Hatred in Islam, Diseases of the Soul, Islam and Hate, Human Vices, Hatred (Nafrat)

A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game. The
kindergarten teacher told each child in the class to bring along a
plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a
name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that
a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of
people he/she hates. So when the day came, every child brought some
potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2
potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes.
The kindergarten teacher then told the children to carry with them the
potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for
one week. Days after days passed by, and the children started to
complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes.
Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After
1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended.
The kindergarten teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the
potatoes with you for 1 week?" The children let out their frustrations
and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through
having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go. Then
the kindergarten teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game.
The kindergarten teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you
carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred
will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever
you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just
one week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred
in your heart for your lifetime?"
Moral:Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you
will not carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best
attitude to take. "Learn to Forgive and Forget."
Remember what Allah (SWT) teaches us in Surah Al-Araf (7:199-200):
"Show forgiveness, enjoin what is good, and turn away from the
ignorant (don't punish them). If a suggestion from Satan assails your
mind, seek refuge with Allah; surely He is Hearing, Knowing (all
things)."
In these verses of Noble Qur'an, Allah (SWT) comforts the Prophet
Muhammad (saw) and directs his mind to three Precepts:
1.To forgive injuries, insults, and persecution.
2.To continue to declare faith that was in him, and not only to that
was in him, and not only to declare it, but to act up to it in all his
dealings with friends and foes.
3.To pay no attention to ignorant fools, who raised doubts or
difficulties, hurled taunts or reproaches, or devised plots to defeat
the truth: they were to ignored and passed by, not to be engaged in
fights and fruitless controversies, or conciliated by compromises.
Of all the things we can give other people in life, forgiveness is one
of those that require the most effort. This phrase seems to make the
process of forgiving easier for me: "To bear a grudge against someone
is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat."
People say or do things often inadvertently and mostly out of personal
insecurity or ignorance. You may be just the punching bag for the day.
Maybe the other person is envious or afraid of you. Most of the time,
these people have their own demons to grapple with.
Don't let their words and actions wear you down. They can only have a
moment's effect on you. Then, depending on how you deal with the
situation, they can continue to haunt you, or vanish like ashes in the
wind.
But only you can make that decision. Discouraging and spiteful words
and actions from other people can only have the desired effect if you
want them to. Give yourself the pleasure of a free spirit.
Forgiveness is something we "give other people", but forgiveness,
really, is a gift to ourselves.
When we wreak vengeance on people whom we think have done us an
injustice, we invariably end up bitter and resentful. Worse still, if
our vindictiveness provokes retaliation, we might start a cycle of
vengeance. And when you bear hatred within your heart, what you're
essentially doing is destroying your own state of mind and potential
to be happy.
Each day yields opportunities for us to let go of or hold on to
grudges, although the severity of each situation may vary. Are you
better off holding on to them, or letting go?

Hatred in Islam, Diseases of the Soul, Islam and Hate, Human Vices, Moral Virtues and Vices

Hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or
antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon, generally attributed to
a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy the hated object.
Hatred is also among the most common emotions that human's experience.
It can be based on fear of an object or past negative consequences of
dealing with that object. Hatred is often described as the opposite of
love or friendship.
Often the verb "to hate" is used casually to describe things one
merely dislikes, such as a particular style of architecture, a certain
climate, one's job, some particular food, or people who claim to hate
something when they in fact merely dislike it.
"Hatred" is also used to describe feelings of prejudice, bigotry or
condemnation against a person, or a group of people, such as racism,
and intense religious or political prejudice. The term hate crime is
used to designate crimes committed out of hatred in this sense.
Religion Islam has been accused unjustly of being a religion of hate
by those who never made a true effort to understand even the basic
teachings of Islam. We all know that ignorance is the worst enemy of
the truth, and Allah (SWT) asked us to learn the truth as there is
nothing after the truth except falsehood.
This then is Allah, your true Lord; and what is there after the truth
but error; how are you then turned back? Noble Qur'an (10:32)
Let us present the simple truth about Islam and the Noble Qur'an that
proves that Islam is not a religion of hate but rather a religion of
love, tolerance, understanding, and social justice.
Many people are not aware that Islam is the religion of Prophet
Abraham, not the religion of Prophet Muhammad. Prophet Abraham, being
the founder of Islam, with all its beautiful and peaceful teachings
and rituals, passed his religion to all the prophets who came after
him, including all the Israeli prophets, Prophet Moses, Prophet Jesus
and Prophet Muhammad. Those attacking Islam, out of ignorance, or
deliberately, are attacking Prophet Abraham who is their prophet as
much as the prophet of the Muslims.
Noble Qur'an explains clearly this fact,
And strive hard in (the way of) Allah, (such) a striving a is due to
Him; He has chosen you and has not laid upon you an hardship in
religion; the faith of your father Abraham; He named you Muslims
before and in this, that the Messenger may be a bearer of witness to
you, and you may be bearers of witness to the people... Noble Qur'an
(22:78)
Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian but he was (an) upright
(man), a Muslim, and he was not one of the polytheists. Most surely
the nearest of people to Abraham are those who followed him and this
Prophet and those who believe and Allah is the guardian of the
believers. Noble Qur'an (3:67-68)
Then We revealed to you (O Muhammad): Follow the faith of Abraham, the
upright one, and he was not of the polytheists. Noble Qur'an (16:123)
In that simple sense, how can Islam which is the religion of Abraham
promote hate when it is the same religion passed down to the Jews and
Christians before reaching Muslims? How can the Jews and Christians
claim different standard when we are talking about the same religion
with different names but all go back to Abraham.
Noble Qur'an, the final Testament, made a special mention of the
relationship that controls the social and daily life with other people
including but not limited to Jews and Christians. In it Noble Qur'an
urges the Muslims to be loving, caring, friendly, patient, tolerant,
advocates of freedom, democracy, and social justice. Islam never
advocated hate or promoted it. People, who promote hate, do so on
their own terms and misunderstanding. By doing so they do not
represent Islam or the teachings of Islam in the scripture.
We need to remember that hate is a man made crime that we should not
blame on any religion. Any claim of hate in a religion is no more than
man made innovation that has nothing to do with God or His scripture.
Planting hate only produces hate. Planting love, will produce love.
Our God is Almighty, all loving.

Makeup, cosmetics, being well-groomed, being clean, wearing nice clothes, modernism and education, in short ‘sophistication’, is a requirement of Islam

Muslims deserve the best of everything. Allah prepares the believers
for heaven, the place of infinite beauties, with the blessings He
gives in this world. And Muslims make sure that the world they live
in is as close to heaven as possible, making it almost a preview of
heaven. They make a great effort to ensure that through their
cleanliness, their beautiful characters and their well-groomed
appearances.
Muslims surely will lead a good, sophisticated life, and will have a
clean, well-groomed look. This is because beauty, being
well-groomed, aesthetics, taste in art are all qualities that Allah
loves. The Qur'an does not ban Muslim women from putting on makeup
or looking well-groomed. Indeed, during the time of Prophet
Mohammed (saas) ladies were always very well-groomed. They were
putting on make up too. In fact, men too, during that time, most
notably our Prophet Mohammed (saas), would apply a type of
eyeliner. Muslim ladies were using blush, eyeliners, lipsticks and
henna on their nails and hands. They were also using special
hairdyes.
Indeed, Prophet Mohammed (saas) encouraged dyeing the hair, and
indeed he dyed his hair, too. The hadiths make it clear that the
hair color he loved the most in women was blonde:
5882- Narrated by İbn Abbas ra:
A man passed by Prophet Mohammed (saas) with his hair dyed with
henna. He said: 'It looks good'. Then another man passed that dyed
his hair with a mixture of henna and ketem (a type of black hair
dye). He said: 'This is better'. Then another man passed by who
dyed his hair blonde and he said: 'This is the best of all'.
(SOURCE: GREAT HADITH COLLECTION, am'ul- fawaid min Jami'il-usul wa
Majma'ith-zawaid, Imam Muhammed Bin Muhammed bin Sulayman
er-Rudani, Iz Publishing/2nd edition, Istanbul 2009, page
257-261-262-265-271-27 2-273)
Women should of course look very well groomed and attractive,
complemented with their noble demeanor. This can be achieved only
with sophistication, and sophistication will lead to respect by other
people. It doesn't take being rich or very beautiful to achieve
that. It is sufficient to have that pure outlook of the Qur'an, with
a desire to look clean, well-groomed and dapper in line with the
pure and clean spirit in the Qur'an. Muslims always carry holy light
on them and looking dapper and well-groomed to complement that
holy light will only add to his prestige and sophistication.
Everyone that sees a well-groomed, sophisticated, confident Muslim
lady will admire their looks, their confidence, their
sophistication and their lives in general.
Makeup is one of the allowed ways of looking well-groomed and
beautiful and it is a blessing from Allah. Allah loves all beauties.
That's why women, flowers, trees, butterflies, birds were created
so beautiful. Allah has adorned heaven with such beauties.
It is usually people with a radical view that try to make makeup
illegitimate. They have lost their sense of enjoying such beauties.
In their dark worlds, there is no place for art, love, happiness,
joy, beauty or aesthetics and therefore they would rather see a
woman ugly than beautiful. According to them, the uglier, the more
disheveled a woman looks, she who is created as the epitome of
beauty, the more suited she is for their darkened worlds.
Therefore their understanding of Islam gives the same eerie image
to the world. In the fake religion of the radicals, the women are
deprived of beauty, left without any possibility of being beautiful,
or getting an education; they were made ugly and pushed out.
According to them, women are insecure beings with no intrinsic
value. What modern, contemporary, educated person would accept a
religion that makes a woman ugly and worthless? Who would want to
represent such a religion? Who would defend such a religion?
Because of this wrong view, Western societies misunderstand Islam
completely and stay away from it: This is nothing unexpected. The
role given to women in this model of the radicals is reason enough
for Westerners to stay away. These superstitions based on such a
dark view, instead of the beautiful religion that Prophet Mohammed
(saas) preached are introduced to the world as the religion of
Islam. That's why the world is afraid of Islam.
These lovers of superstition, in this fake religion they have
conjured up using the name of Islam, have destroyed all the
beauties and gifts with their own hands and lost their ability to
enjoy the beauties that Allah created. As the signs of creation
inspire and cheer up a believer with their incredible beauties, the
radicals lack the ability to enjoy the color or scent of a flower,
the beauty of a fruit, the adorable looks of a puppy or even the
sweeping beauty of a cloudless sky.
Despite that, when they encounter something of beauty they are
immediately reminded of the darkness of their own lives and they
don't feel moved by that beauty but uncomfortable instead. This
usually comes out as jealousy. This is the basis of their reaction to
a beautiful, well-groomed lady. They want that beautiful lady to
look ugly just like the disheveled people around them. They cannot
accept the fact that she is beautiful. They cannot praise beauty
and they can't understand the beauty of praising Allah for such
stunning sights. Therefore, they always respond with hostility when
they see an object of beauty and seek to destroy them.

