Thank You. JazaakAllah.
This is what I wanted from you.
He Pbuh treated them Muslims because of this :
When people converted to Islam, Prophet Muhammad Pbuh the founder of the Islamic faith only required them to pledge allegiance to the oneness of God and the truth of his prophetic mission.
There was no other requirement whatsoever.
This is why Muslims have long believed that the Kalima (proclaiming oneness of God and prophethood of Muhammad Pbuh) is the basis of the Islamic faith.
The question of who would be counted as a Muslim came up during the first census in the State of Medina.
Prophet Muhammad Pbuh asked that anyone who claimed to be Muslim be counted as one.
Their profession of Islam was all he required to be considered a part of the Muslim community.
There was no religious test devised to test a claimant’s ‘Muslimness'.[/B’]
Prophet Muhammad Pbuh knew well that there were hypocrites living in Medina, some of whom were even conspiring against him. Prophet Muhammad knew that they did not even consider him a true prophet. Amongst them there were Imposter claimants of Prophethood aswell like Musaylimah Kazaab, Aswad Ansi, Sajah etc and they had put forward their claim of Prophethood even Musaylimah used to write letters to He Pbuh and He Pbuh is on record to even respond to his letters. Now the question is did Prophet Pbuh forge a new definition of Muslim and Islam to counter their threat ? Did He Pbuh alter Kalima Tayyaba La Ilaha Illallah Mohammad ur Rasool Allah Did he ever forbid anyone from identifying as Muslims, he allowed them open access to his Mosque. Rather than forbid them from praying and punishing them for ‘posing as Muslim,’ He Pbuh in fact prayed with them, and for them.
There are other traditions that shed more light on this issue. Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said:
“Whoever says, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’, faces our Qibla (Mecca) during the prayers, prays like us and eats our slaughtered animal, then he is a Muslim, and has got the same rights and obligations as other Muslims have.” (Bukhari)
In another detailed narration, Prophet Muhammad defined both Islam and the tenets of faith:
“One day while Allah’s Apostle was sitting with the people, a man came to him walking and said, “O Allah’s Apostle. What is Belief?” The Prophet said, “Belief is to believe in Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Apostles, and the meeting with Him, and to believe in the Resurrection.” The man asked, “O Allah’s Apostle What is Islam?” The Prophet replied, “Islam is to worship Allah and not worship anything besides Him, to offer prayers perfectly, to pay the obligatory alms i.e. Zakat and to fast the month of Ramadan.” (Bukhari)
The well-known five pillars of Islam, and the six articles of faith, are based on this and other similar traditions.
These sayings of Prophet Muhammad spell out how He Pbuh defined a Muslim.
He did not denounce self-identifying Muslims as non-Muslim. Such rejection and exclusion was the hallmark of his opponents.
He repeatedly cautioned that judging someone’s truth or sincerity to their claim of Islam was a prerogative of God alone. Once, the famous general Khalid bin Waleed RA suggested to the Prophet that there were many people who outwardly professed Islam while there was no faith in their heart. Prophet Muhammad responded firmly:
“I have not been commanded to pierce through the hearts of people, nor to split their bellies (to look what is inside them)” (Muslim)
There is another famous incident of a Muslim killing a non-Muslim during a battle, despite the man having recited the Kalima. When Prophet Muhammad found out, he was furious. The Muslim soldier said: “O Messenger of Allah, that man read the Kalima merely to protect himself from our sword.” Prophet Muhammad reprimanded him:
“Did you open his heart and look inside it?”
Even the founder of the Islamic faith was not granted the authority to judge someone’s ‘Muslimness.’
God commanded in the Quran:
The Arabs of the desert say, ‘We believe.’ Say, “You have not believed yet; but rather say, ‘We have accepted Islam,’ for the true belief has not yet entered into your hearts.” (49:14)
This verse speaks of those Bedouins whom God Himself attests were completely faithless, yet were allowed to identify as Muslim. This prohibition of excommunication or Takfir is emphasized in the sayings of Prophet Muhammad Pbuh, who equated such exclusion to murder.
Where do the Orthodox Moulvi Hazrat stand on this ?
Do they know better than He Pbuh wrt definition of Muslim and Islam ? (Naoozbillah)
Now when you meet his religious Scholars ask them to follow and adopt Mohammad Rasool Allah Pbuh definitions and disown there self constructed definitions. Ask them to discourage Takfiri-ism and stop Spreading Takfeer.
Together we are a Strength.
Divided we are Weak and Vulnerable
