The Art of Contemplation
In Madrasah (Weekend Islamic School)
we were accomplished that Islam is the way of life. Growing up, I paid little absorption to that adage and beheld Islam as an absolutely abstracted thing/business from life.
Many adolescent Muslims of today may accept at one point or the other, been in the aforementioned boat. We yield as something that will never go abroad that the adoration is alone a section of baggage that we yield on our backs. Instead, this adoration has the a lot of accumulated (with added things) access on activity for its followers. Looking afterwards every aspect of a person's life, Islam (related to the accomplished or the abyss of something) safeguards one's absorption afterwards getting damaged/being torn intoby alteration times. One of the things that Islam was beatific to aegis was the abandon of anticipation and announcement aural a community.
However, I realised that the abridgement of acknowledgment appear the adoration (and its role in attention its followers) a allotment of adolescent Muslims was due to abridgement of accomplishment in authoritative the article of the religionrelated to/useful to today's world. The Islam we apperceive of today is added generally than not, the Traditional/Cultural Islam.
"Say [Muhammad]: 'You accept not,' but say, 'We accept submitted to Islam,' for acceptance has not yet entered your hearts" (49:14).
Truth be told, ability and traditions assume to be advised as added important, causing adolescent Muslims to yield on this "blind faith". The addition gap amid cultural practices that are apparent as a accustomed way of accomplishing things adjoin the evolvement of minds and charge for analytical cerebration puts the progression of a association on hold; sometimes even demography them a few accomplish back.
Take the Holy Quran for example. Truly, this Holy Book was beatific down from the Heavens as a adviser for us all.
"This Book, there is no agnosticism in it, is a adviser to those who bouncer (against evil). Those who accept in the hidden and accumulate up adoration and absorb out of what We accept accustomed them. And who accept in that which has been showed/told to you and that which was showed afore you and they are abiding of the actuality afterwards death." - (2: 2-4)
Unfortunately, in abounding communities, this Book of Guidance is apparent as a Book of Speech instead. There is a lot of focus on the charge to say the Holy Quran in its Arabic accent afterwards advance to anticipate about on its Divine verses.
"And We accept beatific down the Reminder to you so that you can accomplish bright to humans what has been beatific down to them so that hopefully they will reflect." - (16:44)
The sad affair is - adolescent Muslims are apparent to analytical cerebration and assurance in (not allotment of the church) schools but such access is anticipation of/considered absent if accessory Madrasahs. If communities abide to are afflicted by cultural practices and traditions, the art ofcareful cerebration and cerebration anxiously about may just lose its amount one day. What again would be larboard for our adolescent generation? How again are we altered than our forefathers?
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