If we as Muslims do not want to give the devil a trouble-free ride to do
us harm, we should bring the senseless rivalry within us to a close;
and for an entrée, let some of us who do not know ‘book’ about religion;
about its tradition and teachings overcome the petty prejudices by
shutting up and let those on their toes with it to truthfully speak.
Personally, I do not think any Islamic assembly (I prefer not to call
it sect) was initiated to be in any unceasing tussle for predominance or
command over one another. I believe it is only healthy that we
sometimes have honest differences of views and honest debates, to help
re-brand or re-establish the true standards of any matter under debate.
I may be dead wrong, but I thought the ‘nomenclatures’ of our various
assemblies are just parallel means to the same purpose? Meaning; the
truth is what all the various assemblies [I presume] are set out to
develop. Why then will some of us owe our ultimate allegiance to just 'a
group', so much so that it gets in the way of our devotion to the
larger ‘Truth’?
Why will some of us use honest religious
debates as platform to mislead and misinform people or to excite
disunity? Isn’t it a shame that each time we debate about faith, we tend
to be devoid of the spirit of bringing out the best in ourselves and in
others? Haven’t we done enough harm to religion already? Why should we
keep weakening the discipline and wise conduct that true doctrine was
[I’m sure] set to infuse?
Isn’t it a big disgrace that there
is always some graceless degree of dispute between our various
assemblies concerning the maintenance of very simple matters of the same
statement of belief? Arguments and contretemps so insensitive that
genuine listeners and truth-seekers like me are in total disorientation
about the legitimacy of certain standpoints we were made to have faith
in; and how can we serve with assurance if there is so much disunity
among us? #WontWeReason?
P.S...In one of Haile Selassie’s speeches on Faith, he was quoted to
have said: "No one should question the faith of others, for no human
being can judge the ways of God.”
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