Belonging

Today I quote a few words of the prophet Muhammad. They express a very dear meaning to my heart. Those words will only please the free and the just. They cure a very dangerous human way of thinking. The good thing is that they come from the human source of Islam, the prophet Muhammad being the human who practiced Islam to perfection. His wife Aisha once said that Muhammad was a living Quran. He lived the teachings every day, in every act. Those words are serious and vital to all Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Listen to those pearls:

Muhammad said to his companions:
“Assist your brother Muslim, whether he be an oppressor or an oppressed. “But how shall we do it when he is an oppressor?! Inquired a companion. Muhammad replied, “Assisting an oppressor consists in forbidding and withholding him from oppression.”

Because if you really love your people, your country, your nation, you'd want the real good for them, and you'll protect them from their own stupidity and self-destruction. Like all we do, injustice always comes back.

Muhammad expressed the same meaning in other words:

“That person is not of us who invites others to aid him in oppression; and he is not of us who fights for his tribe in injustice; and he is not of us who dies in assisting his tribe in tyranny”

The expression: “not of us” simply means: not Muslim. I beg you, read this again: “he is not of us who fights for his tribe in injustice”. Need I say any more?