The Dark Danger: Bigotry: A Dirty Conception of Faith and A Low-Quality Conception of Being a Muslim
Contents
- The Misunderstood Islam
- The Two Basic Concepts Misused by Those Who Portray Islam as a Violent Faith: Sharia and Jihad
- Islam: The Religion of Ease
- The True Sharia in the Qur'an
- What Does the True Qur'anic Sharia Bring to A Country?
- The True Jihad in the Qur'an
- An Examination of Verse 95 of Surat an-Nisa'
- An Examination of Verse 52 of Surat al-Furqan
- A Muslim Has a Responsibility to Believe in Every Verse of the Qur'an, Without Exception
- The Qur'an Is a "Preserved" Book
- The Mistakes in Differentiating between the "Meccan Period Muslims" and "Medinan Period Muslims"
- The Harsh Testing of Muslims in the Meccan Period
- The Medinan Period and the Battles
- Who Were Battles Fought Against?
- The Description of War in the Qur'an
- Polytheists with Whom Agreements Were Made
- The First Multilateral and Most Democratic Constitution Ever: The Constitution of Medina
- Verses about War and the Interpretation Thereof
- There Is No Justification for War in Islam Except for Self-Defense
- War for Ideological or Ethnic Superiority?
- One of the Main Causes of Radicalism: Tribal Culture
- War for the Purpose of Spreading the Rules of Islam to be Introduced by A Muslim Leader?
- War for the Elimination of Enemies?
- Who Desires War?
- Conclusion
- The False Faith of the Fanatics
- Fabricated Hadiths that Shape the Religion of the Fanatics
- Our Prophet (pbuh) Did Not Allow Any Hadith To Be Written Down
- The Rightly-Guided Caliphs Did Not Allow the Writing of Hadiths
- Some of the Companions of Our Prophet (pbuh) Objected to Collecting Hadith
- The Idolaters and Hypocrites Tried to Harass Our Prophet (pbuh)
- Where Did Fabricated Hadiths Come from?
- Differences between the Islamic Schools of Thought
- Those Who Seek Commandments outside the Qur'an Must Turn to the Truth of the Faith
- Radicals Seek to Hold on to "What They Learned from Their Forefathers"
- The Islamic World's Abandonment of the Qur'an
- The Qur'an Is Our Guide and Should Be in Our Hands at All Times
- A Major Problem: The Defamatory Idea that the Hadiths Have Abrogated Verses
- Understanding the Limits of the Fanatical Mindset
- The Killing of People Who Drink Alcohol
- The Killing of People Who Commit Adultery
- Adultery in the Eyes of the Qur'an
- The Killing of People Who Steal
- The Killing of Apostates
- The Killing of Those Who Cease to Pray
- The Beating of Children Who Stop Praying
- The Killing of People Who Do Not Give Alms
- The Imprisonment and Starvation of Those Who Do Not Fast
- The Killing of People Who Abjure the Faith When Drunk
- The Killing of Those Who Speak Improperly about the Prophet without Calling on Him to Repent
- The Superstition of "Accursed Animals" in the Religion of the Fanatics
- Our Prophet (pbuh) Did Away with the Cruel Customs that Mistreated Animals
- Our Prophet (pbuh) Forbade Animals from Being Overworked
- Working Animals' Right to Rest
- Our Prophet (pbuh) Prohibited the Abuse and Mistreatment of Animals
- Our Prophet's (pbuh) Cat, "Muezza"
- Our Prophet's (pbuh) Affection toward a Mother Bird and Her Young
- The Baby Goat
- A Starving Camel and Its Owner
- A Sleeping Antelope
- A Donkey Branded on the Face
- Treating Animals Well
- The Foul Nature of the Fanatic
- A Dirty Conception of Faith and A Low-Quality Conception of Being a Muslim
- Women Are One of the Finest Blessings in This World
- Women in the Qur'an
- The Idea that Women Are Deficient in Intelligence and Faith
- The Idea that Women Are Crooked
- Hadiths and Claims Fabricated to Debase Women
- The Idea that Women Are a Barrier to People Living by the Faith
- The Idea that One Should Never Be Guided by Women
- The Defamatory Idea that Women Are Second-Class Citizens and that God Has Left Women Backward
- Allegations Prohibiting Women from Adorning Themselves
- The Fanatics' Idea of How Muslim Women Should Treat Their Husbands
- The Rights and Superiority Bestowed on Women in the Qur'an Are Nowhere in the Religion of the Fanatic
- The Position of a Woman Who Divorces Her Husband
- A Woman Being Regarded as a Sinner until Her Husband Is Pleased with Her
- Women Being Unable to Go out, and the Idea They Are Prone to Deception by Satan
- The Idea that A Woman Is Misfortune and Annuls Prayer
- Examples of the Fanatical Mindset that Compares Women to Animals
- Verses Addressing the Wives of Our Prophet (pbuh)
- Conclusion: The Qur'an Attaches the Greatest Value to Women
- The Addition of the Word "Headscarf" to Translations of the Qur'an As a Means of Restricting Women
- Surat an-Nur Verse 31, 1st Part
- "Khimar" / Cover
- "Yadribna" / To strike
- "Juyub" / Collar opening
- Misleading or Incorrect Translations Based on Fabricated Hadiths
- A False Interpretation: "That They Should Draw Their Head Coverings"
- 1-Care over the Use of Words in Arabic
- 2-Examination of Words in the Qur'an Through Other Verses
- 3-Care Being Taken Over Ascribing Meaning to Arabic Words in Parenthesis
- Surat an-Nur Verse 31, 2nd Part
- Misinterpretations Regarding "Women's Adornments"
- The Idea that Women Are Instruments of Trial
- The Error of Making Adornments and Accessories Unlawful
- How Is the Word "Ornament" Used in the Qur'an?
