Monday, January 24, 2005
a missing puzzle piece to Unity
Current mood: grateful
Many know that I'm a very strong advocate of unity among cultures, religions, communities in general. It's an extremely broad subject and this should one of the many posts on my ideology of unity.
I started my own little group among the many on myspace labeled "Hijab-it's all good in the hood!" lol, so I thought hey, we might as well have all Muslim women observing hijab coelesce into one little group to discuss personal experiences whilst having the blessing to observe a very significant aspect of our religion: Modesty and as well as discuss the woes of overexposer of identity in a time of foreign crisis associated with the Islamic world.
With more than a dozen members, I had then recieved this private message from a concerned member of the group "Islam" which I also happen to be a member of. He criticized the idea to further divide the Muslim ummah among the myspace community by creating our own little hijabi-reprenting group. I completely understand the intentions of this guy, and I respect it. Because I also share these intention and so I made evident in my reply to him:
Salam u alaikum,
I'm a huge advocate of uniting the Muslim ummah and believe me, living ina community that has been split due to political and economic schism, I know what it's like to live among dissent and division and it's taught me to avoid it and acta gainst it.
However, I made this group to join the hijabi population of myspace as an informal way of meeting other hijabis and having them under one :roof: makes it all the easier. But in no means is the intention of this group to split up the diverse groups of Islam. Besides, hijabis are only a minority among the already small group of muslims on myspace. Having our own little group realistically cannot have a negative impact or to much degree be ineffective in the effort to unite the Muslims among an internet community such as this.
Jazakkhallahu khairan for the concern.
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So yeah, my brotherss and sisters. It's important to realize that regardless of how how many groups you can generate among a whole community, its most important that when the entire society calls for cohesion amongst every group, it shoudl be easily done. This can only be executed by means of utter respect towards other groups and a profound understand of what makes you different.
As Muslims, especially American Muslims, we must study the diversity among our own religious community and the level of commitment towards practicing faith and the extremity or vice versa in school of thought.
It is OK to have your little cliques, but when it's crucial to come together as a Muslim society, it is most imperative that we do make that striving effort to join in the cause to recognize, unite, and respect.
Currently listening:
On the Way Down
By Ryan Cabrera
Release date: By 25 May, 2004
a missing puzzle piece to Unity
Current mood: grateful
Many know that I'm a very strong advocate of unity among cultures, religions, communities in general. It's an extremely broad subject and this should one of the many posts on my ideology of unity.
I started my own little group among the many on myspace labeled "Hijab-it's all good in the hood!" lol, so I thought hey, we might as well have all Muslim women observing hijab coelesce into one little group to discuss personal experiences whilst having the blessing to observe a very significant aspect of our religion: Modesty and as well as discuss the woes of overexposer of identity in a time of foreign crisis associated with the Islamic world.
With more than a dozen members, I had then recieved this private message from a concerned member of the group "Islam" which I also happen to be a member of. He criticized the idea to further divide the Muslim ummah among the myspace community by creating our own little hijabi-reprenting group. I completely understand the intentions of this guy, and I respect it. Because I also share these intention and so I made evident in my reply to him:
Salam u alaikum,
I'm a huge advocate of uniting the Muslim ummah and believe me, living ina community that has been split due to political and economic schism, I know what it's like to live among dissent and division and it's taught me to avoid it and acta gainst it.
However, I made this group to join the hijabi population of myspace as an informal way of meeting other hijabis and having them under one :roof: makes it all the easier. But in no means is the intention of this group to split up the diverse groups of Islam. Besides, hijabis are only a minority among the already small group of muslims on myspace. Having our own little group realistically cannot have a negative impact or to much degree be ineffective in the effort to unite the Muslims among an internet community such as this.
Jazakkhallahu khairan for the concern.
---------------
So yeah, my brotherss and sisters. It's important to realize that regardless of how how many groups you can generate among a whole community, its most important that when the entire society calls for cohesion amongst every group, it shoudl be easily done. This can only be executed by means of utter respect towards other groups and a profound understand of what makes you different.
As Muslims, especially American Muslims, we must study the diversity among our own religious community and the level of commitment towards practicing faith and the extremity or vice versa in school of thought.
It is OK to have your little cliques, but when it's crucial to come together as a Muslim society, it is most imperative that we do make that striving effort to join in the cause to recognize, unite, and respect.
Currently listening:
On the Way Down
By Ryan Cabrera
Release date: By 25 May, 2004
posted by The Patient Cactus @ 1/24/2005 01:18:00 PM
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