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An in-depth look at Muslim Brotherhood
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| Does Islam Force Itself On Others? |
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The Accusation
One of the most common, yet groundless, accusations being made against Islam is
that it forces itself on others. The picture presented is that if someone does
not stop Islam, it will forcefully convert everyone, even at gunpoint.
Here is one of the verses commonly quoted by those who make their living
propagating this idea:
"Ye will find others who desire that they should have security from you,-
and security from their own folk. So often as they are returned to hostility - they are plunged therein. If they keep not aloof from you nor offer you peace
- nor hold their hands, then take them and kill them wherever ye find them. - Against such We have given you clear warrant." Quran 4:91
This verse is used as evidence that Muslims are
required to kill anyone who does not accept Islam. That would mean that any
Muslim who does not either forcefully convert or kill every non-Muslim he sees
is not practicing Islam. This ridiculous idea is childishly easy to refute. But
before we do that, let's do a brief comparison.
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| Remembrance of God (dhikr) and the path of mercy |
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"And whoever turns himself away from the
remembrance (dhikr) of al-Rahman (The Compassionate), We appoint for him a
shaitan (a satan), so he becomes his close companion (and associate). And most
surely they (the satan's) turn them away from the path, though they (the people)
persistently imagine that they are rightly guided...." (Qur'an 43:36-37)
This verse, highlights a repeatedly arising theme in the Qur'an - the importance
of dhikr (remembrance of God) - but highlights it in a unique and powerfully
crucial manner. It links the turning away from a steady and steadfast
contemplation and remembrance of God in the aspect of His Mercy and compassion
with the entry of Shaitan (Satan) into one's affairs. And as verse 43:37
indicates, this entry is an invisible, unperceived arrival so that the person
remains unaware that he has been turned and deflected away from a felicitous
path but instead imagines that he "is rightly guided". This theme of
people turning away from God's name of Mercy (al-Rahman) and compassion recurs
in several places in the Qur'an and is perhaps due to these people desiring a
special recognition or concession for their group, their viewpoint, their tribe,
or their social and political status. "No remembrance comes to them from
the All-Merciful newly arrived but they turn away from it." (Qur'an 26:5)
Instead they are faced with a general beneficence that does away with special
pleading and levels all hierarchies except that of consciousness and awareness
of God and beauty of conduct.
Rahman and Rahim are two denotations of mercy used throughout the Qur'an. The
Rahman is generally considered to be an all-embracing universal mercy and
compassion (linked to God's Majesty) which pervades existence and from which
everything in existence derives benefit, while Rahim is sometimes defined as a
more specialized and focused mercy.
Here (in verse 43:36) we are invoking, through dhikr of the name al-Rahman, the
entry into our hearts of that generalized mercy ...
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How will the Muslim Brotherhood reconcile their ideology with democracy?
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Before you over eat remember
this Hadith!
The Prophet said, "A believer eats in one gut, while one who denies the truth or a hypocrite eats in seven guts.
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