Advice to ALL muslims especially the youth
Advice to All Muslims especially the youth
Bismillah arRahman arRaheem
Three things:
1- Be just Muslim. Leave all the sects. Don't be Sunni. Don't be Shia. Etc etc. Be just Muslim. That's how the prophets pbuh were and that's how the sahaba were. It doesn't mean those who stay in a sect are bad. It just means being outside of sects is better. You don't become sinful by joining a sect. You just become dependent. Allah created us free. So we don't need to be enslaved to a sect. Those who choose their sect freely after contemplation are fine I believe. It's when you never chose it and found it labelled on you, that's were the problem can arise. The problem is of living in sheep mode. ie Blind following. Don't live like that.
2- Be independent. Think for yourself. Choose for yourself. See with your own eyes, not with other people's eyes. Not even with the sheikh's eyes. Take the opinion of sheikhs and consider it. But only adopt it if you think it makes sense. If not then don't adopt it. Be free if it. And know that there are many poisonous sheikhs in our time from all sects. But there are a few excellent ones and also from many sects. So take from all and reject from all. No one sheikh is perfect. Perfection only belongs to Allah. Identify the few good ones and learn from them. But stay open minded and always search for new knowledgable sheikhs even if they are not Muslim. Wisdom and truth can be found in all religions and all places. Follow the Hadith of the prophet pbuh that wisdom is the lost property of the believer , wherever he finds it he has a right to it. By being broad minded in our search for truth and wisdom our mind can really grow very fast that way. So the summary for point 2 is to think for yourself with your own mind. Don't let others , especially sheikhs , think for you. Use your own eyes to see with. Not other people's eyes, even if they are sheikhs.
3- Be critical and allow doubt to come in and address the doubt. (Doubt is the path to certainty. Imam alGhazali rahimahu Allah ). Be courageous in seeking the truth. It's ok to get confused. It means there is some truth that you have missed I think. Learn to live with confusion and to accept that certain things you don't have the answers to. Learn to live with that too. It's ok not to know everything. But do seek important knowledge that you think you should know. And be patient with the seeking. Some knowledge may take years to learn.
So what is the result of that?
The result is that you will be effectively living in your own personal 'Just Muslim' sect I think. Where you take in new ideas and reject old ideas that were given to you. This is what being critical of the knowledge you carry does. It makes you clean up your mind. That which makes sense and is logical you keep and that which doesn't is removed. And new ideas from new knowledge come in and you build a new mind. This will become the new you. An independent , thinking , aware , clued up Muslim. No longer living a life of sheep-mode behaviour were we just do what our sheikh says. This is like shirk. So beware of that. And it's not about thinking you have become a sheikh yourself ( like some salafis may do), no it's about searching for true sheikhs/scholars who really know what they talk about and learning from many of them, not just one. Take the good that each has to offer. But be aware of the poisonous ones who make us sectarian and divided. Seek those who talk about unity and who have a smile on their face. Those who cannot smile may well be poisonous devils. Even if they dress like pious scholars. Seek those who teach about love of Allah. Rather than those who keep talking about the anger of Allah.
One last thing. How will normal sectarian muslims see you when you adopt these principles of advice. They may label you different labels according to the new beliefs they see you adopting. And do expect to be labelled kafir as well. This is normal. But remember , what people label us isn't important. It's what Allah labels us. So if you feel you are doing what you are doing in order to please Allah and you are open minded in discussions with others then don't worry what people say. This is the right path I believe. But as long as you don't become overly biased to a certain thinking or to certain ideas. We must always be open minded. And if we see evidence that shows that some of our beliefs are wrong then we should change. The aim of a Muslim should be to seek truth. Not to stay on their beliefs. To the point that even if we find in our journey that Islam is not the truth then we should change. But only after much verification and checking. This is the Islamic way I believe. To put truth above all else. And I think this is why one of Allah's names is the truth. So far in my journey I feel islam is the truth. But not under the understanding that currently exists. A different understanding that i am constantly developing as I learn more and more. And as I analyse the Quran and Hadith more and more. Especially the Quran. Because we have neglected analysing that for so long. But my basic understanding is that politics has corrupted the true understanding of Islam which the prophet pbuh brought and created an army of poisonous sheikhs who have turned us into blind following sheep who worship sheikhs instead of Allah. And this political corruption started when shura (consultation on the right to elect our own leader) was cancelled by a sahabi called Muawiya. So you are talking about 1300 years of corruption. And this explains why the prominent Imams of the ummah who were courageous in speaking truth were attacked/ tortured/imprisoned/considered kafir by the state and the state owned sheikhs .Eg imam abu hanifa, imam ibn hanbal, imam alGhazali , imam jaafer, imam ali, imam shafi'ee etc So there is a lot of difficult work to do if we want to get to true Islam. Pure Islam.
