Angelica _ann wrote:such a simple thread spoiled by over-thinking. Life is simple, live it to the fullest since from dust we came and to dust we shall return - Amina.
@angelica, but you cannot afford to be careless. We should at least use our intellect, with more wisdom, we get more enlightened and choices change...
We have examples like Ibrahim. Even as his father insisted on rejecting his invitation, he continued his attempts to persuade his father and other people to worship God Almighty, instead of worshipping the helpless idols (people of his time were worshipping idols).
We read his story in Quran 9:41-50:
41
And mention (O Muhammad) in the Book (the story of) Ibrahim (Abraham). Indeed, he was a man of truth and a Prophet.
42 (Mention him) when he said to his father, "O my father, why do you worship that which does not hear, and does not see, and does not benefit or harm you anything?
46 (His father Azar) said, "Have you deserted (rejected) my gods, O Ibrahim? If you do not desist, I will surely stone you, so immigrate (depart) away from me for a long time."
Eventually, Abraham was bannished from his homeland. That is why he settled in a strange land:
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I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” Genesis 23:3-4