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Nice user name. However until Sister dear heart gives me permission to refer to her by her user name I shall refrain from doing so. Do you have a "roughly written English" equivalent user name? And would you object if I referred to you by it.. If you wished to share it of course.
Very well , we'll wait for her to tell . As for my name , it's pronounced "Nasiir Addiin"="Ally of Religion (Islam in this case)" . You can refer to me as Nasiir or Ally if you like .

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Jesus said we were to forgive our enemies. I always feel it a shame when some Christians fail to do live up to this demand. It's is the hardest thing but I have found ultimately the most rewarding. I can see the value in this command upon us.. Because retaliation only ever escalates and revenge is always destructive.. You only have to look at the world today to see what destruction revenge causes. It comes down to love again!!! ;)
I feel it will go for a long time but still , I wouldn't be exagerraing if I say that Islam is the most forgiving religion there is , and at the same time , it's strict against evil doers . The Mongols invaded the Islamic lands until they reached Egypt and then were pushed back . What does that have to do with it ? Well , here's the surprise , they embraced the religion of the invaded , something I doubt happened at all in history . Islam teaches us to never assault a child , an old man , a woman , a worshiper , or a non fighting civillian in any case .

Still , things can indeed be black and white . There's a difference between forgiveness and letting someone step on your neck . Justice and truth need power . That's why there are many people around the world trying their hardest to fend the invaders off . If they don't , they either die or live miserably . I know that if we try to go into details we'll be doing it for a long time and so I'll keep it at this .

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I don't see anyone as being born inherently evil.. So don't agree with evil by default description here.
Not BORN evil ! I mean that it's simple and easy to say some are evil when we look at theri acts . Of course I'm not saying a person is born evil !

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There are far more pertinent examples to choose than WW2... Evil is alive and well and flourishes in many parts of the world today.
I have a feeling that we won't agree which side is the evil one . So let's set it aside for now .

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Another saying.. For evil to thrive all it takes is for good men to do nothing..
And that's why it's a must for good men to stand up to it and stop it . And if it comes in force , it must be driven back by force . A sign was mentioned about this :

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8:60 And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.
And because I KNOW someone out there will try to misquote this , I'll explain . Terrifying isn't bad intsefl . It can be for the good or the bad . The cop for instance casts terror in the heart of the criminal when going after him .

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charity should be second nature to every person.. It should not be an obligation but an intrinsic understanding of the need to care for those less fortunate than ourselves. I believe a society can be measured by how it treats it's weakest members.. If you fail these people then you fail all. However, if Zakat works then it's a good thing. Yet it has not addressed the issue of poverty in the 1400 years it's been in operation in Muslim societies though, so maybe the people are at fault not the system.
The charity you'r talking about is "Sadaqah" . The other one , the obligation , is because not everyone would help the poor . And in that case , they are obliged to because ultimately , all this wealth with the whole creation belongs to Allah . Thus , if someone is stingy or denying the poor and needy of that wealth , he is forced to give them . As for the underlined , that's a joke , right ? Because a prophecy has actually been fulfilled about it during the days of Umar bin Abdulaziz . The time to give Zakah comes , and they can't find anyone who needs it ! I'll try to look for the sources in English if you want them .Yes , it succeeded at times when the whole Islamic system is applied properly . There are off times and there are times when Sharia is refused completely and those are the darkest times . So in the end , yes , if it fails , it's the people that are at fault for not working with Islam in the first place .

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I agree it isn't wrong.. But I see excessive personal wealth can be. The world we live in operates on money.. Wealth.. Our lives are governed by it.. We either have too much or not enough or we always want more than we need. Yet we rarely stop to think for what purpose do we store wealth for the sake of having it? Unless we use our wealth to share with the community we live in then it benefits us nothing. We come into the world with nothing and we leave the world the same state.
Well said . But did you actually know that the reason there are people suffering sever poverty is that there are who steal what their lands offer ? And they admit it too .



If the video doesn't show on the forum , try to look for "Global Wealth Inequal Distrubution and its causes"

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The understanding of what constitutes a sin I should imagine is pretty much the same for all of us. I see the way we perceive sin and the affect it has upon us and in relation to God is different. I think this is important. I started a thread on this topic thinking to explore it further but no one was interested in pursuing it. No matter. :)
I'm not sure I fully understand you so let's leave it aside for now .