10-11-2007, 04:35 PM
Assalamualaikum
Some of u may or may not have noticed that i have been away for a while.
I have been mainly in South America for the past 5 months. I was involved in an effort of deen over there i was in Suriname which is next to Brazil , also went to Argentina and Brazil. The first country we went to was brazil , there was 8 of us all from uk , Brazil is a massive massive country we saw many many muslims who are unfortunately very far from deen. we were visiting mainly the shanty town where the majority of the muslims were situated. The muslims there dont know anything about islam , most cant recite the kalimah. they say they are muslims bcoz their forefathers were muslims. many hundreds and thousands are leaving islam over there , not knowingly but just slowly deen just coming out. In brazil we saw many old masjids which were closed down and locked up. we managed to open us many masjids and revived salat there with the help off allah , argentina was a simalar situation , i remember walking for days and days in argentina and not meeting a single human. its a massive country , when we did meet a person , we found out he was muslim and spoke portugese. one of the brothers in our group was an experienced speaker, alhumdulillah he took on board the concern we came with and started doing the effort of deen in argentina reminding muslims about islam.
Last stop was surinam port mountanious forest , jungly country , deen very weak there amongs the muslims , majority of the familes will have 3 or 4 religions in their family , dad muslim , mum hindu , daughter christian , son jew , the was the case in many families.
Alhumduliallah i have learnt alot , and i will slowly write more when i remeber more , i am ready to answer ur questions if u want