Islamabad Hindu Temple
Faisal bhai, Are you saying that Qur’an only calls those pagans in 7th century Arabia as mushriks, and the mushrik term doesn’t exist/applicable anymore in current world ? Please let me know if I understood you correctly. If I do understand you correctly, are we saying that those Qur’anic verses which talk about not marrying the Mushriks, don’t apply anymore ?
Yes, but it still doesn’t answer my question. 1. Can Muslims help/assist/donate to the polytheists in committing this crime against God by assisting/helping them in building a temple, and encouraging idol worship ?
Can you give any previous example from Prophet Muhammad or any of his companions where they helped build temples for polytheists ?
I am not talking about God saving any places, but Muslims building the places of idol worship.
I think a temple enabling more people to worship would definitely increase in sin that they commit
👍 جزاكم الله خيرا
As I stated moral ethics are universal. Would you say that the majority of humanity at present time or any time in the past accepted sexual relationships outside of marriage as a norm? From what I know, that’s not right. That said, this discussion is derailing from the topic of temple. If it’s an important issue for you to discuss, please start a new topic.
Just to convey my understanding, one can intervene in any religion’s freedom only after ittemam-e-hujjat is done by the rusul (in accordance with direct revelation from God) otherwise no one has authority to do that. In other circumstances, Non-Muslims are free to follow their religion in whatever manner they please and we should act in accordance with the agreement reached with mutual consent, which would give them status of a muaahid.
Hadith says in the end : “and that is the weakest of faith”. Idol worship is an evil act, as you mentioned, but Muslims are not supposed to stop it ? Strange. Idol worship is an evil act, as you mentioned, but a person doing the evil act is not evil ? Do you apply the same criterion for other lesser sins ?
“Despite differing interpretations of this Hadith, yet no one interprets it into stopping anyone from praying according to their religion (whether polytheist or not). Therefore, this does not add to the discussion of polytheism that we are having.” Unless Prophet meant to exclude the evil of polytheism or idol worship from the list of evils he mentioned in this hadith, I am not sure how can any scholar interpret it in a manner different from what I derived. If not polytheism, then what evils did he want the believers to stop ?