Islam is Black and White

Black and White by Jan Kroon

A famous quote / translation of Iqbal’s poetry.

Do not wait for Mehdi. Become One.

Islam is that simple. Just that, you strive to become Mehdi. There are two reasons that make us go hay wire from “Black and White” nature of Islam.

1. We do not know

2. We are not there yet

1. We do not know

Brave by Benjamin Davies

This is a synonym to “We fear a little”. We believe it needs a tremendous amount of research, thorough clarity of revelation circumstances and in depth study to understand the Quran. We also believe, some verses are easier to interrupt and can be understood by people of nearly no knowledge. We feel to get an understanding of Quran we need a scholar who holds our finger and guides us to the right path.

It is a simple Book

Quran speaks volumes of only two things.

1 Speak Truth even if you fear you will lose your life

2 Believe you have a God around you.

And all other explanations are just secondary. There are verses, preaching us to distribute the wealth among poor, dividing the inheritance, maintaining relationships and fighting the disbelievers. But a higher view of Quran only asks us to speak Truth.

You must have heard people talk

Do not speak truth if it causes more harm than good.

This is a wrong interpretation of truth. It is called as avoiding the truth.

Inside our hearts we fear a little. We feel small, while we have most of our life right in front of our eyes, we do not want to lose a tiny part of it.

Walk Bold

You want to spread Islam, the truth. You want to give your fellows a public call like Prophet PBUH did standing on Mount Safa. Or you want to give a call to your fellows like Mosa (as) standing in front of Firown. That you want to stand at a round about, pin point all the wrongs and conclude your speech with “there is Allah and I request every one submit to Him”. A loud slogan. A loud call to Allah. So loud, people start labelling you Terrorist, Abnormal and Weird. Just like people did to Prophet Muhammad PBUH.

I say you are allowed. If you believe you do-not-fear losing the stability, you may consistently raise slogans of unity till you die. You may raise slogans of Allah / His Prophet (PBUH) sitting on youtube in spite of all boundaries / rules. You, my brother, should not wait, and start speaking the truth. Allah will protect you. It will not create divide. Neither havoc, nor violence. You will spread Islam like the way Prophets had spread it.

2. We are not there yet

Destination by Benjamin Davies

If you are unable to follow the footsteps of Prophets right now, you have no right to justify your cowardice with wrong interpretations of Islam. Accept the fear, cowardliness and weakness of Faith.

Just accepting the incompleteness, will make us better muslims. We will start working hard to achieve perfection. We will not act proud or cruel. We will not become a self-righteous devil. We will become humble. We will start respecting every call to Athan.

Start telling people, you are an in-complete muslim. You are not there yet. You have not yet achieved the point of Faith, where Prophets preached the message of Allah.

Conclusion

Do not intervene. Do not create resistance. Do not hurt the feelings of spreader of righteous-ness. Just sit there, read the message, and smile. Because we Do not Know, who is closer to Allah. That prostitute, this Hindu, cruel Nazi or evil Firown. We are vulnerable beings, striving to pass the exam. And we will never know the message of Quran, until we “act” on it.