The truth about Islam

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Part of the difficulty of obtaining peace in this world is misinformation, often intentional by those who have agendas. We have a tendency to equate those who commit evil with larger groups, simply because we do not truly understand or have the correct information. A good friend of mine has shared this in an attempt to clarify a common incorrect belief about Islam in the modern world. Among other lessons to be learned here, an important one is not to generalize. Individuals behave on their own right, and are not necessarily representatives of a larger group that they claim to be from!

Islam is the source of peace and love not terror

The concept of “Islam terror” is on the top of the international agenda nowadays. Everywhere you go, you read or hear of it; on TV, on radio, in newspaper between intellectuals…it seems that those people who created that concept, want to spread it, and we often hear the word “terrorism” and the word “Islam” in an interchangeably way in the western media; They want to make everybody believe that Islam is terror and evil itself. However, why this hatred against this peaceful religion? Is it because some of its Adherents committed some bad crimes, which made the world guess that all Muslims are all bad? If so, why don’t we ever hear of “Christian terror” or “Jews terror”? Does it mean that all Christians and Jews are good people? Of course not!! They are all humans, it doesn’t matter what religion they adhere to; there must be good people and bad people everywhere we go.

islam rulesThe origin of the concept of “Islam terror” emerged after the terrorist attacks, targeted New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, which caused the death of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. The perpetrators were Muslims, and among the victims were Muslims also. Thus, if the reason behind the attack is hatred against non-Muslims, why they murdered Muslims too?! There is a point that should be stressed in the outcast; killing in the name of religion is definitely unacceptable. However, this point has never been respected; if we take a brief look in the history, we will find out that a lot of wars were in the name of religion. For instance, The Crusades which constituted a dark episode of Christianity history, which is actually, a religion of peace and love; however; the Crusaders led their “holly war” in the name of “God’s will” they killed millions of non-Christians, so do we have the right to call this “Christian terror”??!! If we did so, then we are just generalizing and giving stereotypes, because we put all the Christians in the same basket while there are good peaceful followings. That is the same oppression the Muslims are suffering from today; bad stereotypes. They pay the price that some misguided adherers should pay.

It is noteworthy to say that Islam is the religion of peace, love, and mercy. Terror, on the other hand, is the opposite of this religion message. Moreover, killing people is a sin which bring great torment in hell. For more details, lets have a look on the Qur’an verses which is the guide of Muslims in life, and the Hadith which is all the sayings and directives of the prophet Mohamed pace be upon him.

Allah said in the holly Qur’an:

You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace [Islam]. Do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is an outright enemy to you. (Surat al-Baqara: 168)”

This verse is an obvious call to peace and tolerance. Also Allah said in another verse which incite on avoiding murdering:

So We decreed for the tribe of Israel that if someone kills another person—unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth—it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to another person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them with Clear Signs but even after that many of them committed outrages in the earth. (Surat al-Ma’ida: 32)”

And the prophet Mohamed peace be upon him said in a hadith:

A Muslim is the one who avoids harming people with his tongue and hands.”

Now, everything is clear and very obvious; the essence of Islam is peace, tolerance, and coexistence. Therefore, Islam can by no means concur with terror, and it is completely innocent of what was attributed to it. Besides, the crimes committed by any Muslim represent only the person not the religion he adhere to, and that’s the case for all religions. But the problem is that people in the western world cannot easily accept this fact, because their media worked hard to deform the Islam’s image; by presenting a Muslim as a guy with a long beard, wearing a Galabia, and surrounded his body with bombs. Unfortunately, a lot of people believe that, without doing any simple effort to find out the truth; they gave the priority to their emotions, so the hatred found its way to their hearts. I wrote this article just as a call to the western world people especially in the United Sates to get rid of the idea of “Islam terror”. They should know that the perpetrators of the terrorist attack don’t represent the Islam; they just misunderstood their religion as the Crusaders did once; that if they weren’t really exploited by some merciless portions. I’m not asking them to believe everything I said but it’s an initiative to study this great religion, learn about its noble values, and discover the hidden truth.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/12″][/vc_column][/vc_row]