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  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

20 Questions

How can one control bad thoughts that may come to mind from time to time?
Zoheir Ali Esmail

Bismillah

Thank you for your question. The mind is a complex discussion as the thoughts that you hear in your mind have roots in other aspects of your personality. There are also outside influences that can affect your mind. When it comes to bad thoughts, the most effective strategy to ignore the thoughts, especially at the time. If you don't do this thinking over the thought, inadvertently causes more damaging thoughts and a person can get into a mess.

When the thoughts have silenced, you can think about the traits you need to work on. But try your best not to hold onto any negative thought. Rather, use them as signs to work on what is beneath them. If a thought is completely uncharacteristic of yourself, ignore it completely.

May you always be successful
How does one get rid of the accumulated filth or idols from the past that come to one's mind and haunt him from time to time?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Repeating Istighfaar ( seeking forgiveness) is very useful to clean the heart and the mind from the filth of sinful acts. Istighfaar is always useful especially when you are alone, and during the night, and during prostration ( Sojood).

Remembering our previous sins can make us feel sorry and seek Istighfaar more.

We should never wish to repeat the wrong which we committed, but repent and repeat Istighfaar whenever we r ember it.

Wassalam.
What is Islam's position on solipsism, a philosophy that doubts the existence of everything except the mind and says that only the mind exists in reality and everything in the world is perception?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Every idea or claim must be assessed by its origin and compatibility with the basic logical and rational principles. The claim of solipsism is based on a doubt created by person or persons who try to run away from the realities of life to claim doubt. They doubts their own existence and the existence of others. How can we accept a claim from persons who doubt their own existence?

Simply, we don't believe in any claim or philosophy which is not based on the true realities of life. All realities of life are mentioned in Quran and Hadeeths and any things goes against these realities can never be accepted.

Philosophy is a way of thinking which needs to be guided by the facts of life best known by The Creator of Life, and not just by the imaginations. Unguided philosophy misleads, while philosophy guided by Allah's messages leads to the Truth.

Wassalam. 
Can we believe the predictions of an astrologer keeping in mind that everything happens with Allah's will and their prediction is not final?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

We are not allowed to believe in the predictions of astrologers, as many of them are not true despite the fact that they some times say right. The Hadeeth says: Astrologers lie even if they say the truth sometimes. كذب المنجمون ولو صدقوا

If we believe in the astrologers, it means that we believe that they know the unseen, which is wrong.

Wassalam.