It has been observed that many anti-Islamic sites are misquoting a Hadith and polluting the innocent minds about the noble faith of Islam.The translation of the Hadith goes as;
Narrated 'Aisha: The things which annul prayer were mentioned before me (and those were): a dog, a donkey and a woman. I said, "You have compared us (women) to donkeys and dogs. By Allah! I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in (my) bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I disliked to sit and trouble the Prophet. So, I would slip away by the side of his feet." (Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 484)
Does Islam consider women like donkeys and dogs?
Why Muslims attacked the foreign lands?
Q- Why did the Muslims attack foreign lands specially in the Past?
ANS-It is true that Holy Prophet Muhammad(peace be upon him) was an Arab so were most of his early followers and they later attacked Persia, Roman Empire and some other empires but they never did it to capture a piece of land or force the people to embrace Islam.
The Muslims attacked those Empires who were inflicting troubles on their own people.Muslims always went to liberate the poor people.The very best example is that of Spain where Muslim forces landed only when the Governor of Ceuta (which was a Spanish colony on the Northern tip coast of Morocco just as it is today), Count Julian, asked the Muslim Governor of North Africa to help liberate the poor people of Spain from their cruel King. And it is the Quran which asks the Muslims to fight in defense and for the liberation of the troubled people.
"And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)?- Men, women, and children, whose cry is: "Our Lord! Rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will protect; and raise for us from thee one who will help!"
(Al-Quran 4:75)
Muslims attacked Spain, liberated the people, established a just rule and made Spain a centre of learning and civilization but never forced the people to embrace Islam.
After 800 years Muslim rulers became negligent and they were overthrown by the
christian Crusaders.Even at that time Christians were in majority.Had the Muslims wished to force the Christians to change their religion 800 yrs were quite enough for this purpose.
But when the Christians came they either killed the Muslims or forced them change their religion.Thats why there are very less native Muslims in Spain today.
So, you see who is the real culprit !
Exactly the same is true for Indian sub-continent.
And if you compare the general condition of the masses before Islam in Iran,Turkey,Egypt,Northern Africa,Central Asia and Spain with that after the arrival of Muslims, then you will definitely find a manifest positive change.
The points mentioned above are quite enough to prove that Muslim attacked only to liberate the oppressed people from their cruel masters. And the marked change in the condition of the masses after the arrival of Muslims substantiates our point. We Muslims do tolerate the peaceful and peace-loving non-Muslims around us and so is every Muslim Government supposed to do. But we Muslims do not tolerate oppression anywhere in the world, may be it be by anyone or against anyone.
Christians attacking Muslim lands;
And now let me ask; were those not Christians who attacked the Muslims lands and killed Muslims without any discrimination of the combatant and the civilian. Are these American and British and other Coalition members not Christians who are attacking Muslim lands with excuses every sane person knows to be nothing but absurdities. Can the world forget U.S. President George W. Bush declaring the 'CRUSADE' against Muslims of Afghanistan? Can we forget U.S. tanks entering Fallujah each with a 'Cross; on its barrel? What was that? Surely they have also brought huge change in the life of the masses in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia etc but only for the worse.
Hindus attacking Muslim lands;
Is it not a fact that officially secular state of India with majority of Hindus has made the Kashmiris to live with it for past half century against their will. Is not an attack on foreign land?
Buddhists attacking Muslim lands;
Is it not a fact that the Buddhist majority state of Myanmar (Burma) has been dealing with Muslims of Arakan with iron hands and has forced them to live with them for last 250 years though geographically, culturally and religiously there is no similarity between the two.
Jews attacking Muslim lands;
And the tale of the fanatical Jews capturing the Holy Land of Palestine, displacing its inhabitants and creating an illegitimate state of Israel needs not to be repeated.
So what we find is;
These are the Muslims who have been suffering the most at the hands of others. When Muslims ruled they gave the world peace and justice. And the same we will deliver whence we return to power, for ALLAH says;
"Such days (of varying fortunes) We give to men and men by turns;"
(Al-Quran 3:140)
INDEED ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST !!
Why Muslims kiss the blackstone?
One of top-ten questions about Islam and Muslims is about kissing the Black Stone and facing the Holy Ka'ba during prayers. Some say that perhaps Muslims worship Ka'ba or the Black Stone and some tend to make absurd concordances e.g. a Christian site reads:
What is the Black Stone? Black Stone (al-Hajr al-Aswad) is a Holy Stone placed in the Holy Ka'ba.
What is it for? When Muslims go for pilgrimage to Makkah this acts as starting point for circumambulating the Holy Ka'ba and has some symbolic significance.
As I mentioned it marks the start point of the circumambulation (tawaaf) of the Holy Ka'ba. Those who circumambulate in the immediate place around Ka'ba kiss it while those who cannot make up-to it just wave their hands towards it while there are people who circle the Ka'ba even from the first, second floors as well. They follow the mark parallel to the Black Stone as the start point of the tawaaf. Had there been something too special in this stone itself than it would have been mandatory for each and every pilgrim to physically touch and kiss which is not the case.
