Since Islamic religion has
universally been acknowledged as a world-wide religion-aiming at
the achievement of human welfare and happiness at anytime and
anywhere, regardless of his affiliation, his race and color, it
bears within its folds such complacency that qualifies it to
contain not only its own community but also the opposition party
as well, employing the policy of dealing with the other (in a
better way) particularly the society of Al-Madina, for being
considered as the capital of the Islamic State-as being
characterized by sociological multiple population in particular,
the Jews, Christians and other minorities whose rights are to be
granted and secured amongst which are: the right of adopting
belief and the right of giving opinion.
The Right of Adopting Belief
Since Islam has been the religion
of freedom, the binding terms and conditions of its constitution
urged its people to employ reason and know how to achieve the
sound belief, and this has made the Islamic constitution declare
directly that: "There is no compulsion in religion. Verily, the
Right Path has become distinct from the wrong path. Whoever
disbelieves in Taqgut and believes in Allah, then he has grasped
the most trustworthy handhold that will never break. And Allah is
All-Hearer, All- Knower."(Al-Baqara 256) and no one was given the
authority to impose his order on the other by means of
compulsion.
"And had your Lord willed, those on earth
would have believed, all of them together. So will you (O
Muhammad, then compel mankind, until they become
believers."(Yunis:99) and this confirms that Islam is the
religion of freedom and not the religion of the sword and blood
and this will be fixed in what is called as: The War of the
Apostates and the Islamic Conquests except that which by proof
would ascertain that the right of adopting belief has been an
Islamic privilege at the time of the holy Prophet's
State.
The Prophet
(P.B.U.H.) interpreted the complacency of his religion through
his bonds and treaties which he had written to the Jews of
Quraidha tribe and Qaynuqa together with that which is included
in the already - mentioned of Al-Madina Al-Munawara document and
other human resolutions such as: prohibiting doing mischief to
any non-Muslim whatever his affiliation may be as this is clear
from the Prophet's hadith in which he says:
"Whoever does wrong to a
Non-Muslim figure, I will be his opponent on
Doomsday."
The Right of Giving
Opinion
The noble Prophet granted to
people the right of giving their opinions about what they believe
and preventing them from monopolizing that or clinging to its
forelock and taught them the culture of listening to the other
and availed to them the opportunity of giving their opinion,
together with paying due respect to one another or rather farther
than that: respecting
his belief even though it may be
different from the Islamic belief in outlook amongst which
preventing people from calling him bad names or insulting their
gods:
"And insult not whom they
(disbelievers) worship besides Allah lest they insult Allah
wrongfully without knowledge: Thus We had made fair seeming to
each people its own doings; then to their Lord their return and
He shall then inform them of all that they used to do."
(Al-An'am:108) with all that he bound himself to of good manners
and high morals in dealing with his foes and opponents of
whatever caliber they may be through lenient talk and smiling
appearance. Look at how the holy Quran visualize this
situation:
"And by the Mercy of Allah you dealt with
them gently. And had you Muhammad been severe and harsh-hearted,
they would have broken away from about you; so pass over (their
faults) and ask (Allah's) Forgiveness for them and consult them
in the affairs, then when you have taken a decision, put your
trust in Allah, certainly, Allah loves those who put their trust
(in Him)." (Aal Imran: 159).
In addition to all good manners
of the Prophet there you find him make rules about the way to
deal with others. See what the holy hadith says in this
respect:
"Verily, you can't contain people
by your wealth but they can be contained by your broadness of
your breasts, transparency of features and complacency of
manners." Considering the secret of his message lying according
to his words in caring about the people- the whole of the people-
which is his golden rule in dealing with whole majority of the
different people and making his manners on the ground of reality
accord with the demands of the holy Quran." I am commanded to
look after the people as much as being commanded to convey the
heavenly message of the Lord to the people."
The leading Prophet obliged his
civil society to maintain the culture of the dialogue in a way
that dialogue becomes the common language among the people
…through which one can understand the other and make them
understand a variety of human issues among which are issues of
belief and obliged the citizens of his State to maintain the
literature of dialoguing and wisdom that comes from differences
in opinions in contrast with the Islamic universality of
acknowledgement as it distinct in the following verse:
"Invite (mankind O Muhammad to the Way of
your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (with the Divine Revelation
and the Quran) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way
that is better." Truly your Lord knows best who has gone astray
from His Path and He is the Best Knower of those who are
guided."(Al-Nahl:125)
Here, we adduce to you another example which
also concentrates on how to argue with people to convince them
that what you argue with is true. So, contemplate on the
following verse: "The good deed and the evil deed cannot be equal
Repel the (evil) with one which is better (i.e. Allah orders the
faithful believers to be patient at the time of anger and to
excuse those who treat them badly and verily, he between him and
you there was enmity, (will become) as though he was a close
friend." (Fussilat:34)
Social Diversity at the Start of
Islam Ideal in Outlook-Magnanimous in
Application
The noble Prophet also has
prepared for his civil society the culture of refusal to any kind
of qualitative distinction and prevention of scorning one kind at
the expense of the other according to the divine rule which
says:
"O mankind! We have created you
from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes,
that you may know one another. Verily, the most honorable of you
with Allah is that (believer) who has Al-Taqwa (the
pious).
Verily, Allah is All-Knowing,
Well- Acquainted (with all things)" (Al-Hujurat:13) and regarded
this diversity as a healthy case deriving out of it a mystery out
of so many mysteries of creation and a verse out of multitudes of
verses whose creative power is Allah, to Whom be ascribed all
glory and perfection…and this is distinct in the content of the
following verse:
"And among His Signs is the
creation of the heavens and the earth and the difference of your
languages and colors. Verily, in that are indeed signs for men of
sound knowledge.(Al-Rum: 22).
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