So I went to the musjid today and the Imam that usually gives the Sunday lecture at our mosque told us about something that happened at his own local musjid a few weeks ago.
He said he was leading the namaaz one day, and after namaaz this one man went up to the Imam and told him that he preaches a lot but doesn’t apply Islamic concepts to his own life. The Imam asked him what he was talking about, and the man said he was leading namaaz without a cap on his head and his beard wasn’t long enough. He also went on to say that the Imam should be wearing a jilbab or shalwaar kameez when leading namaaz, not pants and a shirt.
Basically he classified the Imam to be destined for the lowest pits of hell - hypocrisy. I find it funny that a man can go from being a “hypocrite” to a scholar just by going to the bathroom and changing into a jilbab. Same for the beard and cap. Yea, there is a certain way one should present themselves before Allah (swt) when praying but I’ve never heard so much ridiculous crap from a Muslim to another Muslim.
It really ticks me off…the extent some people will go to by applying their inaccurate assumptions and putting others down.
While the Muslim world toils in hardships and upheavals and Muslims are concerned everywhere about their plight, the mod-Muslim is completely happy that he can unearth the hypocrisy of hearts and knowledge in other Muslims through their appearances or what they say...
That way they can at least mentally feel that they have dragged someone down to their level...
They are ignorant and there is no cure for that...
Hate it...They are ignorant and there is no cure for that...
mod-Muslim is completely happy that he can unearth the hypocrisy of hearts and knowledge in other Muslims through their appearances or what they say...
Um, isn't that what the guy who approached the Imam was doing...?
Anyone who does not wear a beard with a cap and a white dress is not a Muslim and is going to hell. It's very simple. This is the beauty of the "religion of peace."
I have an uncle like that, I came back from college one day and was praying my Salaah without a cap on my head and after I’d finished he gave me this longggg lecture on how important it is to cover your head in Salaat, I’m like dude prove it with evidence but he wouldn’t have any of it as long as his Mullah in Pakistan said so it must be true, he told me whenever he prayed somewhere and he didn’t have nothing o cover his head with he’d pull the back end of his Kameez up over his head :D, some people, covering the head is not even specifically mentioned in Qur’aan or Ahadeeth, the Prophet (saw) covered his head but I doubt he ordered anyone to.
There’s Shalwar Kameez as well, every Jummah an aunt of mine gives me a lecture about how I should wear our own ‘Muslim Libaas’ Shalwar Kameez to the Mosque, like what’s clothes got to do with religion? In our Prophet’s (saw) days didn’t the polytheist Arabs dress same as Muslims? There’s things that are specifically ordered by Mohammad (saw) such as wearing the garment above the ankles, trimming the moustache short and letting the beard grow and I believe in that and I agree with them because my Nabi (saw) said so (whether I’ve got the strength to obey them or not yet is another question) but lets not invent stuff from ourselves.
Leave Paki culture to Pakistan, when I’m in Britian I’m only a British Muslim. It’s only in Pakistan that I’m a Pakistani and will follow the Paki culture over there.
Try to make a habit of not believing anything radical anyone says about Islam unless you read it with your own eyes in the Quran or in an authenticated Hadith.
hah yea once around Ramadan time, a fight broke out between these two men. First it was just a really big arguement and they were yelling but then they decided to try and push/shove eachother. Yea maybe that would help get their point across.
Actually it was really scary and I almost cried. I’ve never seen two adults act like such idiots, and over WHAT?! …something about whether you were supposed to read an extra surah or not during a certain namaaz. People need to realize that just because you read namaaz one way doesn’t mean all the other Muslims in the world will read it in exactly the same way. (the fight was between a Pakistani and an Arab )
completely happy? did you read the last portion of the first post. it says these exact words “it really ticks me off…”
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funny because I would have thought you were talking about the man I was telling you about, not me. That’s exactly what I was trying to explain through what happened. How have I dragged someone down to my level? Did I walk up to him and call him a hypocrite? No, I just told others about what happened to show how low some people can get to try and apply their thinking of how to correctly follow Islam on to everyone else. I wasn’t forcing the guy to believe what I thought was right in this situation.
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