muslims How to Make America an Islamic Nation ?
Friday, January 16th, 2009
smart-doctor-egypt asked:
The congress has just passed a law stating that the consumption of alcohol a crime, punishable by up to 120 days in jail. Although critics say the new law wouldn 't work but the prohibition did in the 1920' s, supporters of the measure felt confident that would be sustained, given the large support of the American Muslim community. Even now, many Islamic organizations are centers of the treatment of alcohol and the creation of prevention programs designed to help people beat the habit with the foot dangerous. It is hoped that the president, a firm believer in moral values, strong consideration in the new law when the reaches his desk. Sounds like fiction? It may be fiction now, but the future is like a book of blank, white pages, anything can happen. When I accepted Islam and gave my heart to Allah 's, I didn' t do it for economic or social reasons. In fact, I suffered in those two areas because of my conversion. Rather, it was a choice on my part to reform my soul, my mind and my understanding of why it was alive and why they die one day. I didn 't think of life in any city for several years and making my fortune so my kids could go to schools in the Ivy League. I wasn 't thinking about how to get my family a green card nor was I planning to leave and go home to some distant land after my bank account was full enough. He was born and raised here. This is my land. I 'll increase my children here, Insha' allah bury, and probably here too. I knew that accepting Islam declared that America needed to do so too. America, my home, naturally became an Islamic country one day. There is no other way of thinking if you are a truly conscientious believer in Allah. In past columns I have raised complaints or alarms in the state of a certain segment of the Muslim community. Now I 'm going to offer three suggestions for how we can change the situation and the social and cultural dominance in a country that needs Islam more than another pop-star, beer-brand or psychic network. First, it must be remembered a simple truth: if you believe in Allah, then you should be more than just a praying Muslim; more than just a fasting Muslim. A Christian can go to the masjid and pray side by side with us all what he wants, a Jew can fast in Ramadan for forty years, but if that person doesn 't surrender of his will to Allah, then all such activities won' half of t much. Belief in Allah is what makes these actions have merit on an all. Is it the same way, why should we see a Muslim praying and fasting and automatically assume it is or a true believer? The blessed Prophet once observed that there are many people who fast but who get nothing from it but hunger and thirst. In a similar vein, Allah said that people who pray for the demonstration are those who deny the Deen. Intent, belief, that 's what makes our true Islam. That 's what builds a foundation for the future of our community here. Secondly, what 's more important than what people see us doing in the masjid, is what he sees us doing outside in society. If people see us as foreigners, it 's not because everyone is an evil racist. It 's because sometimes we're presenting this way. We must look at ourselves with a critical eye! As a quick note to the multiple write and complain: The vast majority of Muslims here have chosen to live in neighborhoods of non-Muslims have chosen to live away from the masjid, have chosen to turn their children into neo-kuffar leaving be indoctrinated by the public school system and have chosen to have non-Muslim people, while it enters the primary contact. If you choose not to actively practice Islam in their daily life, if you choose not to build and Islamic community, then don 'display yourself as a model of ethnic and t says this is what a Muslim should be. This brings me to the third factor that will help our faith to prosper and grow here. The essential, unifying force we must have a solid community, homogeneous. We must live together. All those people screaming about ghettoizing need to wake up. Why Orthodox Jews live together? Why do the Amish live together? Why do the Mormons, the Sikhs, the survivalists and Koreans live together? Quite simply, preserving the way of life unique scrourge of assimilation. Ghettoized ¿? No. Are they poor? No. Their communities tend to be healthier, safer and more prosperous than general crucible. Have lost many Muslims to Islam in the fifty years here? Tens of thousands have been lost. The only reason Islam is still growing here, by large, is due to a steady flow of immigration. But when it dries, the absorption will decrease our community down anything. It 's like we have a bucket with a hole in the bottom. We keep pouring new immigrants, but so many are leaking out are lost forever. (And we're hardly making concerted efforts to bring intelligent or the other faith.) I had contact with a single community in the heart of Detroit, Michigan. Was originally placed by Yemeni immigrants about ten years ago. Those Muslims would have to go the other way and lose their Iman. But as you 'the ll believes something quite different happened. I still remember my first visit to the area fondly. Assistía a reunion of the newly formed group of local EPIs and had never been exposed to before. What I saw surprised me. He was excited, in fact! The children said they walked the Zalema me on the street and women (hijab) and some places they were going slowly and confidently. I saw Muslims who were Arab, black and Bengalis. But what took the cake for me was when out of nowhere I heard the adhan outdoors over a loudspeaker. Fight to City Hall and won the right to make Adhan five times a day in the community! Something clicks in the minds of these people. The Yemeni formed a master plan and determined to stay together. Established a fund and slowly bought one house after another, moving Muslim families and drug-infested kafirs out until they had literally thousands of businesses and shops of Muslims in the heart of the community and bought a huge Catholic church and the make a beautiful masjid. We even made a small health care community! When we left our reunion and we walked to the masjid for salat, it was the most beautiful sight: from all directions, men, women and children of all races, were going to their masjid as a community. I 've never stay andalusia Muslim country before, but I' ll tell you that on this long, I felt as if I were in an Islamic country. And this wasn 't India or Egypt or Turkey. I was right here - in America.
