Please Forward This Message!!!

Courtesy of sangpelangi.com

Assalaamualaikum (peace be upon you) Brothers and Sisters in Islam,

Have you ever received emails with titles such as above? I bet you have. And mostly it is from a close friend, a family member or an acquaintance in your office.

They forwarded it since it has some messages that needs to be spread among other Muslims. A part of it are reminders to us, which is a very good thing to receive every once in a while. But half of the time, it is about some pictures or websites that is provocative against Islam, or just plain anti-Islam. In this entry I would like to take you to have a look into this phenomenon. If you haven’t know already, there is a possibility that the act of forwarding such messages itself is ironically most damaging to Islam!

Among these are the messages that have links to such provocative websites.

“Go to this website to see for yourself the shocking pictures of anti-Islam!”

“Brothers and sisters, click to this link and see for yourselves the shocking article defaming Islam!”

All too often we get such messages, and we readily click to the website to ‘confirm’ the news. (Curiosity at its best, I guess)

Yes, most probably the site/article is owned by a (Islam-hating) non-Muslim. No surprises there. BUT, for all we know, the one who started the message thread might also be one of them too!

Why would they do such a thing?

want to read more? You can read the whole article on this blog, a friend of mine.