The modus operandi of the Christian is to evangelise.
But the Muslim knows that it is God, the Most Gracious, that guides whom He will. And God, the Most Gracious, who favours whom He will with true belief.
And when he reads the story of Musa (as) in his book, he realises that his first mission was not to be a Messenger to the Children of Israel.
The fire on the mountain top was a beacon that drew him close and brought him near. And then God spoke with him. *1
And sent him onward to Pharaoh.
That his first mission was to confront Pharoah’s tyranny with kind, and wise, words.
And indeed even before that, in the same conversation, we learn that God regarded him as an enemy and placed Musa (as) within his household for that very reason.
So for the Muslim from the portent of each and every story of every Messenger that the Most Gracious sent to mankind, he knows his duty, his calling and his end.
That we are to confront tyranny and oppression in all its forms.
From the Political Hypocrisy of the Western Nations, that brands whole people as being undeserved of justice and peace.
To their disfigured morality which equates every discernment with discrimination.
To the oppression of their own people by their taxing the poor to give to the rich.
To their Criminal Justice System hell bent on destroying people’s souls, and the Nations’ families.
That belief in the Most Merciful God comes after we have freed people from the fetters of one tyrannising another.
Where they are both the losers.
And once free who cannot recognise that a universal and true justice amongst all Nations, that a morality based upon man’s natural order, that a just society can only be conceived and maintained with a true and complete submission to the Lord, Sustainer of all of the Worlds.
That is our Islam.
Knowledge is sought through study and contemplation. Not lectures and talks. Nor this above.
*1 read the discourse in S Taha
Musa (as) is here commanded first to worship Allah t’ala and then go to Pharoah.
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