Re: Women who wear burkas in France face £700 fine
What an apologetic tone? Non-Muslim countries are supposed to give equal rights to all of its citizens. These Muslims are its citizens. France follows a secular law and by virtue of that no citizen has to be discriminated. In Muslim countries, a discrimination must be maintained between Muslims and dhimmis. Not a moral one but a physical one. A dhimmi or a kaafir cannot be a general in Muslim army in a Muslim country for example. You want to revoke laws such as these which you of course find discriminatory?
Is their law set in stone? We cannot force them to abide by their own laws. And they aren't. Perhaps you think we should just protest and make a big hoo-haa about it. Perhaps you're even right. But shouldn't we as muslims take a long hard look at ourselves and be the kind of people who seem justified in asking for those rights? And probably even attaining them because we are considered worthy of them? So far we, the Ummah as a whole have done nothing to strengthen ties with non muslims of the lands we reside in. We have taken and given nothing back.
Is there any service set up by muslim that benefits muslims and the natives in non muslim lands. Please excuse my ignorance if there is, but in the decades of living in a non muslim land I've not heard of one. In the recent years when UK suffered severed flooding, what did muslims in UK to do help? Nothing because the areas flooded were predominantly non muslim. There have been and are many problems which muslims and non muslim face socially as a society, yet there is never a service/solution initiated by muslims living here. I’d rather not get into the damage caused by muslims living in non muslim lands.
Allah did not prohibit us from being kind to non muslims who are neither fighting us or driving us from our homes. Nor are we prohibited from spending a part of our wealth on them. Yet have we? Society has many needs. But muslims have segregated themselves and done the opposite to what Islam required of us. We mustn’t forget that all non muslim are potential muslims, and it is by strengthening social ties as part of a community that we can give non muslims a real insight into what Islam is all about. Our purpose is to invite people to Islam, not push them away. But if we only take, take and take from anyone and we will never prosper.
I didn’t in any way suggest non muslims be granted permission to participate in Islamic affairs. What I was saying is that non muslims don't even have basic rights in Pakistan muslim ruled country. Did Islam prohibited non muslims from practicing their religion inside their own home in muslim lands? In theory they are allowed, yet some Christians in Arab have even been jailed for doing just that.
But back to Pakistan. The only jobs most Christians can get are working as maids/servants in muslim households. The worst of which I have witnessed with my own eyes, was the Christian woman who used to go door to door in a muslim area with an industrial sized empty old (ghee) container tied on her back so that she could scoop **** from the old-fashioned toilets which did not flush and remove it from the houses. I don't recall Islam encouraging muslims to treat non muslim in their lands like this.
If we are suffering as an Ummah it is because of our own failings. We should not expect any good unless we strive to do good; not only for muslims but for the people whose lands we live in.
The prophet (saw) supported the pagan Makkan Hilf ul Fudul because it was created to establish fairness and justice in commercial dealings. His support for it was such that he would mention the event to the companions in the future.
We can shout all we want about ‘our rights’. But let’s not forget Islam the very religion we follow has given rights to all human beings regardless of their beliefs. We have to give and take. That is what the meaning behind my previous post was.
Allah gives us what we earn.
“For Allah will never change the grace which He has bestowed on a people until they change what is in themselves: and verily Allah is He Who hears and knows (all things).” [Sûrah al-Anfâl: 53]
Let’s not only look at the injustices done to muslims, but also at what muslims are doing by their own hands. So I do feel apologetic for muslims not being the nation Allah and His Messenger (Pbuh) commanded us to be and thus depriving them from seeing true beauty of Islam.
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