and yet manay of us , while carrying out our duties in spreading the teachings amongst ourselves , care very little whether islam and the muslims are respected by the non-believers. many of us are merely concerned with spreading what we interpret as the true teachings . more than that , we are seldom gentle in our words of advice . we seem to demand that muslims do noting else except the performance of the obligatory rituals to which we often add the optionals and even those which we concoct ourselves , believing that they are good and they are the pious things to do . and if other muslims do not practise these then we these then we criticise them for not being good enough . we imply that they are wanting in peity . in extreme cases we reject them merely because they do not belong to a particaular political party
we forget that the quran has stated that we may not criticise others as being less muslim for it is possible that we are less muslim than they are . we forget that allah has decreed in the verse of an-nahl , line 125 , meaning