I was in a bus travelling in the city of Toronto reading the Glorious Quran and I noticed a old women having

a watch on me for some time now and then after some time the same old women came and sat across me and passed a statement saying Is t his the Quran your reading???,I stopped my reading of the Quran and responded her back saying yes this is the Quran I am reading and I asked this women whether s he is a Muslim and she replied me saying she is a Christian. I said do you know this book the Quran talks about Jesus may peace be upon him too and talks about his mother too and then I turned few pages of my Quran showed to her surah marya m and said this is the whole surah , chapter in the Quran dedicated to mother Ma ry the mother of Jesus peace be upon him in the Glorious Quran . she was impres sed and said to me do you know half the parts of the Quran you have are taken f rom the 5 books of the old testament of the bible, I looked at that old women and said what do you mean when you say that statement, she again very confidently r eplied, most of the parts of the Quran are taken from the 5 books of the old test ament. I said are you referring to Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deu teronomy???? She looks at me with a shocking expression and asked me how do I kn ow these books? I said we will come to that later, but who told you that most pa rts of the Quran are taken from those 5 books of the bible? And that old women r eplied Most of my Muslim friends told me this, I was shocked at the womens reply an d I told her here is the copy of the Quran and it contains 114 surahs , chapters , you can keep this for you and show me out of 114 chapters where it uses the w ord Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy for one single time in the whole Quran she was quite with some pale expressions. I wont be blaming thi s old woman for what she said, but I will be blaming the Muslims who transformed this kind of false information into her mind. The other day a friend of mine messaged me saying, akhi there are missionaries i n our area and they just stopped me and asked whether I have faith in Jesus???? SubhaanAllah this wasnt new for me but this was new for a friend of mine as this was his first encounter with the missionaries. You keep hearing this kind of st atements like JESUS LOVES YOU, DO YOU WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN, and HERE IS YOUR SALVATIO N etc etc...At the subway stations, public places, malls etc they keep programmin g you, brain washing you and making you to think and ponder and fall into to the trap. Its a process which is been executed very smartly. I met a Muslim sister the other day, who wasnt new to me and I asked her whether if she is fasting, she replied saying, NO I AM NOT I asked her whether she be fast ing later or she has decided not to fast any more? She replied me saying, I have decided not to fast anymore and she dont even remember when was the last time she fasted in last many years and then she asked me whether I am fasting? I told he r fasting is blessings of Allah I dont want to lose this, she said O come on I hea r this all time from my mom. These things I have mentioned are just nothing; this is just what we come across in our day to day routine, where as we Muslim ummah is busy very busy in labeli ng one another with the tags of kafir , you kafir,if you do not call him or cons ider him to be a kafir then even you are a kafir. What has happened to the Muslim ummah. We look at the genocides in Burma, Assam shocking is the state in which the ummah is, look at our condition wallahi look at our condition, and we are l ooked upon like a dead piece of meat on the planet with no respect and no izzah , however we are still buzy with our own affairsI remember the hadith of the prop het sws where he said a time will come when the nations of the world will attack the Muslim nations as the group of people that are hungry will invite themselv es to a plate of food , the sahaba radhiallahuanha was surprised and asked the p rophet ya raoolAllah will this be because we will be in minority because we wil l be in few in numbers ? prophet sallalahualihiwasalam told them the reason for this condition will be because of wahan in your heart , the sahaba asked what i s wahan , the prophet sallalhualihiwasalam said hibbat duniya wa karaihatail mau t , love , attachment towards duniya and hatred towards death.

Whats wrong with us Muslims we are more then 1.6 billion all over the world what s wrong with us??? we are affected with a disease of inferiority complex, we nee d to overcome this need to wake up or better wake up Allah has given us an oppor tunity to do the prophets job, I am specially talking about the people living in the west Allah has given us an opportunity to do the prophets job, but the missi onaries are benifitting from our great no. we are fresh piece of meat for them, we are westernized culturally, we have done half of their work and they are doin g rest of their work. Allah has given us an opportunity - change them, do dawah t o them, before they give dawah to us, we need to open our mouths and need to come back with the fikar of the deen. Allah says in the Qurah in Surah Ale Imran ch: 3, v: 110 that You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah. Allah has called us the best of nations; we need to come out of this inferiority complex and identify our duties as Muslims. And Allah says in the Quran in Surah Rad ch: 13, v: 11 that Indeed, Allah will no t change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. The rest Allah hu Allam and Allah knows best By, Syed Asif Ali Shah. (SERVANT OF ALLAH (SWT),IN THE SERVICE OF ISLAM.)