Warfare between the early Muslim
Community and the Pagan Arabs who spared
no effort to undermine the religion
committed so many atrocities against
them including
murderers and people forget about that
historical context and how to deal with
people in that state of war and say
that's the general relationship that
should permeate relationship between
Muslims and non-muslims
alike let me go through this cut and
paste I put it in a form of myth common
statements that are erroneous I have
classified already the type of Errors I
leave it up to your own judgment to find
what kind of errors are there some would
be very
obvious
first how many times you must have seen
or
read that Muslims are so offensive to
those who don't follow their faith they
calling them
infidels or people even referring to to
the text of the Quran in Arabic and
translate the word kufar and I'll come
to that term into
infidels to me that's a straight error
in the first place of
translation the word infidel if you
check the dictionary is quite negative
and
offensive and I wonder whether those
people who are using that term are
instigating hatred against Islam because
they say Islam consider you as an
infidel
just go to any dictionary and sometimes
an Infidel is described as some who
believe in something very weird or
strange or one who does not believe in
God even in the first place this is not
the translation of the term
cfir let me give you an Evidence right
from the Quran to see again another
error contextual error in this kind of
translation even though this is enough
to say translation is wrong is
enough but to confirm it further from
the
Quran are we to consider Jews and
Christians as people who are infidels in
a sense that they don't believe in God
that would fly in the face of verse
46 in the Quran in Surah 29
anab which says it very clearly that
when you dialogue with the people of the
book you dialogue in the best and most
courteous way but then it says
and say to them mean to Jews and
Christians we believe in what has been
revealed to you means in its original
form and what has been revealed to us
your lord and ours is one and the same
and to whom we all
submit doesn't the Quran tell us that
for Jews and Christians they believe in
God how could they be called
infidels furthermore a question that I
leave you to research it and find an
answer do you know who invented the term
Infidel where in the world it was
invented and against whom it was used
you find that Muslims are away from that
it was not Muslims who introduced that
term or used it against other it was
used against them and those who to
justify the unchristian I
emphasize there is no blame on Christ or
his Noble teaching those who abused the
name the good name of
Christ and conducted the Crusades were
the ones who referred to Muslims as
infidels and to
justify arousing the hatred of the
masses they use the term the Infidel
Muslims and to the big surprise when
those people came to fight against
Infidel they found that they have the
purest form of monotheism but this how
masses sometimes are led by politicians
or other institution not all politicians
of course some some politicians all
right another second example of cut and
paste all non-muslims are
disbelievers all right is that a correct
term to start with is there a difference
between the term unb believer and
disbeliever in my humble understanding
an
unbeliever is someone who may not be
aware of something so he doesn't believe
in it he's never known or heard so he is
unbeliever is not exposed to it whereas
a disbeliever seem to indicate that
someone has being exposed to certain
truth or information and then he
deliberately rejected it and that's why
sometimes the Quran use the termar verb
in a active verb form know something but
reject it it is truth but I'm not going
to accept it all right that distinction
then raises another
issue is it possible that a person who
is from an Islamic perspective
unbeliever and
unbeliever will be
forgiven by Allah the answer does not
come in an opinion you go to the Quran
inah 17 in Ayah
15 Allah says in the Quran we will not
punish until we have sent a
messenger so a person who was not
exposed to the message did not know
about the message is not to be condemned
and it's not our job to condemn it is
left to God to judge that person in in
accordance with what he knew about the
truth and whether he rejected it out of
Pride or whatever or he didn't know or
didn't fully understand
it that's a misplaced I Okay the third
one
okay go back to
space some non-muslim some say all right
admittedly not all those who did not
accept Islam are disbelievers some are
unbeliever they don't know but they say
well but some people have been exposed
to The Message of Islam so at least some
of them who willingly rejected it and
did not accept the final prophet and
final scripture as you Muslims
understand it are to be classified as
disbeliever according to your own
definitions what do you say about that
but the question here when you use the
term
disbeliever disbeliever in
what are Jews and Christians
disbelievers in God or ration the answer
was given early in chapter 29 or Surah
29 in the
Quran do Jews and
Christians or
reject the basic generic teaching of God
that was revealed to all of the prophets
the answer is no in fact the Quran said
that all prophets were
Muslims and in fact the Ayah that was
recited
earlier don't die except in the state of
Islam actually it could also be
translated don't die except in the state
of submission to Allah because that's
what the generic meaning of the term
Islam means to achieve peace with God
within on with the creation of God
whether humans animals vegetation or
ecology through submission willing
submission to God we cannot interpret
the word Islam always to mean only the
community that follows Prophet Muhammad
sallu alaihi wasallam this is the last
form of Islam but generic Islam as the
Quran indicat has been the teaching and
message of all of the prophets we cannot
say that people of the book are
disbeliever in that core message of God
or the basic moral teaching taught by
all of the prophets what are they
disbelievers then what did they
disbelieve or reject they disbelieve in
the finality of the miss of prophet
Muhammad and the Quran as the last
revelation of Allah but could that be
regarded really as a derogatory term
really that someone does not disbelieve
well every human being believes in
something disbelieves in something based
on his own
conscious we are not to hold people
accountable here so even if you say
they're disbeliever all right
theologically that's fine but in terms
of ultimate consequence for that it's
not up to you or me to mistreat them in
this life here this is the function of
of God and let us remember again those
who say yes but many Jews and Christian
know about Islam and read about
Islam but let me ask you this how about
if they read about Islam from books
written by people with an
agenda people who wrote actually to
blemish the image of Islam and they
thought with all sincerity that this is
the correct knowledge of Islam this is
Professor so and so this is Doctor so
and so they didn't realize how erroneous
the information is who are we to judge