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I am Muslimby *Tyshea

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_{As a Muslim, I do not follow tradition blindly
As a Muslim, I do not conform to new age views without evaluation
As a Muslim, I am constantly self-reflecting
As a Muslim, I give charity and smile to strangers
As a Muslim, I believe in a non-human, non-gendered, unimaginable God

As a Chinese Muslim, I feel unrecognized and isolated by my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters
As a Chinese Muslim, I feel unrecognized and isolated by the American media
As a Chinese Muslim, I feel equally hated by the American media
As a Chinese Muslim, I am thankful to have seen so many different perspectives at my age
As a Chinese Muslim, I feel closer to Allah

As a Muslim artist, I do not have religious ultimatum
As a Muslim artist, I am criticized for not devoting my art to my religion completely and blatantly
As a Muslim artist, I devote myself instead to universal messages in hopes of reaching a wider audience
As a Muslim artist, I fully love and indulge in the visual world created for us by God
As a Muslim artist, I prove people wrong not by shoving my religion in their face, but showing them I am just a person like everyone else

As a Gay Muslim, I believe in love above hate.
As a Gay Muslim, I have been through constant, endless torment for simply loving someone.
As a Gay Muslim, I have become infinitely more compassionate and understanding to others.
As a Gay Muslim, I have found deeper, purer faith in Allah.
As a Gay Muslim, I vow to never let my faith put others in danger, I vow to protect others who are bombarded by blind faith.

This is me.
I am constantly torn
I am always falling
I am sheltered
I am afraid to speak
But I am insanely proud}

This was mainly for myself, to remind myself what it means to be me.
And to never give in to hate or anger.

Thanks to my friends for being the best, most accepting, most loving, and most wonderful family in the world.
Thank you for a great 21st birthday, and reminding me of the most important things in life.

Ask me any questions you like. I may choose to reply or not

[updated May 21, 2012]

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I am Muslim by *Tyshea

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*Tyshea Mar 30, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

You are totally right

~SilverSongAlchemist Mar 30, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

It's a shame not everyone sees like I see

~ARKspeed Mar 26, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Very Well said

Doubts Bring you closer to your religion, as someone said.

*Tyshea Mar 26, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Could not agree more, thank you!

~TVGJOSHI Mar 25, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Not hating here, just sceptical. But how exactly is it that one believes, devotes and acts upon something he earlier admitted as being 'unimaginable'. And how exactly does a non gendered, non human unimaginable god publish a book? ( I mean prophets are human and as you stated humans are capable of love and hate therefor good and bad, prophets not excluded ). And last (and offcourse you dont have to awnser all these questions but I really hope someone will) if you take away the American propaganda as well as your own biasses do you really think religion is needed to learn about ones spiritual self
Love

*Tyshea Mar 25, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Sure, not a problem

Well, the concept of God is very personal to me. See, it's not about the book-- that was written by a man, our Prophet Muhammad.
Islam is very different from Christianity, our God isn't human like their Jesus Christ (not that there's anything wrong with believing that. I'm just helping you differentiate because I think you've got the wrong idea)
Of course Prophets are capable of good and bad, there are a lot of recordings of Muhammad's shortcomings as a human being, and it's not something I would ever deny.
But the teachings of Muhammad are powerful. He spoke OF God, never claimed to be God. He spoke of kindness to people, compassion, humanity.
Even without the ideal of God, Muhammad was definitely a man of morality.

Religion isn't needed to explore a spiritual self, but it's unfair for someone who has never experienced the positive power of religion to speak of it like an out-dated concept.
Sure, I agree religion has it's short-comings, but what doesn't?
I never claimed that it was superior in anyway, but it's an integral part of my personal human experience.

~TVGJOSHI Mar 25, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thank you very much for taking the time to awnser so explicitely, and you are right, I do not know the exact differences between religions, I'm planning to pick up both the quran and bible to gain adecuate knowledge. However due to my lack of knowledge on the religions themself I tend to see only it's results, not what lies behind them. And from that point of view it is hard to see the good in religion. It's not as much the filosophies or morality that bothers me most but the way religion is globally used as an excuse to push trough obvious human policies. as a saying goes 'religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as usefull'. But from your first line I can see that this is not your focussing point, you point out that god is personal and I aggree, but religion... I dunno, although I see good things I fear it's ignorance, violence and power more than it's shelter could ever comfort me.
Ps. I dont have any shortcommings

just kidding, again thanks for replying and being open to discussion
I love your art btw, good sh*t

*Tyshea Mar 26, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

I understand, but that's where the media propaganda comes in.
Are you only seeing the bad because you're above religion, or do you only see the bad because that's what you've been fed?
It's not like religion is the only source of corruption either, most of the time, there's a political reason behind the people using religion in the first place. But I'd say politics are pretty important in our world too.
There's a good and bad to everything.

Thanks though!

~TVGJOSHI Mar 26, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

No you thanks, it's not often people give you a refelective and humble response when their beliefs are questioned, A lot of times people just shout very hard and then say they won, especially on the internetXD
And yes there is good and bad everywhere, therefor I tend to be critic about things, and that includes more then anything myself.
Btw, if you are ever interrested in porpaganda I recommend this docu [link] If you look beyond the obvious NK propaganda it tells a pretty good story, worth the watch.
Now I no longer wish to hold you from your art or other things,
therefor... ciao

*Tyshea Mar 26, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out!
Ciao

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