many Muslims when they come from
overseas they leave Islam back in their
home country I mean they bring their
Traditions they bring their culture but
their Traditions have nothing to do with
Islam for example the idea of a forced
marriage where a woman gets married
without her consent Islam doesn't allow
that plus it's totally messed up man
Islam liberated people from this
ignorant way of thinking but some
Muslims they love their culture more
than they love Islam and that's why
they're willing to compromise their
religion for the sake of their culture
joke joke joke now I'm not saying that
all culture is bad there's a lot of
great things we can learn from different
cultures there's tasty food beautiful
artwork Rich languages and so much more
I'm referring to the parts of the
culture that conflict with Islam you
know one of the things that confuses a
non-muslim it's when they see a Muslim
take part of Islam and part of their
culture put it all together and label
the whole thing Islam not only are you
giving Islam a bad name but you're
confusing everybody you see if you add
or subtract any from Islam it's not
Islam anymore and there's so many
Muslims who try to customize Islam just
so it meets their desires desires
alhamdulillah I found Islam before I met
these type of Muslims alhamdulillah as a
convert I can tell you that Islam is a
very beautiful religion this is why I
feel bad for a child who grows up in a
family where Islam is not given to him
properly you know who I'm talking about
the parents who purposely teach only
parts of Islam the parts that benefit
them the child grows up misunderstanding
Islam because he sees his parents
compromising it you know what I'm
talking about man how about the father
who occasionally closes up his liquor
store so he can go to Juma prayers oh
brother it's not Halal to have business
open during Juma bro it's a liquor store
your business isn't even Halal how about
the mother who tells her daughter to put
on hijab on the mustard stairs but then
tells her to take it off for the
interview what's up with that this is
why your kid grows up all confused they
can't tell difference between what is
culture and what is Islam but you don't
take it seriously you're like ah until
the day you wake up the day I wake up
the day you wake up and you find out
that your kids are not kids anymore
they're
teenagers they're
teenagers you know that's when their
hormones start going crazy and you start
losing your hair your daughter starts
asking questions about having a
boyfriend and what type of plastic
surgery are you cool with Dad you freak
out and tell her to go talk to her mom
but then your son wants to talk to you
about tattoos and what parts of his body
he wants to get pierced so you try to
talk to him but since you never talked
to him you lost the channels of
communication a long time ago basically
you have no idea what the boy is saying
anymore it goes something like this yo
yo yo yo Pops I'm was about to go bounce
and play some bball so if my homies call
me tell them to call me on myself I'll
catch you later what what are you saying
where are you going loves to hang out
and chill but I got to go pops and the
other 411 I told you to keep on the DL
you got to keep that on the hush hush
baby anyways I'm Audi like a Saudi I got
to go peace out later pops 411 Audi
Saudi what what are you saying where are
you going where are you going now you're
really worried and you don't know what
to do but it gets worse you find out
that your kids have those not so Islamic
pictures on their MySpace
account now your son has chosen the
career of gangster rapper for himself
and your daughter wants to be a
part-time model part-time feminist
actually her whole feminist movement is
because of you you see throughout her
life she's been watching the way you've
been unjustly treating her mother you
brought your back home mentality where
you thought you're the king and she's
your slave and since you didn't treat
your wife properly the way Islam teaches
you to do so your daughter is now
rebelling against you and your backwards
way of thinking you see Islam teaches us
that the best of you is who's best to
his wife but apparently you didn't take
that part of Islam seriously and now
you're paying for it and right when you
think the relationship between you and
your daughter can't get any worse you
hear those four words that make you want
to cringe but I love him at this point
you start to
panic you look at your wife and
say what what are we going to do what
are we going to do you see you brought
all this drama upon yourself cuz you
didn't teach your kids Islam instead
you're rais them with Customs that
conflicted with the teachings of Islam
as little kids they follow those Customs
but guess what they're young adults now
and they're thinking on their own
because they see the errors in the
backwards Customs that they were raised
with here's a reality check for you many
kids have no intention to practice the
culture of their parents so instead they
picked up their own culture not that
it's any better than your culture
sometimes is actually worse so instead
of picking up your culture they decide
to pick up their own by the way don't
you wish you tell them about Islam right
about now you see in this new culture
that your kids just picked up it's cool
to be rebellious so they don't listen to
you and since you never gave them Role
Models or you were never role models for
them they decide to pick up their own
Role Models people they can look up to
people they can imitate Society teaches
them what is cool and what is not
everything from the way they dress to
the way they act to even the slang they
use didn't you see the signs remember
last e boy what do you want for Eid yo
Pops how about some of that bling bling
okay bling bling we getting bling bling
what what is bling bling now you tried
everything you can and as a last resort
you drop off your kids at the Sunday
class you know that's the weekly Sunday
class for the young kids at the Masjid
the one you never took them to so you
drop them off at the mustard hoping the
volunteer staff perform some type of
Miracle but your kids don't even give
the class of chance everything goes in
one ear and out the other now your kids
think you're a hypocrite because you
tell them to do something that you don't
do yourself if you were praying fasting
and doing all the other things that you
tell your children to do maybe they
would have done it it's like someone
telling
you don't be a
smoker it'll kill you how do you respect
that so many kids go away from Islam
because theam was not presented
correctly to them they get taught the
modified version where parents mix the
culture cult with Islam and package the
whole thing under the label of Islam and
then they see the errors in the culture
yes parents have rights in Islam but
your children have rights too if you
know Islam teach it to your kids don't
just tell them about how to be a good
Muslim be a role model that means you
have to do it too if we practice aalm
the way the prop taught us to practice
it we wouldn't be in this mess but as
long as we love our customs more than we
love Allah subhana tala we will continue
to
suffer you know what I'm saying this is
Ali reminding you just in case you
forgot this is Al reminding you just in
case you
forgot this is Ally reminding you just
in case you forgot