Comments on: A message of peace from another time

By: Saira

Saira — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:23:55 +0000

You pick two incidents that were are very much debated interms of the ‘massacre’ yet you choose to ignore hundreds of hadiths that show a prophet of love and grace! This confirms that you are looking for stories(be they lacking in number and historical authenticity) to back up your own beliefs!

By: Dinawaz

Dinawaz — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:13:16 +0000

The competition is for good deeds, not for hypocrisy.

By: indian hindu

indian hindu — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:59:15 +0000

Dear friend don’t blemish the name of any religion by labeling everyone who identifies himself as a follower of that religion to be belonging to that religion.He who adopts violence as an instrument to succeed in their selfish objectives can never be a human, forget being a Muslim,a Sikh or even a Jew.So putting the blame of violence,injustice and tyranny perpetrated by some human veiled beasts on Muslims or averring that muslims don’t follow what they preach stands null and void.

By: Hira Naeem

Hira Naeem — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:25:00 +0000

Beautiful piece of writing!

By: Salman Ahmed

Salman Ahmed — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:44:47 +0000

History is written by the victor in general depicts events of glory of the victor. Religious writings too extends same idea. There is no yardstick to measure & evaluate the authenticity of the events in history. Ultimately faith only safe the believers of this enigma.

By: Wellwisher

Wellwisher — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:31:07 +0000

Yes, I am a muslim & I can deny Sahih Bukhari. Not only myself, but there is a huge argument on the validity of Sahih Bukhari along with Muslim. Even within the Ahle-Sunnah, there is a huge debate between the accuracy of Sahih Bukhari and Muslim. Some tend to perceive Sahih Bukhari with a higher valditiy than Muslim, while others believe in vice-versa. When those that give preference to Muslim, tend to go to the point of denouncing Sahih Bukhari. May Allah (S.W.T) guide all of us in the right path

By: Shahryar Shirazi

Shahryar Shirazi — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:15:37 +0000

When I was growing up in Karachi, in the 80s, these things were extremely secondary. Looks like this event is now as important as the Eid after Ramzan. What a change in the nation in last 20 years …. If the Prophet were alive today, he won’t be happy with the state of the country. I think that is what we should focus on. Fixing the country.

By: BRR

BRR — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:40:15 +0000

Good writeup. But it does not explain why or how muslims became more interested in defining others as Kafirs and less interested in defining themselves as good, more inclined to decry the other religions and less inclined to introspect; more inclined to convert others and less inclined to comprehend their actions. Clearly, their actions are sanctioned, according to them, by the Quran. Clearly there is a race to become a better muslim than the other guy, and show more piety – sort of a competition. This is part of the religion too, isn’t it?

By: Tabinda Naeem

Tabinda Naeem — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:49:45 +0000

Very touching piece Anwar Sahab!….And if this is being discussed today, it happened somewhere in our own, short, life time. Not so alien, not so far, not so distant. We saw and experienced it in the same Pakistan we grew up in……Only our children will never know that…. Nor will they carry any sweet memories associated with Eid e Milad and the true meaning of Rehmatul -lil- Alameen or Islam so to speak. It is so very sad to see that Pakistan going extinct, getting evaporated, dooming to dark ages, in front of our very own eyes. I fear that the time is not far when we’ll not be able to recognize our own kins whom we left behind. Time warp, it is!

By: neluroman

neluroman — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:30:32 +0000

With the due respect, I have to say that we, the non-Muslims, have heard some completely different stories about Prophet Muhammad life.The story of Banu Qurayza massacre or that of the harsh siege of Kaibar Jewish fortress, don’t tell us of a loving Prophet who ” was praying for his enemies ” or “was responding to insults and provocations with love and grace”. The Hadith tell us the story of a man who did all what was need to attain a scope. But love and grace are not representative of his way toward this scope.