'Debate' or 'Debate Not'

Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaatuh (Peace and blessings of God be upon you)

I thought this was a little funny so I wanted to share with you my friends,

This world is full of ignorants. since I joined DeviantART, I started posting artworks related to muslims or Islam. I am a muslim and it's natural that I draw things related to my culture. but it seems some people are there waiting and ready to see these in order to start attacking Islam trying to prove their false claims. they write long aggressive comments in the deviations pages out of the topic of the artwork. of course, if I were to draw naked or half-naked girls, they would enjoy watching and maybe giving me praises and nice comments.

I wanted to give these people a chance to explain themselves in civilized debates. but I made it as a challenge: "if you convince me, I remove all the islamic artworks in my gallery. if I convince you, you'll have to admit in one sentence that "what you thought about Islam was wrong" this seemed interesting for those people as they thought it's a piece of cake and they can make me remove all the artworks in my gallery with what they know. the debates started but those people wasted so many notes with very little information. it was very clear that they don't understand anything about Islam as there was nobody who understood what he was talking about. they take information from the same website and they claim they understand Islam well. and when they don't find what to say, they change the topic or start insulting!
in fact, in all the notes I sent, those people didn't answer to any of the questions I asked them about Islam (to test their knowledge). they just send notes that seem to have nothing to do with the previous ones.

all those I debated with did the same mistakes. it seems they are all the same brand. in fact any logical person who wants to have a clear and good opinion about Islam, he has to:
1- read what MUSLIMS talk about ISLAM.
2- read what non-muslims talk about Islam.
3-read what MUSLIMS reply to the non-muslims' claims.
after reading all these, a person can have a very clear idea of what Islam is. and then he/she can judge and give opinions.

if you jump and just read what non-muslims say about Islam, you will never understand Islam well. I give you an example:
you want to learn how to drive a car. will you ask a very good driver to teach you or you ask somebody who hates cars? any peoson with little brain will go and take the good driver as a teacher. another example: you want to learn how to draw. will you learn from a very skillfull artist or from someone who hates art?
the same goes for understanding Islam. if you want to understand Islam, you need to learn it from a muslim who practices Islam and not from a non-muslim who hates Islam.

it seems that to admit that they are wrong is too much to ask for those people. well an open-minded person won't find it hard to admit his/her mistakes. but childish close-minded people are different.
debates is an art. someone has to have enough knowledge to start a debate. otherwise he/she will certainly make a fool out of themselves.


thanks for reading and May God Bless you
Assalamu Alaikum

FWM




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