Muslim Knowledge Guide China: Salah, Palestine Dua, Qur'an Values and Community Speech
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Summary: This Muslim knowledge essay responds to an online article about salah, worship, Palestine, and public speech, arguing that media voices should respect core religious duties and avoid confusing personal limits with community guidance.
The day before yesterday, a tweet from a public account called "Weekly Notes" flooded Moments. In the circle of friends, many people are filled with indignation, and there are also a lot of people who are applauding. I didn’t want to say anything, but yesterday the author of the tweet posted another tweet titled “Regret and Gladness—Responses to the Reactions to the Weekly Notes.” I feel that if yesterday’s “Prayer Notes” was just what you were thinking, then yesterday’s “Response” is more like a naked provocation, provoking the tolerance of the entire religious community and challenging the entire community’s core belief in the “Five Destinies.”
The "Weekly Notes" article written the day before yesterday is indeed innocuous from a purely literary or public welfare perspective, and it is even worthy of everyone giving the blogger a thumbs up. However, the article’s characterization of salah as “a practice practiced by retired, idle old people” is extremely disgusting. If you can't or don't want to do it, it's your personal business. After all, "there is no compulsion in religion, right and wrong are clearly defined" [2:256], but you have to say out loud what you think you can't do or don't want to do, and then get many people to respond. This is disgusting. We all know that salah is a regular duty for every sane adult, and we all know that it is better to salah together than to salah alone at home. But there is a kind of strange and sinister language everywhere in your article, which makes people feel like they are stuck in their throats after reading it.
I admire your continued advocacy and hard work for Palestinian refugees. However, some things must be coded in the same code, and the concepts cannot be confused. Friends around me who have a sense of justice have all spoken out for the Palestinian refugees, and they are even actively donating money to purchase various living supplies for the Palestinian refugees. In fact, almost every Muslim compatriot also cares about the Palestinian refugees. No one is hard-hearted, but they are separated by thousands of miles and rivers. There are even many people like us with limited mobility. Apart from donating money, the only thing we can do is to hold up our hands and make dua for Palestinian refugees after salah.
The whole world is paying attention to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and everyone with conscience can see that the Israelis want to commit genocide against the Palestinians, just like the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese in our country. Therefore, our country has been urging both sides to exercise restraint and eventually brokered a short-lived ceasefire agreement. We don’t know how Israeli artillery fire will wreak havoc on Palestinian land after Ramadan, but at least during the ceasefire they are safe and can fast without worrying about shells of war suddenly falling on people’s heads.
I still say that I admire all the efforts you have made for Palestinian refugees over the years, but you can't force a group of people to follow your footsteps just because you can't do something well. For example, if a person doesn't like to eat cilantro, he can't say that cilantro doesn't taste good in front of a vegetable stall selling cilantro, nor can he say don't buy cilantro when meeting people on the street!
In fact, every one of us in the media often has to not only do what we should do, but also pay attention to the impact our words and deeds will have on the people around us. You cannot just say and do whatever you want based on your own selfish desires. Doing so will cause irreversible harm to the group and even the entire society, and will cause the group to fall apart or even be completely disintegrated.
I won’t say anything else, but wish you good luck!
Summary: This Muslim knowledge essay responds to an online article about salah, worship, Palestine, and public speech, arguing that media voices should respect core religious duties and avoid confusing personal limits with community guidance.
The day before yesterday, a tweet from a public account called "Weekly Notes" flooded Moments. In the circle of friends, many people are filled with indignation, and there are also a lot of people who are applauding. I didn’t want to say anything, but yesterday the author of the tweet posted another tweet titled “Regret and Gladness—Responses to the Reactions to the Weekly Notes.” I feel that if yesterday’s “Prayer Notes” was just what you were thinking, then yesterday’s “Response” is more like a naked provocation, provoking the tolerance of the entire religious community and challenging the entire community’s core belief in the “Five Destinies.”
The "Weekly Notes" article written the day before yesterday is indeed innocuous from a purely literary or public welfare perspective, and it is even worthy of everyone giving the blogger a thumbs up. However, the article’s characterization of salah as “a practice practiced by retired, idle old people” is extremely disgusting. If you can't or don't want to do it, it's your personal business. After all, "there is no compulsion in religion, right and wrong are clearly defined" [2:256], but you have to say out loud what you think you can't do or don't want to do, and then get many people to respond. This is disgusting. We all know that salah is a regular duty for every sane adult, and we all know that it is better to salah together than to salah alone at home. But there is a kind of strange and sinister language everywhere in your article, which makes people feel like they are stuck in their throats after reading it.
I admire your continued advocacy and hard work for Palestinian refugees. However, some things must be coded in the same code, and the concepts cannot be confused. Friends around me who have a sense of justice have all spoken out for the Palestinian refugees, and they are even actively donating money to purchase various living supplies for the Palestinian refugees. In fact, almost every Muslim compatriot also cares about the Palestinian refugees. No one is hard-hearted, but they are separated by thousands of miles and rivers. There are even many people like us with limited mobility. Apart from donating money, the only thing we can do is to hold up our hands and make dua for Palestinian refugees after salah.
The whole world is paying attention to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and everyone with conscience can see that the Israelis want to commit genocide against the Palestinians, just like the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese in our country. Therefore, our country has been urging both sides to exercise restraint and eventually brokered a short-lived ceasefire agreement. We don’t know how Israeli artillery fire will wreak havoc on Palestinian land after Ramadan, but at least during the ceasefire they are safe and can fast without worrying about shells of war suddenly falling on people’s heads.
I still say that I admire all the efforts you have made for Palestinian refugees over the years, but you can't force a group of people to follow your footsteps just because you can't do something well. For example, if a person doesn't like to eat cilantro, he can't say that cilantro doesn't taste good in front of a vegetable stall selling cilantro, nor can he say don't buy cilantro when meeting people on the street!
In fact, every one of us in the media often has to not only do what we should do, but also pay attention to the impact our words and deeds will have on the people around us. You cannot just say and do whatever you want based on your own selfish desires. Doing so will cause irreversible harm to the group and even the entire society, and will cause the group to fall apart or even be completely disintegrated.
I won’t say anything else, but wish you good luck!
