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Originally Posted by Archaea
Forgiveness is not as deep in Islam.
Reading the Qu-ran, one senses a deep sense of loss, because love and compassion are not at Islam's core. Now I imagine Mindful will try to argue otherwise, but in reading the Qu-ran, one does not feel peace or love, but tension.
Forgiveness in Islam is very, very conditional. If one is not a disbeliever, if one hasn't caused other to disbelieve, and so on ....
It is no wonder Muslims have trouble forgiving as their religion doesn't seem to encourage it.
There is no real redemption or day of Atonement where one tries to reconcile with God. That is the emptiness I feel when studying Islam, no love.
Here is a discussion which makes it sound very ritualistic and unreasonable to expect forgiveness:
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well...reading Quran and embracing the true meaning are totally different storeis . but seeing your passion toward forgiveness and love ,arouses a question here " would you pardon Bin Ladan"? or better to say "are you allowed to pardon Bin Ladan?"