What's With All The Hate?

I'm writing this at 3am whilst having my cereal for suhoor so forgive any typos or grammatical errors. I just watched a Dina Tokio Ramadan vlog and they touched on two subjects I cannot stop thinking about, 1. mental health (which I want to write a blog about soon) and 2. the hate Muslims give to one another. It's bad enough we get hate from the media and people around the world, but why do we insist on hating each other?

I am not a religious person, I can count at least ten sins I do (all of which I'm working on), but then so can everyone else. We all sin, no one is perfect. Whether we're struggling with hijab, sexuality, prayers, or anything else, we all sin differently. We all have our own relationship with Allah. So why do we feel the need to call out others sins?

If you see someone doing something wrong, we are supposed to tell the person nicely, not to offend them and in private. If you tell someone and they don't take your advice then it's not up to you anymore, only Allah has the power to change a person.

This is where so many people go wrong, we attack people and tell them they're doing something wrong and they're going to hell, all that sort of stuff. Even worse, sometimes they publicly humiliate a person based on their sins, tell everyone they shouldn't talk to and hate that person. Because even if you think you're trying to help someone, 1. you're pushing the person further away from the religion and 2. that's a sin for you. Chances are, the person knows they're sinning and are working towards it.

Embarrassing a person is a sin too. I hate when you get all these "religious" people who have their views set in stone. They will preach about religion, some of which is acceptable, but will also slag off people who are not following Islam properly. I'm sorry but that is not Islam my friend, that is hypocrisy. No one has the right to judge another person on their sins. As long as the sin is not harming anyone, we shouldn't be too quick to go on a rampage.

I want to give an example which I think is quite common today. If a woman is wearing a turban hijab they are automatically seen as wrong because it's not a traditional hijab. But what you might not know is that person is starting to wear a hijab and that's a step for them, or they may pray more than you, you never know the person's relationship with Allah. If you tell them they're wrong and they might as well not be wearing a hijab, it'll push them further away from where they're trying to go.

Everyone has their own haraam halal ratio, some people are more practicing than others, the only thing you can do, if you truly care about a person, is pray to the all-mighty. But of course this can't be applied to every sin, say if a person is a murderer, you can't let that one slide.

This has been short, I'm going to read Fajr and get some much needed kip.

P.S. I feel like I should have some sort of signing off thing like "xoxo Gossip Girl", I don't know lol, give me some ideas.