Our Prophet (PBUH) life is full of stories of how he forgave his worst enemies. Time and again, he refrained from taking personal revenge against anyone who slighted him, attacked him or even tried to kill him. His own uncle, Abu Lahab, would follow the Prophet (PBUH) wherever he went and tell people, “Don’t listen to him! He is a madman.” The Prophet (PBUH) did not even try to stop him. And when he marched triumphantly in Makkah, he told the Quraish tribe — his most bitter and brutal of enemies — “Go now and be free, I forgive you.”
Where has that spirit of forgiveness and compassion gone? Where has that kindness and generosity gone in the land of the Prophet (PBUH)? Why this rush for blood and death?. If one really loves the Prophet, then he will react in the way the Prophet would react: with kindness and generosity. Listen to the word of God:
"But [since] good and evil cannot be equal, repel thou [evil] with something that is better and lo!, he between whom and thyself was enmity [may then become] as though he had [always] been close [unto thee], a true friend! (41:34)”
Our faith is all about love and compassion for all, to spread the light of God’s love to the rest of the world through our actions and thoughts. Why is it that, so many times, our people completely fail to see this?
Where has that spirit of forgiveness and compassion gone? Where has that kindness and generosity gone in the land of the Prophet (PBUH)? Why this rush for blood and death?. If one really loves the Prophet, then he will react in the way the Prophet would react: with kindness and generosity. Listen to the word of God:
"But [since] good and evil cannot be equal, repel thou [evil] with something that is better and lo!, he between whom and thyself was enmity [may then become] as though he had [always] been close [unto thee], a true friend! (41:34)”
Our faith is all about love and compassion for all, to spread the light of God’s love to the rest of the world through our actions and thoughts. Why is it that, so many times, our people completely fail to see this?
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