Question:
Hello everybody, I’m a Greek Orthodox Christian, and I wanna ask you, why do you think you’re different? I think we all are the same we are all humans and Greeks, and we’re not supposed to count each other different, I was shocked to see Greek Muslims think they are not Greeks or make their own websites as if they were different, I’ll tell ya, we’re all Greeks, athiests, Jews, Musilms or Christians, the most important thing to believe in Allah only! I speak Arabic very fluently, for Muslims who want help in this language, and I know a lot about Islam, so anyone needs help, I’m here : mesow@hotmail.com.
Answer:
Mesow, welcome to the group and thank you for asking us this important question. Yes, we have some similarities, but we are different.
- human beings (same)
- Greek culture (same)
- beliefs (different)
If you watch our video or browse through our blog posts, you will find undoubtedly that our posts are very different than what another Greek blogger would publish because we share different beliefs and therefore live different lifestyles. Hence, the need for our unique website.
Mesow, let me ask you this, if you believe in Allah (one true God) only, then why are you not a Muslim?
Note: others are free to comment as well.
(MOD EDIT: moved from Find Greek Muslims! section)
From Ramil
Salam!
I think you Mesow do not know about Islam a lot as you sad because if you had known a lot you never would have asked us why we are different. Our belief in Allah differs us from others. Of course it may be new thing for Greece that greek muslims made their own website but for example for my country Russia it is normal, russian muslims have their own websites and places where we can discuss and solve our problems to know more about Islam tell and explain for not-muslims about our religion.
I will give my view on this too.
A person, when embracing Islam, he embraces at the same time, all of it’s values. One very importan value in Islam, is putting aside your nationality, and seeing, every single person, be he black or white or yellow or blue or whatever as equal to yourself. There is a Hadith that mentions the following:
“O people! Your God is one and your forefather (Adam) is one. An Arab is not better than a non-Arab and a non-Arab is not better than an Arab, and a red (i.e. white tinged with red) person is not better than a black person and a black person is not better than a red person, except in piety.”
Narrated in Mosnad Ahmad, #22978.
This means that although we are Greek in nationality, it does not make us feal of higher status towards other nationalities, and the only thing is, we strive for the betterment of our society (e.i. being pious).
Being a muslim is being a human, not a Greek or anything else. (Of course, typically you are still of the nationality where you come from, but it is not more than a color and a language).
Mesow,
We are not all the same, you should know that as Muslims we worship the Almighty in his Divine Unity, declare the messengership of Nabi Mohammed, pray, fast, give charity and go for Hajj.
As an Orthodox Christian you worship a Triune god that consists of Allah, his prophet and a holy ghost. As muslims, we are the only people on earth who only worship Allah without taking any partners, sons or any other created or imagined being in our worship. An atheist denies Allah, a Hindu worships a cow amongst other things while the Jews blaspheme upon the noble character of Jesus and his Virgin mother. The reason why Greek Muslims don’t consider themselves first and foremost Greeks is most likley due to the fact of the way Muslim citizens are treated in Greece, being denied passports, permits to build mosques, lack of educational opportunites and poor infrastructure in Muslim villages. Of course there are exceptions with Muslim Politicians. But the overwhelming things are negative. As Muslims are constantly reminded and blamed for the atrocities commited by some of the Ottomans.
Mesow if you were to come to my house for dinner you would find that we don’t eat cetain foods, I wouldn’t offer you an ouzo or retsina and you definitely will not be sitting next my wife. You would also notice that I would get up and pray at the time of prayer. These are part of the things that make us different despite our common heritage
Mesow,
Greek and a Greek Muslims are different in a lot of aspects. First of all if a Greek becomes a Greek Muslims, his psyche changed. A Greek just think about 12 millions Greeks, but a Greek Muslim thinks about 1500 million people who r his/her brothers and sisters in Deen. He/she is also worry about other 5000 million people, that its now his duty try to save them from hellfire.
An orthodox Greek mostly talk to his orthodox parents in a very harsh way, even he call them “μαλακα”. A Greek Muslim don’t even think about that to talk his/her orthodox parents in even harsh way.
A Greek Muslim do more respect to Jesus then a Greek orthodox. It is his part of Iman and Faith to love Jesus as Prophet of God. Greek Muslim don’t even think to disrespect in any way, even to make a picture of Jesus Peace be upon him.
A Greek don’t bother what he saying about Jesus in anger, mostly when Greek get angry, they say bad words about Jesus Peace Be Upon him. A Greek Muslim don’t even think about that, if he do (God forbid) that, he will lost his Iman, Faith.
I like this web, It really gives me a great pleasure to read all the comments here. THEREFORE, I WOULD RECOMMEND ALL OF YOU TO CHECK THIS WEB.
http://www.islamonline.net
you will have load of info on Islam and read also some testimonies of people of different nationalities who have embraces islam recently.To all my new brothers and sisters , i congratulate you for choosing islam as your new faith and wish you all the best. May Allah(swt) bless you and reward you. And May His blessing be upon you . All my new brothers and sisters will be remembered always in my prayers and du’a. Ameen.