- The Region Referred to in Verse 31 of Surat an-Nur
- Fabricated Hadiths on the Subject of the Head-Covering and Their Internal Inconsistencies
- Forbidden Things Are Not Left Obscure in the Qur'an
- The Desire to Shut Only Women and Their Bodies Away
- The Qur'an Refers to the Jilbab, Not to the Headscarf
- Surat al-Ahzab Verse 59
- Espousing the Head-Covering but Never Mentioning the "Jilbab"
- Which Important Topics Do Some of the Passionate Defenders of the Headscarf Never Talk About?
- A Muslim Woman Knows How to Dress in Accordance with the Qur'an
- The "Two Women = One Man" Error
- Women and Witness Testimony in Loans
- Women's Inheritance Rights
- A Woman's Right to Divorce
- Divorce and the Protection of Women Thereafter
- Women Being Kept Happy and Content in the Event of Divorce
- Women Being Given Financial Security after Divorce
- Assets Given to Women Must Not Be Taken back after Divorce
- Ensuring Women Have a Place to Live after Divorce
- Women Not Being Inherited by Force
- The Value Placed on Mothers
- The Slander of Male Superiority and the Nonsense about Beating Women
- The Idea of Male Superiority
- The False Idea of the "Beating of Women"
- Other Misconceptions concerning Women
- Sayings of Our Prophet (pbuh) in Praise of Women
- The Fanatics' Hatred of Art
- The Idea that Joking, Humor and Laughter Must Be Avoided
- According to the Qur'an Grief and Unhappiness Are Attributes of Unbelievers Alone
- The Joy in Paradise and the True Meaning of Sorrow
- The Idea of Avoiding Humor
- The Allegation that Music and Poetry Are Forbidden
- The Dishonesty of Fanatics Who Seek to Ban Music
- God Loves Music, and Causes His Servants to Love It
- The Idea that Painting and Sculpture Are Unlawful
- The Idea that Gold and Silk Are Prohibited
- Fabricated Hadiths that Prohibit Pleasant Scent
- Fabricated Hadiths that Prohibit Tattoos, Removal of Facial Hair, Esthetic Dental Work
- Fabricated Hadiths that Prohibit Women from Going out of Doors in Attractive Clothes
- Fabricated Hadiths that Maintain that Women Lose Paradise by Preoccupying Themselves with Gold and Clothes
- Fabricated Hadiths that Maintain that Women Should not be Given Nice Clothes
- If the Spirit of the Fanatics Dominated This World
- Make-up, Grooming, Cleanliness, Modernity and Culture, "Quality" for Short, Are All Requirements of Islam
- Women Are Lovely Beings, of course They Must Be Well-Groomed
- The Horrifying Nature of the Misogyny of the Fanatical Mindset
- The Perversion that Leads to Running inside and Locking the Doors upon Seeing a Boy
- The Lie that Young Boys are Accompanied by Eighteen Satans
- The Perversion that Claims Boys Can Be 19 Times More Seductive than Women
- The Perversion that Claims ‘Young Boys Are Same as Women’ And ‘Boys Can Be Lusted After just like Women’
- The Claim that a Young Boy's Voice is Forbidden
- Muslims Have the Right to Wear Attractive Stylish Clothing and Own Fine Cars and Nice Homes
- Jews and Christians in the Religion of the Fanatics
- Responses from the Qur'an to Those Who Look to the Qur'an for Enmity toward the Jews
- The Comparison with "Monkeys and Pigs" and What the Qur'an Really Says about the People of the Book
- Examination of Verse 60 of Surat al-Ma'ida
- Jews Who Are Praised
- Examination of Verse 166 of Surat al-A'raf
- Examination of Verse 65 of Surat al-Baqara
- The Error of the Jews Being Cursed
- An Examination of Verse 88 of Surat al-Baqara
- Examination of Verse 155 of Surat an-Nisa'
- The Idea of Not Taking Jews and Christians As Friends
- Misunderstandings About War and the Jizya
- What Does the Expression "The Religion with God Is Islam" Mean?
