Brotherhood in Islam
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15/12/2007 9:37:36 PM
brotherhood in islam is just as much as your believe, your ieman.
whenever you are lacking of ieman or believe how come you wanna having more in brotherhood?
Allah knows best
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16/12/2007 1:02:10 AMHmm..that's a fair question. I think it's good to see such topics discussed in NasiBriyani.com.
Well, in terms of faith, it's general to say muslims are one and united in belief especially in the basic fundamentals such as the concept of unity in one god, believing in prophet muhammad p.b.u.h, believing in the revelation from Quran etc.. Hence when the muslims get together at the time of hajj at Mecca, it's quite spectacular and fascinating to observe the unity of muslims in the religion of Islam. Be it brotherhood or sisterhood alike.
Yet then, despite having same religion, often there are factors that seperate each muslim in their practise of faith or in theology.This also includes the difference in culture/practise in other countries, language, social standing, politics etc. These are but some of the issues that makes each muslim different from each other despite having the same belief. Often these factors create friction or misunderstanding between muslims-muslims or even muslims-non muslims alike. A simple example would the difference(s) of sectarians (madhabs) in Islam. The argument/debate of which madhab is 'better' and 'realistic' seems like never ending till today...<sigh>
Learning to tolerate and understand the point of view of other sectarians or faiths help to close the gap of misunderstadings and misconception. Though there is a limit to tolerance and compromise in self, life or in every religion, each of us must do our best to set a good example to each other in all aspects of life . This was the emphasis of brotherhood and sisterhood in Islam or other faiths.
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16/12/2007 10:24:44 PMas i have written above that:
brotherhood in islam is just as much as your believe, your ieman.
whenever you are lacking of ieman or believe how come you wanna having more in brotherhood?
Allah knows best
i would like to add some more here.
brotherhood in islam is parallel, collimate with your believe.
if, you believe only till the base of madzhab or a group or anything alike so your brotherhood also only until then! no more.
the second is ikhlash, if you purpose is just the will of Allah, the blessing of Allah you won't care who in front of you is, as long as he or she is muslim, he or she IS you brother.
and again the ikhlash is depend upon your ieman, your believe.
wa-lLahu 'alam
Allah knows best.
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18/12/2007 12:01:25 AMIt looks like i came in late to answer this question. Although Mehboob have selected the answer i'll like to put in my 2 cents for the day.
I like this question by the way. actually i'm gonna vote for this question. Now...brotherhood in Islam or in any community is lacking. But in the Muslim community it's extremely lacking as compared to other communities which i also associate myself with.
Fariz mentioned tollerance...(nothing against Fariz) but i dislike the word tollerance. It implies something that we have to put up with or have to painfully live with. Our muslim community doesn;t have to be in that position. We can be a community which supports each other and be the cause for all of us to 'win' despite whtever the person is.
I'm doing landmark SELP at the moment and rite now we are working on our community project to cause community to be present. The distinction i got which i have always been struggling with is morality. ( eg. the rite and wrong in the islamic point of view ) There is this guy from persia and he's causing a huge project to happen in iran and iraq. He was wondring how he is supose to not make anyone wrong ( like wht we normally do, we point fingers at everyone, like..."it's the government. It's their fault" or "it's the american fault" etc..) How not to make anyone wrong on what is happening in the middle east. He was asking, isn;t the killing of millions of innorcent people wrong?" And the answer i got was yes, it is worng, but instead of looking at it in the space of morality, make a stand instead.
Coming back to our muslim community, we each have our opinions on for example the right way of wearinig a hijab, or the right way in which religion should or should not be discussed or practiced. That is what i call morality. This is wht we all do ( even me). and the cost of doing that is the lost of power to cause brotherhood and we do not make a stand for ourself and our community.
When we each stand on morality it is when we loose the power to be a possibility to cause brother or better known as unity... ( i'll like to call it as causing community.) Make a stand for something is far effective then being in the space of morality. for example if you are in the opinion that religion should be discussed in a certain manner, be a stand for it. Talk to more people to give input on this stand of yours, ask for input, and be open to listening to what your community have to say about it. And don;t be attached to the outcome of it looking a certain way. Doing thhis will cause community as well as being a stand.
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19/12/2007 10:43:57 PMYeah sultana, good point there. Hmm... morality, it's an issue esp in Singapore and the malays nowadays <sigh > Wonder if there is a hope to sove the negative problems we malays in Singapore are facing today ?
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19/12/2007 11:24:19 PM@sultana
i do like what you've written, well most of it.
thanx bro!
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