Assalamu Alaikum,
I’m reaching out because my heart feels so heavy, and I could really use some advice. My son is 21, and over the last few years, he’s been growing more and more distant from Islam. I feel like Allah (SWT) is testing me, and I don’t know how to handle it. Every time I try to bring up faith or gently guide him, he just seems to push back harder.
He’s gotten deeply into heavy metal music, listening to bands with names that are disturbing to me, like Deicide, Rotting Christ, and Cannibal Corpse. I've read some of their lyrics, ani I can’t understand what he finds in this music. It feels so dark, so opposite to the light of Islam. I’ve tried to ask him about it, but he doesn’t seem to hear my concerns.
It feels as if his hostility towards religion has grown ever since he joined college last year.
Every night, I pray for him, asking Allah to guide him and bring him back to the path. His father has been talking with him too, as has his sister, but he keep ignoring us. I know he’s an adult now, and he’ll make his own choices, but my heart aches for him, and I can’t help but worry about what he’s surrounding himself with.
If anyone here has been through something similar or has advice on how to approach this without pushing him further away, I would be so grateful. May Allah (SWT) guide him back and give me strength through this test.
I keep wondering if it was our fault to let him grow up learning about everything without imposing our own culture on him.
JazakAllah Khair. Keep us in your Du'as, please.
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