Just Muslim
I share an incident here.
A few weeks back, I happen to break a traffic rule unintentionally. Or you may call it intentionally, as I did not even know that I was breaking the rule before I was caught. The rule was a temporary placement for 2 days and as I did not watch any TV a day before, I never knew about it.
Anyhow, because I broke the rule, I had to take my vehicle to the police station and a case was to be filed against me for processing charges. While asking for my identification, I was asked about my sect. To which I replied, no sect, I am a muslim. And the person noting the details did not know what is just a muslim.
I was asked this question three or four times and I replied with the same answer. Then I was asked that how come I don’t have a sect. To that I replied that I am a muslim and then I am a Pakistani. Now there were others listening to this conversation as well. One of them proclaimed that sect is their identity, how can I forget my identity or not know it. The tone was to make me realize I should be ashamed of just calling myself a muslim without sect.
As the law that I broke was not much of a deal and neither were any serious charges were to be processed. I was allowed to go after a while.
Think about it. How can you be a muslim without a sect?
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Islamic sect are only considered an identity now because of the political stance it comes with. They are not merely religious. They are political and social, and much of the time they are fighting for dominance like we see in Iraq, Bahrain, and all the countries with a clear separation of Sunni/Shi’i/Wahabi, and the many other variations and sub-sects of these categories.
And with that, comes the different laws applied, where different court systems use different rules to apply to each sect, and I don’t get that. Because it reminds me very much of tribes – which tribe do you subscribe to, which label do you consider yourself a part of, and as soon as you say Sunni, Shi’i, etc, they claim that you also must come with a specific set of political and social beliefs.
I am a big supporter of any Just Muslim campaign. Because the differences are not entirely religious but often more political. Yes the religious differences are there but they are mild in comparison, the true essence of the belief is maintained and so why should we subscribe to sub-categories? Let us practice our shared religion, Islam, without applying these absurd methods of separating us depending on sects, etc.
like calvin klein said, “just be…”
I understand there are 73 sects in Islam all contradicting each other here or there. So apparently at least 72 sects are false since God doesn’t contradict Himself. Which one is the true sect if any? According to my way of reasoning only one sect can be true if any. By true, I mean it must be infallible. So which one is infallible? Also, I’ve noticed that some of the Muslim sects are quite violent! For example the Muslim Sunnis are murdering the Muslim Shiites and vice versa. The Kurds, the Wahabbis aren’t far behind. Are there any sects in the Muslim world that aren’t violent? If I were joining a sect of Islam, which one would be the safest to join? I hate fighting. What would be the point of joining if none of the sects is infallible, or if they are all fighting each other? You see, I want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and I also want peace. Thank you in advance.
That is another interesting thing Philip. You can’t just choose a sect and change ! People associate sects as birthrights. Imagine !
Dear Sirs, Some Christian children are kidnapped in Pakistan, and then sexually abused by sex-craved men day after day. Of course, any good and honest human anywhere in the world, regardless of his wholesome religion or philosophy, knows that kidnapping little children and then abusing them daily is wrong. I realize these atrocities happen all over the world, so I’m not picking on Pakistan. However, I bring up this subject because I read as recently as yesterday that this is happening in Pakistan. Isn’t there anything you can do, or is there anyone in Pakistan who can rescue these children? I would try to save them regardless of the childrens’ religion. I would try to save them simply because they are innocent and helpless, little human beings. I bring this up because I and an army saved many children, thousands, in Central America, who were in the same predicament. I don’t want to reveal too much. However, we didn’t have much compassion or compunction for the animalistic criminals, who were kidnapping little children every day and then doing to them everything that you can imagine. Isn’t there any way that innocent children in this bad situation, in Pakistan, can be saved? I hate it immensely when demonic grown people pick on little children, and then abuse them in dastardly ways. Incidentally, about 6,000 of these demonic jerks, in Central America, aren’t kidnapping little children anymore. That part soothes my psyche to a great extent. It was worth the suffering that we endured. It wasn’t easy.