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Slmz, mospike

If you do not follow the 'Malay style' (by the way I also do not as I am of European descent) as you mentioned in one of the earlier threads, then which 'style' do you follow ?

This raises another question.....If most 'uneducated' Muslims from previous generations (Indian, Malay, Turkish, Uzbeks Chechiyans etc.) followed traditional practices (and it seems that the viewpoint is that these are Bidat's to be avoided (?)) - meaning your forefathers (from India, similarly my wife's from Gujarat) even held on to these traditions, then what would their status be ?

Are they deemed as 'sinners' , because they did not make Taubah for commiting these 'Bidats' ?

I was taught that one should have the utmost respect for one's parents in Islaam.

Wslmz,

Bro Riyaaz