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Tuesday, 1 June 2021

COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT ISLAM

FAQ'S Frequently Asked Questions About Islam

In conveying the message of Islam to a non-Muslim, it is usually not sufficient to highlight only the positive nature of Islam. Most non-Muslims are not convinced about the truth of Islam because there are a few questions about Islam at the back of their minds that remain unanswered.

They may agree with your contentions about the positive nature of Islam. But, in the same breath, they will say - "Ah! But you are the same Muslims who marry more than one woman. You are the same people who subjugate women by keeping them behind the veil. You are fundamentalists, etc."

I personally prefer asking the non-Muslim upfront, what he feels is wrong in Islam. I prefer asking directly, what they feel is wrong in Islam with their limited knowledge, whether right or wrong and from whichever source it may be. I encourage them to be very frank and open and convince them that I can take criticism about Islam.

In the past few years of my Daawah experience, I have realized that there are barely twenty most common questions that a common non-Muslim has regarding Islam. Whenever you ask a non-Muslim, "what do you feel is wrong with Islam?", he poses five or six questions, and these questions invariably fall among the twenty most common questions.

Logical replies can convince the majority

The twenty most common questions about Islam can be answered with reason and logic. A majority of non-Muslims can be convinced with these answers. If a Muslim memorizes or simply remembers these answers, Inshallah he will be successful, if not in convincing non-Muslims about the complete truth of Islam, then at least in removing misconceptions about Islam and neutralizing the negative thinking about Islam and Muslims that the non-Muslims have. A very few non-Muslims may have counter arguments to these replies, for which further information may be required.

1. MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY NON-MUSLIMS

2. MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY NON-MUSLIMS WHO HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF ISLAM

3. COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY HINDUS ABOUT ISLAM

4. COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES AGAINST ISLAM

5. COMPARITIVE RELIGION

6. QUERIES ON ISLAM

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to be continued....

Monday, 26 February 2018

Warning From Satan (Al-Shytan) - FATE & DESTINY

Warning From Satan (Al-Shytan)

We go back to the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH). He (PBUH) wanted to warn us from the obsession of Satan (Al-Shytan) and from the vain desires of our souls. He also wanted to open the gate of hope in front of us and not to close it so that those who believe would take every precaution and those who disobey would hang to Allah’s repentance (SWT) and forgiveness. That is why in Al-Hadith we see that a man will do all the good deeds that makes him deserve to be among the people of Paradise, but is then tempted by Satan (AlShytan) who concentrates on seducing the faithful believers and never leaves them alone. Just as Al-Haqq (SWT) tells us that Satan (Al-Shytan) concentrates his seduction on the believers in the noble verse:

<<”Surely, I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your Straight Path”>>

Ayah 16 from surat Al-‘Araf

So Satan (Al-Shytan) does not concentrate his effort on the places of amusement and wickedness where there is wine served. For he is already done with the people in those places and they do not need to be tempted any more as they have already fallen into seduction. Their lusts and vain desires have responded to the seduction and they have become helpers of the devils (Al-Shyatin) and that is why Satan does need to spend any effort with them but he focuses his effort on the people who do their prayers, the ones who obey. He approaches them by all means; he tempts them with illegal money and if they resist he will tempt them to do adultery by beautifying women to them and if that does not work he will seduce them to take bribes or to gamble or lie or drink wine.

And by that Satan (Al-Shytan) keeps on beautifying the wrong deeds to the believer until he falls into doing the sins. If Satan fails in driving man into sins, he never loses hope and he starts approaching him from the acts of worship. He for example, whispers to man to make him doubt his ablution (wodo’o) and repeat it many times. And every time man makes ablution (wodo’o), Satan would whisper to him that his ablution (wodo’) is not accepted and he would do the same when man makes his prayer. And in that way Satan (Al-Shytan) keeps approaching man from the side of Faith and keeps whispering to him until the acts of worship becomes hard on him, although religion is meant to be easy.

The main objective of Satan (Al-Shytan) is to make the acts of worship hard on the believer so that he would hate it or to make the believer think desperately that his devotion is not accepted from Allah (SWT) so that he would stop performing it altogether.

The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) wants to draw our attention to the access points that Satan (Al-Shytan) uses with the believer so that we would know it. For our prophet (PBUH) wants us to know that Satan (Al-Sytan) will not leave us until our life term ends. Al-Shytan never loses hope and he keeps whispering to us to stop our devotion by saying that we have Paradise guaranteed. He keeps repeating those words until we are wrongly convinced by his concept and we reduce our devotion and do less good things. Then Al-Shytan tempts us to do sins until we slip into it one after the other and then the writing of destiny overcomes us. The writing that Allah (SWT) pre-destined for the sinners and for those who walk away from his course and by that are deprived of Allah’s (SWT) lead to guidance.

But also those who perform sins should pay attention that the door of repentance is open as long as they live and as long as the time of death has not come yet. That is why they have to be quick in the race for forgiveness for if they do that and act like the dwellers of Paradise, they would enter the will of Allah’s guidance and He would then help them to guidance and would endear Faith and beautify it in their hearts. Allah (SWT) would change their evil into good and they would become among the people of Paradise. So we can see how the Noble Hadith does not mean that the person who performs good deeds would irrespective of his good deeds go to Hell.

Source: FATE & DESTINY

To be continued....