This evening, I had a talk with a top scholar of the Amukoko Salafiyyah branch. After which I respectfully challenged him to a public dialogue, he made it clear to me reasons they can’t come out to hold a dialogue, because they posit it may not really benefit the audience but cause more confusion.
Even when I don’t basically agree with him/them, I respect his/their opinion. He equally spoke against abuse and insult during refutations and established it should rather be knowledge based without name calling and personality attack. This is a great advice.
He also advised that instead of “wasting” time on doing a public debate that may not prove fruitful, why not spend the time judiciously by refuting (with knowledge and facts) whatever each party do not agree with, then the sincere students of knowledge may pick which is beneficial to him.
I appreciate my brother for this great advice as I hope it comes from a pure mind of Ikhlas. It is an advice to ALL.
Like I do say, let every Muslim, be it Salafi, Ikhwani, Teblighi, Sufi, Shii’i, Ahmadi and the rest present their opinions and refutations with knowledge, facts and evidences. Enough of name-calling; enough of personality attack; enough of incitement; enough of disrespect. Provide your evidences if you are truthful and another person has the right to provide evidences against yours; deal with the conversation with respect and maturity. Let’s put intellectualism ahead of terrorism.
We cannot unite but we can respect mankind while refuting them.
Let’s jettison the call to debate for now and focus more on spreading a positive da’wah. If it is the truth, Allah will aid it and spread it wide. Islam isn’t a property of anyone’s father!