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The Prophet could discover a commonality between
himself and a Jew, because both were human beings and
creations of God.
Present-day Muslims often callously use the term kafir.
They must bear in mind the following hadith of the
Prophet of Islam where he condemned mindless usage of
this term and said:
If one accuses another of being a kafir and
the accused is not one, then the word will
return to the accuser. (Sahih al-Bukhari,
hadith no. 6045)
Muslims must therefore absolutely refrain from alleging
anyone as being a kafir or a denier.
29 Does Islam have a concept
similar to karma?
o, Islam does not believe in the concept of karma. The
Nconcept of karma rests on the notion of the perpetual
re-birth of a person until the soul is cleansed, after which
it finally joins the divine. According to this concept, it is
the outcome of the karma of a person that determines his
next form in his re-birth and this cycle continues.
According to Islam, a person’s life is eternal, a fraction of
which he spends on the planet earth. The time he spends
on earth is a test. How he has performed in this test will
be evaluated after his death on the Judgment Day. The
Quran says:
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