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How should Muslims respond to ex-Muslims who hate God?
muftis iman imaan eemaan eeman deen al-din ad-deen ad-dinMeet hatred with love: extending a hand of humanity to ex-Muslims
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMeet hatred with love: hating God does not harm God, so there is no need to abuse such people. Many ex-Muslims are hurting, and Muslims can stay their friends.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Islam is about humanity, not boxing people off, and that hatred should be met with love, as Islam spread in its early time. If someone attacks the Prophet with a story, Muslims should ask where it came from and, if it came from Muslims, question themselves for forwarding it. He says that if someone hates God, it does not hurt God; he need not attack or abuse that person and so prove that religion is bigotry, but can extend a hand of humanity and remain friends. He says he is not telling ex-Muslims or atheists to become Muslim, but that many of them are hurting because they expected much from faith and others stood like a wall between them and it, and he criticises talk of killing them in an ideal Islamic state.
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Mufti Abu Layth says that if someone hates God, Muslims need not attack or abuse them but can extend a hand of humanity and remain friends.
“I can extend a hand of humanity a bridge of compassion”
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you know this it's great that you've embraced Islam and done this but you know as a losses in Iran iam unknown aleca and Islam s anchor they do you a favor that they become Muslim so this it bothers me sometimes when I see and it's not to be faith it's not just exclusive to people who embrace this unfortunately many Muslims who tread this wretched path but uh my point of saying this is look this is a journey Islam is about
humanity not about boxing other people off if people have a hatred for you meet meet it with love you understand see that is how Islam actually was spread in the early time if somebody hates on your prophet question first of all where did he get that story from because he never met the Prophet neither did I so did he just make that story up if he did inform him that that last that didn't even happen did he get it from us then we need to sit ourselves down and
question what are we doing have we betrayed the Prophet why are we forwarding stories like this so don't you know and if if somebody to me if somebody says to me I hate Allah I hate God take it yeah stop being you know the thing is look if you hate God it doesn't hurt God it's fine like I don't God doesn't need me to hate you this is not that's a personal journey you need to take you are still a human
being you are still God creation you know I don't need to kill you I don't need to attack you or unleash I don't know a tsunami of abuse against you so you hate God even more so I just prove your point that religion is bigotry religion is hatred religion is this why should I prove that point I can extend a hand of humanity a bridge of compassion so let us at least be human beings on that human connection let us connect I can
still be friends with you I can still you know that all these people who hate know there are some people unfortunately who are just bigots they will hate anything you know it could be a beautiful picture of something and they're just the Lord's it's wretched because that's the wretchedness within them that they reflect out okay many of these people atheists are people who really the issue was that they had such a great expectation of faith
you right okay it's live I'm not saying this to look I I'm not saying to X Muslims or atheists that you should become Muslim I've never said that
okay but the truth is many of these people are simply hurting okay they just you know that they wanted so much which from the faith which really was they but they couldn't reach it maybe because some people became a wall being between them and the faith so I feel that if anything if you come if you can try to understand them they're suffering why do they have these issues
with God at the very least just extend a hand of humanity you can be friends you can be a decent human being you don't have to hate them you don't have to kind of abuse them you don't have to kind of say oh in an ideal Islamic state I would kill in an ideal Islamic state I would kill you what kind of nonsense is that of course and then you expect them to
then you expect them to love you of course not you know so ah well people I hope that I hope you know these words find you know some that they that you that you can rest that they resonate with you that you find some understanding and comprehension in them guys let's wrap it up it's
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