Did you know that before Islam was ever implemented at the state or city level, it was practiced under severe persecution for 13 years in Mecca. The Muslims were being tortured and killed, boycotted even, and they didn’t fight, didn’t really put up any resistance. They fled if they could afford it, but if not they just stayed there, preaching. Peacefully.
That’s what the tableeghi jamaat does. They understand that stage of da’wah, that Islam first needs to be implemented by individuals, and that people need to start following Islam on their own, starting with their obligations, starting with prayer.
Now, I think that’s pretty apolitical, don’t you? Just reminding people to pray?
Not trying to pass laws, lobby lawmakers or judges, or bribe public officials. They don’t raise money for political organizations, they don’t participate in the political process at all.
And I cannot let the fairy tale of mohammed and his few followers in Mecca go without showing that even in islam’s own texts - this was not true.
mohammed was the one who was the harasser of others. This continual fabrication of what happened in Mecca is hogwash.
#1. I think they need to get over it
#2. They won’t because ‘forgiveness’ is not a part of islam, but for 1400 years we have to hear this continual whining about a fabrication.
he was a pill’ to people and the elders went to mohammed’s uncle to ask him to stop mohammed from behaving so poorly. These following hadiths show that mohammed’s assertions about his being treated poorly was in fact the opposite and mohammed was the one who behaved poorly.
Ishaq:119, Tabari VI:93, 95-96
Tabari VI:93 “The Quraysh went to Abu Talib and said, ‘Your nephew [Muhammad] has reviled our gods, denounced our religion, derided our traditional values, and told us that our forefathers were misguided [and burning in hell]. Either curb his attacks on us or give us a free hand to deal with him, for you are as opposed to him as we are.’ They said, ‘We asked you to forbid your nephew from attacking us, but you did nothing. By Allah, we can no longer endure this vilification of our forefathers, this derision of our traditional values, and this abuse of our gods.’ This breach and enmity with his tribe weighed heavily on Talib. ‘Abu Talib, you are our elder and our chief, so give us justice against your nephew and order him to desist from reviling our gods, and we will leave him to his god.’”
Tabari VI:95 “Abu Talib sent for Muhammad. ‘Nephew, here are the shaykhs and nobles of your tribe. They have asked for justice against you. You should desist from reviling their gods and they will leave you to your god.’”
Tabari VI:96 “Abu Talib said to Muhammad, ‘Nephew, how is it that your tribe is complaining of you and claiming that you are reviling their gods and saying this, that, and the other?’ The Messenger said, 'I want them to utter one saying. If they say it, the Arabs will submit to them and the non-Arabs will pay the jizyah [submission tax] to them.”
