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As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)

 

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Dear Islam helpline,

 

Assalaamu alaikum, I would  like  to  comment on people scolding  and abusing the author,

 

In the author column as I was reading  got bit worried and annoyed, some people had mentioned  they  would  kill  burhan bhai,

 

They simply abusing him , I don no  are  they  muslims, how could  they abuse and comment like that,  its really arrogant way of act,

 

His(burhans) knowledge is amaging ,whatever we ask  , he is helping us get understood, and he never answers on his own,

 

Whatever he replies it would be authentic and relevant to quran and hadith, I guess some people misunderstood of islamhelplines  author, don’t know why,

 

It  is  really helpful  to  us this  only I can say, ill  do  dua  for  islamhelpline ………

 

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Abusing the author

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

May Allah Subhanah reward you with the best of this world and the Hereafter for your support and kind comments of encouragement for our humble efforts in the propagation of the Truth. If our humble and modest efforts have helped even one brother or sister get closer to Allah and His Deen of Truth, then we would consider ourselves indeed fortunate to have been given this opportunity by the Lord Most Merciful to serve in His Cause. We hope, beg, and pray the Merciful Lord accepts our humble and weak efforts, forgives us our shortcomings, and saves you, us, and all the believers from the torment of the Hell Fire. Ameen.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 31 Surah Luqman verse 21:

And when it is said to them, “Follow what Allah has sent down”, they say, “We shall only follow that upon which we found our forefathers.” What! Will they still be following them even if Shaitaan had been calling them to the raging Fire?

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 34 Surah Saba verse 43:

When Our clear Revelations are recited to these people, they say, “This person only wants to turn you away from those deities whom your forefathers have been worshipping.”

 

Respected brother, when one is born and brought up with a particular set of beliefs, and he is confronted with the Truth of the Quran and the Sunnah which challenge the very basis of his beliefs and practices which the brother has believed in since his birth, it is only natural that the person will try to defend his beliefs.

 

Because the Truth from the Quran and the Sunnah are so overpowering in their truthfulness, some amongst them will use their intelligence and wisdom and succumb and submit to the Supreme Truth. But some amongst them are so convinced in their ways, that they will not accept anything that is contrary to or challenges their ways or beliefs or practices……even if it happens to be Truth from the Quran and the Sunnah! And because these brethren are not able to defend their beliefs neither in light of the Truth of the Quran and the Sunnah nor through intelligence or logic, they at times resort to at best, abuses, or at worst, threats to harm the person who wishes to introduce them to the Truth!

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj verse 71-72:

They worship besides Allah those for whom Allah has sent down no authority! Nor they themselves have any knowledge about them. Such transgressors have no helper! And when our clear Revelations are recited to them, you perceive signs of disdain on the faces of the disbelievers, as though they were going to ASSUALT those who recite our Revelations to them!

 

Allah is our witness brother, the believers who submitted to their Lord Creator and followed the deen before us were involved in trials by their opponents much much severe than mere abuses and curses, but never ever did they ever swerve from propagating the Truth from their Lord!

 

Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 5.191 Narrated by Khabbaba

I came to the Prophet (saws) while he (saws) was leaning against his sheet cloak in the shade of the Ka'ba. We were suffering greatly from the pagans in those days. I said (to the Prophet (saws)): "Will you invoke Allah (to help us)?" His (saws) face turned red as if in anger, and he (saws) sat down and said, "(A believer among) those who were before you used to be combed with iron combs so that nothing of his flesh or nerves would remain on his bones; yet that would never make him desert his religion! A saw might be put over the parting of his head which would be split into two parts, yet all that would never make him abandon his religion. Allah will surely complete this religion (i.e. Islam) so that a traveler from Sana to Hadra-maut will not be afraid of anybody except Allah."

 

As much as those who do not wish to comprehend and submit to the Truth might abuse or curse or oppose those who invite them to the Truth, never ever let their stance bother or dishearten you in the least; but rather keep your trust and faith in the Mercy and Grace of Allah Subhanah, and pray that Allah Subhanah opens their hearts and guides them to the Truth. It may be that one day Allah Subhanah might open their hearts and guides them to the Truth, and the enmity and hatred that exists in their hearts today for those who invite them to the Truth might turn into a lasting friendship and brotherhood not only in this world, but also in the Hereafter.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran: Chapter 16, Surah An-Nahl Ayat 125:

Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and excellent admonition and argue with people in the best manner. Your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Way and who is Rightly Guided.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 41 Surah Ha-Meem verses 33-34:

33 Who is better in speech than one who calls (men) to Allah, works righteousness, and says "I am of those who bow in Islam"?

34 Nor can goodness and evil be equal! Repel (evil) with what is better: then will he, between whom and thee was hatred, become as it were thy friend and intimate!

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan

 


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