Do I NEED to believe? #shorts #islam

What about you? Do you NEED to believe, or do you just believe?
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[catakuri]

sometimes i think to myself "why don't i just believe in islam anyway, i have not much to lose right?" then i realize that it's impossible to trick myself into believing something i don't believe, i don't have a choice

[marcia.eumesma]

You have the soul of a old man that went through a lot.

[deewesthill]

I'm 72. In childhood i had to go to church every Sunday and wondered why people thought it was so important to believe in "God". I thought that in a few more years faith would come to me. It didn't. Much later i suspected my parents were only pretending to believe for appearance's sake. It was social pressure. What a pathetic waste of time. 🙄

[RainAngel]

It took me a long time to stop the habit of thanking god for every random good thing, or praying for help. I hope that illustrates how deep and real my religious beliefs were before I broke out.

[dwaynetaylor]

I believe in God not religion.There is some kind of creator but he didn't write a magic book and give it to Muhammad

[Christ-my-king]

Brother I feel you 100 percent, for so many years ive tried asking out so many different women and even gotten close but it always bails or never works out. Sometimes it feels like God is taunting me or something. I see why people like to believe in a big brother in the sky but honestly I don’t think he’s there man…

[Mel.H_]

You're so well spoken, I think it's impressive 😁
I found you thru C2C and wanted to thank you for speaking out. I learned so much from those videos with Shelise. The biggest thing being that growing up in the West, I always thought that Muslim were something COMPLETELY different from the various Christian religions. After watching the first video you did, all I could think was, "Why did I always think they were so different? They're almost the same."
Very enlightening for me. So, thank you.
To answer your question, after listening to near death stories and finding Suzanne Giesemann, I believe in a higher power. I refer to it as Source or Love or Higher Consciousness.
We are more than just human❤❤❤❤

[yurironoue]

I believe in the magnitude of Bhadrakālī Amma’s Infinite Grace, Divinity and Power, because I have felt it for myself. Shakta Hinduism just makes sense to me.

[Muysc_quyne]

I think I no longer feel the need to believe anything in particular, but I do sometimes feel like I need to reflect on and give meaning to what I do.

[playinglifeoneasy]

One of the things that makes it harder to get through this process is that our language favors believers. Even our profanity is and exclamations make use of religious sentiment. gods, prayer, jeeze, The secularized equivalence just seem a lot weaker so I think this might be a language problem at least in English

[Clara-eump]

I'm sorry to hear about your salary; that's really awful.
Personally, I've never felt a *need* to believe but have sometimes *wanted* to believe. Wanting to believe isn't the same as being convinced, though.

[MrBerto]

@ApostateAladdin . Do you know any exMuslim critical scholars of Islam or Islamic history that you may recommend? If not, do you have any critical scholars on Islam that you recommend in general? For example, like a Dan McClellan of Islam? On another note, A personal question for you. Would you ever consider taking the path of academia in critical scholarship in regards to Islam? I feel your ethical, knowledgeable, reasonable, rational and would for sure flourish in that space.

[Fatima.ameen]

I feel this on another level! During hard times I find myself using self affirmation and attributing it to a higher power and it makes me feel like I transcend my circumstances.

[Tunafish]

Having grown up not religious I also get superstitious beliefs sometimes - more so when I'min desperate or uncertain situations, and more when I was younger... I think it's pretty natural, just like intrusive thoughts and stuff like that. I can see how growing up with religion would enhance these tendencies. Also, I get a little baffled by people asking if I feel the need of the reassurance of God, like, whether I want it to be true or not, doesn't change my view of what's real...

[LilySaintSin]

Searching for patterns is a very human thing.

[mariolis]

Even if i felt "the need" to believe... its not like i can choose to do so...

in the same way that i cant "choose" to believe there are 5 lights when I can clearly see that there are 4

[CosmicD]

I always think it’s funny how people say their faith is their conviction. They are convinced that a faith millions of others have been brought up with is the right one and is truth. A faith that has truth defying doctrine that everyone believes in, is not an original critically assessed conviction in my book :)

[Dijasrealmm]

Why do you start with assalama laykum??

[SK--PRO]

I watch your videos a lot Aladdin but this might sound believe in creator are people like to call god but my believe is very different I don't believe in religion because religion is human made if God really wanted us to be his worshippers then he would have said by himself not by a human name Muhammad I wish I could have explained my believes in God betterly face to face but that's not possible so just know this I believe in God I just don't believe that god is like what people think he is like they make God look so bad in religion and I don't think he is like that I do believe in God is just that everybody has a different opinion about God I have a different opinion I wish I couldn't explain it to you Love you Aladdin ☺️😊☺️😊☺️ and don't worry people have their own downfall and rise up you fall and you get up that is how life is keep working hard I believe you ❤❤

[thetruthseeker]

I cant not nelieve in a Hod that has revealled Himself to me