As its serves as a mark to something important so its just as if a soldier or some other person returns to his homeland after a long time so he kisses the soil of his land or shows admiration for some landmarks. Its his love, his affection for his homeland and nothing more. For itself soil is nothing, same way Black Stone for itself is nothing.
Do Muslims worship the Black Stone? No Muslims don't! The purpose of the Black Stone has been described above. Further there is more historic evidence that its not an object of Worship. In one of most sad events of Islamic history the city of Makkah was sacked by the Qaramatians in the year 930 C.E. They killed many pilgrims, desecrated the holy sites and took away the Black Stone to their seat of Power at Al-Hasa in Bahrayn. It was restored in the year 952 C.E. thus for about quarter of a century the stone was displaced from its location yet neither did Muslims turn to Al-Hasa for prayers during that period neither were the obligations of Salah (ritual prayers) and Hajj (obligatory pilgrimage) suspended. If it were an object of worship much consternation would have followed the unfortunate event.
Why kiss it? And we Muslims kiss it just because of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) did it.
Read the following Hadith, it makes the whole thing crystal clear.
Narrated 'Abis bin Rabia: 'Umar came near the Black Stone and kissed it and said "No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither benefit anyone nor harm anyone. Had I not seen Allah's Apostle kissing you I would not have kissed you."
(Bukhari Hadith 1494)
Similar has been narrated about the First Caliph, Abu Bakr (RA). See Suyuti's Tarikh Al-Khulafa 1/35 cf. Ilal al-Darqutni
Catholic concept of Mary:
Contrary to the Islamic concept of showing respect to this stone what the Christians do is much more than this.
Firstly, making the idols of any holy person and its revering is no way comparable to Muslim's kissing the shapeless stone which for itself signifies nothing.
Secondly, Catholics do pray 'To Jesus through Mary' thus believing in her as at least an intercessor. See THIS
I am saying 'at least' because this is something no catholic would ever deny. There were and still are people who openly called Mary, 'the Mother God', not merely 'Mother of God'. And even today there are people still who revere and venerate her as "GOD". And such people claim to be Catholics .
So showing veneration to the statue of Mary (May ALLAH bestow His blessings upon her) is nothing less than idol worship. No Muslims, even the most lunatic of them has any such belief about the Black Stone or the Holy Ka'ba. Thus such a concordance is nothing but mere absurdity.
INDEED ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST!
"My question is do you see any difference between the Muslim practice of kissing showing reverence and venerating the Black Stone and the Catholic practice of pope John Paul II kissing the statute of the Virgin Mary with reverence and veneration?"
MY RESPONSE
What is the Black Stone? Black Stone (al-Hajr al-Aswad) is a Holy Stone placed in the Holy Ka'ba.
What is it for? When Muslims go for pilgrimage to Makkah this acts as starting point for circumambulating the Holy Ka'ba and has some symbolic significance.
As I mentioned it marks the start point of the circumambulation (tawaaf) of the Holy Ka'ba. Those who circumambulate in the immediate place around Ka'ba kiss it while those who cannot make up-to it just wave their hands towards it while there are people who circle the Ka'ba even from the first, second floors as well. They follow the mark parallel to the Black Stone as the start point of the tawaaf. Had there been something too special in this stone itself than it would have been mandatory for each and every pilgrim to physically touch and kiss which is not the case.
As its serves as a mark to something important so its just as if a soldier or some other person returns to his homeland after a long time so he kisses the soil of his land or shows admiration for some landmarks. Its his love, his affection for his homeland and nothing more. For itself soil is nothing, same way Black Stone for itself is nothing.
Do Muslims worship the Black Stone? No Muslims don't! The purpose of the Black Stone has been described above. Further there is more historic evidence that its not an object of Worship. In one of most sad events of Islamic history the city of Makkah was sacked by the Qaramatians in the year 930 C.E. They killed many pilgrims, desecrated the holy sites and took away the Black Stone to their seat of Power at Al-Hasa in Bahrayn. It was restored in the year 952 C.E. thus for about quarter of a century the stone was displaced from its location yet neither did Muslims turn to Al-Hasa for prayers during that period neither were the obligations of Salah (ritual prayers) and Hajj (obligatory pilgrimage) suspended. If it were an object of worship much consternation would have followed the unfortunate event.
Why kiss it? And we Muslims kiss it just because of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) did it.
Read the following Hadith, it makes the whole thing crystal clear.
