Irreligious Conduct in the Name of Religion

Irreligious Conduct in the Name of Religion mistake in the future. One important instruction was: “Why, when you heard it, did believing men and women not think well of one another and say, ‘This is clearly a false accusation’?” (Quran 24:12) Explaining this verse, Ibn Kathir writes that the believers should have judged the matter by applying it to themselves. If they considered such conduct unthinkable for themselves, then Aisha, the Mother of the Believers, was even more deserving of being regarded as innocent. (Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 3, p. 273) When a Muslim hears something that casts suspicion on another Muslim, the first response should be to ask, “Could I myself do such a thing?” If the answer of one’s conscience is, “No, I could not,” then the same favourable view should be extended to the other person. No one should be assumed guilty without evidence. It is in such moments that the difference becomes clear between those who truly possess faith and those who merely claim to possess it. The proof that a person follows religion does not lie in raising slogans of moral reform. The real proof is that they themselves follow the Quranic principle of thinking well of others. To speak loudly in the name of reform may simply be a way of seeking religious leadership. To think well of