Stop telling me what to think!

How would anyone like to deal with someone else's idea of anything? Yes, my mom is fantastic but that asparagus still tastes like crap! No matter how good the whole world says.

Religious matters are no different, many people have their own convictions, understandings and interpretations. One side is always trying to shove their primitive or incomplete ideas down the other throat.

Since this is not the middle ages nor is it an inquisition. No one has the right or monopoly over what's right and what is wrong. The truth is people are smart and the best you can do is lay down the facts and allow people to make their own decisions concerning what they want to believe.

We all have our very skewed versions of just about everything. One mind would explain something in a positive encouraging way. Making it pleasant and welcoming for people. While others do everything in their power to push away people while thinking they've got the moral high grounds or the comprehension of right, when all they're doing is push their cause further and further away from the hearts. In effect, they might have won the argument, but lost people's hearts.

Unfortunately, this was the case since the dawn of humanity. It's sad to know that revered imams like Ahmad Ibin Hanbal, was tortured half way to death and imprisoned for his ideas. Same happened to Imam Malek for his ideas. If we were living at those times, many would have believe the Khalifa, who is Amer El Mu'minin, or in other words, the religious ruler of the world. When they were absolutely wrong.

In this day and age, people are allowed to have thier own ideas and interpretations are anything but set. There is two different terms I would like to point to in the Islamic science of Quran. And that is Interpretation and Explanation. The Explanation is fixed explanation for something, that never changes and usually it's a guideline or a rule. It might also be a method of warship. As for interpretations, these are allowed to be interpreted, and re-interpreted as we know more and so on.

I really urge everyone to try and be tolerant and harbor diversity especially when it comes to ideas. No one has a monopoly over whats right or moral and most certainly no one is right all the time. Yes, including the Imam who issues a fatwa about something!