ISLAM AND MUSLIMS: two different things
Islam, the word is derived from the Arabic word "salema" which means peace, purity, obedience and submission. So in religious sense it means submission to the will of Allah and His laws. While on the other hand, Muslim is the adherent of Islam, that is someone who submits himself to the will of Allah and obeys his laws, given these two definitions we can cay they are two different things, but they are interrelated!
Im not a scholar so i wont discuss about the theology or even go far into this, im just going to talk about what the world sees Muslims today and what really Islam is given the Islamic fundamentalism and Western/Jewish stands on this. But also to be a Muslim you have to follow the Quran and also the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (saw) which are the sunnah and the hadith.
In these two books, Quran and Hadith none has preached about violence, they are all preaching about peace, even when living with non Muslims, but when it comes to war, Islam has given its stands on that and Muslims are to follow these rules, so even if in war there are conditions on how to fight doesnt this say good about this religion? Even when it comes to this religion, Allah said " there is no compulsion in religion" 2:256 and at same time Allah said "the only religion in the sight of Allah is Islam"........you can choose to be a Muslim, no one will force you, no one will fight you, but before you judge Islam not Muslims learn about it!
But the world we live today doesnt recognize this, any small thing they have a go at Muslims, if today a Muslim kills 2 people the world world will talk about it, if tomorrow a US drone kills 30 people in Afghanistan no one will talk about it why? Simply because we Muslims are asleep our leaders have been westernized and we dont have media outlets to carry out our "propaganda". Dont get me wrong here, im not saying its ok to kill or when they kill one Muslim we should also attack and kill, the Quran says "Goodness and Evil can never be equal, repel evil with what is good...." 41:34
So we can see we are not taught to even fight back, but then it is true that some Muslims have carried out many attacks even on fellow Muslims, we cant say they are not Muslims, they are but what they are doing is WRONG and we are praying for them to change, this doesnt mean all Muslims are bad or terrorists! When Hitler, Mussolini and Bonaparte led people to wars which killed many did anyone blame their religion? Jews are busy attacking killing and destroying Palestinians and their land, why is no one talking, isnt that terrorism? Seriously i dont blame the media and the west for this, i blame us Muslims for not showing them the beauty of Islam for not protecting this religion. If it were our families people were criticizing we would have done something! this is just sad and pathetic!
Dear fellow Muslims it is not too late to change things, lets show the world the good side of us, the teachings of our Holy Quran and what the Prophet taught us. May Allah make us better Muslims and continue to guide, help and protect us in the best manner......Ameen
Im not a scholar so i wont discuss about the theology or even go far into this, im just going to talk about what the world sees Muslims today and what really Islam is given the Islamic fundamentalism and Western/Jewish stands on this. But also to be a Muslim you have to follow the Quran and also the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (saw) which are the sunnah and the hadith.
In these two books, Quran and Hadith none has preached about violence, they are all preaching about peace, even when living with non Muslims, but when it comes to war, Islam has given its stands on that and Muslims are to follow these rules, so even if in war there are conditions on how to fight doesnt this say good about this religion? Even when it comes to this religion, Allah said " there is no compulsion in religion" 2:256 and at same time Allah said "the only religion in the sight of Allah is Islam"........you can choose to be a Muslim, no one will force you, no one will fight you, but before you judge Islam not Muslims learn about it!
But the world we live today doesnt recognize this, any small thing they have a go at Muslims, if today a Muslim kills 2 people the world world will talk about it, if tomorrow a US drone kills 30 people in Afghanistan no one will talk about it why? Simply because we Muslims are asleep our leaders have been westernized and we dont have media outlets to carry out our "propaganda". Dont get me wrong here, im not saying its ok to kill or when they kill one Muslim we should also attack and kill, the Quran says "Goodness and Evil can never be equal, repel evil with what is good...." 41:34
So we can see we are not taught to even fight back, but then it is true that some Muslims have carried out many attacks even on fellow Muslims, we cant say they are not Muslims, they are but what they are doing is WRONG and we are praying for them to change, this doesnt mean all Muslims are bad or terrorists! When Hitler, Mussolini and Bonaparte led people to wars which killed many did anyone blame their religion? Jews are busy attacking killing and destroying Palestinians and their land, why is no one talking, isnt that terrorism? Seriously i dont blame the media and the west for this, i blame us Muslims for not showing them the beauty of Islam for not protecting this religion. If it were our families people were criticizing we would have done something! this is just sad and pathetic!
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