A decade ago, I was active in trying to explain Islam to others who often saw it suspiciously. I would often defend the deen and explain away misinterpreted verses from the Quran.In many respects, I still do. But my experience through those discussions and debates forced me to examine to what extent did the morality in the deen agree with my own. I struggled to marry the two, to make sense of it all, and I grew frustrated at how little other Muslims seemed to reflect on their beliefs, too.
Then one day I came across a video.
Simple, really. The Sheikh tries to dispel the narrative of extremism in a pretty provocative way. He argues that the views on things like the sentences for apostasy, homosexuality, theft, adultery etc are all fundamental beliefs of Islam that every Muslim accepted.
He looked to the crowd of Muslims and asked them to raise their hand...
"Raise your hand if you agree that the punishment for e.g. adultery is to stone the adulterer, and that because it is from Allah (swt) and his Messenger (saw), that is righteous..."
Everyone raised their hand. And then it dawned on me: I wouldn't raise my hand, or at least, I wouldn't want to because I don't feel those sentences to be moral, or to be right. But everyone else did. Does that mean I am not a real Muslim? Would you have raised your hand?
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