Last night my neighbor who just came from China for his post- doctoral research came to our apartment . While discussing different cultures and peoples he started discussing muslims in China. He lived in an area populated by chinese muslims for 13 years. I know chinese r very humble people but as he told muslims being very relgious and going to mosques and performing other Islamic rituals .. I wondered how these muslims isolated in communist regime for so many years survive - they r not well to do sector of chinese society in monetory and educational terms… they have social, language and political barriers which isolate them from muslim world … yet they r living nicely and simple..
And we here in modern world are fighting hating all the time - our whole aim in life seems to prove to other muslims that we r better muslims than you… we want to transpose our faiths on others… approving actions by fellow - muslims even they be un-Islamic.. creating hatred for non-muslims… we exclude humans entirely from our equation of life.. sadly haqooq-ul-ibad r last on our list…it is pity that religion have taught us enough to hate - but not enough to love each other…
Awara Badal bhee kabhee kabhee BARAS jata hay, like Degas!
Well Said, but sad to know!!!
Nadeem
Salaam,
I know as mush as it hurts to all us muslims it is the painful truth. But Bhai jaan I agree with wat ever u said accept wat u said about religion has taught us to hate not to love each other.
It's not religion which taught us that its wat we have taught ourselves by becoming so dogmatic about our believes that we don't give others or even other sectors a chance. Instead of talking over about our disagreements and sorting them out between each other we've just let hate enter our minds or fullfill our hearts with others hate. It has got to this extent that we don't even mind killing each other for our believes. I mean can u tell me where does our religion Islam tell us to kill each other, anywhere in the Quran Naoozubillah or anywhere else. So, it's ourselves which we all need to sort out before it's too late!
hope u'll consider the points and then reply.
Allah Hafiz!
*And we here in modern world are fighting hating all the time - our whole aim in life seems to prove to other muslims that we r better muslims than you... we want to transpose our faiths on others... approving actions by fellow - muslims even they be un-Islamic.. creating hatred for non-muslims... we exclude humans entirely from our equation of life.. *
Well said Degas, it seems pathetic how so many in their rush to become 'better' muslims lose sight of the true essence of islam. There should be moderation in all things, i was reading last night and i came across this quote,
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Ibn al Qayyim (may Allah swt rest his soul) stated, "The religion of Allah is centered between the rejector and the zealot; like a valley between two mountains, and a guidance between two misguiders, and a middle one between two undesirable extremes. In the same way the rejector of a thing is a loser of it, the one due to the absence of implementation, and the other due to going beyond acceptable implementation."
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Just as we are walking through this life, if we raise our faces to the sky and fail to glance down we may fall into a ditch, and likewise if we keep our heads to the ground refusing to enjoy the beauty of this world that Allah swt has blessed us with, we may walk into a pole or a tree. rueful smile corny metaphor i know, but it kinda gets the point across, i mean one must find a balance in all things, going to extremes isn't healthy, it makes us lose our focus of the big picture, blinding our sight.
*>>>>creating hatred for non-muslims... we exclude humans entirely from our equation of life..<<< *
Yeah that really irritates me also. Islam dosen't teach us hate. It teaches us humanity.In the days when the al aqsa intifada was just beginning, the week after the death of the Mohammad Durra, the twelve year old Palestinian boy. It was jumaa, the imam was giving the khutba, he was talking about Ar Rahman, the compassion of Allah swt, and how we must also strive to be so. He recited this hadith to us,
The Prophet said, "None of you will have faith till he wishes for his brother what he likes for himself." (Sahih Bukhari)
And he said, that the word brother in this hadith did not mean brothers as in our siblings, it did not just mean our brothers in Islam, but that it meant our brothers in humanity.
I just wish people would remember that.
[This message has been edited by Girl from Quraysh (edited March 10, 2001).]