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Habib
Lv 6
Habib asked in Society & CultureHolidaysRamadan · 8 years ago

Muslims, will it be your Righteousness or shall it be Jihad that will take you to a Goodly Abode?

There are many perverted clerics that never give enough emphasis on staying RIGHTEOUS in all the situations in our lifetime.

They incorrectly keep showing us "Jihad" as a 'passport' to Paradise. They mislead us to die for their political and sectarian causes which are in fact political but they depict them as religious! They even use out of context verses to prove their viewpoint. So they lie to us and forge against God to achieve worldly matters.

Hereunder is the Verse 23 of Chapter-2, The Cow in support of my above statement and opinion:

Give thou good tidings to those who believe

and do DEEDS of RIGHTEOUSNESS, that for them

await gardens underneath which rivers flow;

whensoever they are provided with fruits therefrom

they shall say, 'This is that wherewith

we were provided before'; that they shall be

given in perfect semblance; and there

for them shall be spouses purified; therein

they shall dwell forever.

(Verse-23, Chapter-2, The Cow/ Baqarah)

I hope every Muslim understand what Righteous is. However those who don't, here's what being righteous is:

It's being truthful, honest, trustworthy, supporting justice, choosing goodness over evil, keeping God's Commandments forth and fore most even against our personal desires and whims.

So what's you take on Righteousness?

So, WOULD YOU AGREE that its being RIGHTEOUS that leads you to paradise/ GOODLY ABODE?

Update:

Thank you for first three responses please. I know about the other verses pertaining Jihad and very well understand what Jihad might be.

I am specifically asking about being RIGHTEOUS to succeed in the Hereafter. What I'm trying to say here is that Jihad is not the only way to make it to the Paradise!

So do you guys agree????

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Yes being a righteous Muslim leads 2 Paradise but so does martyrs when you die 4 Islam not political or sectarian issues

    righteousness is when you do good things

    Some of things that Muslims do is not Jihad, ppl need 2 understand what Jihad really is and the greater Jihad” (al-jihad al-akbar).

    It is one’s inner struggle of good against evil; refraining oneself from the

    whispers of Shaitan (Satan).

    ----

    What terrorists do is not Jihad

    Here check out what Jihad really is

    http://www.justislam.co.uk/product.php?products_id...

    Source(s): edit YES I agree , righteousness gives you Jannah
  • I M
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    All praises to Allah, The Lord of All worlds an planets within and beyond the multiverse.

    Finally non Muslims reading quran and using it against the fake brainwashed poor excuse for a Muslim.

    Habib keep going! We need people like u. Although the media will continue to portray the one in a million territorist who happen call himself a Muslim

  • 8 years ago

    jihad simply means struggle. and yes, struggle against the self and its desires is difficult and holds much reward.

    character weighs heaviest on the scales

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    The mercy of the merciful.

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