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A NOTE FROM A MUSLIM FRIEND OF MINE

What is happening to us is exactly what happened to the Children of Israel, theMuslims of the earlier times, in their history of two thousand years before the arrival

of Prophet Muhammad, Allahs mercy be on him. The Quran describes their sufferingin these words:

And we forewarned the Children of Israel in their Holy Book that you will domischief in the land twice through and you will become arrogant transgressors (and

each time you will be punished).

When the promise for the first of the two fore warnings came to be fulfilled, WE

SENT AGAINST YOU OUR SERVANTS WITH MILITARY MIGHT: THEY RAMPAGEDTHROUGH YOUR HOMES TO CARRY OUT THE PUNISHMENT OF WHICH YOU WERE

FOREWARNED. Then after this, we afforded you an opportunity to overpower themand helped you with wealth and sons and granted you more manpower. If you

perform well you do so for your own benefit; but if you do evil, it would cause harmto your own selves.

Then, when the promise for your second forewarning came to be fulfilled, (WE SENTANOTHER ARMY) TO DISFIGURE YOUR FACES AND TO ENTER YOUR TEMPLE AS THEFORMER HAD ENTERED IT BEFORE AND THEY UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THAT THEY

LAID THEIR HANDS ON.

Now your Lord may again be merciful to you; but if you repeat the same behavior,we will repeat the punishment, and in the hereafter, we have made hell a prison for

such unbelievers.

Surely this Quran guides to the way that is perfectly straight and gives the goodnews to the believers who do good deeds that they shall have a magnificent reward,

and at the same time it gives warnings to those who do not believe in the hereafter,

that we have prepared for them a painful punishment. (Quran; 17:4-10)

The fact that God is punishing us through non-Muslims is undeniable. The reason thishas happened is not because we are not undertaking proper war against our enemies

but because of our mischief and arrogance. In my opinion the following are someof the prominent misdeeds that have invited Gods punishment to be inflicted on

Muslims:

i) As a nation Muslims are corrupt. Cheating, disregard of merit, and breaking of

commitments are some of the crimes we are consistently committing. Exceptionsapart, hypocrisy is the hallmark of the present-day Muslims.

ii) The present-day Muslims are extremely arrogant. Despite being morally corrupt,Muslims are dead sure that they will eventually succeed in the hereafter while all

non-Muslims shall be doomed.iii) The greatest evil in the present-day Muslims is that although they were expected

to bring non-Muslims closer to Islam by their good acts and words, they have causedthem to hate the religion of God by presenting a picture of it which cannot incline a

decent human being to accept it as the religion of God. The Islam Muslims arepresenting appears to be against every beautiful blessing God has created for

humans in this life; it seems to suggest that the creator of this world is, God forbid,extremely unfair in that He will look at the religion of humans and not their

intentions and deeds while deciding about their eternal fate; they have also caused

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great harm to the message of God by creating the impression that hating fellowhumans to the extent of even killing them was a part of the expectation of God from

his His devoted servants.