Leave Allah to use His own ways to protect His religion!

The way I see it, leave Allah to use His own ways to protect His religion, for in the end, He is the All-Powerful. If you ask me, I think Jihad has been distorted and twisted from ‘Fi Sabil Illah’ [in the path of God] to ‘Fi Sabil EGO’ [in the path of ego] and that sucks. The Islam I was acquainted with is such that even the behaviour of genuine practitioners should be able to impress and inspire others to learn more about Muslims.

Religion is a matter of conviction, and once one is convinced that his conviction is the most convincing conviction [who cares about verbosity], it will naturally take an entire process to get that person on the path that you believe is truer, and that process should certainly not be coercive, because terrorising others against their accepted judgment is not Islamic.

I am not a scholar and I am not pretending to be one, but as far as I overstand, Jihad is basically “striving in the way of God”, and primarily through personal spiritual efforts. Perhaps we can go physical against hard line enemies, but in defence that is, and when it is the only remaining option. Baseless terror campaign against innocent people or being obsessively in the hunt for enemies that do not exist is full-blown madness.

If you ask me, with the exception of those committed to sincere ‘da‘wah’, and are inviting people to the Islamic way of life, with wisdom and courteous sermons, the rest are a delusional bunch of self-serving criminals disguised as ‘mujahids’, using our respected faith to mislead and use certain fools as tools, and committing heinous crimes against humanity.

I find conspiratorial tendencies ridiculous, but I am going to make an exception today. Really, I strongly suspect that these ISIS, Boko Haram and the rest are on an aided mission to defame Islam. I believe they are criminals that have totally lost their grip on reality, and their random criminal activities against all races and religions are not in proportion to the general aim and purpose of Islam.

Someone said: “The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for” and I believe, because the devil may be disguised as one of your own.

I know decent civilisation has undergone too much grief, but with a bit of luck, I believe humanity can cut down the hatred, and bring back good relations, if only we are willing to work on our individual senses of right and wrong, and our spiritual outlook, do what we lawfully can and let Allah handle the rest.

FOR THE ATTENTION OF ALL THOSE CONTROVERSY COMPULSIVE CRITICS WHO KEEP JUDGING ISLAM BASED ON THE ACTIONS OF SOME OF US, KINDLY LISTEN TO WHAT ALLAH SAYS HERE:

"And by the mercy of Allah you dealt with them gently. If you were harsh and hard hearted, they would have fled from around you" (Quran 3:159). "So speak to him, both of you, mildly in order that he may reflect or fear God." (Quran 20:44). "Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He is most knowing of who is [rightly] guided [Quran 16:125]

Correspondingly, our beloved Nabi (saw) was reported to have said the following: “whenever gentleness is in a thing it beautifies it and whenever it is withdrawn from something it defaces” - “One deprived of gentleness is deprived of all good." – Now how can someone who lived such moral values be accused of violent purpose?

But then, even if common sense is in abundance, consciences are running low; and when there is a disproportion of the two in the psyche, is like having an electrical circuit in a device of lower resistance, whenever there is a contact of components, the outcome is a ruinous diversion of the current, and that’s what’s happening to humankind at the moment, our priorities are unfocused.