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Shariff · (#9 (**permalink**))

Omaar wrote:

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Salaam to all.

I would like to ask a few questions:

1) WHAT is "Ancestor Worship"?
2) HOW are we to understand or interpret the word "WORSHIP"?
3) WHO are the "ANCESTORS", and WHY are they worthy of WORSHIP?

Salaam

The Webster's dictionary defines WORSHIP as:

Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English worshipe worthiness, respect, reverence paid to a divine being, from Old English weorthscipe worthiness, respect, from weorth worthy, worth + -scipe -ship
1 chiefly British : a person of importance -- used as a title for various officials (as magistrates and some mayors)
2 : reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power; also : an act of expressing such reverence
3 : a form of religious practice with its creed and ritual
4 : extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem <worship of the dollar>

So if you're offering reverence, admiration , and devotion to something or someone and EXPRESSING it in teh form of creed and ritual...you are worshiping it or them.

If you're doing this to and ancestor, they you are practicing ancestor worship.

You asked who are the ancestors, ancestors are relatives who have died.

Other people can give thier own reason for their worship or lack thereof of the ancestors but I personally believe no on deserves worship but the Creator.
I respect my ancestors, but I worship only Allah.

Shariff

Believe whatever u like. But I will NEVER diss my ancestors in favor of some white man's religion. And I was raised Episcopilian!

I mean no disrespect but that statement pushed me to ask you 2 questions:

Why do you have an Arabic name? Why not?

Do you consider yourself a Muslim? No.

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Thought we had this conversation before? I explained that I've studied andpracticed Islam. I seek knowledge of self andYoruba cosmology is the only religion that explains human personality archetypes and why we think and act the way we do. Islam left me hanging there.

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