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Sunday, June 19, 2005
don't preach with me.
Don't preach with me.
It happened again yesterday. I was sitting alone at the cafe area at Woodlands Library when two strangers approached me, a guy and a girl. It appeared normal at first as i thought they were doing some survey or feedback thing so i said yeah, i can spare you some minutes and my PW groupmates have not yet arrived. Then the guy read something from a book/manual he was holding and i realised they were not here for fun. I don't know if this is the right term to describe them, but i think they are Christian Missionaries, although they were local kids around my age. They thought i was chinese so i told them that i am malay-chinese. Then i told them that i am a muslim too.
It started ok when the guy talked to me about Christianity about Jesus and stuff. Then the girl said Jesus died of our sins and asked me whether i believed in Jesus and i said yes, of course. I told them i'm a muslim and Jesus was one of our prophets. Then she asked whether i believed that Jesus was the son of God, and i said no, He was a human being but he was different as He was specially chosen by God to lead us and help us. Then she asked me about Muhammad s.a.w. And i said the same thing. She asked, do you thing He is holy. I asked what you mean by holy and she said no sins and i said yes. Muhammad s.a.w. is protected by God and He is the light to the human race.
It was here that she got quite agitated and began sneering at me. She began asking difficult questions and tried to twist the facts but i sticked on the same thing that Jesus did not die on the cross but someone else did. She insisted that He did and he reincarnated 3 days later. I knew most of what they were talking so i was quite prepared to answer them back. Then she asked the same thing about Muhammad s.a.w. And i said He has passed away in the human sense but He is still alive and constantly with us all the time, same as Jesus. Her tone got more agressive and to tell the truth, i was quite scared and wondered whether i said the right thing or not. I kept calm and showed them i was not easily moved by them throughout the whole conversation and even smiled at them.
Apparently she didn't buy anything that i said and had nothing else to say. She once again reiterated what she said eariler and she said she repected my religion and beliefs and i told her that the same goes for me. The guy who kept quiet all the while said the same stuffs as the girl and offered his left hand to me which i felt was odd as he shaked my right when we first met. Then girl just walked off which was quite odd too as she offered her hand to shake at first too.
I was really shaken by that encounter as i was caught unprepared for battle, to protect Islam. Its a very good wake up call for me from my deep slumber and i hope i would do better if the same thing were to happen again. I hope i did not say anything wrong to confuse them or worse still, myself. It was quite an experience and i didn't expect them to be so bold and confront me straight in the face on my faith and question me on my religion. It reminds me of the questionings from the two angels when you are just buried.
I hope i wasn't caught with my pants down. :p
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