A lot of those sayings, to my understanding, are
I just cannot get over the fact you have muslims willingly in the IDF and doing all they can to make nice with that regime.
The most who serve the army are Ignorant. Lately we have teen forum over here just for islam , mashallah, and the knowledge is growing.
take me for example, i didn't know much about islam when i was younger.
my friends told me about this meeting for girls that was going to be in my village, and some girl taught us about us about islam. she made us all cry there with the stories about muhammed pbuh and the stories of the sahabas.
i don't know if you know it but in villages there's always rumors about people, everyone knows each other and everyone talks about each other. when she talked with us of how bad it is to talk about another,
"Behold, you received it on your tongues, and said out of your mouths things which you had no knowledge; and you thought it to be a light matter, while it was most serious in the sight of God (24: 15) "
and one of my friends started talking about someone the rest would stop her from saying it. i have such great friends alhamdulilah
after going to these meeting every week my knowledge about islam became much bigger and so was my love for islam. i began reading about islam in books and the internet, and i would actually tell others, including my jewish friends what i learned.
but not everyone was fortune as i am. most are ignorant. but after making that forum, most of the guys here fought to leave the army. some went to jail but they left. I can not be angry on them, all i feel for them is pity, for they don't know the consequences of their actions.
today i'm in a situation where i know more than my parents do. my father even told me the other day- you and your sisters are better than us.
i even preach to them sometimes about things.
i pray that it will change for the better in the future and that people here will be more acknowledge about islam, inshallah.
I am not going to post anymore in this thread since there is a lot of fitnah and I am taking the thread off focus. I apologize to the sister if I insulted her in any way. The situation, the way it was explained to me by a Palestinian brother weighs heavily on my judgement.
i am not insulted, don't worry about it. you are very angry on Israel and so am I. but tolerance is the name of the "game". they could be angry on me the same way you are on them. muslims did kill them too. there was an attack on Haifa, and that's where i study. think about that.
but how can they change their view on muslims if hate is all they see from us?
and i will leave you with this:
“This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by God! I hold out against anything that displeases them. No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims’ houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God’s covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate. No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray. Their churches are declared to be protected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day (end of the world).”
“Muslim and Non-Muslims, Face-to-Face”, Ahmad Sakr. Foundation for Islamic Knowledge, Lombard IL.
walk around with an interpreter?
