Men will not be able to obey all the orders of Allah in the way shown by the Prophet Muhammad saw and with the intention to please Allah, unless men have the love of Allah in their heart. This is known as having the true iman or faith towards Allah. Men will not be able to have the true iman or faith toward Allah unless men do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evil after reciting the Great Kalimah. When Muslims are not inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, it means the Muslims have committed the greatest evil. The greatest evil of the Muslims must be prevented by inviting the Muslims to do the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and to remind the Muslims about the Great Kalimah and to invite Muslims to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and to perform the five times daily prayers. It is obligatory (fardu ain) on all Muslim males and females to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and to perform the five times daily prayers. It is also obligatory on some Muslims males (fardu kifayah)to do the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and to invite the Muslims to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evil and to perform the five times daily prayers with congregation (Jemaah). Both of the orders are obligatory to all Muslims and the obligatory is fardu kifayah and fardu ain. In Islam, it is only these two orders of Allah, which are obligatory to Muslims, and the obligatory is both of fardu kifayah and fardu ain.
Allah says in the Quran with the approximate meaning; there is no compulsion in religion. This means Muslims are not allowed to invite either the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah or to invite the Muslims to do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils and to invite the Muslims to perform the five times daily prayers with force but with love and affection. Allah orders the Muslims to continue to invite with love and affection to the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah and the Muslims to obey the orders of Allah, even though the non-Muslims continue to refuse reciting the Great Kalimah and the Muslims continue to refuse obeying the orders of Allah. Our Prophet Muhammad saw continue to invite his uncle to recite the Great Kalimah with love and affection and he continue to remain friendly with his uncle Abu Talib, even though Abu Talib continue to refuse reciting the Great Kalimah. Probably, our Prophet Muhammad saw had invited his uncle Abu Talib to recite the Great Kalimah for more than hundred times. Although, Abu Talib continue to refuse to recite the Great Kalimah, but our Prophet Muhammad saw remain friendly and loving towards his uncle, Abu Talib.
Prophet Muhammad saw continue to remain friendly and loving towards his uncle Abu Talib, even to the hour when Abu Talib was about to pass away from this world. Abu Talib who is the most beloved person of our Prophet Muhammad saw finally died in a condition refusing to recite the Great Kalimah. Contrary to the action of our Prophet Muhammad who remains friendly and loving towards those who refuse to recite the Great Kalimah, there is a Hadis which advice Muslims to severe relationship with the Muslims who continue to practice evils deeds even though being reminded continuously by others to stop the evil practices. In my opinion, this Hadis must be a false Hadis because the meaning of the Hadis does not seems to complement the meaning of the verse of the Quran, which says that there is no compulsion in religion and this Hadis does not complement the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw. In my opinion, those Muslims who hate the non-Muslims or who hate Muslims who disobeyed the orders of Allah must have been the Muslims who are practicing this false Hadis. Muslim who practices this false Hadis will hate the non-Muslims and the Muslims who disobeyed the orders of Allah. When Muslims understand that this action is the order of Allah and the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw, they will not like to mingle with non-Muslims or with the Muslims who disobeyed the orders of Allah. I think this is the reason why there are many Muslims who are not friendly with the non-Muslims or friendly with the Muslims who disobeyed the orders of Allah. Muslims who are friendly with the non-Muslims or with the Muslims who disobeyed the orders of Allah are usually the Muslims who are not practicing Islam.
When Muslims do not love the non-Muslims, they do not like to become friend with the non-Muslims. When Muslims do not love the non-Muslims they do not like to invite the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah. When Muslims do not love the non-Muslims, they will have hatred towards the non-Muslims. When Muslims have hatred towards the non-Muslims, the Muslims will have war with the non-Muslims. Why the Muslims do not love the non-Muslims? They do not love the non-Muslims because they do not love Allah. Why the Muslims do not love Allah? They do not love Allah because they do not do the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils after they have recited the Great Kalimah. Allah does not order the Muslims to hate the Jews, the Christians or to hate any of the followers of any religions, or to hate any races, or to hate Muslims who have disobeyed the order of Allah. A Muslim who hates the Jews, the Americans, any races or Muslims who disobey the order of Allah has disobeyed the order of Allah. Is there any verse in the Quran, which order the Muslims to hate the non-Muslims such as the Jews, the Christians or any races or the Muslims who disobey the orders of Allah? All the Hadis which order the Muslims to hate the Jews , the Christians or the Muslims who have disobeyed the orders of Allah are not complementing the meaning of the Quran and the Sunnah. Hadis, which orders the Muslims to hate others, must be a false Hadis. Allah is the most merciful and the most compassionate and it is not possible for Allah who is the most merciful and the most compassionate to order the Muslims to hate the Jews and the Christians.
