Re: …Religious Questions…
Shikra:
^ Poor you.
Impulse That’s good :k:
Ofcourse I can’t change the way our older Pakistani generation thinks, but I just hope that I, or we all, become better parents and instead of scolding them and telling them “this is how it is, and this is how you are going to do it”, maybe we can try to get an answer for our children so that they can understand religion better.
Another example is: In Pakistan, parents want you to read Quran andha dhund. They send you to the masjid TWICE a day, in the morning before school, and then in the afternoon after the school. Yes, you finish the Quran about 7 times before the age of 10 but do you even have a clue what is said in Quran? NO! Instead of just sending us to read Quran day and night and expect us to just recite it, maybe they can send us once a day and that too with translation, we can actually learn what’s being said. To be honest, I used to skip the morning classes and just spend some time outside and come back home after half an hour because going twice a day was too much for me as a child of age 7-8.
yeah you’re 100% right. there isnt much point reading something that we cannot understand. I think more emphasis needs to be put on understanding it…and the tafseer of it. i.e. why that surah was revealed, when …etc.
ps. You used to bunk classes at the age of 7/8?
that must be a world record!