Muslim Unity

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Re: Muslim Unity

@chacha_Ghalib

see this is where the problem lies. each of us believes that s/he is practicing the real islam and others are following unislamic practices. and we get so caught up telling others this fact that there is very little education that can be done.

i m not suggesting that one has to follow their unislamic practices or agree with them. The best one can do is to calmly and respectfully try to tell them that in our view a certain practice is not real islam and give them our reasons for it but if they insist on it we let them be because they are answerable to Allah for their deeds and we for ours.

We can't be so light about those practices. It is not the christians or hindus or jews standing in our way, it is our own selves. We are keeping ourselves from not uniting because we hold these practices dear and don't want to study islam and find out if they were really done and approved by the prophet and his sahaba.

Here is what quran says about keeping this light and feel good attitude about those who practice evil in the name of Islam:

*****warning, Qadiyanis and other all-knowing ARABIC scholars STAY the hell **away, don't want your 19th century changed-meanings of the arabic words translation***

• 009.067 * YUSUFALI: The Hypocrites, men and women, (have an understanding) with each other: They enjoin evil, and forbid *what is *just, and are close with their hands. They have forgotten Allah; so He hath forgotten them. Verily the Hypocrites are rebellious and perverse. PICKTHAL: The hypocrites, both men and women, proceed one from another. They enjoin the wrong, and they forbid the right, and they withhold their hands (from spending for the cause of Allah). They forget Allah, so He hath forgotten them. Lo! the hypocrites, they are the transgressors. SHAKIR: The hypocritical men and the hypocritical women are all alike; they enjoin evil and forbid good and withhold their hands; they have forsaken Allah, so He has forsaken them; surely the hypocrites are the transgressors.

On the other hand

• 003.104 * YUSUFALI: Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones to attain felicity. PICKTHAL: And there may spring from you a nation who invite to goodness, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency. Such are they who are successful. SHAKIR: And from among you there should be a party who invite to good and enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong, and these it is that shall be successful.

Now, would it be smart to have people with you who do not recognize what is wrong and what is right? What is good and what is evil? That is like mixing dirty water with clean fresh water...

I personally would not want people who ask dead/alive Imams (shias, brailvies, etc.) for help on my side.