So someone said ISMA is imposing their version of Islam upon everybody else. ISMA is said to be introducing a version of Islam in which :
1. It exerts authoritarian power upon other human beings. (Islam did not come for this, she said)
2. Every single ideology out there is trying to destroy it. ("Enemies of Islam" are just an imaginary thing, she said)
Now let us see some replies I gained through some simple searching in Quranic verses:
وكذلك جعلناكم أمة وسطا لتكونوا شهداء على الناس ويكون الرسول عليكم شهيدا
"And thus we have made you a just community that you will be witnesses over the people and the Messenger will be a witness over you." [Al-Baqarah 2:143]
This verse is the reply for the first accusation. No, this is not authoritarianism, this is rather a state of superiority upon other human beings, so that justice can be done and the mercifulness of Islam can be practiced. The word 'authoritarian' indicates a denial of individual freedom and this is not the superiority that Islam knows. Islam recognized individual freedom and pluralism in politics, so long that all of these do not cross the safety border set by Allah.
وكذلك جعلنا لكل نبيّ عدوّا من المجرمين وكفى بربك هاديا ونصيرا
"And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. But sufficient is your Lord as a guide and a helper." [Al-Furqan 25:31]
وما نرسل المرسلين إلا مبشرين ومنذرين ويجادل الذين كفروا بالباطل ليدحضوا به الحق واتخذوا آياتي وما أنذروا هزوا
"And We send not the messengers except as bringers of good tidings and warners. And those who disbelieve dispute by (using) falsehood to (attempt to) invalidate thereby the truth and have taken My verses, and that of which they are warned, in ridicule." [Al-Kahf 18:56]
Well, clearly both verses strongly asserted that the enemies of Islam, from the 'criminals' (Al-Bughawy - a scholar in Tafsir - said the criminals are the musyrikiin, the people who submit to every single ideologies other than Islam) and those who disbelieve, are indeed real! I don't think we need to recount all the cases in the history of prophets especially Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h) himself regarding this matter. On the contrary I think, one who claims that these enemies as being not real is the one who is in the state of delusion.
Islam realized and acknowledged this as a reality, a fact. Do you say that as paranoid?
After reading these verses of Quran, I don't really care if anyone want to say that this version of Islam (as being displayed through out these verses) is the version that is currently being introduced by ISMA. And if calling this version as 'Islam - the ISMA version' make people give attention and change their thought, then let it be!
Simple replies, clear in the Quran. That someone who started this loose accusation must be so funny. Kelakar lah.
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