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**merloermfgj** · 03-09-2012, 03:57 AM

Assalaamu'alaikum,

I thought I would bump this thread. Anybody with more thoughts/ideas on how to deal with modernist/liberal Muslims? I now have some family who regard me as being too 'hardcore' when I have decided I don't want to have a job and instead want to study deen, focus on family and have started wearing niqab... I think some people just don't get how scholarship works in Islam and end up trying to go out into the world, do da'wa and tell everyone that "We Muslims are just like you in most ways" but they are so oblivious to their own lack of understanding in the deen, and don't follow Islam with complete submission. How do we deal with these people??

Love them... Treat them with respect and don't force them to be like you... It is ok to hard on yourself, but be easy with them... Be forgiving... If they sin .. pray for them... don't lecture them (you'll run them away)... If they ask you to sin.. this is when you speak up... The Prophet (sallahu alaihi wa salam) was sent as a Mercy to the world, show them mercy and perhaps they will embrace you.... Perhaps they will strive to be like you....

And Allah knows best.

03-09-2012, 03:57 AM	#17
merloermfgj Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 511 Senior Member	Assalaamu'alaikum, I thought I would bump this thread. Anybody with more thoughts/ideas on how to deal with modernist/liberal Muslims? I now have some family who regard me as being too 'hardcore' when I have decided I don't want to have a job and instead want to study deen, focus on family and have started wearing niqab... I think some people just don't get how scholarship works in Islam and end up trying to go out into the world, do da'wa and tell everyone that "We Muslims are just like you in most ways" but they are so oblivious to their own lack of understanding in the deen, and don't follow Islam with complete submission. How do we deal with these people?? Love them... Treat them with respect and don't force them to be like you... It is ok to hard on yourself, but be easy with them... Be forgiving... If they sin .. pray for them... don't lecture them (you'll run them away)... If they ask you to sin.. this is when you speak up... The Prophet (sallahu alaihi wa salam) was sent as a Mercy to the world, show them mercy and perhaps they will embrace you.... Perhaps they will strive to be like you.... And Allah knows best.
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