Examples of the insincerity of those people who are tyring to ban music:

Although they forbid music, they keep watching music channels,
listen to music and have fun.
Those who are against music go to weddings, go on the floor and
dance and sing.
They say music is wrong but they organize competitions with music
and dance halay.
Most probably, when they are alone in their cars, these people are
listening to music.Music has a warming and comforting effect that
helps with preaching. Music puts joy in heart that is in love with
Allah.
Prophet Mohammed (saas) sang songs, attended events with music, and
went to weddings.
It is an outrageous lie to say that music is a sin in all religions.
If the lovers of superstition had their way with art;
There would be no paintings or advertisement billboards anywhere in
the world.
There would be no artwork in texts used to preach the message of Islam.
There would be no illustrations in textbooks.
There would be no paintings, or vases, glass or tableware with
artwork on them in the hotels.
There would be no artwork on banknotes.
The fabulous paintings in the palaces and wall art would not be there.
The anatomy textbooks wouldn't have illustrations that describe the
human body. There would be no pictures, illustrations or beautiful
sights in books prepared to spread the message of Islam.
There would be no art schools like the Fine Arts Academies.
Allah mentions the statues Prophet Solomon (as) had built, but if
the radicals had their way, there would be no statues as well.
No newspapers, magazines, books or internet would be allowed. Such
people would consider watching TV forbidden too.
We would not have recognized the presidents, leaders, celebrities
or artists of other countries.
Mass communication tools, such as the internet and others, are
important tools in the End Times to be used for the spread of
religion. According to the bans of the lovers of superstition, they
would be banned too, and therefore the efforts to spread the
message of Islam would be impeded and slowed down.
Allah orders us "to take lessons from history, go around and see". If
it wasn't for paintings, we wouldn't have known about some
historical remains, we wouldn't have known about the histories of
other countries, we wouldn't have watched documentaries, we would
have only technical knowledge about them but never have an idea of
what they actually looked like.
There would be no documentaries about the signs leading to faith or
history and there would be a huge shortcoming in terms of general
knowledge and ignorance would have prevailed.
It is of paramount importance to know and ponder over the signs
leading to faith so that one gets a deeper faith in Allah. However,
because of the bans of the lovers of superstition, we would have
never known what they really looked like. For example, we wouldn't
have recognized the animals we didn't see with our eyes.