One can notice how, oftentimes when Christians are confronted with the fact that Muslims are actually the ones striving to look, eat and worship like Jesus/Isa (a.s), that they retort exactly with what he Luther mentioned regarding "external appearance".
Christian: "Oh you see, looks and outward worship aren't that important but it's the belief in the heart, that is important."
And then you hear their proto-Murji`i, sola fide-type of "belief" explained to you...
>I'm not so sure that the "rituals" argument is a strong one, since Islam places emphasis on "external rituals" as well.
Yeah, that is the point.
>He believed that Christianity had for so long been led astray by papal innovations that Christians were duped into thinking external appearances (rites, piety, customs, etc.) were the marks of true religion. So when a Christian accustomed to the papal religion encountered Islam whether as a prisoner, slave, or free person they became mesmerised by the great display of religiosity.
Essentially, Martin believed external practices weren't actually important or marks of religiosity, and that Catholics had started believing tte contraty due to the papal deviancy and innovation. As such, due to the Catholics placing importance on external rituals, they were attracted to the Muslim way of life since it had even more external rituals of that sort.
Yeah, I get that. But I just don't think it's a good explanation, since a Christian could have easily embraced Catholicism if he were solely/primarily driven by external displays of ritualistic worship. I'm not discounting this possibility completely, just raising questions about it.
Honestly, I have noticed quite a bit of what could perhaps be called "spiritual envy" coming from people of other faiths, especially Christians, towards Muslims.
Many find it fascinating how much of our day-to-day we devote solely to Allah ﷻ, away from the matters of the dunya, and they wish they had that.
One can notice how, oftentimes when Christians are confronted with the fact that Muslims are actually the ones striving to look, eat and worship like Jesus/Isa (a.s), that they retort exactly with what he Luther mentioned regarding "external appearance".
Christian: "Oh you see, looks and outward worship aren't that important but it's the belief in the heart, that is important."
And then you hear their proto-Murji`i, sola fide-type of "belief" explained to you...
>I'm not so sure that the "rituals" argument is a strong one, since Islam places emphasis on "external rituals" as well.
Yeah, that is the point.
>He believed that Christianity had for so long been led astray by papal innovations that Christians were duped into thinking external appearances (rites, piety, customs, etc.) were the marks of true religion. So when a Christian accustomed to the papal religion encountered Islam whether as a prisoner, slave, or free person they became mesmerised by the great display of religiosity.
Essentially, Martin believed external practices weren't actually important or marks of religiosity, and that Catholics had started believing tte contraty due to the papal deviancy and innovation. As such, due to the Catholics placing importance on external rituals, they were attracted to the Muslim way of life since it had even more external rituals of that sort.
Yeah, I get that. But I just don't think it's a good explanation, since a Christian could have easily embraced Catholicism if he were solely/primarily driven by external displays of ritualistic worship. I'm not discounting this possibility completely, just raising questions about it.
Honestly, I have noticed quite a bit of what could perhaps be called "spiritual envy" coming from people of other faiths, especially Christians, towards Muslims.
Many find it fascinating how much of our day-to-day we devote solely to Allah ﷻ, away from the matters of the dunya, and they wish they had that.