What do you think of this?
"The Prophet Muhammad used to prohibit soldiers from killing women and children,1 and he would advise them: {...Do not betray, do not be excessive, do not kill a newborn child.}2 And he also said: {Whoever has killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though its fragrance is found for a span of forty years.}3"
2007-07-26 14:03:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
moderation of Islam. This is a deen of wasatiyyah: it is a deen of moderation. We are a moderate community. We are between the two extremes of excess and deficiency. We are in the middle. The Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam, said, "Those people who go into matters too deeply will be destroyed." [The shaykh is an expert in the Arabic language, and he said, "those people" are people involved in "tatarruf" or extremism. That is what "tanatau'" is.] The Messenger of Allah, sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam, said, "The extremists are destroyed," and he said, "Beware of extremism in the deen." The Prophet, sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam, warned against extremism, and he did not like it. Notice that one of the things that extremism does is that it causes you to lose your rational component so that you are not able to weigh things rationally. Once you have gone to an extreme, you can no longer see things in any balanced way. You have lost that balance of the middle way. This makes you think that what you are doing is right even though it is clearly wrong to others.
2007-07-26 14:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by plain_insomniac 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad to see you standing up for a peaceful Islam. There needs to be more Muslims like you.
2007-07-26 21:07:14 · answer #2 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well basically you are saying to terrorize people a little with religion to instill fear of God in them. Well do people really want to live in fear second after second, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, I hope not or maybe this is why many Muslims are becoming extremists and turning to suicide bombings and other scary things. They are panicing and anticipating their arrival with God.
2007-07-26 23:03:20 · answer #3 · answered by unknown 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I did not know. Is that a passage from the Quran? Sorry for my ignorance.
2007-07-26 21:07:05 · answer #4 · answered by JWill 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't believe you are here spreading peace, I believe it is actually deception and propaganda. Aimed at americas wide eyed youth. Islam is not peaceful, your words and your religions history do not agree. Islam is about domination, not peace.
2007-07-27 00:41:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
well i think people get confused with al-Qaeda and Muslims........ just because this group of people (al-Qaeda) goes around killing doesnt mean they are good examples of it.
2007-07-26 21:08:04 · answer #6 · answered by Loathing 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look at the world around you! How can you honestly post such ignorant statements???
2007-07-26 22:55:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You need to tell the other Muslims, not us. You have a lot more to lose than I do.
2007-07-26 21:10:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