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**PymnImmen** · 08-24-2011, 06:12 AM

Asalamwalaikum,

Based on my personal experience working in the NHS i will have to agree with this. We work 12 hour shifts, and I know doctors do similiar things. It makes it impossible for me in my current work environment to do Salat. Not only that I find it tremendously frustrating to not be in a state of wudhu. Having said that, for doctors this is a 'phase'. It is a sizeable chunk of one's youth, but one can progress into doing things which sit much more comfortably with practicing Islam. Again speaking personally, most of the doctors in my family are pillars of their community. They sit on masjid boards, they fundraise, they help construct new masajid, they donate generously, they network. I think we shouldn't underestimate that at all. As a whole in the UK specifically, we are underrepresented in the professional classes and out of the people in the professional classes, it is the doctors who stand out most as helping the Ummah in this country. It is shocking but unfortunately true that considering the economic power of muslim traders, in our masajid their contribution is outweighed by doctors. Anyway that is a side issue. Time for tarawi!

For a man I believe it is slightly different as the woman has the major role of nurturing her children which is their right in Islam. The mans job is in essence to with the physical world with greater contact than the women who are assigned a very important role within the home and that is to bring her children up in such a way that they operate withing society as pious and positive individuals and this cannot be achieved if the mothers are not islamically educated, and to be honest I am not from a very religious family so my upbringing has not been islamic

08-24-2011, 06:12 AM	#23
PymnImmen Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 528 Senior Member	Asalamwalaikum, Based on my personal experience working in the NHS i will have to agree with this. We work 12 hour shifts, and I know doctors do similiar things. It makes it impossible for me in my current work environment to do Salat. Not only that I find it tremendously frustrating to not be in a state of wudhu. Having said that, for doctors this is a 'phase'. It is a sizeable chunk of one's youth, but one can progress into doing things which sit much more comfortably with practicing Islam. Again speaking personally, most of the doctors in my family are pillars of their community. They sit on masjid boards, they fundraise, they help construct new masajid, they donate generously, they network. I think we shouldn't underestimate that at all. As a whole in the UK specifically, we are underrepresented in the professional classes and out of the people in the professional classes, it is the doctors who stand out most as helping the Ummah in this country. It is shocking but unfortunately true that considering the economic power of muslim traders, in our masajid their contribution is outweighed by doctors. Anyway that is a side issue. Time for tarawi! For a man I believe it is slightly different as the woman has the major role of nurturing her children which is their right in Islam. The mans job is in essence to with the physical world with greater contact than the women who are assigned a very important role within the home and that is to bring her children up in such a way that they operate withing society as pious and positive individuals and this cannot be achieved if the mothers are not islamically educated, and to be honest I am not from a very religious family so my upbringing has not been islamic
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