Re: Gentleman
Should, but does it? From your own experience, can you honestly say that the average Muslim is any better than the average non-Muslim? Does salaat and zakaat make one a better person? You can’t enforce empathy and kindness. Prayer and charity, which usually means money and not time, which is harder to give, does not make a better person. These things will make you a better Muslim, going by the letter of the law, but one would think the spirit of the law is more important.
Which again, begs the question: is a Muslim with faults higher in God’s eyes than a disbeliever who espouses the characteristics that Islam preaches but ignores the rituals?