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Fariha Jamil

Fariha Jamil — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Nice one.

Just to add a little bit more, I would like to tell you that the ”hitting oneself” activity is actually not a part of Islam. It was later introduced by a particular group ”Shia” to remember and honor the martydon of the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him). However, lamenting or beating onself is prohibited in Islam.

Secondly, Islam teaches us that all are equal in Islam and it has given much stress to equality all. Particular stress has been given to the rights of slaves, in the words of Prophet (PBUH),

”Take care of your servants, feed them what you eat yourself, clothe them with what you wear yourself...”

All these religions you have mentioned are called Abrahamic religions and according to Muslims, all these prophets are true and our faith is not complete if we do not beleive in any single one of them. They also brought the same message of God to worship one God and goodnes of mankind...

Bijoy

Bijoy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

As your name suggest and I presume you are a Muslim and therefore you have the in-depth know how about Islam. I am a novice and if any way I wrote something offending, I do apologize. And yes, for letting me know the thins which I wants aware of.

I do appreciate your stance.

OKILE MOSES EBOKORAIT

OKILE MOSES EBOKORAIT — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Bijoy you have a kind of mind that most of us should have. It’s extremely important to look closely at something before we jump into criticism.

Islam is one faith that swept the pre-Muhammad pagan Arabia of her feet.

Remember the history of Arabs a lot rotates arround i dol worship, gambling, drunkeness, adultery, socery, mudering and burrying of infant girls alive and any kind of evil you can name.

But the coming of Muhammad with the teaching that discouraged all these yet emphaside evey body to worship One GOD and at the same time tackling the social imbalance for instance teaching that the wealthy were equal to the misers in the eyes of GOD was something truely extra ordinary.

Imagine someone telling Bush to sit and eat on the same place with a poor Indian or African.

Islam taught equality of human being and and in otherwords declared human right before the UN, USA was ever thought to come to think of it.

Remember Muhammad was a man who never saw a class room black board like we have.

Yet this very man taught us trade and commerce which we very much study and aquire degrees.

In short Islam is a challenge to humanity because it carries all the basic facets of life. Take more time anf research on it. Thanks for a nice article Mr Bijoy.

Bijoy

Bijoy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Well I am at loss of words. Your comment was indeed an eye opener for me in the sense that I came to know many things which I wasnt aware of. And yes, thanks a million for suggesting me to do a research on it which I will do in due course and may be then I would come with a new article on Islam.

Bijoy

Bijoy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Well I am at loss of words. Your comment was indeed an eye opener for me in the sense that I came to know many things which I wasn’t aware of. And yes, thanks a million for suggesting me to do a research on it which I will do in due course and may be then I would come with a new article on Islam.

Hassan Rizvi

Hassan Rizvi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Bijoy,what a truly observant blog!What you have identified are the strengths and weaknesses of Islam today - it’s most fundamental uplifting and dejecting elements-it’s most basic unifying and divisive forces.

As we all know any society is given it’s momentum by it’s leaders.Human society through out history has generally had two types of leadership- the political and the spiritual.The first is based on the principle of might is right and the second on the principle of right is might.Generally the second principle is an ideal for most of us,but few have been successful at it’s actual implementation at national or international levels.It remains an Utopia.

Muhammad is the only man in history who was supremely successful within his own lifetime in proving that right is might.

He started as a helpless orphan amidst a pathetic,ignorant and most abject of nations of the time.Without out ever establishing a standing army,a police force or even a treasury;these he distrusted as standard elements of political power used for oppression and corruption of people.The principles he advocated were so superior that in a couple of dozen years entire Arabia was united under his banner-and the momentum was such that within the next forty years the lowly Arabs had laid low the two political super power of the time- Rome and Persia.

The spritualism of Islam centred around acts like the one you saw - where the richest leather merchant of the town was eating from the same plate as the poorest- had proved it’s strength.

But we all know that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.After the defeat of the Romans and about the time of the invasion of the Persia;Muslim leaders forgot the prophets main lesson and started to adopt the ways of the political and Imperial powers they had defeated -lavish palaces;standing armies;state treasuries;police forces;intelligence agencies-the lot.

The seeds for a shift of Islam’s perspective from a spiritual to a political and material force had been laid.Standard instruments for state terrorism -against other nations - as well as own people were back in place.Today in Pakistan we are all to well aware of how rulers manipulate these to their own advantage.

And that brings me to your second observation.The Muslim leaders shift from honoring spiritual to material values was such,that at about the time these standing armies were established a Muslim ruler made use of one to slaughter in a most gruesome manner the entire family -including children -of the very prophet whom they professed to follow.A family whom they had been ordered to ask for God’s blessing in each of their five daily prayers - an order which most surprisingly all Muslims follow even today.

Yet to their credit,when the real facts became known-mainly through the efforts of the captives after the battle as they were paraded through the cities en route to the capital; a tremendous hue and cry arouse which resulted in the decimation of the ruling Ummayaid dynasty which had been the cause for this crime.This was the first example in Muslim history of the power of the people once it is aroused against an unjust tyrant.

Ever since each year you see this intense mourning and grief as an act to commemorate and keep alive the memory of that event.It is thus the most visible event manifesting the split between the spiritual and political aspects of Islam - and has naturally also become it’s most divisive one.