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I saw this thread earlier and was gonna ignore (for one reason or the other) but you just can’t get over the disingenuity, overall intellectual inconsistency and gross sow of seeds of doubts based on an agenda against a certain group of people that it reeks of …
I saw this thread earlier and was gonna ignore (for one reason or the other) but you just can’t get over the disingenuity, overall intellectual inconsistency and gross sow of seeds of doubts based on an agenda against a certain group of people that it reeks of …
Let’s unpack it
Warning: It’s gonna be a HUGE thread/thread of threads.
Here are the main arguments:
1.Allaah only named us Muslims “Muslims” and you’ll never find a name better than Muslims.
2.Allaah only wants you to identify (disallowing the use of other names) as …
Warning: It’s gonna be a HUGE thread/thread of threads.
Here are the main arguments:
1.Allaah only named us Muslims “Muslims” and you’ll never find a name better than Muslims.
2.Allaah only wants you to identify (disallowing the use of other names) as …
… Muslims and any other form of identification not sanctioned by explicit text is bid’ah.
3.Anyone claiming any other form of identification is slandering Allaah and his messenger of not giving us the best names.
4.Reject all tags
Refutations to each point:
3.Anyone claiming any other form of identification is slandering Allaah and his messenger of not giving us the best names.
4.Reject all tags
Refutations to each point:
1. It is categorically false that Allaah and his messenger only labeled us as Muslims. Throughout texts (Qur’an and ahaadeeth) Muslims have been distinctly differentiated and named accordingly based on several things (Al-Muhaajiroon, Al-Ansar, As-Saabiqoon, Al-Awwaloon etc)…
but for the sake of relevance and brevity, let’s focus on differentiation based on LEVEL OF BELIEF. Allaah says in Q49:14:“The bedouins say, "We have believed." Say, "You have not [yet] believed; but say [instead], 'We have submitted,' for faith has not yet entered your hearts…”
Here we clearly see a different categorization other than “Muslim”, which is Mu’meen, since those Bedouins claim Islam and are therefore Muslims by default but they lack true “pristine Islam”(that would naturally comprise Eeman). There’s also a hadith that’s found in the Sahihayn
Imam Ahmad recorded that `Amir bin Sa`d bin Abi Waqqas said, "The Messenger of Allah gave (something to) some men and did not give one of them. Sa`d said, `O Allah's Messenger, you gave to so-and-so & so-and-so. However, you gave nothing to so-and-so, even though he is a Mu’min..
The Prophet said, “Or (say), a Muslim?” Sa`d repeated his statement thrice and each time the Prophet answered, “Or (say), a Muslim?”…”
There’s also the popular Hadith of Jibreel (second Hadith in the 40 hadiths collection of Nawawi) where a reference to three levels of belief..
There’s also the popular Hadith of Jibreel (second Hadith in the 40 hadiths collection of Nawawi) where a reference to three levels of belief..
is made (Islam, Eemaan and Ihsan). From this, we can deduce another name: “Muhsin”, which is a worshipper that’s a level higher than “Mu’min”. With all these said, we can see that Muslims have been called not only other names, but demonstrably better names.
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