Article on Islam
This is about the write-up published in The Daily Star (3/3/2010) named "bridging the academic gap" by Mr. Abdus Sattar Molla. In his article he gave some misinformation about Islam, by which, I think, many can misunderstand Islam. He mentioned the Arabic word "Jihad" as "Religious war". Actually this meaning, religious war is nowhere found in the Holy Quran or in the Hadiths. Jihad means "to strive/to struggle." In another place he said, the Holy Quran (2:256) speaks about secular mentality which is totally wrong. I request him to study the Holy Quran once again with understanding. In another place he said "compulsory religious education course should put more emphasis on interpersonal social relations than on religious beliefs and rituals." I want to inform him that in religious beliefs and rituals of Islam interpersonal social relations are included. Apart from it, he wrote about "Hoqqullah and Hoqqul I'bad" and gave some explanations. I cordially request him to know the factual explanation of these from an Islamic scholar. In the fourth column he wrote, "Compulsory religious education up to Grade-10 has so far failed to raise the literate citizens' moral standards". If you want to increase moral standards of literate citizens you have to introduce more compulsory religious courses and it should be up to university level.
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