A Muslim once said to a Mufti, "A non-Muslim philosopher rightly called Islam to be the best religion but Muslims to be the worst nation" A saying widely 'accepted' & quoted by many Muslims, hence getting hopeless & not initiating any improvement in their impression.
Mufti replied: The philosopher first praised Islam to have your confidence and make you ready for the next step i.e., to hit your head with his shoe by making a biased generalization about a whole nation. If he really thought Islam to be the best religion then why he himself didn't implement it in his own life? He gave your mind a bribe through praising Islam so that you may easily accept his negative generalization about all Muslims (that includes you, your family & all our role models). Why didn't he specify 'certain' Muslims of so & so age/area to be bad & exempt our Prophetsallallahu Aleyhui Wasallam, Suhabas & saints from his judgmental biased views? Isn't it odd that he calls a religion to be the best, but doesn't mentions/ acknowledges anything about who its best followers are ?!? Why generalize an institute merely by its poor graduates during its lean phase, without giving any credit to the GREAT graduates of the same institution, whom other institutes can’t even produce in dreams.
In fact, its course content (Quran) is still 100% the same & will be the same forever.
Mufti replied: The philosopher first praised Islam to have your confidence and make you ready for the next step i.e., to hit your head with his shoe by making a biased generalization about a whole nation. If he really thought Islam to be the best religion then why he himself didn't implement it in his own life? He gave your mind a bribe through praising Islam so that you may easily accept his negative generalization about all Muslims (that includes you, your family & all our role models). Why didn't he specify 'certain' Muslims of so & so age/area to be bad & exempt our Prophetsallallahu Aleyhui Wasallam, Suhabas & saints from his judgmental biased views? Isn't it odd that he calls a religion to be the best, but doesn't mentions/ acknowledges anything about who its best followers are ?!? Why generalize an institute merely by its poor graduates during its lean phase, without giving any credit to the GREAT graduates of the same institution, whom other institutes can’t even produce in dreams.
In fact, its course content (Quran) is still 100% the same & will be the same forever.
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