If the truth is so apparent and the person continuouslly rejects Allaah's favours, worship other than Him, and claims that Allaah has lied - don't they really have a disease in their heart?
Despite the fact that I firmly believe in God's existence, I can't say that His existence is so apparent that a reasonable and rational person may not disagree with me. I have my personal reasons for believing, but no one else shares my these reasons (since they pertain to personal experiences). There's also no concrete proof of God's existence. If there was concrete proof, faith could not exist, because His existence could be proven through repeated trials (as would be done in scientific research). What I am saying is that there's room for this, and despite being disappointed in someone's beliefs, I can't say I would expect someone else to come to the same conclusions that I have.
When the truth is apparent to someone, yet they turn away from it. What's stopping them from accepting it, apart from their blindness towards it?
I wouldn't say that atheists are blind as much as they are unwilling to see the worth of faith, and place an undue level of proof necessary to prove that God does exist. It doesn't mean that they are unwilling to listen, either. Suppose there was concrete proof of God's existence, I am sure the vast majority of atheists would readily adopt a belief in God. By concrete, I mean something that can be proven through the scientific method. For example, let's say that there's blood on a crime scene victim, but it is minute blood that cannot be seen by the human eye. In this case, an investigator could use various chemicals to detect the presence of blood, and this process would work almost every single time (depending on the amount of blood there is - it's possible there is so little blood that even these chemicals won't pick it up). My point here is that through experiments, atheists want something proven to them; a test that they can use on their own.
The majority of the times, it was actually the non muslims who insulted the Prophets and the righteous.
I can't respond to this point, but I just want to say it has no real relevance to what I am talking about
: non-Muslims today with whom I interact.
Then try looking in the Qur'an at the kindness of the Prophets, and how their people harmed them, tortured the believers, and even killed others. Just because they said 'our Lord is Allaah.' Yet look at the patience and consistency of the believers.
That is true, but one would also expect that since believers were tormented when they were the minority, that they would be mindful not to torment the minority once they became the majority. I am not saying that the believers at any time, majority or minority, harassed non-Muslims at all.
For example, when the Prophet (peace be upon him) formed a belief in God, those around him harassed him to no end. When the Muslims became the majority, the Prophet (peace be upon him) did expect that non-Muslims leave the area, not with violence or anything, but he wanted them to leave nevertheless. I would be outraged if someone were to propose the same thing for Muslims, and ask Muslims to leave a certain of the world just because of their faith. This would be bigotry on their hand.
Do you really think they won't try to destroy our Islamic Masjids/Mosques? What's stopping them from doing that? Does their religion forbid that? Or do they take their religion as a game where you can play about with the rules?
I am not at all suggesting that they would not want to destroy Masaajid, but I don't think we should model ourselves after them in the first place. We don't belong to the same religion, and we certainly don't hold the same views. That means we can't hold the same standards. If they wish to destroy masaajid, we would be well in our right to make sure that does not happen, but we must also not do to them what we don't want them to do to us (destroying their property).
Unfortunately, I have not been able to find the answers I have been looking for, but I asked questions that, admittedly, should be pointed at the Prophet (peace be upon him) or God, because they, of course, are primary sources. A distinct disadvantage of our generation is that we don't have direct interaction with the prophet (peace be upon him), because he would be able to give us authoritative answers without having to reference either the Quraan or ahadeeth (which wouldn't make sense, since the ahadeeth are his own words).