Hi friends! I'm shoaib and I'm a muslim. I watched hassan's videos on youtube and found them very interesting. I found the link of this site on his channel.
Now i just want to tell all of you that Islam used to be very important part of my life but six months before i started to study islam without any biased thinking. I tried to view islam as a neutral person. Since then many doubts have sprung into my mind about the truth of islam.
I'm not here to defend Islam. I'm a free thinker and if you give me any good logical proof against islam and if i find it valid, I will accept it without any hesitation. But i'm not going to support any illogical argument against islam. My second reason for joining this forum is to find out free thinkers like me. I live in a strict muslim country where asking basic questions against islam is considered "HARAM". I can't share my thoughts with my friends or relatives because for them God's revelation is superior than logic and anyone who criticizes islam deserves punishment. I hope i'm going to have healthy discussion with all of you. 

Welcome Shoaib

Welcome shoaib.

Thanks for your welcome friends......

Glad you joined us Shoaib - I hope you find you stay here interesting, and dont get to offended by some of our views.  I know I would have when I was a 5 times a day musalman



+1 whatever conclusions you draw in the end, at least you can say you tried your best to understand both sides of the argument, without relying on selective bias.  Good on you, and let your open & critical mind bear you lots of fruit in the future 

Hello Sohaib Saab, welcome here..

Don't worry friend. I'm not thin skinned. I firmly believe in freedom of speech.

 Thank you kimo

welcome dawg!

If you dont mind me asking what country do you live in that u find it so hard to find like minded people like you?

Hi shoaib, nice to have you here!

What the lady said 

Greetings and salutations, Shoaib!

 

Welcome to hell.

Its amazing. 

Thanks for your welcome Moealharbi. You have asked very good questions and  I will try to answer them honestly.

1. If I was born in another family of a different faith, would I still convert to Islam? Or would I see my birth-faith as the one true religion?
answer: If i was born in another religion, I would probably reject islam as true religion.


2. If predestination is true, then how is it fair that some people are destined to die on another faith than Islam? How does this explain our freedom to choose what to believe?
 
answer: predestination has different meanings for different theists. For many it doesn't stop man's freedom to choose.

3. If the ideal 'perfectly good' person were to exist, and died not believing in Islam, would it be fair to send that person to hell?
answer: No, it isn't fair. Its very wrong


4. Punishment in hell is forever, try to imagine how long "forever" is.

answer: Burning people forever in hell is wrong even if they are criminals.