Takumi
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SalafiFemaleJih said:
Forgive me, but I believe we should let Allah judge one's intention.
There's a famous story about one sahabi who killed one disbeliever in a war. The disbeliever said the shahadah while he was about to get killed and the sahabi killed him anyway as he assumed that the guy said the shahadah just to get away from being killed. He then reported this to the prophet and the prophet asked him, "do you know his heart?", 3 times, and the sahabi commented, "I felt that I wasn't a believer".
We should not like trangression of Allah's boundaries but at the same time, we should try to improve ourselves and gradually influence others who are close to us. This is the sunnah of the prophet. You will find in his seerah that his wife was the first one who believed in him then his adopted son and then his cousin. All close to him.
I would prefer that we come up with solutions than criticism. Criticism is good, to provide check and balances.
For example, rather than saying, "there are mixing of men and women at ISNA convention" say, "I suggest that we divide the time of bazaar into brothers and sister's time". Of course, it's not easy to control 30,000 people. But, generally, muslim ummah needs solutions.
In fact, that's how Allah works through Al Quran. An inhibition always comes with an alternative to that prohibited action. There's not one prohibition from Allah that does not come with an alternative action. Don't drink alcohol, but you may drink milk, water etc. Don't eat pork, but you may eat other meat. Don't do zina, but you may get married. Don't back bite, you may make shoora. Don't do riba, you may do sell and gain profit. See what I mean.
I've organized small events before, for about 200-300 people and believe me, it's not as easy as we want it to be. Let alone controlling 20-30,000 people.
, but I like this forum and I want to blog my experience while it happens. 
