Speak gently
So after assigning Prophet Moosa and Haroon (alaihe salaam) their duty as prophets, Allah tells them not to become weak in their zikr. Then these verses follow...
So even to Firaun, the biggest transgressors of his time, Moosa alaihe salaam is told to speak to him gently so that he may understand or fear.
Now contrast this to the attitude of Taliban and Saudi moral police aka Muttawa. And almost every masjid has people with that kind of mentality who take it upon themselves to mind everyone's else business and do not hesitate in humiliating others in public by telling them what in their opinion is haram.
For these kind of people Islam is a fixed system that ceased to exist after khulfa-e-rashedeen. By removing all artifacts of the era of the prophet they are removing the context which help us understand Islam better. To them Islam is without time and place; the day is not far when people will have hard time believing that events in Islamic history really happened.
These are the same people who deny the scholarships of more than a thousand years and negate the tremendous work done by our predecessors for the service of Islam.
They do not hesitate in calling everyone else besides them as deviant or misguided. When they meet you the fake smile does not beyond their lips, they walk in the masjid looking angrily trying to find faults with others.
They are the reasons for large numbers of Muslims not coming for regular prayers and trying to avoid masaajid.
Go, both of you, unto Pharaoh. Lo! he hath transgressed (the bounds). (43) And speak unto him a gentle word, that peradventure he may heed or fear. (44)
Surah Taha. Translation by Picthall http://quranexplorer.com/
So even to Firaun, the biggest transgressors of his time, Moosa alaihe salaam is told to speak to him gently so that he may understand or fear.
Now contrast this to the attitude of Taliban and Saudi moral police aka Muttawa. And almost every masjid has people with that kind of mentality who take it upon themselves to mind everyone's else business and do not hesitate in humiliating others in public by telling them what in their opinion is haram.
For these kind of people Islam is a fixed system that ceased to exist after khulfa-e-rashedeen. By removing all artifacts of the era of the prophet they are removing the context which help us understand Islam better. To them Islam is without time and place; the day is not far when people will have hard time believing that events in Islamic history really happened.
These are the same people who deny the scholarships of more than a thousand years and negate the tremendous work done by our predecessors for the service of Islam.
They do not hesitate in calling everyone else besides them as deviant or misguided. When they meet you the fake smile does not beyond their lips, they walk in the masjid looking angrily trying to find faults with others.
They are the reasons for large numbers of Muslims not coming for regular prayers and trying to avoid masaajid.
Comments
i dont really think so.....
but, ya.. everything has a way... we need to know our manners....