عَنْ عَابِسِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ عَنْ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
أَنَّهُ جَاءَ إِلَى الْحَجَرِ الْأَسْوَدِ فَقَبَّلَهُ فَقَالَ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ حَجَرٌ لَا تَضُرُّ وَلَا تَنْفَعُ وَلَوْلَا أَنِّي رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُقَبِّلُكَ مَا قَبَّلْتُكَ
Narrated 'Abis bin Rabia: 'Umar came near the Black Stone and kissed it and said "No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither benefit anyone nor harm anyone. Had I not seen Allah's Apostle kissing you I would not have kissed you."
(Bukhari Hadith 1494)
Similar has been narrated about the First Caliph, Abu Bakr (RA). See Suyuti's Tarikh Al-Khulafa 1/35 cf. Ilal al-Darqutni
Catholic concept of Mary:
Contrary to the Islamic concept of showing respect to this stone what the Christians do is much more than this.
Firstly, making the idols of any holy person and its revering is no way comparable to Muslim's kissing the shapeless stone which for itself signifies nothing.
Secondly, Catholics do pray 'To Jesus through Mary' thus believing in her as at least an intercessor. See THIS
I am saying 'at least' because this is something no catholic would ever deny. There were and still are people who openly called Mary, 'the Mother God', not merely 'Mother of God'. And even today there are people still who revere and venerate her as "GOD". And such people claim to be Catholics .
So showing veneration to the statue of Mary (May ALLAH bestow His blessings upon her) is nothing less than idol worship. No Muslims, even the most lunatic of them has any such belief about the Black Stone or the Holy Ka'ba. Thus such a concordance is nothing but mere absurdity.
INDEED ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST!
Why Muslims use Bible for prophecies about Prophet Muhammad ?
Q-When Muslims argue that 'Tora't', 'Zaboor' and 'Injeel' and other scriptures that were revealed to other Prophets have been corrupted then why do Muslims use the same 'corrupted' scriptures for Prophecies about Prophet Muhammad ?
ANS:-The answer is simple. But one needs to understand Islamic standpoint about previous scriptures.
Undoubtedly we Muslims believe as the Quran tells us, that previous scriptures have been corrupted. But still there is a chance that may be some words of God or the Holy Prophets may have survived and transmitted down to this day. Thus we take Quran as a criterion to judge. Whatever is in consonance with Quran and Authentic Ahadith (sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad) we believe and else we don’t. We are told in the Holy Quran;
"To thee We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety: so judge between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the Truth that hath come to thee. To each among you have we prescribed a law and an open way." (Al-Quran 5:48)
Abdullah Yusuf Ali in his commentary to this word writes;
"After the corruption of the older revelations, the Quran comes with a twofold purpose: (1 to confirm the true and original Message and (2 to guard it, or act as a check to its interpretation. The Arabic word 'Muhaimin' is very comprehensive in meaning. It means one who safeguards, watches over, stands witness, preserves, and upholds. The Quran safeguards "the Book", for it has preserved within it the teachings of all the former Books. It watches over these Books in the sense that it will not let their true teachings to be lost. It supports and upholds these Books in the sense that it corroborates the Word of Allah which has remained intact in them. It stands a witness because it bears testimony to the Word of Allah contained in these Books and helps to sort it out from the interpretations and commentaries of the people which were mixed with it: what is confirmed by the Quran is the Word of Allah and what is against it is that of the people."
So as the Quran says that Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has been mentioned in the previous scriptures so we try to find those from whatever is with Jews and Christians today. Thus our endeavor is in this regard.
INDEED ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST!
ANS:-The answer is simple. But one needs to understand Islamic standpoint about previous scriptures.
Undoubtedly we Muslims believe as the Quran tells us, that previous scriptures have been corrupted. But still there is a chance that may be some words of God or the Holy Prophets may have survived and transmitted down to this day. Thus we take Quran as a criterion to judge. Whatever is in consonance with Quran and Authentic Ahadith (sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad) we believe and else we don’t. We are told in the Holy Quran;
"To thee We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety: so judge between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the Truth that hath come to thee. To each among you have we prescribed a law and an open way." (Al-Quran 5:48)
Abdullah Yusuf Ali in his commentary to this word writes;
"After the corruption of the older revelations, the Quran comes with a twofold purpose: (1 to confirm the true and original Message and (2 to guard it, or act as a check to its interpretation. The Arabic word 'Muhaimin' is very comprehensive in meaning. It means one who safeguards, watches over, stands witness, preserves, and upholds. The Quran safeguards "the Book", for it has preserved within it the teachings of all the former Books. It watches over these Books in the sense that it will not let their true teachings to be lost. It supports and upholds these Books in the sense that it corroborates the Word of Allah which has remained intact in them. It stands a witness because it bears testimony to the Word of Allah contained in these Books and helps to sort it out from the interpretations and commentaries of the people which were mixed with it: what is confirmed by the Quran is the Word of Allah and what is against it is that of the people."
So as the Quran says that Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has been mentioned in the previous scriptures so we try to find those from whatever is with Jews and Christians today. Thus our endeavor is in this regard.
INDEED ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST!
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