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It’s nice to venture into other people’s perspectives and I think that Blog is a really good one. But I must admit that I like living in a forum where exclusive claims to salvation aren’t dominant. In my own simple understanding, I do not think that Islam places all of mankind at the helm of original sin and therefore it is reunification with God and not “salvation” that is the ultimate goal.