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Sister Somerah from India, e-mails Mashallah Tabarakallah, we have a lot of large viewership in India

And sister Somerah says she asks that she has seen a clip posted by an

Anti-Muslim website or Facebook page in which they have a Muslim preacher in English

Saying that the one who abandons Salah, one Salah is

Worse is a worse crime than the one who murders and the one who rapes and the one who steals and the one who sells drugs etc etc and

She says they are using this clip to show that Muslims are fanatical and that a murderer is considered better than the one who misses even one Salah

So she says this clip has flustered her. She wants to know is this what Islam says is this the the opinion that is the correct one

Or if I have any comments about this notion of Salah, you know the one who doesn't pray being worse than the murder

So dear sister Somerah this is actually a very multilayered question. It's actually

It will take a while to to unpack

But I want to begin by stating that you shouldn't be surprised that

Anti-Muslim websites and Facebook pages they take such clips and they make them viral

You know the fact of the matter is that you know these types of entities and groups

They commonly do this they go to clerics or they go to people even by myself

I've been the target of a number of such campaigns where they take a clip maybe out of context or other evil intent

And they then portray something that perhaps even the speaker did not intend

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala himself points out in the Quran that other faith groups or other you know evil intended people

You Harifuna Al-Karima Am-Mawaduhihi they distort the message and the words in a context that wasn't intended

And this is a reality and a tactic that should never we should never do

We should always be faithful to the person who's speaking and make sure that this is what they actually intended

Now again as I answer this question I am not you know I don't know the the preacher you're referring to I don't know the context he said it

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