Alabama Islamic Center Enlightens Community to Remove Misconceptions about Islam
"We all belong to God Almighty,” Outreach Coordinator Aladdin Bashir said."Believing in the hereafter, believing in all the prophets in books, all the way from Adam to Muhammad, (peace be upon him), including Jesus,” Bashir said. "One of the things that most of the people don’t know about: there is a whole chapter in the Quran named Mariam describing the birth of Jesus.”
Bashir explained that there are many stories he knows of his own faith that Christian believers tell so often."She took Jesus, peace be upon Him, to the village,” Bashir said. "We know the rest of the story.”But ISIS (Daesh) attacks, like the one in Baghdad, ignite fear in us all.
"Muslims killing Muslims for no reason at all because of this ideology that some people have decided to commit themselves to, which is ISIS, which really has nothing to do with Islam,” President Nouman Qureshi said.
"People who don’t know about religion are the most vulnerable to be misled using religion,” Bashir added. "The teaching of the Quran, if you kill one soul, it’s as if you killed whole humanity and if you saved one soul, you saved all of humanity.”
As Muslims, they know the parts that people question, like Verse 8:12, which states in part, "place fear in their heart.” Muslims just know the stories differently."If you look at the verse before it, there was a war, there was fighting, there was already aggression and there was a treaty, they broke the treaty,” Bashir explained.
Worry is not welcome at the Huntsville Islamic Center. That is why Muslims bow in the name of God and keep their eyes on what they know is true.
"That’s what terrorists want, they want us to fear and despair so they can take control,” Bashir said.
Bashir said the door is always open at the Huntsville Islamic Center and coexistence starts with a conversation.
"Pray and take actions to make sure that the recruiting stop, that this message of hate stop," Beshir said.
Source: WHNT
