> Islam, the Middle Way in ALL aspects.

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Islam, the Middle Way in ALL aspects.


Let's try to look at the different things which make Islam the middle way from all other ways of life;

Prophet Muhammad came from the Arabian Peninsula, that's in the middle of the world [Middle East.] Not in the west, nor in the far east.

He himself was light skinned, with a slight tinge of a tan. If he was extremely black, some might not have accepted him, and if he was extremely white, others might not have accepted him. But by being in between, he would neutral it out. He had neither curly, nor straight hair, and was of average height and build. He was the middle way in all aspects, with mercy and justice. He was the middle way, outwardly and inwardly.

His companions were arab, black (Bilal, Um Ayman), white (Suhayb the Roman, Zunayra [the one who temporary got blind]), brown (Salman the Persian) and male and female, poor and rich. This covers all forms of people, and he was the kindest to all of them, and they testified to this.


The Qur'an is a Criterion, Book of Justice, severe in threat to those who do evil, and merciful to those who are sincere and do good.

The Language that the Qur'an was revealed is both a language based on grammar, and also a phonetic language. (I.e. some languages are just grammar based i.e. Latin, but they might not be as Phonetic. Then there's other languages like Punjabi, or Mandarin Chinese which are phonetic more than they are grammar based.) Arabic is a composition of both. An example of its grammar and phoneticness is for example the word "Aba" - this means father. If i'm correct, Aba also comes from 'Baab' which means 'gate'. And the father is the 'gate' of the family i.e. people only come through him to the family. And the Phoneticness is the concept of other words i.e. forefathers, so if you prolonged the word Aba [father], you would say "Aabaaaa" = your forefathers (i.e. father, grandfather, great grandfather etc.)


Even the writing style of Arabic is the middle way. If you look at chinese/japanese writing, which is from the far east, and compare it to the languages of the West, you see that Arabic is between both. (from my personal perspective) i.e. chinese is written usually through the likes of a paintbrush style, english through the likes of a thin pencil line style, and arabic with a mix of both, forming calligraphy style.


Another concept is the belief in Prophet Jesus son of Mary (peace be upon them.) The Jews reject him and curse him, saying he was an imposter. The Christians raise him to the level of God, or a part of God. We say he is a servant and Messenger of God, and of the greatest of Prophets.


Another factor is that Islam has a balance between science and belief in God. So we believe that science is a pattern of Allah's creation. You'll notice that there isn't much detail about the specifics in science in the Qur'an or Sunnah, simply because Allah has given us senses and tools to understand the universe around us. So if a certain supernatural event does occur, we have an open mind to accept it as something supernatural (i.e. Jinn), or something which might be based on science and explainable in the future through other means.

[Qatada]

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[Ibn Ilyas]

Assalamu Aleykum ww

Very nicely written JazakAllah khayr.

Another example would be the prophets (pbuh) two closest companions Abu Bakr Siddiq (R) and Omar ibn al-Khattab (R). One being more soft, kind and merciful and the other more harsh and strict.

[amar_labedi]

Assalamalikum wa rahmatullahiw a baraktuhu

Mashallah nice reminder brother

Jazakallah

amar