Good muslims and Bad muslims: where is the joke?

Have you told anybody that your friend Abdul is a good muslim?

Or atleast when you hear about Muslim clashes, you must have told someone sitting beside you that every religion has both good and bad people.

That brings us to the topic of good muslims and bad muslims. For example you would argue that Dr. Kalam was a good muslim or Arif Muhammad Khan is a good muslim and Talibanis are just bad muslims (or the one who are maligning islam).

What did you miss here? Don't worry, I won't say you missed the train in 1947 😁. Read on.

Dr. Kalam was a vegetarian. Most islamic festivals are about meat and meat alone (let's forget the blood and meat of kafirs for the time being). If you are still not sure, you need to know the story behind Eidulfitr. A random Google search will do. Additionally, Dr. Kalam used to go to temples. That is the necessary and sufficient condition to prove that he was not a muslim.

Arif Muhammad Khan is another such case. He respects all religions. But the tenets of islam says that there is no God but allah. He respecting all religions cancels him altogether as a muslim.

So, next time you see a Kalam or an Arif Muhammad Khan, don't say, just don't say that they are good muslims. They are good humans, true, but that does not imply they are good because they are muslims. And hence the flaw with the terminology.

To conclude, there is no such thing as a good muslim or a bad muslim. One is either a muslim or not a muslim, either this side or that side of the road. If one is good, he is good not because he is a muslim, but if he is bad, it is definitely because he is a muslim; because that badness is borrowed from madrassas, and that is the point!

One common doubt may arise. Religion is a personal thing. It shouldn't matter whether you or me think he or she is a muslim or not. Well, that would be the case if it was just about practising islam. The problem is, it is not! Otherwise why would there be Jumma on Fridays, halal meat, halal economy, or islamic banks?

It was always about dominance and never about coexistence.