Let become Muslim
&
Shun all the sectarian prefixes & suffixes
To give a positive & practical reply to ‘them’ & their blasphemy let adopt the Divine Term; Muslim and shun all the manmade sectarian prefixes & suffixes; Deobandi, Bralvi, Shariati, Tariqati, Sunni, Shiite, Sipah Sahaba, Sipah Mohammad, Lashkari & blah blah!!!
This is a universal truth that Islam is the name, Allah Almighty has chosen for His Religion: Islam & Muslim is the name He Almighty has chosen for the followers of Islam right from the day one, but we the Muslims & our ‘masterminds’ are so mindless that we have shattered the Divine Religion; Islam & Muslims into splinters; Shariat, Tariqat, Sunny Islam, Shia Islam, Deobandi Islam, Barelvi Islam, Jamat-e-Islam, Jamiat-e- Ulama Islam, Sipah Mohammad, Sipah-e- Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi & so forth.
Apart from Islam all other creeds are manmade as their names would reveal. The main manmade creeds; Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Shintoism, Taoism, Confucianism & other splinter groups are manmade creeds and had no trail to any Prophet by any stretch of imagination.
Allah Almighty Says:
. “The true religion with Allah is Islam. The People of the Book adopted many different ways rather than follow the true way of Islam even after the knowledge of truth had reached them, and this merely to commit excesses against one another. Let him who refuses to follow the ordinances and directives of Allah know that Allah is swift in His reckoning.” (Al Qur'an 3:19)
“O Muslims, say to them, "We believe in Allah and the Guidance which has been sent down to us and which was sent to Abraham, Ismail , Isaac and Jacob and his descendants and which was given by their Lord to Moses and Jesus and to all other Prophets. We do not discriminate against any of them and we have completely surrendered to Allah as Muslims." (Al Qur'an 2:136)
“and verily we have risen in every nation a messenger (proclaiming) serve Allah and shun false gods…” - (Surah Nahl 16-36).
“And Verily this brotherhood of yours is a single brotherhood, and I am your Lord and Cherisher: Therefore fear me (and no other) - But people have cut off their affair (of unity), between them, into sects: Each sect rejoices in that which is with itself”. (Surah Al Mu’minuun: 23-52, 53).
Similarly, all the sects prevailing in Muslims are manmade and none of them finds any trail in the glorious life time of the final Prophet Mohammad PBUH or the ‘Caliphate the Righteous’. One must be mindful that nothing else than the sectarianism has damaged and is being damaging Islam & Muslims.
A humble request of a humble Muslim to Muslim Scholars!
Aftab Alam Advocate (High Court) Swat, KPK Pakistan
Cell: 03018536776
Email: aftabalam.advocate@gmail.com