Quest
09-02-06, 02:10 PM
Asalama alaykum wr wb
My brothers and sisters for a long time i have witnessed patronising attitudes from brothers and sisters, who the majority of the people deem as ideal muslims, both on the forums and in real life. Its one thing to speak the haqq, but without wisdom/good reasoning & the right intention then we have a problem!
brothers and sisters whom do however have the right intention and the aforementioned things, do not come across with condescending attitudes and character assasinate, the seekers of truth in directly those that do though having knowledge of islam .... they indirectly abuse that knowledge by not using it accordingly.
A good teacher is just one whom has knowledge, but one whom can distribute that knowledge with wisdom. those whom abuse knowledge have a massive
(lack of good judgement )
I learned that what is truely Fard is UNITY in botherhood and sisterhood, many people are quick to ridicule the short comings of fellow muslims, yet slow very slow to acknowledge each others QUALITYS .
At my friends lecture, a 14 year old muslim girl made a comment i will never forget, adding to a point i made she said "where is the love? we are so distant from each other, we dont feel the compassion the ashabiyaats felt for each other, i ask where is the love"
without this love we have 2 realise all we do is push youths further and further away from the path of ALLAH, we have to realise that when logic fails to open the mind, compassion dynamicaly opens the heart.
Many youths will practic islam if we didnt supress them with laws first.
Real dawah is in kindness, real results shine thru because of mercy.
Our nabi alayhis salam is the perfect example, when it comes 2 dawah pls take heed to his ways which consisted of many great virtues high moral excellence, but i will name Mercy & kindness for now. there is incredible HIKMAH as 2 why allah chose a man full of mercy 2 be the seal of all prophets.
Our nabi scw attached the hearts of the believers (the companions) 2 allah for 13 years, b4 allah sent down the halals and harams pls remember this o muslims when u make dawah.
many people have forgotton the reality of ALLAH (some remember allahs gufural rahim *most merciful and forgiving* but they forget allahs also shadidul aqqab *severe in punishment*)
some people have forgotton ALLAH period...this is due 2 hardened hearts and going astray, some blindly some purposely due 2 foolishness..and all the like ..but as for those who are astray blindly remind them abt allah...how can they focus on whats halal and haram when they dont even know ALLAH?.
Allah says " o man, what has seduced u from ur lord most merciful? " help these youths find the answer 2 this question b4 u tell them abt haram and halals first.
"...do u wish 2 offer me a (clear) proof against urself"
help our youth answer these questions b4 anything.
ayeesha (RA) said "Had rasoululaah scw come with the halals and harams 1st the people wouldnt have listened....."
(look at the wisdom behind why this was so)
Moving on
What inspired me 2 do this thread, is i am a person who never forgets what lesson number 6 is.....and i wanted all of u to learn it to.
I gained an intrest in islam when i met some1 who followed the code of lesson number 6.
and as u read the letter by the brother below....... (u will soon see what i am talking abt u will see what lesson 6 is ) yes its long but walahi worth the read.
His story
I was nineteen years old and I am at this moment time at a fragile state you see. Cause, all I got from my family is judging. I thought I would get better behaviour and also wisdom from the ones a friend told me about. So I went to visit the mosque.
Though I was born in a Pakistani family Islam was nothing but calligraphy on the wall. I didn’t get much when I was young in mosque except reading Qur’an and I never understood what I was reading, so my heart was empty still.
I went to mosque hoping I’d find brotherhood. Instead, straight away, those who never met me before, never knew anything about me except that I did music and didn’t have a beard suddenly started debating in front of me what is halaal and what is haraam.
I came that day hoping I can hit the nail on the head, and ask them if I can sit with them and learn the quran and the meaning of what I read at the mosque at ________. It ended that day me walking away hurt more than you can imagine. I watched the debate for a while, and then I don’t know if they realised, suddenly they mentioned any1 who didn’t wear a beard is this, or that. And each accusation hit me and it felt like my own parents were there doing what they always did, blame me for my imperfections. And yet, they didn't even pray.
