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Religious Skepiticism
Can we classify a Muslim religious skeptic (a person who believes in Allah Almighty, but question the authority of religion and is not always against religion, but is suspicious of some or even all religious beliefs/practices, also could also be called a “deist”. ) as a Muslim or a believer (Mu’min)?
e.g:- presumably some religious skeptics, whom i know includes Abraham Lincoln (he was born a Christian, who was deeply familiar with the Bible often quoting it and praising it, but was a skeptic who never made a clear profession of Christian beliefs.) and Mr. Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (he is the founding father of Modern Turkey, he stated that he believes in one God (Allah), but he was presumably a religious skeptic. In 1926, he reportedly saved the the Prophet’s (sav) mosque from being demolishing by the Wahhabists, by sending them the warning letter. But he also writes in one of his books, Islam as “the religion of Arabs” and that “it was founded to drag an Arab national politics over all nations”. )
Kindly explain this matter.
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Religious Skepiticism
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Knowledge is a journey, not an event. The key thing is to keep making effort, keep progressing, and accepting and adapting to truth as it unfolds for someone.
The minimum requirements for a Muslim are to believe in God, the Day of Judgement, and to do good deeds. There is nothing inherently wrong with skepticism but it has to be productive with acceptance of the boundaries of knowledge as well as truth as it unfolds within those boundaries.
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