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Beware of chain emails
Although the messages in most of these are nice and all,
but chain mails actually mislead people more
than helping them out or being beneficial.
These types of mails have become very common, especially those
which go in the name of religion; and then display the
consequences the receiver would have to face if the mail or
such leaflets (when handed out) are not made into copies and
distributed.
This seems a good time as any to explain why we should not believe
in such mails. Firstly, people who start these mails might have a
good intention...maybe its just that they wish their message to
reach a large number and hence they put in the consequences if the
mails are not forwarded.
But such mails can misguide people, new muslims and others into
thinking of Islam as a tough, strict and unreasonable religion.
Does it seem fair that a person should die as a punishment
just because he was unable to send out copies of some a
article/message? No.
Similarly, the bad omen which promises to befall the one who fails
to send copies of such mails to others is ridiculous! this only
scares the receiver, so instead of spreading the message because of
its substance...the person ends up distributing it out of fear of
the 'bad luck' he might encounter with. So does it make a person
(who might not even be a good muslim) better off in wealth and
success to just send some copies of an article than a true
believer who wasn't able to do it and hence face bad luck?
Besides, the examples which are given are phony. how could anyone
know why that poor old man died? did he call up the writer of the
article and say that his death was the cause of his failure to
forward the mail? How could the writer know that the man died
because he did not fulfill the message's requirement? and how
could the writer have included his example in the original article
when he had already given out those mails?
Our whole faith should be entrusted in Allah alone that only
Allah can bring happiness and good fortune in our lives, as the
giver of sorrows and grief.
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