YOU KNOW YOUR ISLAM IS IN TROUBLE WHEN

By Taha Ghaznavi

The last thing you learnt about Islam, the Quran, or Jihad was from CNN

all your conversations with your friends have to do with guys/girls,
or movies, or guys/girls in movies

you spend more nights at the club during Ramadan than at a Masjid

you can't remember the last time you asked someone a question about

something you didn't understand in Islam

you find time to watch three movies a week but find yourself too

busy to pray Salah regularly

that Quran translation you were given last 'Eid is still sitting on

the top shelf of your bookrack

the 'inner voice' you hear when you are in complete silence sounds

surprisingly similar to the latest hip-hop song you heard

you don't know any people who you can say Salaams to without feeling

embarrassed

the feeling that God is watching you in all that you do is never

more than a passing thought

 

your clothes and hair smell of cigarettes on Sunday mornings even

though you don't smoke

knowing something is right or wrong and feeling guilty about it does

not effect whether you actually do it or not

you gave hope of ever entering Paradise because you don't feel you

deserve it after 'all that I have done'

when you want something in your life you fantasize about it and say

"I wish!"

you can't figure out why you are never truly happy deep in your

heart and why nothing good in your life ever seems to last
(why does it always have to end?)

the happiest day of your life so far was on a Christmas, Valentine, or a dance

you are loneliest when you are sad or when something bad has
happened to you (where did all my friends go?)

you don't think of the Prophet (S.A.W.S) at least once a day

when you hear of Muslims dying somewhere in the world, you consider

it part of 'politics' which you have nothing to do with

your 'best friend' is a person of the opposite gender yet not your

husband or wife

you have no motivation to change things in your life when your faults
are pointed out to you, you reply "This is who I am, for better or for worse!"

listening to the Quran does not make you feel guilty

you are actually flattered when people on the street stare or ask you out

your friends never object to any of your bad habits or behaviours

and vice versa

you don't care whether you go to heaven or hell since no one can

really be sure about these things

to you, Islam is just another 'organized institutionalized religion'

you actually agreed with everything your philosophy professor taught

in class

you generally feel crappy and often find yourself telling people that

your consider and justify your sins as 'a part of who I am'

you want to travel around the world someday but Makkah is not one of

your planned stops

your parents hate you and have said so to you

you read the horoscopes yet have never performed Salat-ul-Istikharah

you have never felt like falling down on your face and crying to Allah

you look down upon people who are more practicing than yourself as

'just mullahs and molvis'

your past bad experiences with some Muslims prevent you from getting

closer to Islam and other Muslims