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Religious Hypocrisy

This video is truly hilarious and probably has nothing to do with the title of the post, but Hajjaj conveys, to some extent of course, the fake open-mindedness some of us expatriates claim to have adopted far away from home.

Of course I am all for standing for one’s principles and beliefs, but there are people who manage to simultaneously live in both sides of the fence and who eventually appear as hypocrites.

It kind of reminds me of those people who have no problem committing the seven sins [السبعة وذمتها] … yet when the Adhan calls, they’ll take a break from whatever bad thing they were doing, as if nothing’s wrong, pray, and then resume the wrongdoing after prayer … and of course when you dare to question their integrity, they’d say something to the effect of (إن الصلاة تنهى عن الفحشاء والمنكر) (Prayer restrains from indecency and evil deeds. (29:45)).

So, in other words, those people will continue to commit all the sins they can possibly commit in a one lifetime and pray for forgiveness in the hopes that God shut his eyes and overlooked all what they did. Well I would rather not pray at all than be a double-faced hypocrite who will probably serve more time in hell than someone who never prayed but never committed as much sins.

Anyways, do enjoy the video :-)


The long journey into finding one’s true self

He became a famous pop star just at the age of 18. His songs reached Britain’s Top 10. 

In 1975, he reports having pleaded with God to save him. He described the event in an interview some years later: “I suddenly held myself and I said, ‘Oh God! If you save me, I’ll work for you.’” The near-death experience intensified his long-held quest for spiritual truth.

He had looked into Buddhism “Zen and I Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology”, but when his brother gave him a copy of the Qur’an, he began to find peace with himself and began his transition to Islam.

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