Peace be upon you!
My name is Said Mirza and I am married and living in USA. I have been a Qur'an alone follower for the past 6 years.
I was born and raised in a Sunni household in Karachi, Pakistan. I did not really think much about the Islam I learned from the elder and just did the five daily prayers more or less till I turned 19.
At 19, I enrolled in a university in the U.S. and stopped practicing Islam. When I graduated from college, while working, I had an existential crisis and really started questioning the point of life. I started looking into my own religion for answers. Having read a lot of hadiths, God guided me towards the Qur'an. I came across an article about the Kaaba being a stone idol and I realized that it, indeed, was a stone idol. After that, I really looked into the Qur'an and realized that the Qur'an is condemning the Muslims! I tried to tell my relatives but they all thought I was nuts. I then decided to stop worrying about this stuff and got on with my life.
I got married and had kids. Life was good but I still had a nagging doubt about the futility of life. God, in His mercy, guided me again and I came across Sam Gerrans' videos and his translation of the Qur'an. He answered a lot of questions I had regarding salaat, zakaat, Hajj etc. and I realized that the religion of Islam was made up and was skillfully attached to the Qur'an!
I then decided to dedicate myself to serving God alone and studying the Qur'an very carefully and diligently. I have worked with Sam for a number of years and built the Reader website to help students of the Qur'an in their journey as well. Apart from that, I have written four books on various subjects which I think are a good on-ramp for someone new to the Qur'an. I also have a Youtube channel where I post regularly.
I have create this forum as a place where believers in God and the Last Day can come together. As God says in the Qur'an:
Thus, we congregate here as brethren to help and assist each other in good deeds.
Let us begin then, in the name of God.
My name is Said Mirza and I am married and living in USA. I have been a Qur'an alone follower for the past 6 years.
I was born and raised in a Sunni household in Karachi, Pakistan. I did not really think much about the Islam I learned from the elder and just did the five daily prayers more or less till I turned 19.
At 19, I enrolled in a university in the U.S. and stopped practicing Islam. When I graduated from college, while working, I had an existential crisis and really started questioning the point of life. I started looking into my own religion for answers. Having read a lot of hadiths, God guided me towards the Qur'an. I came across an article about the Kaaba being a stone idol and I realized that it, indeed, was a stone idol. After that, I really looked into the Qur'an and realized that the Qur'an is condemning the Muslims! I tried to tell my relatives but they all thought I was nuts. I then decided to stop worrying about this stuff and got on with my life.
I got married and had kids. Life was good but I still had a nagging doubt about the futility of life. God, in His mercy, guided me again and I came across Sam Gerrans' videos and his translation of the Qur'an. He answered a lot of questions I had regarding salaat, zakaat, Hajj etc. and I realized that the religion of Islam was made up and was skillfully attached to the Qur'an!
I then decided to dedicate myself to serving God alone and studying the Qur'an very carefully and diligently. I have worked with Sam for a number of years and built the Reader website to help students of the Qur'an in their journey as well. Apart from that, I have written four books on various subjects which I think are a good on-ramp for someone new to the Qur'an. I also have a Youtube channel where I post regularly.
I have create this forum as a place where believers in God and the Last Day can come together. As God says in the Qur'an:
Thus, we congregate here as brethren to help and assist each other in good deeds.
Let us begin then, in the name of God.
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