I just want this blog to be more relaxed and fun and interesting for people esp the younguns to read. Maybe they can learn someone and I from them. It’s just never meant to be an Islamic fatwa site because I’m only a student of knowledge and I assume everyone who reads it is as well.

Instead, just include them as appropriate, in the footnotes. So if anyone really does want to examine the foundation of your argument, they can still get what they’re looking for, but the flow of the article isn’t interrupted.

TJC I’ve deleted so many in my life and much worse. The worst is when supposed good brothers “upholding the sunnah and establishing the deen singlehandedly” start to get personal or start swearing at me! Ahhh way to go following the way of our prophet(s)! He’d really swear and call a sister names if he didn’t agree with her?! Anyway, just thought I’d finally post about it.

Maverick good points. To some people however everything must have a reference, a daleel. Remember back when ppl would be like “Whats your daleel!” well they’re still around even though they don’t even know the requirements of a daleel and how to evaluate or compare them in fiqh! I know some people just say stuff and you’re like How is that Islamic? but really, not everything a person says out of experience or knowledge or wisdom is going to be a Quran verse.

That’s a very interesting analysis of the paradigm shift. And I agree it is happening. Perhaps this is the ‘clash of civilizations’ that is really going on. The ‘sun rising from the west’ amazing reflection and interpretation!!
jazaks for writing.

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There are some Islamic principles and / or customs that are presumed to be elementary, thus nullifying the need for tedious, and sometimes redundant, references of chapter or verse.

But much more important than that, is that fact that there is a huge paradigm shift that is taking place today, and often many people don’t realize its significance. Islam was revealed for the entire world, and is applicable for all time. But historical demographics have meant that the vast majority of Islamic practices are always applied through an “Eastern” lens.

Never before in the history of humanity have so many Muslims been living in non-Muslim, Western states. These Muslims will naturally develop heretofore unheard-of social norms and practices. And although Islam has already provided the broad guidelines and parameters by which these norms will be trimmed and adjusted, the fact remains that these new customs and mores are – at first blush – alien to the age old practices of the Muslim majorities living in Africa, the Mideast, and Asia.

In other words, its a cultural conflict more than it is any kind of conflict within (or with) the established schools of thought. Ethnocentrism does not equal a better practice of Islam.

Just as the Muslim countries have their own established and distinctly identifiable cultures, as time goes on, over several generations, Western Muslims will also come to have their own distinctly identifiable cultures and customs.

Last but not least:

Some shyoukh have said that many of the signs of Yaumul Qiyamah will have double occurrences. One of these examples is the Sun rising from the West – it will happen literally, but prior to that, it is said that the sun of Islam will rise from the West, just as it had previously risen from the Eastern lands. The Muslims in the West may bring back the spirit and attractiveness of Islam just as their Eastern ancestors had done over a millenium ago.