Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Who is Muslim ?

  • We can thus summarize the teachings of Islam about the Muslim character concisely in the following way:
    A Muslim is truthful, not dishonest
    He is humble, not arrogant
    He is moderate, not an extremist
    He is honest, not corrupt
    He is reserved, not garrulous
    He is soft-spoken, not boastful
    He is loving and solicitous to others, not unmindful of them
    He is considerate and compassionate, not harsh
    He is polite and helpful, not insulting and disrespectful to people
    He is generous and charitable, not selfish and miserly
    He is refined and gentle in speech, not prone to swearing or cursing
    He is cheerful and generous, not bitter and resentful
    He is grateful for what he has, not ungrateful
    He is cheerful and pleasant, not irritable and gloomy
    He is chaste and pure, not lustful
    He is alert, not absent-minded
    He is dignified and decent, not graceless
    He is sincere and straightforward, not hypocritical
    He is optimistic and hopeful, not cynical or pessimistic
    He is confident and deep in faith, not doubtful and wavering
    He is spiritually oriented, not materialistic
    He always has faith in God’s mercy, not losing heart or becoming desperate
    He is diligent and vigilant, not negligent to his duties
    He is thankful to God and constantly prays to Him, not forgetful of His innumerable blessings

Alama Iqbal's Khutba Alabad

Allahabad Address was the Presidential Address by Allama Iqbal to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League on 29 December 1930, at Allahabad. Here he presented the idea of a separate homeland for Indian Muslims which was ultimately realised in the form of Pakistan.
"The principle of
European democracy cannot be applied to India without recognising the fact of communal groups. The Muslim demand for the creation of a Muslim India within India is, therefore, perfectly justified. The resolution of the All-Parties Muslim Conference at Delhi is, to my mind, wholly inspired by this noble ideal of a harmonious whole which, instead of stifling the respective individualities of its component wholes, affords them chances of fully working out the possibilities that may be latent in them. And I have no doubt that this House will emphatically endorse the Muslim demands embodied in this resolution.
Personally, I would go farther than the demands embodied in it. I would like to see the
Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.
Hindus should not fear that the creation of autonomous Muslim states will mean the introduction of a kind of religious rule in such states. I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church.
For India, it means security and peace resulting from an internal balance of power; for Islam, an opportunity to rid itself of the stamp that
Arabian Imperialism was forced to give it, to mobilise its law, its education, its culture, and to bring them into closer contact with its own original spirit and with the spirit of modern times." [1]

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