Salaam,

There are people out there defaming our prophet as a murderer, rapist etc etc. They also use the Quran to justify that Islam is a religion of savages. When people approach me with their ignorance and biggoted commments on Islam and Muhammed (pbuh), what is the Islamic way to respond? Such mean messages by the ignorant and arrogant would indeed provoke violence, but how am I to reply in accordance to Islam if a person verbally offends me as a Muslim? Please refer me to parts of the Quran and Hadith so that I can follow it. I have alot of anger stored in me because of biggoted atheists and Christians and I need to know how to respond to them in the Islamic way.

Thanks.

I know what you mean. I was walking around downtown and there were this group of christian people on one of the corners, and they stopped me and my friend and i got into a good dialog with them... it was all peaceful and stuff except they were hating big time, but just by using my knowledge and stuff and kinda explaning instead of debating, that helped... BUT

then when i was about to leave they handed me these pamphlets. One was called "Who is Allaah?" and the other "The Truth of the Koran" or somehting like that. I couldn't believe they were passing this stuff out, all that was written was crap and mistranslations and they were passing this out to people!!! I got upset and raged a bad exchange of words, drew a huge crowd, some other guy started to say something and I almost got into a fight with him. Ya, you have to remain calm, but i don't know, when they start to spread something bad about somebody elses beliefs, then that is wrong.

Kidman

Dont try a fight where Muslims are the minority.

Why does being a minority make a difference?

Common sense --- not worth answering

So if some one said to you that you are evil because you are a Muslim, you would just walk away if there were no other Muslims around?

That's sad.

What do you suggest?

See wilberhum, you need to understand not everybody is equally gifted in exlaining matters, let alone having enough knowledge theirselves to answer properly. If there's ten people constantly throwing these twisted lies and unbased claims at you, it's hard to give a satisfying answer. Look at it this way. A person that is sincearly interested in understanding Islam better, would he go browse all these anti Islamic sites and then question a brother with these things? I think such an strategy is more likely to have a difrent agenda. Either they are concearned for that "poor misguided muslim" and trying to convince him how bad his religion is; or they are just in doubt theirselves, so they start a discusion to convince theirselves they are right. For every of these anti-islamic sites, there' might be a tenfold of sites where you will find a descent answer to these claims. If a person is constantly singeling out anti islamic sources in an attempt to understand Islam better you need to question his motives.

Excellent answer brother steve.

I keep getting bombarded with prejudiced claimed against our prophet and that Islam is a religion of war etc.

How should I respond to ignorance. In the Quran, Muslims are supposed to say 'peace' to ignorants. Does this apply to us today?

Brother steve, your post was so good that I want to print it out and hang it in the wall as a means of controlling my anger against the biggots. Salaam.

I would tell them that Islam is a religion of peace and sugest where they might obtaine some accurate information. Anything non-violant.

Things are not as easy as that. If 10 people come to you and bombard you with prejudiced claims knowing well you're Muslim, then you know that convincing them is useless and they're provoking a violent response. The Quran also expects Muslims to respond non-violently, but I am looking for specific guidelines since its hard to tolerate hate in Western society.

Is it easy to tolerate hate in ME societies?

You bigoted statements are popping up all over the place.

Greetings in peace QuranStudy;
I am sure it say in the Quaran that the stronger man is the one who contains his anger.
And the time to contain ones anger is when there is extreme provocation.

In the spirit of seeking peace

Eric

Greetings in peace wilberhum;
Good reply; well said

in the spirit of seeking peace

Eric