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Everyone is welcome to join TalkAboutIslam.com with the intent to explore and learn about Islam, share and contribute what will benefit all of us in the light of Qur'an and Sunnah which is our main objective.
Registering in TalkAboutIslam.com with incorrect info, such as gender or location, will result in the suspension of membership.
You need to regularly check that your email is working, and that mail sent to you through TalkAboutIslam.com is actually being received in your mail box.
Bounced back mail, for example because your mail box is full (over quota), or for any other reason, will result in the deletion of your membership.
Islam will be respected. This means no slander against Allah, all Prophets of Islam, Prophet Muhammad and the Prophet's companions.
Praising, arguing in favor of, or providing any links to terrorist sites that allow killings of innocent people are strictly not allowed. Violators will be banned immediately without delay.
Supporting zionism, nazism, occupations and imperialism are not allowed.
Discriminating based on race, color, or ethnic background is not allowed.
No personal insults, racial slurs and swearing. No foul languages against the Admin, TalkAboutIslam.com Moderators or other members.
TalkAboutIslam.com aim is to show and share with its members the great values of islam, especially those that show how nice and easy it is to follow the rules of islam. More often than not, Islamic issues get more than one ruling. We encourage you to implement the easier of them. If you persistently propagate the hardest of them, you will be temporary suspended from posting. Subsequent behavior will terminate your membership.
TalkAboutIslam.com officials are not necessarily scholars of Islamic knowledge, but they CAN help you with any questions you have. Their rankings only mean that they are good in administrative skills.
TalkAboutIslam.com will not permit the posting or discussion of any ruling of issues that had been clearly mentioned in the Quran. Fatawa and human rulings are limited only to those issues that had no clear ruling in the Quran.
Political discussions are only allowed in our 'World Hot Topics' forum. Members posting politically-related topics or posts in any other forum will be suspended.
Discuss topics only where those topics fit. Members who discuss such topics in public forums will have their posting rights disabled temporarily or definitely.
A warning system is implemented throughout all forums. It is used by moderators to increase/decrease your warning level as well as apply timed suspending actions, upon any violation of these rules. It is best to accept our mod's decision, and try to abide to forum rules, this usually results in the decreasing your warning level back to normal (0%). If a member tries to challenge those actions by re-registering under a different name, the member will be logged and banned completely from all forums.
Only English language can be understood by all of our members and visitors. The only exception to this is when you need to provide proof from an "arabic text" or script such as the Quran or Hadeeth. Please avoid Slang English and type only in proper spelling.
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Carefully choose a suitable forum for any topic you intend to start.
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TalkAboutIslam.com does not welcome people who join us only to proselytize their own beliefs and ideas.
Any image or text that maybe interpreted as a violent call might be removed immediately.
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Avoid choosing a username that is, or part of, a profane word, sexy or inspiring of any ill-feelings or that is Islamically unlawful. If you did so, kindly PM an admin to change your username with an acceptable one.
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Do not (stalk) or otherwise harass any members; collect or store personal data about other user's photo or addresses at TalkAboutIslam.com.
Please refrain from typing huge letters in order to get your message through.
Do not fall into the trap by saying, [Islam says this or that..] based on the actions of an individual or group without any reference to Quran and hadith. In more cases than not, this behavior constitutes blasphemy and/or slander against Allah & the Prophets. If you do not have an extensive amount of knowledge to explain the actual meaning of a verse or hadith when asked, then please do not bother to post. If you have an opinion, you have to present this in a reasonable fashion, with evidence to back up your claims. This will allow us to look into the matter objectively and minimize the amount of flaming emotion. However, if you wish to ask something which you do not understand, then post your message across. For example, [Is it true that Islam allows (...) because it says (...)] = write it in a manner of questioning, is preferable.
No (tell tale). Example: saying comments such as (why did so and so get banned and so and so did not?)
No flamers. This is a considered a very serious disruptive act.
Non-Muslims and disbelievers are welcomed to join TalkAboutIslam.com, and welcomed to explore and learn about real Islam. . If judging from the posts you make on our forums, our moderators team determines that you came to distract, confuse or waste our members' time, for example by creating issues of little reference, or importance, to what Islam really is, our team might immediately suspend your membership. Even when a member is banned, he or she still enjoys "reading rights". Those will always be there, so that he or she always have the chance to learn about Islam.
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First and foremost, the administrators and moderators of talkaboutislam.com are by no means established scholars of islam. We are just regular people like you, and we do not pretend in any way to represent "the Charia", the Law, or the commandment of Islam.
Every single moderator is responsible, legally and morally, of his or her own words. The administration of talkaboutislam.com insists that moderators be NOT considered as an authority in islam or a valid source of jurisdiction.
Admins and TalkAboutIslam.com Moderators are rigid of member's postings to ensure that our goals and objectives are met.
New topics and replies that have little or no relevant importance to our legacy along with replies that indicate attacks may be edited, deleted or permanently closed without prior notice.
Moderators have an option to either send you a Private Message or briefly inform you and other participants in the thread why such actions were exercised. You may send the moderator who handled the thread, a Private Message with intent to resolve your case. Antagonistic approach does not deserve a response. Decisions by individual Moderators may be reversed. However, everyone's time is valuable and we do not want to waste neither your time nor that of ours. Violations of the above rules precede with an immediate warning.
Attempts to ignore our advice will results in various actions that will limit your rights in postings or access to other benefits provided by TalkAboutIslam.com. As such, persistent abusers may face a permanent ban.We, at TalkAboutIslam.com, kindly request your cooperation.
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Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary.
You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use talkaboutislam.com's forums to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. You agree not to post any illegally copied material.
Parts of this text are adopted from gawaher.comFinal note: The administrators of talkaboutislam.com reserve the right to modify any part of the above document at any time, and such changes need not be announced to all the members who signed up on our website and forums. The above text, very much like any other announcement made by the administration of talkaboutislam.com, may be modified at any time for any reasons the administrators deem in the interest of talkaboutislam.com[/]
