The Role of an Ambassador of Islam
Assalamualaikum guys..
For the past few days, my club at the university (VicMuslims Club) had opened a booth where we promote Islam; having multiple activities like 'Try-a-Hijab', writing names in Arabic calligraphy, distributing free Quran translations, and etc.
One thing that stands out the most during the event was when we had one-to-one discussions with non-Muslims regarding religion, particularly Islam. What I had learned was that while Islam is perfect the way it is, people’s depiction of how religion should be and somehow thinking that they need to change certain things has resulted in what was initially already perfect to become lesser than what it actually was, i.e. the Sharia Law.
A guy came to VicMuslim’s booth and told us how he, who was initially a religious Christian, has decided that he’d be well off being atheist due to the fact that the world today seems to be in war because of religion. Rather than living together in peace, extremist of religions have made their beliefs to be the base of somehow thinking that ‘war is the best solution’. Let me stress it here; IT ISN’T. Islam in Arabic literally means peace, and the fact that someone in this world claims to be a Muslim, while at the same time is killing millions of innocent lives, is definitely unacceptable and totally contradicts with what Islam teaches.
Islam should be the label of peace, not terrorism. And you know what? The only ones who have the power to change this stereotype is Muslims.
So, let’s change for the greater good and show to the world what Islam is and how Allah is in fact the one and only God.
For the past few days, my club at the university (VicMuslims Club) had opened a booth where we promote Islam; having multiple activities like 'Try-a-Hijab', writing names in Arabic calligraphy, distributing free Quran translations, and etc.
One thing that stands out the most during the event was when we had one-to-one discussions with non-Muslims regarding religion, particularly Islam. What I had learned was that while Islam is perfect the way it is, people’s depiction of how religion should be and somehow thinking that they need to change certain things has resulted in what was initially already perfect to become lesser than what it actually was, i.e. the Sharia Law.
A guy came to VicMuslim’s booth and told us how he, who was initially a religious Christian, has decided that he’d be well off being atheist due to the fact that the world today seems to be in war because of religion. Rather than living together in peace, extremist of religions have made their beliefs to be the base of somehow thinking that ‘war is the best solution’. Let me stress it here; IT ISN’T. Islam in Arabic literally means peace, and the fact that someone in this world claims to be a Muslim, while at the same time is killing millions of innocent lives, is definitely unacceptable and totally contradicts with what Islam teaches.
Islam should be the label of peace, not terrorism. And you know what? The only ones who have the power to change this stereotype is Muslims.
So, let’s change for the greater good and show to the world what Islam is and how Allah is in fact the one and only God.
