Comments by "Montaser" (@montaser9985) on "VICE News"
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Indeed, you have not read the whole quran, verses like-
- Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe, and let him who will, reject (it)...(18:29)
- To you be your religion and to me,my religion. (109:6)
- There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of religion. (2:256)
- So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,(88:21)
- you are not there to control them. (88:22)
- And had your LORD willed, those on earth would have believed- all of them, entirely. Then, O Prophet, would you compell the people against their will in order that they become believers? And it is not for a soul to believe, except by permission of GOD, and he will place defilement upon those who will not use reason. (10:99-100)
- It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. (28:56)
- [Believers], do not revile those they call on beside God in case they, in their hostility and ignorance, revile God. To each community We make their own actions seem alluring, but in the end they will return to their Lord and He will inform them of all they did. (6:108)
- if anyone kills a person- unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land- it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. (5:32)
- The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that ye may receive Mercy. (49:10)
- ...Thus did We plan for Joseph. He could not take his brother by the law of the king except that Allah willed it (so). We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. (12:76)
Islam teaches tolerance it teaches us not to mock other religions, Islam teaches "Truth stands out clear from Error" (2:256) so it is not for us to compel someone to abide to our beliefs. we all can live together peacefully we can accept our differences but at the end "...But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment, as to their differences". (16:124).
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@bashirjoseph5261
It doesn't matter where you've been born or what are your cousins. That's irrelevant and doesn't gives you any credibility of knowing Islam. Someone as vicious as abu-lahab was born in the midst of holy city of mecca and a relative to the Prophet of God himself. Yet he failed miserably to know and comply to Islam. So don't think you have any privileges of knowing Islam by merely having Muslim relatives. You're simply on equal footage with abu-lahab. The commonalities between you both are quite apparent: know Arabic, born in middle east, have Muslim relatives, but yet know little about Islam.
Moreover if you're knowledgeable as you so claim you wouldn't make the mistake of stating Muslims are "a group of people". Muslims are not bound by a particular race, culture, or language.
If you truly know Islam you wouldn't claim Quran never existed during the Prophet's life. Also I'm aware of the process of Quranic transmission. I'm aware that it was initially revealed orally to the Prophet. But Quran is both; verbal and textual.
the Qur’an has been preserved in both the oral as well as written form in a way no other religious book in history has. The Qur'an we have with us today is the very one word for word which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It was collected both in the form of a book and learnt by heart by many companions of the Prophet (pbuh) during his own life time and then transferred verbally as well as in the written form to the next generations. Such is the monumental nature of this transmission that the inerrancy of the Qur'anic text is an incontestable reality.
Furthermore Upon receiving revelation, the Prophet pbuh engaged himself in the duty of conveying the message to his Companions through reciting the exact words he heard in their exact order. Since Literacy was not widespread among the Arabs Quran was initially memorized orally In ancient times, when writing was scarcely used, memory and oral transmission was exercised and strengthened to a high degree.
And the tradition of memorizing the Quran was taken by numerous of individuals from the first Muslim community and continued till this day. Indeed, memorization of the Qur’an emerged into a continuous tradition across the centuries, with schools for memorization being established across the Muslim world. In these schools, students learn and memorize the Qur’an at the feet of a master who in turn acquired the knowledge from his teacher, an ‘un-broken chain’ going all the way back to the Prophet of God. And surprisingly the Quran itself explains that it was made to be easy to memorize:
"And We have certainly made the Quran easy to remember. So is there anyone who will be mindful? - Quran 54:17
Thus no wonder that The Qur’an is perhaps the only book, religious or secular, that has been memorized completely by millions of people.
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Amidst the fiercest persecution and abuse that the Muslims faced in the earliest Meccan period, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ would stand without wavering and convey to his followers God’s promise of Islam spreading all over the world. Tamīm ad-Dāri (rA) reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “This matter will certainly reach every place touched by the night and day. Allah will not leave a house of mud or [even] fur except that Allah will cause this religion to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored and the disgraceful will be disgraced. Allah will honor the honorable with Islam and he will disgrace the disgraceful with unbelief.”[3] In another narration, reported by Thawbān (rA), “Indeed, Allah gathered up the earth for me so that I saw its east and its west; and indeed the dominion of my nation will reach what was gathered up for me from it.”[4]
The fact that these predictions were made at a time when Muslims were a powerless handful, and Islam was expected to be buried in its cradle, is nothing short of miraculous. At that point, presuming that the faith would even survive would be considered by most nothing short of a pipe-dream. But to predict that Islam would not just survive, but grow to thrive globally, was at that point inconceivable. For us nowadays, witnessing a quarter of this planet’s population as subscribers to Islam makes it clear that this was no presumption, but instead another prophecy inspired by the Divine.
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