Salam
Ali Twaij
Muslim thinker
Bismillah arRahman arRaheem
Three things:
1- Be just Muslim. Leave all the sects. Don't be Sunni. Don't be Shia. Etc etc. Be just Muslim. That's how the prophets pbuh were and that's how the sahaba were. It doesn't mean those who stay in a sect are bad. It just means being outside of sects is better. You don't become sinful by joining a sect. You just become dependent. Allah created us free. So we don't need to be enslaved to a sect. Those who choose their sect freely after contemplation are fine I believe. It's when you never chose it and found it labelled on you, that's were the problem can arise. The problem is of living in sheep mode. ie Blind following. Don't live like that.
2- Be independent. Think for yourself. Choose for yourself. See with your own eyes, not with other people's eyes. Not even with the sheikh's eyes. Take the opinion of sheikhs and consider it. But only adopt it if you think it makes sense. If not then don't adopt it. Be free if it. And know that there are many poisonous sheikhs in our time from all sects. But there are a few excellent ones and also from many sects. So take from all and reject from all. No one sheikh is perfect. Perfection only belongs to Allah. Identify the few good ones and learn from them. But stay open minded and always search for new knowledgable sheikhs even if they are not Muslim. Wisdom and truth can be found in all religions and all places. Follow the Hadith of the prophet pbuh that wisdom is the lost property of the believer , wherever he finds it he has a right to it. By being broad minded in our search for truth and wisdom our mind can really grow very fast that way. So the summary for point 2 is to think for yourself with your own mind. Don't let others , especially sheikhs , think for you. Use your own eyes to see with. Not other people's eyes, even if they are sheikhs.
3- Be critical and allow doubt to come in and address the doubt. (Doubt is the path to certainty. Imam alGhazali rahimahu Allah ). Be courageous in seeking the truth. It's ok to get confused. It means there is some truth that you have missed I think. Learn to live with confusion and to accept that certain things you don't have the answers to. Learn to live with that too. It's ok not to know everything. But do seek important knowledge that you think you should know. And be patient with the seeking. Some knowledge may take years to learn.
So what is the result of that?
The result is that you will be effectively living in your own personal 'Just Muslim' sect I think. Where you take in new ideas and reject old ideas that were given to you. This is what being critical of the knowledge you carry does. It makes you clean up your mind. That which makes sense and is logical you keep and that which doesn't is removed. And new ideas from new knowledge come in and you build a new mind. This will become the new you. An independent , thinking , aware , clued up Muslim. No longer living a life of sheep-mode behaviour were we just do what our sheikh says. This is like shirk. So beware of that. And it's not about thinking you have become a sheikh yourself ( like some salafis may do), no it's about searching for true sheikhs/scholars who really know what they talk about and learning from many of them, not just one. Take the good that each has to offer. But be aware of the poisonous ones who make us sectarian and divided. Seek those who talk about unity and who have a smile on their face. Those who cannot smile may well be poisonous devils. Even if they dress like pious scholars. Seek those who teach about love of Allah. Rather than those who keep talking about the anger of Allah.
One last thing. How will normal sectarian muslims see you when you adopt these principles of advice. They may label you different labels according to the new beliefs they see you adopting. And do expect to be labelled kafir as well. This is normal. But remember , what people label us isn't important. It's what Allah labels us. So if you feel you are doing what you are doing in order to please Allah and you are open minded in discussions with others then don't worry what people say. This is the right path I believe. But as long as you don't become overly biased to a certain thinking or to certain ideas. We must always be open minded. And if we see evidence that shows that some of our beliefs are wrong then we should change. The aim of a Muslim should be to seek truth. Not to stay on their beliefs. To the point that even if we find in our journey that Islam is not the truth then we should change. But only after much verification and checking. This is the Islamic way I believe. To put truth above all else. And I think this is why one of Allah's names is the truth. So far in my journey I feel islam is the truth. But not under the understanding that currently exists. A different understanding that i am constantly developing as I learn more and more. And as I analyse the Quran and Hadith more and more. Especially the Quran. Because we have neglected analysing that for so long. But my basic understanding is that politics has corrupted the true understanding of Islam which the prophet pbuh brought and created an army of poisonous sheikhs who have turned us into blind following sheep who worship sheikhs instead of Allah. And this political corruption started when shura (consultation on the right to elect our own leader) was cancelled by a sahabi called Muawiya. So you are talking about 1300 years of corruption. And this explains why the prominent Imams of the ummah who were courageous in speaking truth were attacked/ tortured/imprisoned/considered kafir by the state and the state owned sheikhs .Eg imam abu hanifa, imam ibn hanbal, imam alGhazali , imam jaafer, imam ali, imam shafi'ee etc So there is a lot of difficult work to do if we want to get to true Islam. Pure Islam.
Salam
Ali Twaij
Muslim thinker
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