South Korean Christians ordered out of Afghanistan

[USResident]

Re: South Korean Christians ordered out of Afghanistan

@Seminole

Because of shock over your opinion that God cares more that we worship at his feet than help mankind. That it is more important to hope for an after life of pleasure instead of trying to make this world a better place for others. As if he would rather you spent useless time, energy and resources to fall all over yourself praising him when you could be doing something to help others. As if God needs your praise or help instad of helping powerless victims who really need your help.

Madam, helping others is also a worship. I think you are not clear about the concept of worship and helping, they are not separate things in Islam and are embodied in one another. Helping to save someone from going to the hellfire is also an act of worship and the most significant one. Everything in this life is transitory. No one said that we should not help each other however we should not loose focus of why we were created by Allah SWT. We help each other for Allahs sake. A muslim would not cease to help you out if you are a non-muslim however additional a muslim will also try ot help you out in faith besides worldy matters.

@Seminole

I'm not talking about financial assitance, but any help that a person needs. That could include spiritual guidance, food, shelter, a kind word, someone to talk to, a job, whatever.

As you mentioned spiritual guidance, is that any different from what I had said only that its not the same thing you believe in. Are you making an argument for the sake of an argument after stating this.

@Seminole

You say you can do little to help humanity, but live your life as God has ordained and you would have achieved our purpose. I say they are one in the same. Helping your fellow man is more important than how many times you bow to Mecca on any given day.

Again you have got it wrong. Helping humanity should not allow you to neglect your duty to Allah. You can be of any faith and have not done much in your life on humanitarian grounds, but if you are a muslim in that same boat how does that make you bad. Being a muslim you are working towards making your hereafter better along with your worldly persuits as long as they are not in violation of Allahs commandments. There is no coherence in your arguments. If you have any understanding of Islam then you should be aware of the concepts of Huqooq ul Ibad and Huqooq ul Allah meaning rights of humans upon and rights of Allah upon you. So rest assured being a muslim does not mean you start neglecting humanity but you are actually trying to save them from the worst trial, which is the hellfire besides other things which are good for them. Again if you have read history you would know that during the dark ages of Europe it was muslims who contributed most to the worldly sciences and prosperity for humanity, so your argument is simply null and void about us not having any sense about helping humanity. The difference again is that we do not neglect our duties to Allah because we have set out to help humanity.

Your perception seems to be that helping humanity in itself is a religion from Allah whereas a muslims is that helping humanity is part of the religion of Allah not all of it. As you do for humanity you must do for yourself as well. Some muslims do a lot of both, some do only for themselves and some do little for themselves and a lot for others. However being on the right belief is the key to the next world.