TheHumbleWun
Banned
William Abdullah Chappelle addressed an interesting topic. It is a good reminder to myself and inshallah for you as well. I undoubtly agreed with his statement:
Where Muslims respect Christians and Jews more than they respect their own Muslim brothers and sisters. We have to get away from that thinking, and that is until we get away from that thinking the unbelievers will keep us down.
Believers are urged to treat everyone with equal respect, not to have a different standard of conduct for people of other faiths until they have respect for their own community first.
Sura (5:51) - "O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people."
This does NOT mean that Muslims should not act friendly towards nonbelievers, but we have stand up and respect our own people before we respect them. Todays youth has grown more "Westernized," thus, taking nonbelievers as close friends and companions and disrepecting our own brothers and sisters. We need to change this mentality before we become reckless!
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Every tree is made up of wood. A tree is differentiated by its fruit, and people are differentiated by their piety.
Where Muslims respect Christians and Jews more than they respect their own Muslim brothers and sisters. We have to get away from that thinking, and that is until we get away from that thinking the unbelievers will keep us down.
Believers are urged to treat everyone with equal respect, not to have a different standard of conduct for people of other faiths until they have respect for their own community first.
Sura (5:51) - "O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people."
This does NOT mean that Muslims should not act friendly towards nonbelievers, but we have stand up and respect our own people before we respect them. Todays youth has grown more "Westernized," thus, taking nonbelievers as close friends and companions and disrepecting our own brothers and sisters. We need to change this mentality before we become reckless!
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Every tree is made up of wood. A tree is differentiated by its fruit, and people are differentiated by their piety.