reply to post by ollncasino
As Rāqib has said in Mufradāt, the Arabic word /‘izzat/ originally means that state that makes man resisting and mighty. It is for this reason
that the hard and firm lands are called /‘azāz/ in Arabic.
All Muslim should do their best to avoid of sin, to conquer the baser self, this is the greatest jihad [struggle] is the jihad against self. It is a
good and beautiful thing izzat. Your bible says something very similar;
Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. (2
Timothy 2:22) (δίωκε) Pursue. Stronger than follow. A favorite word with Paul to denote the pursuit of moral and spiritual ends
So yes, all Muslim should try to live with 'izzat. So should everyone. The day this becomes bad is the day the world became Sodom or Gomorrah.
Islam teaches concerning this:
During the last hours of his lifetime when Imam Hassan (as) was asked by one of his companions named Junādat-ibn-’Abi-Sufyān to advise him,
Imam stated some valuable and effective admonitions for him, among which was this:
“If you wish to be ‘honoured’ without having any tribe, and to have reverence without the power of government, then come out from the shade of
sin, and settle in the glory of the obedience of Allah.”
And if we see that some verses of the Qur’ān introduce glory, besides Allah, for the Prophet (saw) and the believers, (like Sura Munāfiqūn, No.
63, verse 8 which says: “… Honour belongs to Allah and His Messenger and to the Believers, …”, it is for the reason that they have earned
glory from the rays of the glory of Allah, too.
Then the verse introduces the way of reaching to glory as follows: “… to Him do ascend the good words and the righteous deed, He uplifts it;
…”
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with striving to the good words and righteous deeds.Perhaps the people being questioned did not understand that your
definition means something evil, since we only know OUR definition of the word!
The site you have quoted is written by a Zionist person with clear hatred of all things Muslim, there is an agenda on his site, he is racist and
bigoted in all his quotes, and none of his articles are in the least objective. This is a American/Zionist think tank (with only 20 people working
there) has the stated objective of;
The Middle East Forum, a think tank, seeks to define and promote American interests in the Middle East. It defines U.S. interests to include fighting
radical Islam, whether terroristic or lawful; working for Palestinian acceptance of Israel; improving the management of U.S. democracy efforts;
reducing energy dependence on the Middle East; more robustly asserting U.S. interests vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia; and countering the Iranian threat.
[this is a direct quote from their site]
Throughout his career, Daniel Pipes has exhibited a troubling bigotry toward Muslims and Islam. As early as 1983, even an otherwise positive
Washington Post book review noted that Pipes displays "a disturbing hostility to contemporary Muslims...he professes respect for Muslims but is
frequently contemptuous of them." Pipes, said the reviewer, "is swayed by the writings of anti-Muslim writers...[the book] is marred by exaggerations,
inconsistencies, and evidence of hostility to the subject." (The Washington Post, 12/11/83)
I think we can find other more objective sources for our information.
All that said, the BBC article said only 6% of those who agreed all Muslim should live according to 'izzat, which I defined already in the beginning
of this post, believed violence was a way to obtain that. And this was only 6% of those questioned, and we have no idea how they obtained their
polling group or how many were polled. I do not see this to be an adequate judge of what Muslims believe, since it is not said they polled Muslims,
but instead Asians.
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