Extreme vs Moderate

TPOS —

How can you be extreme when practising Islam?


How can you be moderate?


Which is better? and when?


Does the 'middle path' have space for 'extremism'?


Guess you'll have to define what you mean by the terms first.


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TPOS — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 - 18:42

[quote=Noor][quote=ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE]I don't think the words 'extremist' should be used for terrorists etc as they aren't even doing acting upon Islam. It's wrong, they're wrong so it shouldn't be linked to Islam :/[/quote]


They are extremist but shouldn't be called Muslim extremist as what they believe in takes them out the fold of Islam.[/quote]

Yeh that's what I was talking about - "Muslim" extremists


TPOS — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 - 17:09

'Our entire deen is based around the concept of moderation...Allah(swt) made us a moderate nation'


'Extremism is primarily a political cause or concern so automatically it has very little to nothing to do with deen, religion, spirituality or any of these things.'


'Now let's come to the Qur'an...

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCkxjI6O5Oc&feature=relmfu]