Alahamdulillah, Muslims welcome new converts and are drawn close as brothers in
love to help each other. ...
Do we Muslims really practice our religion and help each other when in pain
and sufferings ? No, we have abandoned our brothers in Chechniya, Palestine,
Kashmir and now in Somalia. Somali has been attacked by a hungry dictatorship
of a minority Government of Ethiopia, supported by US.
So Muslim world welcomes new Muslims on one hand and abandon old Muslims.
Are we not hypocrite or cowards?
"Mahboob Shariff"@yahoo.com wrote:
There is no compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become clearly
distinct from error; therefore, whoever rejects Satan (and what he calls to)
and believes in Allah, he indeed has laid hold on the firmest handhold, which
shall not break off, and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.
--- [Surah Al Baqarah (02); Ayah # 256)
Ahead
of Iraq Deployment, 37 Korean Troops Convert to Islam
"I became a Muslim because I
felt Islam was more humanistic and peaceful than other religions.
And if you can religiously connect with the locals, I think it
could be a big help in carrying out our peace reconstruction
mission." So said on Friday those Korean soldiers who converted
to Islam ahead of their late July deployment to the Kurdish city
of Irbil in northern Iraq.
At noon Friday, 37
members of the Iraq-bound "Zaitun Unit," including Lieutenant Son
Hyeon-ju of the Special Forces 11th Brigade, made their way to a
mosque in Hannam-dong, Seoul and held a conversion ceremony.
Captain
Son Jin-gu from Zaitoon Unit recites an oath at
ceremony to mark his conversion to Islam at a mosque
in Hannam-dong, Seoul on Friday.
/Yonhap
The soldiers, who cleansed their entire bodies in accordance with
Islamic tradition, made their conversion during the Friday group
prayers at the mosque, with the assistance of the "imam," or
prayer leader.
With the exception of the imam, all the Muslims and
the Korean soldiers stood in a straight line to symbolize how all
are equal before God and took a profession on faith.
They had memorized the Arabic confession, " Ashadu
an La ilaha il Allah, Muhammad-ur-Rasul-Allah," which means, "I
testify that there is no god but God (Arabic: Allah), and
Muhammad is the Messenger of God."
Soldiers from Zaitoon Unit pray after conversion
ceremony at a mosque in Hannam-dong, Seoul on
Friday./Yonhap
Moreover, as the faithful face the "Kaaba," the Islamic holy
place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, all
Muslims confirm that they are brothers.
For those Korean soldiers who entered the Islamic
faith, recent chances provided by the Zaitun Unit to come into
contact with Islam proved decisive.
Taking into consideration the fact that most of the
inhabitants of Irbil are Muslims, the unit sent its
unreligious members to the Hannam-dong mosque so that they could
come to understand Islam. Some of those who participated in the
program were entranced by Islam and decided to convert.
A unit official said the soldiers were inspired by
how important religious homogeneity was considered in the Muslim
World; if you share religion, you are treated not as a foreigner,
but as a local, and Muslims do not attack Muslim women even in
war.
Zaitun Unit Corporal Paek Seong-uk (22) of the
Army's 11th Division said, "I majored in Arabic in college and
upon coming across the QurÂ’an, I had much interest in Islam, and
I made up my mind to become a Muslim during this religious
experience period [provided by the Zaitun Unit]."
He expressed his aspirations. "If we are sent to
Iraq, I want to participate in religious ceremonies with the
locals so that they can feel brotherly love and convince them
that the Korean troops are not an army of occupation but a force
deployed to provide humanitarian support."
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