People are scared and I don't blame them.

[Sheed1980]

It's tough sometimes trying to explain to people and show the world what our beautiful religion of Islam is supposed to be about and how we should be living it like our holy Prophet Muhammad pbuh taught us to. We as Muslims today, especially here in America face so much hatred and stereotype due to what terrorists who have hatred and a falsely conceived concept of how we should live our religion, especially when they do evil and hatred things in the name of Allah and Islam. Islam as the world's fastest growing religion has more hatred towards it because of misconceived views of the world due to the false teachings of hatred that come from a small percentage of worldwide Muslims. In no way am I saying Muslims are perfect. We are human beings and just like all other religions there are good people and bad people in Islam as well. When people misunderstand what a religion is based on and how it is supposed to be lived correctly, as soon as one single bad thing happens by someone who is Muslim, people wanna say that's what the religion teaches us to do. When they don't study the truth of the religion people are drawn to the hatred of bad Muslims and their cultures by a single brush-stroked painting of Islamaphobes and the media and assume that is what Islam is about. So yes there are bad people that are Muslims, I don't disagree with that. But there are more good people who follow the true teachings of Islam and the lifestyle of the Prophet Muhammad pbuh. This is why God tells us as Muslims He will judge us on Judgment Day as well. We're human beings. But the thing is u can't base a religion on what a small percentage of its so called followers do when the much larger percentage of that same religion live a much better lifestyle as commanded by God in our Holy Qur'an. Just like nobody can or would have the right to say Christianity is a racist or hateful religion because of what the KKK, and so called Pastor Tony Smith, and Islamaphobist Brigitte Gabrielle who call themselves faithful Christians do. Nor could anyone say Judaism is a hatred judgmental religion because of the hatred that Pamela Geller puts toward Islam with the excuse of constitutional free speech. So my point being, not even considering all the other human beings who are not of the 3 Abrahamic faiths (i.e. Hindus, Atheists, and all other religions), but when a Christian or Jew murders or robs someone, or rapes a woman or child or beats their wife, or any other hatred evil act towards their fellow human being, which is sad to say happens quite often in every city of the world, the media and most people of the world just look at them and say "There's a lot of BAD PEOPLE out there or they made a big mistake." But when a Muslim does the same thing they wanna say "Why does ISLAM teach Muslims to do these things?" They totally turn a human act of evil from a SINGLE PERSON or small GROUP onto an entire worldwide religion. Just as when the Cardinals of the Catholic church were performing that horrible child molestation. But Catholicism as a world religion still stands tall. Those men were just bad people who happened to be part of that religion. I give all praise to God for blessing me to be Muslim. I love my Lord and love my religion. And by no means am I saying everyone has a hatred view towards Islam. I have seen and heard people saying that Muslims all over the world are some of the best, friendliest, and most kind people they have ever known. It just seems that it is so easy to assume that Islam is about evil and hatred when the media and those who do have hatred towards us show that a single Muslim has done wrong or has hatred in their soul as a person. So what people around the world need to do is study the true teachings of Islam which are in the Qur'an, and the true lifestyle of our Prophet Muhammad pbuh to see what Islam is really about. And what we as Muslims need to do is live our lives the right way and follow the teachings of the Qur'an and our Prophet Muhammad pbuh. And as the world's fastest growing religion people around the world can see true, peaceful Islam on the rise, growing bigger around the world everyday, flushing out the false hatred of our religion, and see that Islam is truly a religion of love and peace.

Every human teaches love and peace in theory, but interpretation of that differs. Islam is the best way to implement love and peace individually, family wise, and society wise in my belief and I trying to find that true Islam. Eventually as well the whole world will benefit from the perfect Islam and be united on the rope of God from humans and his words.  

However Islam does NOT make sense without belief in the unseen. It revolves and is oriented around that. 

These people can't understand  it because they lack faith in the unseen. They themselves are unseen, so essentially they are denying themselves and neglecting their true reality.

The link with the divine is the greatest gift we have, not valuing that link as it ought to be valued, is not forgivable in Islam.

The level of sincerity required to God is higher in Islam then all other religions. What I mean is the bear minimum is higher standard. And the duties towards others and society is also higher. 

The heart of it though is the love of the near kin of the Messenger. To truly recognize who they are and appreciate the message through them.

And to that, I find the umma is rebellious, in that they prefer to follow their systematic approach and structure they see part of their religion, to submission to God and love of his chosen ones.

That is the good news he gives to his servants such as those who believe and do good deeds, say: no recompense do I ask for it except the love in the near kin (of the Messenger) and whoever does good we increase them therein, verily God is Forgiving, Appreciative.

Love would of been that path the nation took to appreciate God and his Messenger and the favor bestowed upon them through his revelation, it would of reminded of the unseen stations meant for us to tread, it would of lead the people towards recognizing the guidance meant for them.

We broken the trusts of the Messenger "I am leaving you two weighty trusts, Quran and my family....."

U r absolutely right my brother. Allah specifically says in the Qur'an Suratul Baqarah verse 3 "Alladhina yu'minuna bil ghaibi" Those who BELIEVE IN THE UNSEEN.....I have had several debates with people who call themselves of a certain religious belief...but don't even follow their own holy scripture. For instance a man who calls himself a Christian who says Jesus pbuh is the son of God but then says he himself doesn't follow the Bible, he has his own way of believing and following. That is how false prophecies start. So he believes there is a God but he says He has a physical son. So I tell him God does not beget offspring. So he asks why CAN'T Almighty God have offspring. I say God and CAN'T shouldn't be used in the same sentence. God CAN DO whatever He wills. The thing people misunderstand is GOD WON'T do certain things. To beget offspring is a sexual act of reproduction that we as animals (imperfect creatures) do. If God begat offspring He would lower His standard as the Most High, unequal being and become equal with us as humans. It would be no different than Him dying, or getting sick, having to eat, sleep, forget, make mistakes, excrete waste and all other things that we as His creatures do. This is why He WON'T do any of these things because He has His place of Most High majesty as the only God. What mankind tries to do with things we don't understand is try to lower things to our finite level of thinking. So man in general feel if he can't see it or feel it physically it must not exist. But Alhamdulillah Allah has guided us to His light and given us vision through our Prophet Muhammad's pbuh teachings and may He keep us guided with His light. May Allah forgive us ALL OF OUR SINS my brother and forbid us ALL PUNISHMENT of the grave, the Day of Judgment and Hell-fire, and may He reward us with Jannatul-Firdaus in the Afterlife. If I never meet u n person in this life, Insha'allah we can have a delicious meal and discuss this topic further in Jannah. As-Salaamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatu my brother.