In the Quran, Allah introduces Himself as the most merciful and the most compassionate. Allah who is the most merciful and the most compassionate wants the whole mankind to love each other as one whole family. Allah wants the Muslims to love the Jews and Allah wants the Jews to love the Muslims. Prophet Muhammad saw wants the Muslims to consider everyone in this world to be the same whether they are Jews or Arabs. According to the teaching of Islam, a person is not superior to another person because of the person’s race but a person is superior to another person because of the person’s good actions. There is no race in this world, which is more superior to other races. Neither the Arabs nor the Jews are more superior to any other races in this world. When the Jews believe that they are more superior to the Arabs and other races, the Jews will look down at the Arabs and to the other races and the Jews will not do justice either to the Arabs, or to the other races. In my opinion, the problems that arise between the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East only due to the wrong believe of both the Jews and the Arabs. Arabs, who are mainly Muslims, hate the Jews because they regard the Jews as non-Muslims and the enemies of Muslims. Arabs believe to hate the Jews who are the enemies of Muslims is a virtue. Many Muslims believe that all the evils acts in this world associated with the Jews. Is it true that all the evil actions in this world are associated with the Jews? In the Quran, Allah does mention about the evil actions of the Jews who lived during the time of Prophet Muhammad saw but it does not imply that all the Jews even who live in this world today are associated with evils. The stories of the Jews who did evil deeds are the Jews at the time of Prophet Muhammad saw and not the Jews who live today in this world. The Jews of today have no relationship with the evils deed done by the Jews at the time of Prophet Muhammad saw. In order to teach the whole mankind about the consequences which may come to those who disobeyed the order of Allah, Allah use the example of the Jews who were doing the evil deeds at the time of Prophet Muhammad saw but that does not mean that all the Jews until doomsday are evils.
When Allah mentioned the stories of the evil actions, which were done by the Jews at the time of our Prophet Muhammad saw, it does not mean that all the Jews until the doomsday are evil peoples. Jew is the same as other races in this world. There are good and bad Jew. There are many other races other than Jew who have also disobeyed the order of Allah but the names of the races are not mentioned in the Quran. What is the reason that makes the Muslims to associate the Jews with evil action? Who teaches the Muslims to associate the Jews with the evil actions? In my opinion, it is the work of the Muslim scholars who instead of teaching the true Islam but teaching racism to the Muslims. In my opinion, Muslims scholars are the one who teach the Muslims to associate the evil actions with the Jews and to hate the Jews. Muslims scholars are the ones who teach the Muslims to hate the Jews. I have never heard personally from the mouth of the Muslims scholars whether in Malaysia or abroad, that Muslims must love the Jews because we belong to one family of Ibrahim and Adam. In my opinion, it is also the work of the Jews scholars teach the Jews, that Jews are superior race than other races in this world.
Muslims are associating the word Jews with evil actions because many Muslims follow their Muslims scholars blindly. Allah has not given the Muslims scholars the understanding of the true meaning of the Quran because the Muslims scholars are not doing the work of inviting mankind to good and forbidding mankind from evils. Many Muslims associate the word Jews to mean evil persons. Many Muslims hate the Jews because they believe the Jews are evil. On the other hand, the Jews do injustice to the Arabs because they believe Jews are superior to Arabs. When the Jews do injustice to the Arabs, the belief which the Arabs have inherited towards the Jews, since thousands of years ago that Jews are evil peoples, is increases. When the belief increases in the heart of the Arab-Muslims, the hatred which they have continue to increase. Therefore, the war between the Jews and the Arabs continue to become more impossible to end. As long as the wrong belief in the heart of both the Jews and the Arab Muslims remain, the war between the Jews and the Muslims Arabs will never end. Allah has never order the Muslims to hate the Jews, the Christians or any non-Muslims in this world. The Hadis that orders Muslims to hate the Jews are the false Hadis.
What are the causes that made Muslims hate the Jews and the evil doers? In my opinion, there is one very famous Hadis, which is a true Hadis but because of the wrong interpretation made by the Muslims scholars cause Muslims to hate the evil doers and the Jews. The approximate meaning of the Hadis is you must prevent evil with power and in case you are not able to prevent the evil with power, you must prevent the evil with your words and in case you are not able to prevent the evil with your words you must prevent the evil with your heart and this is the weakest iman. This Hadis is in fact is a true Hadis but since thousands of years ago it was wrongly interpreted by the Muslims scholars. According to the interpretation of the Hadis; to prevent evil with your heart means to hate the evil actions which are done by the persons who are committing the evils but not to hate the evil doers. In my opinion, it is not possible to hate evil actions without having to hate the person who is committing the evil actions. How is it possible to prevent evil actions with the heart means to hate the evil actions in the heart? In my opinion, to hate evil actions in the heart, which are done by a person will not prevent the person from committing the evil actions.
Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
May 2013
Dean of Faculty of Optometry
Twintech International University College of Technology
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia