I am here to spread the true message of Islam and I am, sure like me, all my other muslim friends are doing their bit in that direction. This is so needed in today's times specially when all sorts of media are doing their devil's act in augmenting the malicious anti-islam propoganda which only diverts the minds of nonmuslims to the wrong side of facts about Islam. It's easy to tag any write up as a piece of rant and brush it aside but very few have the guts to call a spade a spade. In my experience of the past two months that I have been here, I have met more people who have a problem with someone trying to improve the image of islam than those who are genuinely interested in knowing what's on the other side of piledup misconceptions. My point is that no matter how acceptable or unacceptable one may find the fundamentals of any religion, please acknowledge the fact that you can never know better than the people following it. Hence, when any muslim gives clarifications for something you have believed to be a part of that religion, trust and accept what he is saying instead of throwing punch lines like "WAKE UP GUYS, HOW LONG WILL YOU ALL FOOL PEOPLE" or "SO YOU THINK ANYONE IS READING WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN?". I Take it as a compliment because you give such lines when you don't have matter to combat what the person has written. If I am accused of ranting, tell me who is'nt using this space to their advantage. Infact except for a few who ask one line questions, this forum is flooding with people who are writing writeups in their questions to either protect Islam or criticisie it. Then there are those who don't write lengthy paragraphs, rather direct towards links carrying content going upto two pages. I can give my example, I used to believe that ganpati is worshipped only by maharashtrians and south indian hindus and not by others. This was strongly embeded in my mind because my gujrati firends never worshipped ganpati. Now, to my surprise when I met one who did, after initial bit of arguing, I accepted that my experience was limited. Although my perception was not really about religious practices of all hindus, this incident taught me that my perception of practices of people belonging to other religions will always remain 'MY' perception and can never be better or more than what the followers of that religion know. Like many hindus have told me this about HINDUISM: "Idols are considered as manifestation of God, just as photograph of a human being." or "For us to concentrate on God without having seen any idol or image of God is really difficult... So, to enable us concentrate on that supreme power, we have idols and images of God.." Ask yourself, is that what muslims do with KABAH? NO WE DON'T. But, this forum is full of such pedant nonmuslims who are teaching us our religion. I mean, whether it is the Issue of rules pertaining to veil by muslim women, 'Terrorism'on the basis of misinterpretted Quranic verses, Nonmuslims reading wrong versions of translations of QURAAN apart from ignoring HADITH and TAFSIR or Lies about muslims worshipping the KABAH. Most of the nonmuslims have their version of Islamic knowledge on it and expect us to gulp it down our throats as 'THE REAL PICTURE OF ISLAM", how ridiculous is that?
This is exactly why I have developed sour relations with most of my nonmuslim friends on this forum, who are busy criticising me these days through their questions. If I know what the true picture of ISLAM is it is because I am a muslim and if they have a different vision of the same due to their experience with muslisms, I am ready to challenge those muslims as well? bring them and I will prove them wrong? For instance I am ready to publicly slap a muslim who says those 'verses in question' in QURAAN are hinting towards terrorism. I agree I should not get irritated but how else do you deal with these 'I KNOW ALL ABOUT RELIGION TYPES'?.
2007-11-17
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