The congress has just passed a law stating that the consumption of alcohol a crime, punishable by up to 120 days in jail. Although critics say the new law wouldn 't work but the prohibition did in the 1920' s, supporters of the measure felt confident that would be sustained, given the large support of the American Muslim community. Even now, many Islamic organizations are centers of the treatment of alcohol and the creation of prevention programs designed to help people beat the habit with the foot dangerous. It is hoped that the president, a firm believer in moral values, strong consideration in the new law when the reaches his desk. Sounds like fiction? It may be fiction now, but the future is like a book of blank, white pages, anything can happen. When I accepted Islam and gave my heart to Allah 's, I didn' t do it for economic or social reasons. In fact, I suffered in those two areas because of my conversion. Rather, it was a choice on my part to reform my soul, my mind and my understanding of why it was alive and why they die one day. I didn 't think of life in any city for several years and making my fortune so my kids could go to schools in the Ivy League. I wasn 't thinking about how to get my family a green card nor was I planning to leave and go home to some distant land after my bank account was full enough. He was born and raised here. This is my land. I 'll increase my children here, Insha' allah bury, and probably here too. I knew that accepting Islam declared that America needed to do so too. America, my home, naturally became an Islamic country one day. There is no other way of thinking if you are a truly conscientious believer in Allah. In past columns I have raised complaints or alarms in the state of a certain segment of the Muslim community. Now I 'm going to offer three suggestions for how we can change the situation and the social and cultural dominance in a country that needs Islam more than another pop-star, beer-brand or psychic network. First, it must be remembered a simple truth: if you believe in Allah, then you should be more than just a praying Muslim; more than just a fasting Muslim. A Christian can go to the masjid and pray side by side with us all what he wants, a Jew can fast in Ramadan for forty years, but if that person doesn 't surrender of his will to Allah, then all such activities won' half of t much. Belief in Allah is what makes these actions have merit on an all. Is it the same way, why should we see a Muslim praying and fasting and automatically assume it is or a true believer? The blessed Prophet once observed that there are many people who fast but who get nothing from it but hunger and thirst. In a similar vein, Allah said that people who pray for the demonstration are those who deny the Deen. Intent, belief, that 's what makes our true Islam. That 's what builds a foundation for the future of our community here. Secondly, what 's more important than what people see us doing in the masjid, is what he sees us doing outside in society. If people see us as foreigners, it 's not because everyone is an evil racist. It 's because sometimes we're presenting this way. We must look at ourselves with a critical eye! As a quick note to the multiple write and complain: The vast majority of Muslims here have chosen to live in neighborhoods of non-Muslims have chosen to live away from the masjid, have chosen to turn their children into neo-kuffar leaving be indoctrinated by the public school system and have chosen to have non-Muslim people, while it enters the primary contact. If you choose not to actively practice Islam in their daily life, if you choose not to build and Islamic community, then don 'display yourself as a model of ethnic and t says this is what a Muslim should be. This brings me to the third factor that will help our faith to prosper and grow here. The essential, unifying force we must have a solid community, homogeneous. We must live together. All those people screaming about ghettoizing need to wake up. Why Orthodox Jews live together? Why do the Amish live together? Why do the Mormons, the Sikhs, the survivalists and Koreans live together? Quite simply, preserving the way of life unique scrourge of assimilation. Ghettoized ¿? No. Are they poor? No. Their communities tend to be healthier, safer and more prosperous than general crucible. Have lost many Muslims to Islam in the fifty years here? Tens of thousands have been lost. The only reason Islam is still growing here, by large, is due to a steady flow of immigration. But when it dries, the absorption will decrease our community down anything. It 's like we have a bucket with a hole in the bottom. We keep pouring new immigrants, but so many are leaking out are lost forever. (And we're hardly making concerted efforts to bring intelligent or the other faith.) I had contact with a single community in the heart of Detroit, Michigan. Was originally placed by Yemeni immigrants about ten years ago. Those Muslims would have to go the other way and lose their Iman. But as you 'the ll believes something quite different happened. I still remember my first visit to the area fondly. Assistía a reunion of the newly formed group of local EPIs and had never been exposed to before. What I saw surprised me. He was excited, in fact! The children said they walked the Zalema me on the street and women (hijab) and some places they were going slowly and confidently. I saw Muslims who were Arab, black and Bengalis. But what took the cake for me was when out of nowhere I heard the adhan outdoors over a loudspeaker. Fight to City Hall and won the right to make Adhan five times a day in the community! Something clicks in the minds of these people. The Yemeni formed a master plan and determined to stay together. Established a fund and slowly bought one house after another, moving Muslim families and drug-infested kafirs out until they had literally thousands of businesses and shops of Muslims in the heart of the community and bought a huge Catholic church and the make a beautiful masjid. We even made a small health care community! When we left our reunion and we walked to the masjid for salat, it was the most beautiful sight: from all directions, men, women and children of all races, were going to their masjid as a community. I 've never stay andalusia Muslim country before, but I' ll tell you that on this long, I felt as if I were in an Islamic country. And this wasn 't India or Egypt or Turkey. I was right here - in America.