“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I couldn’t agree more.
Applying this to the case of Islam in the world, I think one of the things harming it these days is the number of clueless people who think they are qualified to defend it.
These people who go on and try to portray themselves as scholars of Islam when they basically don’t have the necessary background or knowledge for it are just making things worse everytime they open their mouths.
People should be really careful about the arguments they use, the sensitive points they touch upon and the details they try to get into because what started as them trying to defend a cause or a belief could turn into them doing the complete opposite.
It’s great that people are passionate about their religion and want to defend it, but standing up and talking for a religion is a great responsability and before they do that they should learn as much as they can about it and only talk about issues they have researched very well so they can be able to get into more detail, answer questions and deny false claims.
The same applies to every other cause or belief.
Believing isn’t enough. You have to know the history of it, the why, the when, the where, the circumstances, the details, everything to be able to strongly defend it and stand up for it.
hmmmmm i was 1 of these people..u r right.. i made things worse!
It’s ok, we all find ourselves in situations like that sometimes where we’re carried away by our love for a certain cause and we find ourselves trying to defend it but then we find out we’re not capable of doing it well enough.
It’s things like this that show us how much more we need to know about our causes.
I loved your post MMM 🙂
Well I guess that ma3karona’s comment shows his thinking is fair enough to see where did he go wrong, which means he’s improving, and this is a big positive change. Doing some unplanned mistakes doesn’t mean the end of the world as long as we admit them.
Ma3karona is way much better than others who never admit their mistakes and never accept change.
Don’t give up ma3karona 🙂
Thank you MMM,
it’s true what you’ve said,although passion is important in the faith, but it doesn’t work in arguments to defend your beliefs if it was not backed by knowledge. the counter part won’t care how passionate you are about your belief,he/she will be more interested in the facts and the logic that your faith was built upon.
thanks again:)