I left the mosque and they didn’t even realise I left. I never went back. I thought abt what someone said about Muhammad (SAW). How he was patient with people, advised lovingly, how he even never got angry when a man urinated in the mosque, and calmed the companions down. I kept thinking about him and nearly cried cause I wish I found this in my fellow Muslims. If they just stop and see what many youths and I go through, why we lost our way but all I got is music haraam, beard is this, and so many things, debates in front of me, as though I wasn't there and I didn't feel a thing. I see they've become cold as ice.
My heart needed brotherhood, to see adaab in debates, to see that I was welcomed, to see they are patient with my faults and imperfections,
I have not swam in their ocean of knowledge or have had the beautiful opportunities of good father and mother that lived Islam or got active to spread the message.
Each day that passed after that I grew to hate my ummah. I grew to despise them and whenever I saw them in the streets, I stepped on the other side of the road. And when I didn’t, and they knew of my imperfections they would throw ayahs, hadiths instead of:
“Brother, come to dinner.”
You know, I never knew that a lot of knowledge can make people so blind, so cold, so unwelcoming but that was the case. I never thought knowledge can make a person arrogant, ready and swift to judge the imperfects of his fellow Muslim.
I found Islam but not from our fellow Muslims but after I met a Jewish who embraced Islam. He never judged me, he never accused me, he never threw ayahs about music, beard, or anything else. He just showed me. (Silent dacwah.)
I asked him why he didn’t do such things, . He replied.
“Lesson number six son. I was you fifteen years ago.”
I didn’t know what he meant, until I grew to be a man with a family and stepped out side to see a youth on other side, a Muslim youth whom I knew from meeting his parents, looking and feeling down. I got to know him from that day and as I listened, I heard the same words I have said. And remembered lesson number six from an old and good teacher of mine. ( the jewish revert)
“Lesson number six son. I was you fifteen years ago.” (people forget they were **** too, they were nothing too, they were ignorant too, they were blind too, and only when Allah's SWT love graced them did they become Muslims)
I never accused him when he was rapping in streets or when he didn’t have a beard, or when I saw him talk to a woman. I just always got him to meet me, and slowly, showed him my world. And the wheel of truth kept turning.
Drop your views.
My brothers and sisters for a long time i have witnessed patronising attitudes from brothers and sisters, who the majority of the people deem as ideal muslims, both on the forums and in real life. Its one thing to speak the haqq, but without wisdom/good reasoning & the right intention then we have a problem!
brothers and sisters whom do however have the right intention and the aforementioned things, do not come across with condescending attitudes and character assasinate, the seekers of truth in directly those that do though having knowledge of islam .... they indirectly abuse that knowledge by not using it accordingly.
A good teacher is just one whom has knowledge, but one whom can distribute that knowledge with wisdom. those whom abuse knowledge have a massive
(lack of good judgement )
I learned that what is truely Fard is UNITY in botherhood and sisterhood, many people are quick to ridicule the short comings of fellow muslims, yet slow very slow to acknowledge each others QUALITYS .
At my friends lecture, a 14 year old muslim girl made a comment i will never forget, adding to a point i made she said "where is the love? we are so distant from each other, we dont feel the compassion the ashabiyaats felt for each other, i ask where is the love"
without this love we have 2 realise all we do is push youths further and further away from the path of ALLAH, we have to realise that when logic fails to open the mind, compassion dynamicaly opens the heart.
Many youths will practic islam if we didnt supress them with laws first.
Real dawah is in kindness, real results shine thru because of mercy.
Our nabi alayhis salam is the perfect example, when it comes 2 dawah pls take heed to his ways which consisted of many great virtues high moral excellence, but i will name Mercy & kindness for now. there is incredible HIKMAH as 2 why allah chose a man full of mercy 2 be the seal of all prophets.
Our nabi scw attached the hearts of the believers (the companions) 2 allah for 13 years, b4 allah sent down the halals and harams pls remember this o muslims when u make dawah.
many people have forgotton the reality of ALLAH (some remember allahs gufural rahim *most merciful and forgiving* but they forget allahs also shadidul aqqab *severe in punishment*)
some people have forgotton ALLAH period...this is due 2 hardened hearts and going astray, some blindly some purposely due 2 foolishness..and all the like ..but as for those who are astray blindly remind them abt allah...how can they focus on whats halal and haram when they dont even know ALLAH?.
Allah says " o man, what has seduced u from ur lord most merciful? " help these youths find the answer 2 this question b4 u tell them abt haram and halals first.
"...do u wish 2 offer me a (clear) proof against urself"
help our youth answer these questions b4 anything.
ayeesha (RA) said "Had rasoululaah scw come with the halals and harams 1st the people wouldnt have listened....."
(look at the wisdom behind why this was so)
Moving on
What inspired me 2 do this thread, is i am a person who never forgets what lesson number 6 is.....and i wanted all of u to learn it to.
I gained an intrest in islam when i met some1 who followed the code of lesson number 6.
and as u read the letter by the brother below....... (u will soon see what i am talking abt u will see what lesson 6 is ) yes its long but walahi worth the read.
His story
I was nineteen years old and I am at this moment time at a fragile state you see. Cause, all I got from my family is judging. I thought I would get better behaviour and also wisdom from the ones a friend told me about. So I went to visit the mosque.
Though I was born in a Pakistani family Islam was nothing but calligraphy on the wall. I didn’t get much when I was young in mosque except reading Qur’an and I never understood what I was reading, so my heart was empty still.
I went to mosque hoping I’d find brotherhood. Instead, straight away, those who never met me before, never knew anything about me except that I did music and didn’t have a beard suddenly started debating in front of me what is halaal and what is haraam.
I came that day hoping I can hit the nail on the head, and ask them if I can sit with them and learn the quran and the meaning of what I read at the mosque at ________. It ended that day me walking away hurt more than you can imagine. I watched the debate for a while, and then I don’t know if they realised, suddenly they mentioned any1 who didn’t wear a beard is this, or that. And each accusation hit me and it felt like my own parents were there doing what they always did, blame me for my imperfections. And yet, they didn't even pray.
I left the mosque and they didn’t even realise I left. I never went back. I thought abt what someone said about Muhammad (SAW). How he was patient with people, advised lovingly, how he even never got angry when a man urinated in the mosque, and calmed the companions down. I kept thinking about him and nearly cried cause I wish I found this in my fellow Muslims. If they just stop and see what many youths and I go through, why we lost our way but all I got is music haraam, beard is this, and so many things, debates in front of me, as though I wasn't there and I didn't feel a thing. I see they've become cold as ice.
My heart needed brotherhood, to see adaab in debates, to see that I was welcomed, to see they are patient with my faults and imperfections,
I have not swam in their ocean of knowledge or have had the beautiful opportunities of good father and mother that lived Islam or got active to spread the message.
Each day that passed after that I grew to hate my ummah. I grew to despise them and whenever I saw them in the streets, I stepped on the other side of the road. And when I didn’t, and they knew of my imperfections they would throw ayahs, hadiths instead of:
“Brother, come to dinner.”
You know, I never knew that a lot of knowledge can make people so blind, so cold, so unwelcoming but that was the case. I never thought knowledge can make a person arrogant, ready and swift to judge the imperfects of his fellow Muslim.
I found Islam but not from our fellow Muslims but after I met a Jewish who embraced Islam. He never judged me, he never accused me, he never threw ayahs about music, beard, or anything else. He just showed me. (Silent dacwah.)
I asked him why he didn’t do such things, . He replied.
“Lesson number six son. I was you fifteen years ago.”
I didn’t know what he meant, until I grew to be a man with a family and stepped out side to see a youth on other side, a Muslim youth whom I knew from meeting his parents, looking and feeling down. I got to know him from that day and as I listened, I heard the same words I have said. And remembered lesson number six from an old and good teacher of mine. ( the jewish revert)
“Lesson number six son. I was you fifteen years ago.” (people forget they were **** too, they were nothing too, they were ignorant too, they were blind too, and only when Allah's SWT love graced them did they become Muslims)
I never accused him when he was rapping in streets or when he didn’t have a beard, or when I saw him talk to a woman. I just always got him to meet me, and slowly, showed him my world. And the wheel of truth kept turning.
Drop your views.