User talk:Azhar Mehmood
End Time
[edit]Hello Azhar Mehmood. I had several issues with your edit at End time which I mentioned in my edit summary. First, you placed it as a subsection under Norse religion. It's clearly not part of the Norse system. Second, while I don't claim to be an expert in religion, especially Islam, your section appears to me to be about Islamic end time events. There is already a section for that on the page. If your edits represent a different view within Islam then it needs to be part of the Islamic eschatology article and only summarized here. If this "Religion of God" represents a distinct religious movement then it needs its own section and given that it would appear to be a pretty obscure religious group would still need to cut down in size in order to fit better with the rest of the article. Finally, while I didn't mention this in my edit summary, the tone of your edit comes across more as proselytizing or sermonizing than it does encyclopedic which would need to be fixed as well. SQGibbon (talk) 17:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
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Sufism
[edit]Hello Azhar Mehmood. Just so you know, my name is not actually Mr. Gibbon — my user id is just letters chosen at random and shuffled to get something that is pronounceable. 1) The first line of the Sufism article reads "Sufism or taṣawwuf (Arabic: تصوّف) is the inner, mystical dimension of Islam". Your claim is that Sufism predates Islam, if this is true then the article needs a major rewrite since it is built on the assumption that Sufism exists as a part of Islam. In that case you need to discuss your proposal on the Talk page for Sufism. 2) The article is specifically about Sufism as practiced within Islam whereas your contribution is about spirituality in general and therefore does not belong. Again, if you feel the two are equivalent concepts then that first needs to be discussed on the Talk page. 3) Finally, and most troubling, you seem to be using Wikipedia to promote a specific religious belief you hold (which is a point I made before). If this is not the case, I apologize, but looking through most of your edits it certainly seems to be true. Obviously Wikipedia is not the place for promoting any belief system. SQGibbon (talk) 17:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
- Again, your rationale for the edit runs counter to how the article stands now, so it would be best to discuss it on the Talk page first. Also, you rhetorically asked the question "if the information on Wikipedia is not truth then what's the point.". Wikipedia is not actually about the truth, what it aims for are well-sourced claims from reliable sources from a neutral point of view. If these things are the truth then great, but that's no why we're here. It's helpful to read this essay WP:Truth. And while Wikipedia does want to have many different points of view, we must careful to not apply WP:Undue weight on any of them. For instance, your views on Sufism seem to be in very small minority and it's not clear to me that they are significant enough to warrant inclusion in that article. Here's a quote from that Jimbo Wales "If a viewpoint is held by an extremely small (or vastly limited) minority, it does not belong in Wikipedia regardless of whether it is true or not and regardless of whether you can prove it or not, except perhaps in some ancillary article." But if you feel they are significant enough then I suggest taking it to the Sufism Talk page first and try to build a consensus. SQGibbon (talk) 05:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
The Allah article is semi-protected, meaning that only users with at least 10 edits and at least 4 days old user account can edit the article. At the time you wrote the question your user account was only 3 days old. Now you should be able to edit the article. --Jhattara (Talk · Contrib) 05:36, 6 May 2010 (UTC)