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Ramadhan - amma - 11-10-2004
The heat is on! Once a year a dramatic change occurs in the Muslim
community. Once a year 'Badboy Vick' becomes Waqas and 'S*** Sam' becomes
plain Samina. Off come the Moschino jeans, the Morgan top and On come the
yellow Shalwar Kameez. Goodbye brylcreamed hairstyle, welcome uncool white
Topi (cap). Not to forget the bandana switch for the scarf.
It's during this HOLY month of Ramadan that we ditch the daytime raves and
the frequent visit to the library (and we don't mean for the reference
section - *wink wink*) and begin to act it out. 'MC Vick' becomes
temporarily religious, no more 'wagwans', but Asalamalykum.
It's a sort of spooky feeling. The Mosques are full and you feel good.
Good cos' you've done your bit for the year. One by one you scratch the
days from your Ramadan timetable that your dad brought back from the
Mosque-and then-thank crunchie it's Eid.
Exit Ramdan, ENTER EID!! !!!
The Mosques again becomes museums for the old and for those deprived "ACHA
BACHA"- a good baby. The crease-free hijab comes off but 'welcome back
tight fit jeans', whilst the libraries reopen for "business as usual".
Rinse all your payslips on a hired beamer and hit the places like Wilmslow
Road, Green St with your pakistani flag on your back and bangali tatoo up
your @$$. Just 11 more months of "freedom" to go before the smelly breath
season come back with vengeance.
Year after year it goes on, almost as a ritual. You know it's rough. Yet
Allah(swt) is Al-Rahman and Al-Raheem as we are told by our parents (who
probably also have gone through this). And anyway religion is for the old
men in the mosques- with smelly breaths, and beards that sweep the floor
everytime they walk from one end of the mosque to the other.
Religion is for those "fundies"(fundamentalists) at school/college, the
"weirdoes" who only talk to the opposite sex about the benefits of the
Khilafah ruling system or the fallacies of Western ideo logy such as
Capitalism and Marxist Philosophy.(i.e.try saying that in one breath!).
Thinking of a masterplan...
So you go around playing this game. It's like an endless spiral. You think
you're a rebel or tough-yet you're just one of the pack- a zombie,
conforming to master-plan, which is that when you turn 40s you grow your
beard and take your seat in front row of the mosque, invest in a miswak,
pack your bags for Hajj, and then everything is gonna be safe!- well no!
It doesn't quite work like that. The million dollar question is will you
ever turn 40? Game Over.
Suppose you die. Just suppose you snuff it before you turn 40? What then?
It could severely damage that master-plan of yours. Alright, the chances
may look slim yet the stakes are high. Nobody knows when he or she is
going to die. Just suppose you're locked up in a room and there's no way
out. Just suppose there's a time bomb- tickeing away in this room. Now if
this bomb has "6 days" on it ! you would probably turn "fundy" and spend
all six days reading namaz(salah).
Just suppose the bomb had a "? days" on it? What then? That's exactly how
life is!!! A ticking-bomb with a "?" on it, you never know when it's gonna
blow-up. Whereever you are, death will find you. Even if you are in tower
built up strong and high!"
30 days or a lifetime? And anyway, even if you do go along with this
"dodgy" game, don't you think your Creator will know your intention? Many
people have sussed out Islam as a blind faith or and
emotional/spiritual/spooky belief which leaves you contemplating
rationally about the meanings of life. Where did you come from? Why are we
here? Or the question that puts a dampner on all raves, " what's going to
happen to us when we die?"
Islam asks us to answer these vital questions and come to a conclusion,
the correct one. Islam doesn't rely on the dodgy culture we are brought up
with either from our parents or from the Molvi-Saab(imam). Islam is far
from being a "religion" as it is often coined in the media.
Islam is a complete system of life- with solutions to all our problems be
it for Muslims or non-Muslims. Check out Islam for yourself and free
yourself from this shallow zombie-like culture. Before your credits run
out!
This applies to everyone. Including me, the person who sent it to me, the
person who started it. We all in the same boat. Lets help each other out
of this 'BadMan Boat'
Word out!
The Prophet (pbuh) said, "Whoever established prayers on the night of Qadr
out of sincere faith and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his
previous sins will be forgiven; and whoever fasts in the month of Ramadan
out of sincere faith, and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his
previous sins will be forgiven."
its all about the sincerity and not the 30-days-only "effort"
Ramadhan - amma - 09-24-2006
Salam
something we should read refresh our memory as the situations stated are so true with many muslims
May Allah help and guide us through this month and help us to continue with our prayers after the month is over and not to stop everythign all togther.
Ameen