Abusing the author
Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
(May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
One of our brothers/sisters has asked
this question:
Dear Islam helpline,
Assalaamu alaikum, I would like to comment
on people scolding and abusing the author,
In the author column as I was reading got bit
worried and annoyed, some people had mentioned they would
kill burhan bhai,
They simply abusing him , I don no are they
muslims, how could they abuse and comment like that, its
really arrogant way of act,
His(burhans) knowledge is amaging ,whatever we ask ,
he is helping us get understood, and he never answers on his own,
Whatever he replies it would be authentic and relevant to
quran and hadith, I guess some people misunderstood of islamhelplines
author, don’t know why,
It is really helpful to us this
only I can say, ill do dua for islamhelpline ………
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Answer:
Abusing the author
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His
help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide,
and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
May Allah Subhanah reward you with the best of this world
and the Hereafter for your support and kind comments of encouragement for our
humble efforts in the propagation of the Truth.
If our humble and modest efforts have helped even one brother or sister
get closer to Allah and His Deen of Truth, then we would consider ourselves
indeed fortunate to have been given this opportunity by the Lord Most Merciful
to serve in His Cause. We hope, beg, and
pray the Merciful Lord accepts our
humble and weak efforts, forgives us our
shortcomings, and saves you, us, and all the believers from the torment of the
Hell Fire. Ameen.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 31 Surah Luqman verse 21:
And when it is said to them, “Follow what Allah
has sent down”, they say, “We shall only
follow that upon which we found our forefathers.” What!
Will they still be following them even if Shaitaan had been calling them
to the raging Fire?
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 34 Surah
Saba verse 43:
When Our clear Revelations are recited to these
people, they say, “This person only wants to turn you away from
those deities whom your forefathers have been worshipping.”
Respected brother, when one is born and brought up with a
particular set of beliefs, and he is confronted with the Truth of the Quran and
the Sunnah which challenge the very basis of his beliefs and practices which
the brother has believed in since his birth, it is only natural that the person
will try to defend his beliefs.
Because the Truth from the Quran and the Sunnah are so
overpowering in their truthfulness, some amongst them will use their
intelligence and wisdom and succumb and submit to the Supreme Truth. But some amongst them are so convinced in
their ways, that they will not accept anything that is contrary to or
challenges their ways or beliefs or practices……even if it happens to be Truth
from the Quran and the Sunnah! And
because these brethren are not able to defend their beliefs neither in light of
the Truth of the Quran and the Sunnah nor through intelligence or logic, they
at times resort to at best, abuses, or at worst, threats to harm the person who
wishes to introduce them to the Truth!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah
Hajj verse 71-72:
They worship besides Allah those for whom Allah
has sent down no authority! Nor they themselves have any knowledge about
them. Such transgressors have no
helper! And when our clear Revelations
are recited to them, you perceive signs of disdain on the faces of the
disbelievers, as though they were going to ASSUALT those who recite our
Revelations to them!
Allah is our witness brother, the believers who submitted
to their Lord Creator and followed the deen before us were involved in trials
by their opponents much much severe than mere abuses and curses, but never ever
did they ever swerve from propagating the Truth from their Lord!
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 5.191 Narrated by Khabbaba
I came to the Prophet (saws) while he (saws)
was leaning against his sheet cloak in the shade of the Ka'ba. We were
suffering greatly from the pagans in those days. I said (to the Prophet
(saws)): "Will you invoke Allah (to help us)?" His (saws) face turned red as if in anger,
and he (saws) sat down and said, "(A believer among) those who were before
you used to be combed with iron combs so that nothing of his flesh or nerves
would remain on his bones; yet that would never make him desert his religion! A
saw might be put over the parting of his head which would be split into two
parts, yet all that would never make him abandon his religion. Allah will
surely complete this religion (i.e. Islam) so that a traveler from
As much as those who do not wish to comprehend and submit
to the Truth might abuse or curse or oppose those who invite them to the Truth,
never ever let their stance bother or dishearten you in the least; but rather
keep your trust and faith in the Mercy and Grace of Allah Subhanah, and pray
that Allah Subhanah opens their hearts and guides them to the Truth. It may be that one day Allah Subhanah might
open their hearts and guides them to the Truth, and the enmity and hatred that
exists in their hearts today for those who invite them to the Truth might turn
into a lasting friendship and brotherhood not only in this world, but also in
the Hereafter.
Allah
says in the Holy Quran: Chapter 16, Surah An-Nahl Ayat 125:
Invite
to the way of your Lord with wisdom and excellent admonition and argue with
people in the best manner. Your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His
Way and who is Rightly Guided.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 41 Surah
Ha-Meem verses 33-34:
33 Who is better in speech than one who calls (men) to Allah, works
righteousness, and says "I am of those who bow in Islam"?
34 Nor can goodness and evil be equal!
Repel (evil) with what is better: then will he, between whom and thee
was hatred, become as it were thy friend and intimate!
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister