reply to nupur gupta

Submitted by coco (Malaysia), Nov 5, 2006 at 04:33

please all muslims of 21st century do u have answers to these questions 1.why do you celebrate a festival for your happiness and kill poor animals in name of sacrifice,on the eve of bakra eid.......its good you gather,and celebrate happiness,but on this account why is there killing of an animal in name muslim dharam? 2.is it right to rape women in name of jihad? 3.you say the quran teaches not to bend upon anyone except allah, is the mother who gave you birth not worth a bend with a place of allah? 4.why is entering a mandir or church haram for muslims? 5.if you want a christian to convert to muslim then why does'nt your religion allow you the freedom to change into christian or hindu or any other religion,when all religions preach the same moral- to be good to yourself and to all others around you?

I'll try my best answering your questions. 1. Kill poor animals? What do you mean by that? It is the same as every day right? To eat.. Dont tell me you have never eaten chicken? What are you supposed to say about that? Kill poor animals as well?

2. NO and never. Those who done that just carry the name muslim, but he does not follow any rules of Islam. There are A LOT of muslims who does not follow any rules in Islam. Someone maybe is a muslim, but not every muslim is a mu'min. (mu'min is a muslim that has complete submission to the will of Allah, and has faith firmly established in his heart.) The way Muhammad teaches to war is to never hurt women, kids, and old people. 3. Quran says, follow your mother as long as it is within the rules of Islam. If it is outside the rules, only then you can disobey your mother. This is the hierarchy Allah>mother>father. Whatever it is, religion first. But still, never ever raise your voice to your mother.

4. Because that place is used to worship other than Allah.

5. Apostasy in Islam is one very big topic. It is kinda deep to understand. But here are some examples: 1) An apostate leaves Islam because of ignorance of Islam or some confusion that leads him to think that his new religion or way is truer and better. Such a person will be willing to listen to the Muslims if they want to show him that he has made a mistake. The Muslims should treat him kindly and argue with him in the best possible way. (60:8, 16:125).

But Muslims should be careful not to show him more kindness than they show to other Muslims, for, otherwise the apostate may be encouraged to stay an apostate. 2) An apostate leaves Islam, not out of a belief that he is moving to something truer and better, but to satisfy some of his worldly desires, e. g., to get greater importance or more comfortable life or greater acceptance of his lifestyle such as homosexual lifestyle. A sign of such an apostate is that he shows little inclination to listen to any reasoning. If such an apostate does not engage in any hostile activity against Islam and Muslims, he should not be subjected to any active hostility (4:90). But since he has clearly preferred kufr over iman the following commandment of God will apply: O you who believe! Do not take for friends and allies (even) your fathers and your brothers if they love disbelief more than faith: if any of you do so, they are the wrong doers. (9:23) According to some traditions "this ayah was revealed concerning those nine men who after apostasy went to Makkah". (Panipati, Tafsir Mazhari) Beyond avoiding friendship and alliance with apostates of this second type, the Muslims can impose boycott against them, since such boycott was imposed by the Prophet on the three Companions mentioned in 9:118. These three Companions did not commit apostasy but simply failed to join the Muslims in jihad without a good reason. 3) The third type of apostate is one who leaves Islam and then engages in hostile actions against Islam and Muslims, e.g. knowingly engages in propaganda against Islam and Muslims blatantly ignoring facts that he is expected to know well, passes secrets to the enemy, takes part in fighting against the Muslims. Such an apostate can be punished by anything from exile to death. I suggest further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murtad http://www.islamicperspectives.com/Apostasy1.htm

Thank you.

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