A RELIGION OF PEACE

Islam is a religion of peace and it teaches us to respect all other religions and their followers. History gives us many proofs that Muslims have always respected the religions of others. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said in his last summon that no one will harm the religious places of the non-Muslims, and every non-Muslim will be free to move around and follow his religion. Then, why do non-Muslims all over the world victimize the Muslims and disrespect Islam? It is the utmost duty of a Muslim to protest strongly whenever they see any offensive activity against their Prophet (PBUH), and defend their religion in the best possible way. History shows that Muslims have always been living in peace with non-Muslims.

Presently, Muslims are aggressive all over the world in response to an act of offense by a non-Muslim. Muslims are destroying public property, and even taking lives of innocent people in their rage. This is a very wrong way of protesting and Islam does not recommend us to do this, because by doing so Muslims are depicting a wrong image of themselves. Some political parties do it on purpose, as they know that the Muslims will react aggressively and turn violent. Muslims should understand the reasons for such offenses being committed, and in order to eradicate the problem they should find a peaceful solution to the problem.

The Muslim governments should take strict actions and all the Muslims countries should unite and file a petition in the UN to pass laws in which any offense against any religion should be regarded as a crime and any person who condones such activities should be punished severely. Muslims should learn the basic knowledge of Islam and should start preaching their religion, to create a better understanding among people.  Muslims should work on an international level to promote unity among the Muslim nations. Because, getting violent and damaging property are not the solutions, rather unity among the Muslims and peaceful preaching is the solution to the problem.

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Islam is a religion of peace, and it teaches us to respect all other religions and their followers. History gives us a lot of proof of the fact that Muslims have always respected the religions of others. The Holy Prophet PBUH said in his last summon that no one will harm the religious places of the non Muslims and every non Muslim will be free to move around and to follow his religion. Then why do we see that Muslims all around the world are always being victimized by non Muslims and hurt by the disrespect of their religion? It is the utmost duty of a Muslim to protest in strongest way, whenever they see any offensive activity against their Prophet PBUH. History shows that Muslims have always been living in peace with non Muslims.

Presently, Muslims are aggressive all over the world in response to the act of offense by a non Muslim. Muslims are destroying public property, burning everything that comes in their way, and some of the protestors have also killed some non Muslims in their rage. This is a very wrong way of protest and Islam does not recommend us to do this, by doing so, Muslims are depicting a wrong image of themselves. This is what the non Muslims want to do, they know that Muslims will react aggressively, and they will get violent. Some political players do such kinds of activities to put Muslims in a rage, and they will earn a bad name by doing so. Muslims should understand the reason of such offense, and to eradicate the problem, they should find a peaceful solution to the problem.

The Muslim governments should take strict action, and all the Muslim countries should unite themselves and file a petition in the international organizations to pass laws in which any offense against any religion should be regarded as a crime, and any person who will condemn such activities will be punished severely. On the other hand, Muslims should learn the basic knowledge of Islam and should start preaching their religion. Muslims should work on an international level to promote unity among the Muslim nations and bring to light the Ambassador of the Muslims. Getting violent and being destructive is not the solution.

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Hundreds of people marched in a peaceful rally from the Omar bin Khattab mosque to the American embassy in Doha yesterday afternoon soon after the Friday prayer to protest against a film denigrating the Prophet of Islam.

Expressing their resentment over the attempt to malign Islam by tarnishing the image of the Prophet, the protesters called for revenge against those who made the movie. "No Muslim will tolerate such a cowardly and lewd form of depicting the Prophet's personal life. It is unfortunate that America and Europe have become the breeding ground for hatred against Islam and Islamic values and Islamic way of life" said one of the protesters, Abdullah al-Mutawwa.

Prior to the rally, Islamic scholar and chairman of the International Union of Ulema, Dr Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi, strongly criticised the film in his Friday sermon at the Omar bin Khattab mosque.

"The movie seeks to destroy the image of the Prophet of Islam in a very mean way,” he said. "It reflects racialism and ignorance. It cannot be described as a work of art permissible under the pretext freedom of expression," he added. "We have been used to such acts of maligning from the West oft and on. Some people in America and Europe are bent on hurting the sentiments of 1.6bn Muslims all over the world."

He, however, stressed that protests should be peaceful. "Our manner of protesting should reflect sense and reason. We cannot throw the blame on the United States as a whole. Nor should we physically attack the US embassies in our region. People in high positions in the West realise the stupidity of such attempts to destroy to the image of Islam." He reminded that the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, had already described the film as "disgusting and reprehensible".

"We need to counter such work by producing a movie presenting the Islam in a true frame."

Gulf Times, 15 September 2012

The Peninsula quotes Qaradawi as stating in his sermon that "Defending the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) cannot be done by chanting slogans, killing diplomats or burning embassies".

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There are over 1.3 billion Muslims living in the world and Islam is the fastest growing religion all over the world.

If the disaster we saw in Septemper 11th was according to the faith of and Islam justifies the actions then the increasing number of Muslims in Europe and USA is terrifying – but fortunately that is not the case. This is in a way a sign that most people know that Islam does not support violence and it is a religion of peace.

The word ”Islam” itself expresses peace and brotherhood.Islam is an Arabic word and it means peace . When Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) brought the holy book Qur’an (sent from ALLAH) his major mission was to bring an end to the kind of slaughter and killing we witnessed in New York City.Arab before Islam was involved in a deadly culture,tribes were used to fight tribe and killing was going on in large number. Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) devoted his life to bring peace in the Arab.  Muhammad(PBUH) himself survived many attempts of murder him but he was always going to be safe as he was under the safety of Almighty Allah.As soon as Muhammad felt that his followers are safe now he started preaching Islam and peace at the full flow and no doubt he turned the life on it head in Arab with his devotions,love and kindness to every human not just Muslims. 

As we know that most verses of the Qur’an came in war times therefore Qur’an talks a great deal about war,fight and the conduct of armed struggle .Quranic verses say that fight the one who is very aggressive against you but do not fight with people who want to live with peace.There are many verses which orders to fight against enemies if they  fight you but on the follow up verse mostly there is a strong order about peace which says do not fight until there is no need to fight.”Thus, if they let you be, and do not make war on you, and offer you peace, God does not allow you to harm them” (4:90).

Therefore we can say that in Islam the only allowed war is the one which is fought for one’s safety that is defending.

Jihad is very talk about topic especially in West and many  people raise questions about it.I thought to clear this point also.Here is a fact,if you read Quran the most liked Jihad is Jihad Bin Nafs that means Fight against bad emotions and the follow ups are Jihad of pen, Jihad of struggle and the least emphasized Jihad is of fight,even then there are conditions mentioned in the Quran when to start fight.Shortly Quran does not allow to aggression it allows to fight in self defense and in case when here is a danger to Muslims from enemies.

Islam is not addicted to fight,So why the suicide bombing, the hijacking and also the massacre of innocent civilians? faraway from being endorsed by the Koran, this killing violates a number of} its most sacred precepts.however throughout the twentieth century, the militant kind of piety usually referred to as called fundamentalism erupted in each major faith as a rebellion against modernity. each fundamentalist movement I even have studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced that liberal, secular society is set to wipe out faith. Fighting, as they imagine, a battle for survival, fundamentalists usually feel justified in ignoring the additional compassionate principles of their religion.however in amplifying the additional aggressive passages that exist in all our scriptures, they distort the tradition.

It would be as severe an error to see Osama bin known as an genuine follower of Islam as to consider James Kopp, the claimed monster of an abortion  in Zoysia, N.Y., a common Religious or Baruch Goldstein, who shoot 29 worshipers in the Hebron mosque in 1994 and passed away in the assault, a real martyr of Israel. Many Muslims, who are terrified by the atrocity of Sep. 11, must recover their trust from those who have so strongly hi-jacked it.

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