WHAT is going on here?

Question

People are attacking each other, criticizing one another, judging each others faith in Islam, making ugly accusations and deciding for themselves who is a worthy Muslim and who is not. Is this how we, as Muslims, are expected to act? Have you forgotten what Islam teaches? Do you NOT UNDERSTAND that we are all at different levels in our deen, that we are all learning everyday about how Islam is and what is exected of us? Do you forget that ONLY ALLAH can judge us and it IS NOT YOUR PLACE TO JUDGE OTHERS?? I am sick from what I am seeing here and ashamed to say I share the same faith as many of you, because we are OBVIOUSLY NOTHING ALIKE. I may be far from the perfect Muslim, with sooooo much left to learn, but I am proud to say I am not at all like so many of you here. InshaAllah, we will all learn to become better people AS WELL as better Muslims.

I should clarify- I am not ashamed of my faith and that fact that I still have much to learn. I AM ashamed of those who claim to be Muslim then act so horribly. THAT is shameful and I refuse to be anything like them. May Allah guide us all.

Answer 1

thank you thank you thank you terry g!!
ive been called a kafir and a hypocrite way too many times just for being shiia. I almost feel depressed to know there are Muslims this warlike out there.
What happened to the Ramadan section..it use to be happy and peaceful.

Answer 2

I happen to agree about people attacking each other and criticizing and I sort of stay out of the R&S or this extension of it.

On the other hand I hate this word judge and how everyone says, 'you can't judge me only Allah can judge me'. This is not correct really. Only Allah can judge ones heart and only Allah will judge us on the day of judgment. BUT daily we MUST make judgments about the people we surround ourselves with and make decisions based on those judgments whether we want to continue to surround ourselves, our children and our families with some people.
It is automatic to make judgments of this type and necessary especially regarding our children. If I don't make a judgment about other teens my daughter may hang out with I may end up letting her hang out with a bad crowd just so I didn't judge?
I am not condoning calling another a kaffir though I will also make it clear that any "Islamic" answers from a shia posted to a question posted by a sunni is irrelevant and not valid to me. I won't say kaffir but I will tell you many sunni scholars do so and that is good enough for me to discard their answers. If you disagree with that 'judgment' so be it, I'd rather be getting and receiving answers from people who site saheeh material, Quran or the opinions of scholars who are sunni.
I am not ashamed of any of the people here who call themselves Muslim (though we all know some ID's are obviously trolls) even if I follow a different ruling on something. For example niqaab...hot topic on it being fard or not. I wear it, obviously I think it is obligatory...most women do not wear it, obviously they don't think it is obligatory but that doesn't make me ashamed to be part of the same ummah as them nor does it make me think they are less of a Muslim than I.
I understand the attempt at some of the sisters and brothers here when they want to correct another and I agree that OFTEN it come across really harsh. Tone and intent is very difficult to get from the written word. And as you said Terry we are each at a different point on our journey as Muslims, no point on that road is better than the other just further along. The point each of us is at on the road in no way reflects the time we have been Muslim or our commitment as Muslims.
I am a convert and I would like to say to all of you who were raised Muslim and to those converts who forgot what it was like to be a new convert. This beautiful religion of ours took 23 years to be revealed to our beloved prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and it surely can take no less for each of us to learn a small fraction of it. There are things that are hard to swallow for a new convert and that is normal. As each of us travels further down the road of our deen we inshaAllah understand Allah's laws better and come to understand why things are a certain way. My point is that sometimes it is better to make simple statement like , 'it's haram, it's forbidden, it's okay, it's not', site the source and leave it alone. If someone disagrees let it go because they may be able to site a source (rogue or not) that says opposite.

So now that I've written a book is there anyone who wants to publish it?

Answer 3

It's called FITNAH>>>corruption amougnst the Muslims, really REALY sad, and a sign of the day of Judgement.

PPL think that they can say who is Muslim or not, and by doing this, they are lowering their deen lower than the hyporcrites on this forum are.

MUSLIMS! SAVE YOURSELVES FROM THE FIRE!!!!!!

and whoever made up that DISGUSTING email the other day really should think about what she/he did, and repent to Allah SWT!

MAY ALLAH GUIDE US ALL!!!!!

Answer 4

Thank you for posting this sis, you are 100% right. We should concentrate on giving advice and suggestions, and never ever judge others. I ask God for forgiveness if I have ever judged anybody on Y!A or anywhere else. Allah SWT is our only judge. InshaAllah we'll all learn to respect each other without judging.

Peace!!

Answer 5

Hear Hear Terry. That is exactly how I feel, often I see people put others down because they have not put the correct answer, often I do not answer because of this back lash. We are all at different levels and I have said this before if someone makes a mistake please don't put them down. I have a young family and teach them to respect all people and and their views and am proud to say they show more respect to strangers/people of other faiths than people show to each other on this forum. I was once told that the answer I gave was wrong and maybe this was because I had not done haj - and not strong in my faith. I pray to Allah that he makes me and my family more strong in our deen ameen.

Answer 6

Any Muslim should know that it is 7aram to judge another Muslim about their faith, only Allah can do that. We can give kind advice but it is up to the other whose will they follow , their own or Allah's. Salam.

Answer 7

I posted an answer to this question using my other account but for some reason it disappeared. Here is my answer again.
I completely agree with you. Only Allah knows who is a better muslim and only Allah knows who knows whether I am Muslim (or Jewish) and only Allah knows whether B and I are the same person and only Allah knows whether jenn sent me that disgusting message or not.

Peace

Answer 8

As Salaamu Alaykum

I agree with you and I hope Allah forgives me for whatever I said on here that is Haram.

Ma'a Salaamah

Answer 9

Same person, has multiple IDs, give the same curse, with same words, bashing Muslims convert and shias Muslim.
Thinks he's the only real muslim, point out others as hypocrites, jews, kafir. easy to judge others, arrogant, tell over and over that he memorizes whole Quran and know many languages.
He wasn't online for about 2 months then now come again and doing the same things with what he did about 3 months ago in R&S, don't you notice it?

Answer 10

I agree with you!! Let's spread this information to the whole world!!! Let's do it! And we are not supposed to judge each other and judging is Allah's job! May Allah forgives me.