Relation Between Hindus and Muslims in India

Javed Akthar said that there is no divide between an average Hindu and an average Muslim in their way of thinking and living, and the whole idea of division on religious grounds is imposed upon the society.

“An average Muslim is just like an average Hindu. Every community would have its own sets of benign bisects that would enable them to like their own language, religion or community more than the others,”

“But an average Muslim would never want to kill someone because he is from a different religion just like an average Hindu won’t,” he stressed.

Blaming the communalist powers for creating the divide, Akthar said the common man survives and flourishes in harmony while the communalist survives in chaos.

The poet also said radicalisation and Islamophobia are like a cycle where the rise of one helps in the increase of the other.

“The radicalisation and Islamophobia are parallel. They feed each other. The more the radicalisation, the more is Islamophobia. It is like a cycle. Also there isn’t much difference between extremism and terrorism. Extremism is mental terrorism and terrorism is extremist in action,” he said.

Talking about the rise in mistrust against the Muslims around the world, Akthar said, “The tragedy is the minority community is identified by the worst person of the community while the majority community is identified by the best person among them”.

“Would anyone in his wildest imagination, identify India’s large Hindu community with Nathuram Godse. 

Obviously not. But the 17-18 crore Muslims in India are sometimes identified with Dawood Ibrahim. This is the example of radicalisation and stereotypes,” he added.

An average Hindu is just like an average Muslim: Javed Akthar

Controvercy in the Islamic histoy of 7th century Arabia

After the conquest of Mecca, Abu Sufyan fought as one of Prophet Muhammad's(pbuh)  commanders in the subsequent wars. During the Siege of Taif, he lost an eye.

When Muhammed died in 632, Abu Sufyan was in charge of Najran.

Abu Sufyan also fought in the Battle of Yarmouk in 636, in which he lost his second eye.

He played a very important role in the war, being the Naqeeb (chief of staff) of the Muslim army.

He fought under command of his son Yazid bin Abu Sufyan. 

Abu Sufyan died at the age of ninety in 650 at Medina.

His kinsman Uthman Ibn Affan, who had become the third Caliph in 644, led the prayer over his grave.

Read the following Hadis and tell me how much the Messenger loved the Ansar 

Did he love Abu sufian and family so much?

Who planned and killed the prophet's uncle Hamza and barbarically mutilated his body?

Volume 5, Book 58, Number 122:
Narrated Anas:

On the day of the Conquest of Mecca, when the Prophet had given (from the booty) the Quraish, the Ansar said, 

"By Allah, this is indeed very strange: While our swords are still dribbling with the blood of Quraish, our war booty are distributed amongst them." 

When this news reached the Prophet he called the Ansar and said, 

"What is this news that has reached me from you?"

They used not to tell lies, so they replied, 

"What has reached you is true." 

The Prophet said, 

"Doesn't it please you that the people take the booty to their homes and you take Allah's Apostle to your homes? 

If the Ansar took their way through a valley or a mountain pass, I would take the Ansar's valley or a mountain pass.

There is a huge difference in Islamic history between the Meccan immigrants who sacrificed their life and properties for the sake of Islam ( same with the Ansars) and people like Abu Sufian who agreed to be converted after the victory over the Meccans at the 11th hour 


We should keep the Shiah Sunny conflict away and think objectively and read more on history

Arabic press review: Palestinian politicians detained in Saudi Arabia

Arabic press review: Palestinian politicians detained in Saudi Arabia: Hamas has criticised the poor treatment of a senior member detained in Saudi Arabia

The Concept of Wahabism in Islam

I am not sure about the percentage of Saudi people who strictly approve the Saudi interpretation of Islam (Wahabism) I guess the percentage is really small

It seems to have strong effects on the rise of radical interpretations of Islam,

Saudi version divides the world into two opposing parts: the House of Islam and the House of Unbelief (outside politics) . The former rests on a literal understanding of Islamic theology. The latter is the enemy of Islam and consists moderate Muslims, among others.

Muslims today must reject this division and tackle head on those literalist, extremist interpretations of Islam.

This task is not the responsibility of average Muslims, .

Rather it is the work of honest, brave, and learned scholars of Islam and Islamic theology.

In particular, passages in the Quran and Hadith, on war, apostasy, and violence, are in need of new, unequivocal interpretations to fit the modern social and political realities of Muslim-majority states.

In their own ways, many Muslims have engaged in every day acts of resistance against these assaults on their faith. These include education, outreach, interfaith dialogue, and rejection of those amongst us who hold extremist Islamist views.

Wahhabism’s globalization has had profound effects on the rise of radical interpretations of Islam,

It has fueled extremists like Osama bin Laden to ISIS, who have variously claimed the mantle of radical Islamic reform and engaged in an extremist takfiristwar (a war against so-called apostates).

Many have misconceptions about Wahabis. Colonialists found sectarian groups like Wahabis and Ahamedis to divide and rule the Muslim world

 What better person could the British have used to fulfill their motto, i.e. “divide and conquer?”

 The British were laughing at the leader of Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdi-l-Wahhab and his followers for plundering, looting, and killing Muslims in the name of Islam,

 This was indeed a fulfillment of the interests of the British, Contemporary members of the Sa’ud house are descendants of Muhammad Ibn Sa’ud, the heretic who collaborated with Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdi-l-Wahhab, to cause a Muslim bloodbath in the name of “Jihad.”

 Their monarchy has existed since the Wahhabi movement originated,

 The discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia in the 1930’s has enabled the Saudi-Wahhabi kingdom to become rich, and their leaders have used their wealth to disseminate the Wahhabi doctrine

 The Wahhabis are known for parroting the slogan of “Qur’an and Sunnah,” without any profound understanding of the two sources of Islam,

 The great Hanafi scholar, Imam Muhammad Amin Ibn Abidin stated that the Wahhabis of today are reviving the creed of the Khawarij of the past.

 It is also known that the Khawarij wrongly understand the meanings of ayahs in the Qur’an and falsely attribute the verses of the Quran

Prophet Muhammad ‘Rasul-Ullah (sall-Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) ascended the altar, and it was the last time I saw him on it

He said: ‘I do not fear that you will become polytheists after me, but I fear that, because of worldly interests, you will fight each others, and thus be destroyed like the peoples of old.’

THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW as we see in Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Libya, Iraq and places

Is it God's Creation Good and Evil Folks? Light and darkness

Let me try the first part of the conversation between

Einstein and his Professor: The Prof throws many questions as follows: Is God good? Is God all-powerful?

Then he says: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent.)

Then he asks

Is Satan good?  Where does Satan come from?

Tell me son, is there evil in this world?  So who created evil? (Student does not answer.)

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?

All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?

So, who created them? 

Now the turn of Einstein to question the Prof: Professor,

Is there such a thing as heat? Prof: Yes.

Student: And is there such a thing as cold? Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn't.

Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat.. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that.

There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it .

 

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness? Student :  You're wrong again, sir.

Darkness is the absence of something.

You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof:   So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality.

You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God.

You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure.

Sir, science can't even explain a thought..

It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.

To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.

 Student:
That is it sir... The link between man & God is FAITH.

That is all that keeps things moving & alive.

The Middle East conflict between Iran and some Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia etc Is NOT SECTARIAN based though for political reasons many people feel so



https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-middle-easts-great-divide-is-not-sectarianism

http://normanfinkelstein.com/2019/05/27/professor-norman-finkelstein-labouring-under-anti-semitism/

A Great fighter for the liberation of Palestine He is a fair minded Jewish professor