MOST COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS OF MUSLIMS

Asalamualaykum Warahmatullah,

First I would like to apologise for the lack of blogs the last week or so. 

I feel like I lost inspiration for a little while and also had packed weeks but that is no excuse.

In todays blog I thought I would write about the most common misconceptions of muslims. 

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and people often ask why, as it is also one of the most negatively viewed religions as a result of the portrayal on social media. 

What people don't realise is that muslims are people and not evil beings, instead the whole islamic concept is opposite to what is shown. 

If people dug a little deeper, looked beyond social media, the things they think they know will be long forgotten because it doesn't even make a dent in who muslims are. 

Here are some of the most common misconceptions that people have of muslims: 

1. Women are oppressed --> They assume that women are forced to wear the hijab, when in reality, this is not the case. Women have more freedom in Islam. Hijab is there to hide beauty, not because of negative reasons, rather to show its value. 

2. Muslims are terrorists --> Its funny because when you look closely there are more killers who are not muslim than those who are, yet we overlook people who do murder because it doesn't seem as serious than if someone happened to be muslim, or now its become an excuse. Its like if someone was to murder someone and they were told that they were muslim, people would be like 'oh i see',

But nowhere in islam does it state the killing of innocent people! 

People misuse the word 'jihad' which is meant more for the inner struggle that we face, such as resisting temptation than any other jihad that people think. 

3. Forced Marriage is the only way muslims get married --> There is a significant difference between forced and arranged marriage. Forced is not having a choice, arranged is someone finds you someone and gives your the option to see whether that person is right for you. Islam in no way, shape or form allows forced marriage to take place. It is ultimately the choice of the individuals getting married whether they want to go ahead or not.

4. Muslims don't believe Jesus exists --> Whats funny about this one is that if you ask a muslim to name 5 prophets of the religion, Jesus would most definitely be there. We believe Jesus exists just as much as anyone else as he was mentioned in the Quran. Despite this, we do not however believe that Jesus is the son of god because he isn't. To us, Allah has no relation, no son, no daughter, no mother or father. God is one and only, the first and the last. We dont associate partners with him or those who we feel he is 'like' that is what is forbidden.

If there are any more misconceptions that are commonly stated, please comment down below. It would be interesting to have a read! Thank you.