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Islam Magnanimity
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
The true believer who performs his/her duties toward Allah (SWT),
including prayer, alms-giving, fasting, and pilgrimage becomes
well-behaved with high manners, magnanimous soul, and kind heart. Each one
of these rites has positive effect in lofting the soul of the believer and
the lots of benefits for the society where he/she lives. Prayer for
instance, was described by Allah (SWT), to be prohibiting obscenity and
denied behavior. Fasting strengthens the will, and creates
god-fearingness, for what is said by Allah in his holy book Al-Qur�an
Al-Kareem in chapter Al-Baqarah, Verse 183:
�O, ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to
those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restrained�
Alms-giving creates social solidarity to lessen the degree of enviousness
and hatred. Then pilgrimage � the greatest Islam assembly, ties all
Muslims on earth from it�s far-east to it�s far-west with god-fearingness
ties.
The true believer always prepares him/herself to meet Allah (SWT), and
honestly believe that Allah will ask him/her about every bit of detail
about his life, and that Allah has prepared recompense or punishment for
every deed. When shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see
it, and anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it. When
no bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another. Then shall every soul
be paid what it earned, and none shall be dealt with unjustly, on the day
when some faces will be (lit up with) white, and some faces will be (in
the gloom of) black. Then people go either to heaven, or to hell.
With this pure feeling, and this aware and decisive view of life, the
believer treats with the others by not becoming wrongful to them.
Consequently, he/she doesn�t betray, be a hypocrite, a tyrant, or
trespasses the limits drawn by Allah to him/her. So, the true believer
follows the right straight path, to win Allah�s contentment.
That�s why the true believer always found to be charitable in everything,
excellent and professional in his/her duties, sober in his/her behavior,
and moderate in all matters, without negligence or immoderation, taking
after the principals of Al-Qur�an El-Kareem, and instructions of the
magnanimous prophecy. The prophecy that targets in the first place the
creation of cordial, concordant, sympathetic, cooperative, and kind tie
between all humans. Let�s study together this one attitude of the Islamic
eternal attitudes, to discover the Islamic behavior in how to deal with
people, to know and make sure that this religion is qualified for every
era and every place. This religion appreciates life, society, humanity,
and accounts for all aspects of life in sayings and in actions. It is
narrated that Abu Dajana was one of the venerable companions of the
prophet Mohammed (PBUH), who had a great effect in the truthful struggle
to loft the banner of Islam, and spreading Islam, the Allah�s veracious
religion everywhere. To appreciate this man, we memorize this eternal
attitude that proves his intrepidity in the battle of Ohud, when the
apostle Mohammed (PBUH) offered his sword to the companions, and it was
destined to Abu Dajana. When he grasped the sword of the prophet with his
hands, and wore his bandage that was known to be the bandage of death, he
went on walking in front of the army strutting and swaggering proudly.
When the Apostle Mohammed (PBUH) saw him this way, he laughed with his
companions and said: �This kind of walk is disliked by Allah and his
apostle, except in these kind of situations�.
Then, Abu Dajana passed by the atheistic army, shredding it�s lines,
causing dead and wounded bodies to fall everywhere. During this he saw a
woman enthusing the atheists, and pushing them to fight, later he grasped
her, but he abandoned her and did not kill her. This masqueraded woman was
�Hend� the mortal enemy of Apostle Mohammed (PBUH) and the Muslims at
these times. When he was asked about this incident, he said that he feared
to impurify the sword of the Apostle (PBUH) with the blood of a woman.
Also, Abu Dajana is the one who threw his body over the Apostle Mohammed
(PBUH), when he fell in the trap the atheists excavated. Abu Dajana made
of himself a shield or arsenal for the Apostle (PBUH), to shove the harm
and wickedness of the atheists from getting to the prophet. He kept on
receiving the darts with patience, faith, steadiness, and endurance,
enjoying the torture and pain and wounds in order to protect the master
and leader of the Humanity, Mohammed Ibn Abdul-Allah Peace be upon him. He
stayed this way until he fell as a martyr soaring in heaven with Apostles,
the veracious, martyrs, and good people.
>From the stories of this veracious companion that he was persevering the
assembly prayer of dawn behind the apostle Mohammed (PBUH). Then, it was
noticed in some period of time, that he rushes out of the Mosque right
after the end of the prayer. The Apostle Mohammed (PBUH) stopped him once
and asked him: �Abu Dajana, Why is your rushing out of the Mosque like
this, missing the extra rituals of the prayer?� Abu Dajana said: �the
reason is that I have a Jewish neighbor. He has a palm tree with long
stems reaching my house; when the wind blows in night, the palms fall in
my house. So I rush out to collect the fallen palms and give it to it�s
owner, before my children wake up and eat from the palm while being
hungry. And I swear in front of you, Allah�s Apostle, that I saw one of my
children chewing one of these palms, and I inserted my finger into his
throat and got it out, before it was swallowed, and told the child: don�t
you feel ashamed to have me stand in front of Allah (SWT) � in the
doomsday � as a thief? �.
That is the Islam religion, and these are the manners of its followers and
believers. They preserve the property of others even if they are from
different religions. This is the magnanimity of Islam, It does not force
any of the people of ideology to follow it, since �No Compulsion in
Religion�. Other religious rituals are practiced under the banner of
Islam, protected by it, without any pressure or compulsion, or subverting
or closing the houses of worshipping of other religions that are
sanctified and preserved by Islam.
No humanity more noble than the Islamic Humanity, No better treatment in
all matters than the Islamic treatment, and No Noble Ethics are as fine as
the Islamic Noble Ethics. This is the magnanimity of Islam, and nothing
but Islam.
Mr. Mahmoud Ashour
Vice Consul - Ministry of Al-Azhar Affairs
Safar 1420 - May 1999
Cairo - Egypt
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