Mrs Aida
13-10-2003, 02:20 PM
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In The Name of Allah Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
May this writing reach you in peaceful.
All Praise is due to Allah, and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah, his progeny, companions and whoever follows his path till the Day of Resurrection.
As someone who cares about the religion of Islam, I would like to share a little experience about Islam. I used to work as a volunteer at Islamic center, which dealt with the conversion of non-Muslims to become Muslims. I began to think, what were the differences between them and me? Between them and the people so-called Muslims but they never practice the Islamic way. This urged me to understand that everyone was born as a Muslim even the non-Muslims who were converting at the Islamic center were Muslims when they were born. What made them become non-Muslims now? They were like us when we were still babies. i.e. free from sins and mistakes. What are very special about us so-called a Muslim when we are behaving and reacting like the non-Muslims. Sometimes their characters are better than us who are called Muslims.
Are we lucky enough to be born in a Muslim family and made us automatically a Muslim? How unfortunate to those who were born in the non-Muslims family. Is Allah injustice to them? It shouldn’t be! Please understand that we did not inherit Islam from our parents.
We always see around us many people are striving for Islam and very dedicated and devoted to spread our religion. Like Umar ibn al-Khattab (radiallah anhu) saying when the muslims invaded Masjidil Aqsa for the first time in 6Hijrah, he said that he felt sad to see those Raheeb either Jews or Christians were very sincere and devoted to their religion but they were deviated. Meaning to say, they were doing all the good things just like good people but they had a wrong belief (Aqeedah Tawheed, view, creed). In our Islamic societies nowadays, we can see also, many groups are striving for the religion of Islam just as much as the Raheeb which were being described by Umar ibn Al-Khattab (radia allah anhu) but in the end they are gaining loss for themselves because of wrong belief/creed (tawheed)
What a great loss to ourselves. We always dream to be in the paradise but we believe in the wrong belief. Can we give excuses that we are ignorant about this on the Day of Judgment, or say to Allah that no one ever taught us about this creed. Will Allah accept our lame excuses? As Allah described in the Quran that we are given the intelligence, the faculties of hearing, seeing and etc to see, to observe, to evaluate, to search and to justify what is good and bad, right and wrong.
~ And they will say: “ Had we but listened or used our intelligence, we would not have been among the dwellers of the blazing fire’ ~ al-Mulk:10
Therefore we need to understand, what are the border line for the people to be called a Muslim and non-Muslims as not to waste our life in doing good deeds and at the same time having a slight default in our belief that make us not qualified to enter the paradise of Allah.
Allahu Alam.
In The Name of Allah Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
May this writing reach you in peaceful.
All Praise is due to Allah, and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah, his progeny, companions and whoever follows his path till the Day of Resurrection.
As someone who cares about the religion of Islam, I would like to share a little experience about Islam. I used to work as a volunteer at Islamic center, which dealt with the conversion of non-Muslims to become Muslims. I began to think, what were the differences between them and me? Between them and the people so-called Muslims but they never practice the Islamic way. This urged me to understand that everyone was born as a Muslim even the non-Muslims who were converting at the Islamic center were Muslims when they were born. What made them become non-Muslims now? They were like us when we were still babies. i.e. free from sins and mistakes. What are very special about us so-called a Muslim when we are behaving and reacting like the non-Muslims. Sometimes their characters are better than us who are called Muslims.
Are we lucky enough to be born in a Muslim family and made us automatically a Muslim? How unfortunate to those who were born in the non-Muslims family. Is Allah injustice to them? It shouldn’t be! Please understand that we did not inherit Islam from our parents.
We always see around us many people are striving for Islam and very dedicated and devoted to spread our religion. Like Umar ibn al-Khattab (radiallah anhu) saying when the muslims invaded Masjidil Aqsa for the first time in 6Hijrah, he said that he felt sad to see those Raheeb either Jews or Christians were very sincere and devoted to their religion but they were deviated. Meaning to say, they were doing all the good things just like good people but they had a wrong belief (Aqeedah Tawheed, view, creed). In our Islamic societies nowadays, we can see also, many groups are striving for the religion of Islam just as much as the Raheeb which were being described by Umar ibn Al-Khattab (radia allah anhu) but in the end they are gaining loss for themselves because of wrong belief/creed (tawheed)
What a great loss to ourselves. We always dream to be in the paradise but we believe in the wrong belief. Can we give excuses that we are ignorant about this on the Day of Judgment, or say to Allah that no one ever taught us about this creed. Will Allah accept our lame excuses? As Allah described in the Quran that we are given the intelligence, the faculties of hearing, seeing and etc to see, to observe, to evaluate, to search and to justify what is good and bad, right and wrong.
~ And they will say: “ Had we but listened or used our intelligence, we would not have been among the dwellers of the blazing fire’ ~ al-Mulk:10
Therefore we need to understand, what are the border line for the people to be called a Muslim and non-Muslims as not to waste our life in doing good deeds and at the same time having a slight default in our belief that make us not qualified to enter the paradise of Allah.
Allahu Alam.