Shirin Khokhawala urges fellow Muslims to reject hate and return to the Prophet's teachings of love
THE Muslim community stands at the crossroads today.
It is an opportunity for each of us who follows the faith to introspect.
It is time to gain an understanding of why the Muslim stands where he stands. I write this out of love for my community, that struggles today with words like Islamophobia and Islamic fascism.
The Muslim community has fallen into an emotional trap. Muslims have allowed hate to permeate their psyche. Today we hate everything that we consider 'unislamic.'
We have turned into hate machines and everything from Valentine's Day to Westernization is hated with holy intensity.
Hate targets non-believers
Hate, like love, needs more food to grow. So it targets the 'kafirs', or everyone who does not believe in the Unity of Allah, The Most Powerful.
The hate has got so well imbibed in the Muslim psyche that it manifests itself in action.
The terror, the killing and vengeance against all that is 'unislamic', sprouts out of this phenomenon. Muslims have turned into lovers of hate.
Now, the world hates us
Life has come a full circle for the Muslims and today the whole world says, 'we hate Muslims.' In turn the Muslims look to their left and right and wonder what they have done to deserve this.
Prophet taught love, forgiveness
If one is to examine the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet, nowhere has the emotion of hate been taught or approved.
The Prophet of the fastest growing religion on earth did not change anybody's heart towards Islam with hate. It was his teachings of love, forgiveness and equality that attracted people to Islam in droves.
We cannot let Satan succeed
The simple game plan of the Devil (Satan) to lead us into his territory, away from the love and warmth of Allah, The Benevolent, is succeeding.
All we Muslims need to do is revert back to the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet of love and peace.
We need to change our psyche, to lift ourselves to a new high ground, where the mud thrown at our community will not reach.
We have to give up this hate that has overtaken our psyche and give ourselves up to love.
This is the only way we can change this world of hate.

Shirin Khokhawala - Mid-day(India)

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