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Originally Posted by Variable
That's a somewhat odd response.
It's not bravado so much as long experience. After a few years being on this site (for better or worse) I've seen a lot of people come and go. Lot's of armchair jihadis. So when one of them tells me that I should leave and stop bothering Islamica - I'll tell it to him like it is. He'll be gone and I'll still be here (not that I'm 100% proud of that fact). Where God enters the picture is where you lose me.
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It's not odd at all when you're a believer.
As a Muslim, we always preface whatever we intend to do with "inshaAllah" [God-willing].
Too many non-believers however have this almost arrogant air where they say "Oh I'll be here buddy!" or "I'll be a CEO by the time I'm 30" and so on. As if everything is purely dependent on their whims, their desires.
But as a practicing Muslim -- and for some Christians I've noticed too -- we *choose* our words *very* carefully because as we know, our fate lies in the hands of our Lord.
And that's how God enters the picture. For that matter, he's
always, in the picture.