I think I have been over thinking Jihad..
One bold question:
Does The Quran encourage discrimination? Like Muslims vs. Kafirs. ?
When I see around the world, I just see confusion.
Is it ok for me to be friends (not close) but friends with kuffar? (1 fatwa says being friends with a kafir (to my understanding) is like kufr..)
I just want to act like myself. Whether someone is a bad guy or a good guy, I will manage. Tbh.....
I constantly feel the wrath of Allah SWT if I ever think good of kafirs or sorry for them. (which isn't normal yeah? Allah SWT doesn't say to be all heartless to kuffar right? There are some ayats that make it seem like that..) te
Not all kafirs are evil either, they may have evil inside of them.. But I feel if we become harsh with them, we are just helping shaytaan in turning them away from Islam, right?
I mean. If I attack the PERSON for being a kafir, that ain't helping, right? Shaytaan's plan is to mislead mankind. IF I was to become judgmental and go "oh kuffar, you filth" they'd think "why would I want to be in a religion that makes people like that?"
Soo.. WHat does Allah SWT want? I mean. I am probably a munaafiq at this point.
Consider the following brother Serinity.
You are about to enter a building and a kufr opens the door and holds it open for you, do you be a decent human being and say thank you? Of course... this is not being friends.
You're at work and a kufr colleague asks you for help on his PC or something. You go over and help him fix his problem. This is being a decent person, this is not being friends.
A kufr invites you to go bowling with the colleagues after work. Do you go? You should not go. Now you're becoming friends with them and also you may fall into temptation, I have made this mistake brother.. as you very well know.
Too many Muslims and non muslims want to drive a wedge between the believers and the non believers so we will fight each other. This surely will only benefit shaytan?
Now consider the following. A kufr sees you at the park, I dunno, perhaps you're driving your RC car or something. He stops and asks you about it and you have a chat. Again this is not being friends... Then he wonders about Islam and asks you about it, by allowing him to speak with you, you've opened up a pathway for his curiosity into Islam. Allah has given you this opportunity to turn someone to Islam. Whereas if you just ignored him he may not ever become Muslim.
Think about it logically, what turns kufr to Islam? Hate? Violence? Arrogance? Impatience? No... it is the friendly, open, welcoming, patient Muslims which make people think about the religion. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck. In other words if all the kufr see is hate and arrogance towards them from Muslims this will obviously cause those potential Muslims to immediately get a negative response to Islam because they think this is what Islam teaches.
Imagine on the day of judgement, Allah swt says to you "I gave you 10 opportunities to open the door for Islam to someone, why did you reject those opportunities?" Even if you talk to a kufr about Islam and he laughs in your face and swears at you and calls you whatever name. At least you can hold in your heart that you tried. Subhanallah surely Allah will acknowledge your intentions?