01-12-2005, 08:38 PM
Ronniv,
Here again
I did NOT say that Allah, SWT is going to save me because I am a Muslim. Then you are not following my thought. I will try again.
Islam teaches us that we are to take RESPONSIBILITY for our lives. That means that I am not so arrogant that I will cross the road without caring if there will come a car or not that may run over me. That is NOT taking responsibility, it is to be ignorant and also quite stupid I would say.
And the same goes for defending Islam and ones faith for example. Allah, SWT is not going to 'save' or 'spare' anyone, which could be interpreted like not having to face the destiny of death in this world, which of course everyone knows cannot be avoided. But He has given us our life and we have responsibility to treasure it and also to try to save people that are being slaughtered, by for example a tyrant.
Just sitting back and expect Allah, SWT to 'save you' is not the way to try to struggle through life and live it without caring about it, because that is what it means if one would live it according to your conclusion.
BUT when He decides it is our time to GO to the next life, that we cannot not fight against it, since it isnot in our human ability to do so.
Allah, SWT teaches us in Islam that we will be accountable for all our doings and none-doings in this world, so it can never go together hand in hand with passivity.
Regards