Do you think most Muslim millinials residing in the west will adopt a more liberal form of Islam to fit into mainstream society or become conservative like our parents to keep our Deen pure?
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They will continue to live in dilemma - I think.
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Is the way our parents practice Islam even pure anyways? But to answer your question, it might be the former and that is probably better.
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I think it really depends who you’re around.
The people I grew up with and went to school with were probably more practicing than their parents generation. They learned about Islam and applied it. Many wear hijab (unlike their relatives in Pakistan), they fast, actively study the deen by attending lectures and courses and don’t put culture above their religious values. They’re progressive but have a good balance with their religion and worldly affairs.
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Yea I was thinking about that. It also Trump’s policies that are driving Muslims to adopt more liberal attitudes and assimilate
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Leaders like Trump are a sign of the hour. True faith cannot be demonstrated unless tested.
I pray Allah makes it easy for everyone.
**The Hour will come when leaders are oppressors.(Al-Haythami, Kitab al-Fitan)
The Last Hour will not be established until there will remain those people who will neither be aware of the virtures and never prevent the vices.(Ahmad)****
Near the establishment of the Hour, good deeds will decrease.(Bukhari)**
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Thats really not true. Infact its the opposite. Just like it happened right after 9/11 that among all the hatred and victimization, muslim families realized that the only way out for them is to stick together, be a good citizen, pursue a career path and make themselves wanted. Same is happening again.
Now to answer your original question, it all depends upon the foundation of majority of muslims. In my personal view, the majority is still aware of their values and holding it tightly. Rest of them are confused and will remain be. Now the next generations will likely be not that strong but still would recognize and respect their forefathers’ faith.
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In my opinion, as we head closer and closer and closer towards Qiyamat…things are going to get worse. So, my guess is that “religiosity” even among Muslims (on the whole) …will see a decline. There’s a decline in a lot of things…look at the overall state of marriages…and how attitudes about so many things that are “vices” in all three monotheistic religions have become liberal. Society is becoming more materialistic, more superficial…and technology…while it is helpful…is being misused as well.
Yes, there is something within human nature that we become curious about things which we are either forbidden from or that have negative hype surrounding it. The demonizing of Islam in the media has lead many people…especially non-Muslims…to become curious about Islam..to research it…and then many end up converting to the deen. Even during the Prophet SAW’s time…people were curious about him and Islam in the midst of all the negative hype within the community.
But the stage is being set for the arrival of the Dajjal…and he will have many followers. I don’t think he can have hordes of followers unless those followers experience a weakening of iman…prior to his arrival…because it will be easier to lure and trap the ones who have shaky or weak faith. So, based on that that…my guess is that there will be a slackening of religion.
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I feel you are not just a guppan, you are actually a gift of GOD to this forum, you always strike the right balance between deen and duniya and for this reason, seculars will call you conservative and conservatives will call you secular.. But you do not have to worry about them as both of them are extremist in their own unique ways.. You keep doing good work.
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^ I am far from being a gift…but thanks anyway.
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Good, otherwise I was about to order a big gift wrapper 
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^All jokes aside…
I am not pretending to be modest here; I know what my faults are. I only offered my opinion on this question just like everyone else. In fact, Illuminate basically said the same thing that I did…and she did it before me and more briefly.
How could anyone on this forum even determine whether I’m a good balance of deen and duniya unless you have met me in real life and even then you won’t be able to tell unless you are around me all the time. A person’s posts are just mere words. I have admitted before that I don’t always manage to follow my own advice. I have also said many a time that things are “easier said than done” and that’s my way of admitting that I struggle as well. I don’t follow every religious rule and even the ones I do try follow in my daily life…I struggle with punctuality and concentration. Nor have I always displayed the best conduct on the forum. So, yeah…I am your average person…very far from being a gift.
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Why all this drama has been enacted by Allah in the first place? What does He want to achieve and whom He wants to show it?
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This..
I think the Islam that was practised “back home” by my parents and grandparents was a lot of Hindu culture and tradition mixed with Islam (joint family setup, wedding traditions, how women are viewed etc etc)..
I would call it far from pure..
Am not speaking for myself as I’m not very practising (yet) but I see a lot of people of my generation in the West taking time to learn Islam properly, free of the cultural biases..
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With few shortcoming that Islam was far better rather than the one being propagated by hardliners which resulted only in hundreds of youths becoming terrorists.
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Not sure what faith you follow or what you’re level of faith is but speaking from the Muslim perspective Allah has created life as a test for us. He’s created the world/life out of his Wisdom, which I don’t question. He’s given us the opportunity to worship him, know him and follow his commandments which is a huge gift within itself.
You’ve asked a big question which has multiple parts so I am not sure where to start but hope my concise answer suffices.
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This is how religion is everywhere. Whenever religions are spread into new places (forcefully or not) the new believers generally incorporate their culture into the religion rather than change their culture entirely to be more like the religion (like Zen Buddhism and Christianity in Latin America).
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The purity was gone right after Prophet (SAW) with dispute on leadership, with wars amongst muslims with killings of many companions and with slaughter of the family of prophet and mosques decreed to hurl insults at prophets family at Friday prayers, what purity are people talking about?
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Eventually the practices and knowledge of deen will be lost, but I assume that you’re asking about the next generation or so. From what I have seen, we’re already ahead of where our parents were in terms of practice and knowledge. Some examples are:
- Demands for Huffaz, Ulema, Imams being fulfilled from our own communities (rather than having to find someone overseas)
- Ease of finding Halal food
- Professionals/students establishing places to pray at their workplaces/schools instead of just going home making all the qaza
- Masajid becoming more common and populated apart from Juma
- Memorization of Qur’an and its proper recitation being more common than in our parents time
- More knowledge and less cultural influences in our practice of deen
Of course to benefit from all this, it also depends on what type of company one keeps but definitely I’m seeing many resources today that I hadn’t seen growing up.
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^Masajids in some parts (not all) of the world…and sadly in majority muslim countries…are nearly empty.