- The Idea of Killing Jews Who Enter Adolescence
- The Idea of Making Jews Responsible for the Sins of Muslims
- The Idea that Food Is Spoiled because of Jews
- The Idea that Two Faiths Should Not Co-exist in Arab Lands
- The Idea that Calling Someone a Jew Is an Insult and that Cursing Jews Is a Source of Reward
- The Idea of Forcing Them onto the Narrow Part of the Road
- The Gharqad, the Tree of the Jews
- Muslim Men Can Marry Women of the Book; Muslims Can Eat the Food of the People of the Book and They Can Eat the Food of Muslims
- Muslims' Invitation to the People of the Book
- The Just Behavior of Muslims toward the People of the Book
- Muslims Are Obliged To Protect Churches and Synagogues; It Is a Sin To Attack Places of Worship
- Our Prophet's (pbuh) Relations with the People of the Book
- The Gospel and the Torah in the Qur'an
- Our Prophet's Practices concerning the Torah and the Gospel
- The Jews Enjoy the Right to Live in the Holy Land in the Qur'an
- Afterword
Under the influence of various fabricated hadiths, fanatics adopt a life style that regards all manner of disgusting things as legitimate and filth as a way of living, and also develop a quite terrifying total lack of quality. For that reason there is a widely spread – and regrettably "fashionable" - lack of quality in some Islamic communities. In the light of that conception of lack of quality, a Muslim emerges as someone who looks dirty, ill-kempt, uncared for, careless, crude; a far cry from beauty and kindness, and as someone who attaches no importance to beauty or manners, and who even lacks any understanding of such things. If you notice, great care is always taken that such an impression should prevail whenever the word "Muslim" is mentioned.
It is no surprise, of course, that these people should have such a low-quality and squalid life style when one looks at their conception of Islam: There can certainly be no expectation of quality from a mentality that forbids women from even plucking their eyebrows (this will be discussed in due course), that insists on people licking their hands after eating rather than washing them, and that maintains that a bowl of soup with a fly in it is healthy. This false conception of religion shaped by false hadiths is so widespread that a Muslim is criticized by these people for looking pleasant and high quality. This trickery under the name of Islam has pervaded the entire community of Islam in one way or another, and this ghastly appearance also makes other communities uneasy, of course. However, there is a glorious quality in the Qur'an. As the most perfect applier of the Qur'an, our Prophet (pbuh) was of the best quality and was the most intelligent person of his time. He was always clean. He always wore the best quality and cleanest clothes and always behaved in the kindest way. Were our Prophet (pbuh) alive today, he would doubtlessly be the best quality person of our own time as well because our Prophet's (pbuh)
guide was the Qur'an, and the Qur'an addresses keeping to the highest quality at all times.
It is very important to make it clear that quality is not something that can be established with money, possessions or stylish clothes: Quality is an attribute that can be attained by valuing cleanliness, care and beauty, through perfection in behavior and attitudes, and through respect, affection and rationality and proper moral virtue. A person can wear the same clothes every day, but he will be high Art, quality and cleanliness are championed and encouraged in the Qur'an. Our Prophet (pbuh) was the most high-quality and modern person of his time as he followed the Qur'an in the most perfect manner. A crude, artless, ugly, dirty life is a spiritual disaster caused by a non-Qur'anic Islamic understanding.
quality if he puts them on clean every day and treats them with care. Someone may not share another's ideas, but he will be high quality if he respects that other person's ideas and treats them with affection. Behavior is one of the most important ways of determining someone's quality; someone who cannot bear filth, avariciousness or low quality behavior is already a person of naturally high quality. Someone who speaks well, praises beauty, who takes every opportunity to recognize the superior nature of science and elegance, and who naturally values the other party is a high-quality person. All these attributes that require quality have, to a large extent, been forgotten in Islamic societies; the reason for that is the main error into which these communities have fallen: that they have abandoned the Qur'an. Societies have emerged that value quantity over quality, hatred over love and filth and carelessness over cleanliness and good grooming. The only cure for this peculiar affliction is the Qur'an. One of the most urgent matters at the moment is to show the societies in question the superior quality of the Muslim, with supporting evidence from the Qur'an. So long as no evidence is produced from the Qur'an, the communities in question will continue to turn away from democracy, to be communities of anger, to spread lack of quality and to attach no importance to art and cleanliness. This is a scourge that is increasing by the day.
Quality is not a condition to be met through money, possessions or stylish clothes.
Quality is a feature that can be acquired through cleanliness, care, valuing beauty, immaculate behavior, affection, rationality, respect and moral virtue. The true Islam of the Qur'an requires this conception of quality. The world of the fanatics, on the other hand, is as filthy and low quality as it can be. This is a consequence of defying the Qur'an.