What an upside down priority -------------------------------------- Abdullāh b. ‘Umar (radiy Allāhu ‘anhumā) said, “I saw the Prophet (sallAllāhu ‘alayhi wasallam) doing tawwāf around the Ka’ba saying, ‘How sweet/good are you and how sweet is your scent. How great are you and how great is your sanctity. By the One in whose Hand the soul of Mohammad is, the sanctity of a believer is greater with Allāh than your sanctity’ (i.e. that of the Ka’ba)”[Ibn Majah]. Though the Ka’ba is considered the greatest Islamic symbol present, with the Muslims all over the world turning their faces toward it five times daily, and though the prayer near it has more reward than anywhere else, the sanctity of the blood of a single believer is worth more to Allāh than the sanctity of this first house built to worship Allāh. It is therefore upon the Muslims to place the same priority upon the blood of their brothers and sisters, and treat the violation of that sanctity as worse than open aggression against the Ka’ba, and here we are not even talking about aggression, just at the most, an act of disrespect and yet so much outrage and news is generated. The blood of a Muslim has indeed become cheap in the eyes of some Muslims today, yet in the sight of Allāh, the commodity indeed remains precious. m.gulfnews/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/outrage-as-saudi-policeman-rests-shoe-on-makkah-s-sacred-kaaba-1.1339752
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 17:26:13 +0000
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