Islam As It Is
Islamic Society
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retain their positive qualities? How are they to
withstand disagreement, strife and friction? Will
they not be constantly impaired, if not actually
destroyed, by such negative human activity?
As far as Muslims are concerned, they are not left in
any doubt as to how they should conduct
themselves in their social living, for they are given
clear injunctions on this subject in the chapter in the
Quran entitled, The Chambers. This enjoins
believers to live together as brothers, and to be as
quick to settle any quarrels which may break out
between them as they would be to put out a fire
which had broken out in their own hearth and
home. Great stress, in fact, is laid on the avoidance
of all such evils as are likely to mar human
relationships. One such evil is the heaping of scorn
on those who seem sadly lacking in some respects.
It is advised never to do this, because those who
strike us as being deficient in so many ways may be
the very people who are highest in the esteem of
their Creator. Who are we to ridicule and sit in
judgement? The only true judge of men is God
Almighty Himself. It is likewise strictly against the
rules laid down in the Quran to misrepresent
