Is it okay for Muslims to disrespect and steal from non-Muslims?

Wael
IslamicAnswers.com Editor

01. Can you disrespect?

No. Because you do you know the status of that disbeliever with Allah? The answer is NO. Do you know your status with Allah? The answer is also NO. Do you know if you will die with your imaan? The answer is NO. Do you know if that disbeliever that you are disrespecting will die in the state of disbelief? The answer is NO.

That is why you have to careful. You do not know what is written in the Book. It may happen that a Muslim will ultimately die in the state of disbelief and a disbeliever may die in the state of Islam. You never know. How can you disrespect?

Plus disrespecting a disbeliever is arrogance. Why? Because you are thinking that you are better than him. It is arrogance. Since you neither know your status with Allah nor you know your end, how can you become arrogant? Plus, how can you think that you are better than him when your imaan was purely the mercy of Allah and not your own achievement?

Anytime you see a disbeliever, you should have a sense of gratitude to Allah that He has guided you, instead of feeling a sense of arrogance that may cause you to disrespect him or her. You should feel that how fortunate you are. If you realize all that I have written here, it will create a strong urge in you to save another fellow human being from a life of eternal regret. Consequently, you will then call that disbeliever to Islam.

02. Can you steal?

You can't. So what if someone is not a Muslim? He still has the rights over his possessions. As a Muslim, you can't transgress over his rights. Doesn't our religion advocates justice? Allah simply said that we can't steal. Once the Messenger of Allah was about to give verdict against a Jew based on testimonies of some new Muslims. They were new Muslims of Madinah, and they willfully gave false testimony. Right before the Messenger of Allah gave out the verdict, Allah revealed a verse and severely admonished Muslims. We were instructed to be just and fair, irrespective of caste and religion.

As every boon counts and makes an ocean, every muslim is responsible for the worse and good things happening in this world. we all need to behave towards everything created by ALLAH in this world in the way as Quran and Hadith says us to do. People normally remembers the bad impact for longer period than the good deeds. We need to understand the Quran and Hadith thoroughly.

Every single Muslim is a representation of the whole community. Every tiny act we do teaches people who we are, what we stand for and what we believe in. We are symbols of the whole and this is the responsibilty with which we act, live and breathe in the world.

So everytime you disrespect someone - you teach them something about you.
When you do this as a Muslim, you teach them something about Islam - and it matters not if what they learn is true or accurate - its what they learn.

We are all teachers by example - not books, texts and school: example. And what a shamful example this is.

No matter Muslim or Non Muslim . You should have equal respect for each other.

Prophet Mohammad PBUH treated old women and jews equally if they did wrong things in return..