To My Angry Muslim Brother

Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan targets his entire discussion at that young angry Muslim brother of ours who feel that when the Prophet ﷺ is insulted, then he is insulted, and he should do something about that, and his blood boils when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is spoken of in a way that did not deserve to be spoken of. Even the slightest insult to our Messenger ﷺ is enough to take all the happiness and joy out of his life and makes him forget all of it because his love for him is that intense. 

We need to understand that there is something problematic about the way we emotionally respond. Allah says in the Qur'an - “Glory to thy Lord, the Lord of Honour and Power! (He is free) from what they ascribe (to Him)! And Peace on the messengers! (Surah As Saffat :180-181). Allah is the one who said peace upon All of the Messengers.

Thus, the honor of our Messenger ﷺ, the nobility, the respect, the love of our Messenger ﷺ and the status of our Messenger ﷺ is not something we give him. It is not something that comes from human beings. It came from Allah.  Nobody on the earth can take it away. The Quran has come from Allah. People can burn copies of it, people can make fun of it, people can make pieces of it; it will not insult the Quran; because the Quran is in Laohe Mahfudh. It can not be insulted. It is above these insults. Our Messenger’s ﷺ honor is above them. 

Our job in this world today is to just be ambassadors of this Deen and let people know what Islam is. The real issue isn’t that we love our Messenger ﷺ more.  The real issue is we don’t have a fundamental education in our own Deen. We don’t know that our Deen makes us civil, makes us decent, makes us patient, makes us not reactionary, it gives us control over our emotions.

Hence, the need of the hour for that angry Muslim brother of ours is to educate himself, his family and also the entire Ummah in a befitting manner. We should be able to lift the Ummah from the darkness that it suffers from. We should speak the word of truth courageously and be able to engage with each other in civil, respectful disagreement when the time comes.