People who want their religious leaders to be respected

[Submission_To_Peace]

In the name of Allah (swt) the most merciful and gracious.

To clear my humble views on this subject, I would like to share the following hadith:

Some Muslims who had not yet fully accepted the values of Islam in their hearts and minds, started to blame Ikrimah for what his father had done. But the Prophet rebuked them by saying that ‘‘cursing your own mothers and fathers is one of the big sins.’’ [3] When they asked how people can curse their own parents, he replied: ‘‘If you curse someone else’s parents, they curse your parents. Thus it is like cursing your own parents.’’[3] Muslim: lman 145

In real life and online some people unintentionally try to degrade the religious leaders of some other belief system, without realizing that they are actually giving a chance to their opponents to degrade their own religious leaders.

Let us follow the sunnah of the Prophet (saw) by not ridiculing any person in particular but keeping their honor and dignity by only conveying our point in a generalized manner, even if we want to convey our views to a specific person to sincerely correct them. May Allah (Swt) bless us to respect other people’s religious leaders so that they also respect in return our leaders, thus making it easy for us to come to common terms and develop understanding and sincere search for the ultimate truth.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

[Faris_Udeen]

Jazaak-Allah brother some good points you’ve raised.

So basically i’m to stop calling Mrirza Dajaal?

And stop chucking out insults at the leaders of other faiths who insult ours?:o

Very well if that’s what i have to do to keep the moral high ground then so be it!

As every soldier knows it’s always important to take the high ground, if you want to win the battle.

However there is the question here, what if you didn’t start the game first?

What if someone else declared "war"on your faith first, my mentality has always been along the lines that if someone slaps you, you beat ten hells out of them.

Of course from experience, this gets me into trouble, the laws of man say that if your slapped, you can only slap back right?

What i tend to do is to chop off the slapping hand, now in the laws of man thats wrong. But look at it this way if your the small man and the opponents are basically huge then chopping off thier hands becomes a neccasity.

Anyway before cooking up another philosophical debate, i’ll just say that may Allah guide us all to whichever path is right.

As for my leader bashing, let me just say that i’m going to limit it. However i will employ the three strike system, i’ll give others a chance to insult my faith once. I’ll ignore it the first time. I’ll try and be pursuasive the second time and tell them to quit it. The third time i’ll strike back with my own retorts…

No holds barred!

Allah bless you brother. You’ve definately raised some serious points.
By the way i’m actually a fan of Ikramah’s bravery in his later years. At Yarmuk he did not retreat, or surrender, he died while the rest of the Muslim army withdrew from the fight.

His brave stand with his son and 400 troops held off an army of over a 100,000 byzantines for almost one hour. True his command was wiped out to a man, but in doing so he set an example comparable to Leonidas’s stand of 300 spartans. Except what made Ikramah’s fight more impressive was that he fought on level ground with no cliffs on the flanks so his force was totally isolated and surrounded. Unlike the Spartans who held a defile at the pass ofThermopalaye.

[Bigboi]

Re: People who want their religious leaders to be respected

then what are you doing here in the Internet? Go and kill the Israelis, get 'em out of Iraq, Afghanistan