| … we Muslims face two paradigms in dealing with our Arab Christian neighbours. The first is negative and condemned by God’s words in the Holy Qur’an: Perish the men of the ditch!/of the fire abounding in fuel,/when they sat by it,/and they themselves, to what they did to those who believed, were witnesses. ( Al-Buruj, 85:4–7) ‘ Those who believed ’ in the above verse refers to the Christians of Najran, and God curses those who tortured and killed them. As for the second paradigm: it is the correct one; the one that the Prophet Muhammad implemented when he welcomed his Christian neighbours from Najran and invited them to pray in his own mosque in Medina according to their own beliefs and practices. This noble, beautiful paradigm continued from the time of the Prophet Muhammad and his Companions through the Covenant of the Caliph Omar through the time of el-Emir al-Sharif Abdul-Kader al-Jaza’iri. Emir Abdul-Kader, after 25 years of fighting the French occupation of Algeria, was exiled by the French to Damascus. When a mob rose in sedition against the Christians of Damascus in 1860 CE, Abdul-Kader al-Jaza’iri rose with his sword and his Algerian guards against the mob to defend the Christians—as Islamic Law decrees—saying: ‘I will not abandon a single Christian. They are my brothers’. This is our paradigm today and it is the right one according to Islamic Law, and the right one morally speaking. The essence of Islam is submission to God and His commands, not that Muslims should be a massive international worldly gang that fights other gangs because they subscribe to beliefs different from our own—even if they are unjust to Muslims at times. God says in the Holy Qur’an: O you who believe, be upright before God, witnesses in equity. Let not hatred of a people cause you not to be just; be just, that is nearer to God-fearing. And fear God; surely God is aware of what you do. ( Al- Ma’idah, 5:8) 13 сентября 2013 г. ... Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
