Why I start this blog?
In today's world, Islam is in the limelight for all the wrong reasons... Terrorism for starts - a wrong correlation for sure, but thats the way it is. Then, there is the "4 wives" issue, the "talaq" or divorce issue, the inheritance laws, Islam's stand on capital and corporal punishment and ofcourse the "hijab" or veil. The world in general has drawn a gross mental picture of Islam - an erroneous conclusion based on hearsay and also deliberate attempts from political bodies in mass alienating a particular community or sometimes a nation at a global, national and individual scale. I will not attempt to hide the factor of the thoughtless and misled factions of this community who have gone ahead and sunk the concept of "jihad" into a killing machinery driven by spite and any other motive other than Islam.
At a time, when men earlier denounced as terrorists come out as victims of fake encounter, we should rise to understand a horrifying fact. The misconception that an average man has of Islam, can be exploited easily by a government or the police force by merely targetting an individual from a specific community and then staging an encounter and calling him a terrorist, with the surety that it will be swallowed and digested blindly by an all too believing and biased society - innocent in its motives, but deadly in its passive prejudice.
Such being the situation, I believe that an attempt should be made at creating a general awareness about the truth of Islam...
Another reason as to why i start this blog is because, many of my friends, colleagues have asked me delicately about several concepts in Islam. I have always tried to explain and clear their doubts.... but I have always wondered if thats all they wanted to know.. or as to how many people were not confident in me to address their doubts about Islamic laws and principles...
A blog provides the solution - an indiscriminate set of answers for anyone who has a question and anyone who cares to read.
A third reason is, I have always wanted to do this but as usual acted slowly. Now a realization hit me that time would not always be at my disposal. If I keep postponing this to tomorrow, maybe tomorrow I may not be around to write anymore. Everyone has a specific time alloted to them by the Creator. If a good deed is to be done, it should be done now.
May God aid me in providing a lucid idea about what Islam truly is.
At a time, when men earlier denounced as terrorists come out as victims of fake encounter, we should rise to understand a horrifying fact. The misconception that an average man has of Islam, can be exploited easily by a government or the police force by merely targetting an individual from a specific community and then staging an encounter and calling him a terrorist, with the surety that it will be swallowed and digested blindly by an all too believing and biased society - innocent in its motives, but deadly in its passive prejudice.
Such being the situation, I believe that an attempt should be made at creating a general awareness about the truth of Islam...
Another reason as to why i start this blog is because, many of my friends, colleagues have asked me delicately about several concepts in Islam. I have always tried to explain and clear their doubts.... but I have always wondered if thats all they wanted to know.. or as to how many people were not confident in me to address their doubts about Islamic laws and principles...
A blog provides the solution - an indiscriminate set of answers for anyone who has a question and anyone who cares to read.
A third reason is, I have always wanted to do this but as usual acted slowly. Now a realization hit me that time would not always be at my disposal. If I keep postponing this to tomorrow, maybe tomorrow I may not be around to write anymore. Everyone has a specific time alloted to them by the Creator. If a good deed is to be done, it should be done now.
May God aid me in providing a lucid idea about what Islam truly is.
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