Okay so I am Muslim..was born Muslim..and alhamduliallah for all that!
But this video caused me offense!
We shouldn't try to go out there and just *drag* thing onto here just to show deviancy and EVIL
How about we try to understand the underlying context of what we post?
Did anyone stop to think that this video can in fact be an agenda attacking
ALL ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS???..that it can be pushed out and slapped all over the cyberspace by Atheists..Agnostics..or any group that is anti-religion altogether?..it can even be groups promoting racial violence and/or segregation..such as the KKK or the White Supremacists
We should worry about *our religion*..we should worry about the deviance practiced by the people who claim to be *part of it*..for Allah's Sake..we have people who pray on a PIECE OF MUD..others who DANCE FOR WORSHIP!!!..and others who reject THE SUNNAH and take ONLY the Qura'an for their deen!!!...we got our platters FULL brothers and sisters..until we clear them off..and wash them *clean*..we shouldn't attack people and try to make it seem as if we are the perfect ones on the face of earth..when even *individually* we are FULL of short-comings and wrong-doings!..
Imagine if a Jewish man or woman came to study Islam from TTI..and they found THIS VIDEO being discussed as if it is THE WHOLE OF THE JUDAIC BELIEF!..when it is apparently a LITTLE SECT OF IT..obviously considered *deviant* by the mass of Jews..how will he/she react?!!!...he/she will most likely think..here are the people who preach egalitarianism and intellect regarding belief and practice..making a "thriving" discussion over a video which VERY CLEARLY speaks of a *small tiny number of Jews*..I can bet you everything that they will log off and never return..
I get the feeling that what is posted here about Jews and Christians a lot of times is *politically fueled*..and unfortunately I fell into that trap a few times and joined in the mess of it..but after a long and personal *thinking session* I decided that things of *this* and *other* sorts will only widen the gap between us and the non-Muslims (i.e. Jews, Christians) whom we're supposed to make da'awa to (because we are NOW and until THE END..the only carriers of TRUTH!!!)..and we have to do so..FIRST OF ALL..by being knowledgable..intellectual..factual..respectful..and just in our dealings with them..and SECOND OF ALL..by stopping the gush of hatred and biases we feel towards them due to political misfortunes committed by the most elite of the elite and the power and wealth-motivated..as allowing it to gush on and on will only drown us..and that's when we'll shut our eyes..and thus..can't even find a way OUT of the drowning!
OUR HOUSES ARE MADE OF *GLASS*..VERY THIN GLASS..DUE TO IGNORANCE & MEDIA BRAINWASHING..SO WE SHOULD THROW THE STONES IN OUR HANDS ON THE GROUND..AND FOCUS ON PROMOTING *THE PURE DEEN OF ALLAH*..SO OUR *HOUSES* STAY INTACT!!!
Before noticing the gunk in the eyes of others (i.e. non-Muslims) we should notice *the branches* in *our* eyes..and help those claiming to be Muslim but need to *act upon their Islam* as Allah Commands for them to do..so inturn..Allah may bless us and look upon us with favor and pleasure!!!
And we can accomplish that by focusing on the promotion of *Tawheed* and *Sunnah* brothers and sisters...if we feel compelled to *correct* a matter or eliminate a deviance or an innovation..we *certainly* should hasten to do that..but we should do so based on *just*..factual and credible information which relates to *the masses* of the side we're correcting...setting aside biases and hasty proofs..because we're supposed to be the people of *fact* and *truth*..as Allah (swt) Says to us in the Qura'an:
"And from among you there should be a party who invite to good and enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong" [Al-Imran 3:104]
And
"Take to forgiveness and enjoin good and turn aside from the ignorant" [Al-A'araaf 7:199]
And
"You are the best of the nations raised up for (the benefit of) men; you enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong and believe in Allah" [Al-Imran 3:110]
and let's bear in mind with utmost reverence and obedience the following words of The Holy..Almighty Allah (swt):
"We verily sent Our messengers with clear proofs, and revealed with them the Scripture and the Balance, that mankind may observe right measure" [Al-Hadid 57:25]
And
"And argue not with the People of the Scripture unless it be in (a way) that is better" [Al-Ankaboot 29:46]
And I will conclude with the following verses as a divine reminder from an All-Wise, All-knowing Lord:
"And if your Lord willed, all who are in the earth would have believed together. Would you compel men until they are believers?" [Yunis 10:99]
And
"And if your Lord had willed, He verily would have made mankind one nation" [Hood 11:118-119]
And Finally:
"O you who believe! Stand out firmly for Allah as just witnesses; and let not the enmity and hatred of others make you avoid justice. Be just: that is nearer to piety; and fear Allah. Verily, Allah is Well-Acquainted with what you do" [Al-Mae'eda 5:8]
