplaiting) so I supose I am a liberal God alone muslim. So I reject sunism wich is my fathers branch of Islam and obviously I am not a Christian like my mother.

Like you know I live in Australia were its easy to change religion and be what you want to be. For example I could make a lot of friends that I don't otherwise because they are suni muslims. I mean all the ex Yugoslav community.

So I supose you have to make some sacrifices in order to be a folower in what you truly believe and in my case thats Quran alone.

Thanks

Ervin

I left out something important and thats that at times I think like a Deist agnostic. Probably because of my past. Anyway if someone somehow was to prove that I am wrong I would ofcourse exept the news as long as its based on evidence of some sort.

Thanks

**BMZ**

Ervin

BMZ, some of the reasons that I believe in God is because of human characteristics, such as good and evil.

The actual evil that I see and experience is a big factor in me turning to Quran for answers. The presence of it makes me believe that there is somone behind that unholy emotion that people project. That someone being satan. Now since the Quran mentions him I have naturaly ended up believing it.

There are times when I had doubts like after reading the aleged contradictions in the Quran that you can find on the internet. But there are muslims who have given satisfactory answers as to why are those not contradictions, the only problem was it took a while before I got the answers. Some reasoning I could have aplied my self but for some I neded others help.

Thanks

**AhmedBahgat**