Comments on: Righting a Wrong

By: RAhmed

RAhmed — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:52:18 +0000

I think if we accept our mistake and humble ourself then the doors are open to think how to rectify it but if arrogancy takes over then we are closing all the doors.

By: Kirana

Kirana — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:21:50 +0000

In the UK, the Muslim image is not helped by the Muslim migrants (significant, even though not the only type of migrants) who move in just to exploit the benefits system there, even contracting fake marriages with eastern european EU citizens so they can jointly commit benefits fraud. the government needed to set up a special effort just to help young Muslim female citizens from being shipped overseas into forced marriages by their own families. further, the recent cases of gang rapes or vulnerable minors were found to be perpetrated by people with Muslim names – therefore, blanket conclusions are drawn by the natives there about the Muslim community and its values. even though we are not responsible for the sins of others, we have to bear in mind the backdrop we live against, from our and our brethren’s failings.

i really admire what the author did. it’s not always easy to swallow one’s ego and apologise for our own faults are trivial in our minds, but others’ faults appear large and HD to us. let alone put money where the mouth is – that provides a signal of seriousness because talk is cheap. we ourselves don’t really believe others’ sincerity until they back it up with something pretty hard to fake.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:57:35 +0000

Thank you sister for posting this beautiful post.

As a convert my mother is always on a lookout for other Muslim girls.

Once at H&M my mother saw a Muslim sister looking at accessories. With all her heart my mother was looking at a scarf and she approached this sister and said to her: “This scarf would look great on you”.

My mom had mentioned to me that upon saying that, she just meanly looked at her and said no words. My mom apologized knowing that she obviously got offended and once again she just meanly stared at my mother and said no words.

As my mother was finishing telling this story she looked at me and said: “See Andrea, how they are”. I was so embarrassed, I tried to tell her that everyone is different and maybe she was having a bad day. However, this story served me as a reminder not to be a bad example of Islam, because I too can slip and fall out of the character that Islam teaches us.

This article explains very well the many examples of Muslim giving the wrong impression of Islam.

By: Zeeshan

Zeeshan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:22:01 +0000

In reply to olaide. Hii is this olaide from brunel ?

By: Abdallah

Abdallah — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:47:26 +0000

Great article 🙂

By: olaide

olaide — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:02:00 +0000

muslims are really under a lot of scrutiny which unfortunately is as a result of the actions of some few muslims. See the case of nigeria and boko haram for example, where innocent people are been killed daily and the killers quote the holy quran and the hadith for their actions.Islam is really being given a bad name here and good muslims are embarrassed. any advice for nigeria

By: Dwell in Tranquility

Dwell in Tranquility — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:46:37 +0000

Excellent article sister Maryam may Allah swt reward you for the great reminder.

Like you said Muslims are under a lot of scrutiny these days, and we really have to make an extra effort, more so than other citizens, and go out of our way in order to correct the misconceptions about Islam, one experience at a time.

By: Student

Student — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:29:48 +0000

Thanks for this reminder.
I always try to show me from my best side when i`m around non-muslims and i try to give Dawa and its actually quit shocking how little they actually know about Islam but pretend to know everything. So many non-muslim women/girls i´ve met thought that the rule for being virgin before enter the marriage only applies to females and not males. Of course i told them it applies to both. But i have to say i`m not going to play a monkeyclown just to please them (not anymore). Once i was talking with a fellow student from Holland and he told me that our Prophet pbuh. is a Childmolester ( he was a atheist), now in that moment i could beat … out of him insteatd i managed to stay calm and just said your´re hurting my feelings which such an comment so stop it. Afterwards i immideatly felt that i have betrayed my lord and i should have been more harsh to him and showing him my passion towards my religion but if i had show him my anger he would have thought on a negativ way about islam ( which he already did) and muslims. Giving Dawa is really hard….they throw so many bias upon the religion on you but inshallah Allah will help us and guide us and i hope Allah forgives me.

ps: ( sorry for the grammar mistakes, english isnt my mother tongue)

By: Samaria

Samaria — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:06:18 +0000

JazakAllah! This actually reminded me to apologize to someone 🙂

By: SeekerOfKnowledge

SeekerOfKnowledge — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:39:10 +0000

Just as Atheists more closely scrutinize the actions/inactions of people of faith…so do people OF OTHER faiths when they view Muslims (or at least people who call themselves as such).

Now why do I mention Atheists AND people OF FAITH? Because they both scrutinize the actions of Muslims to reaffirm what their existing perceptions are of Muslims (which unfortunately is a negative view by many.) I don’t feel like the majority tell themselves.

However from the reaction of the girl to your admission…it could be she never even felt negatively towards Muslims; but by your admission/connection you made to your actions and to Islam…it gave her the idea along the lines of “I really thought Muslims were like that”…when she never really thought that before.

However there’s no argument against how you approached her in the nice manner that you did after the fact.