Respect to all the Muslim youth living in the west

[Showkat]

Respect to all the Muslim youth living in the west

Respect is due to the Muslim youth
Living in the west
Amidst the corruption and Liberal filth

Still true to the game
No sell out
Still Muslims

Just holding onto Islam
Is like holding a hot piece of coal
As foretold by the Prophet
You may stumble
But you refuse to fall for their lies
And become an atheist like them
No religion, No God
Just following desires
And doing what they want
Like the beasts in the jungle

Although you free mix
And got the pics
As a trophy
You know your limits
And refuse to take your girl friends virginity
Preserving her chastity
For her husband only

You may go clubbing and partying
But you refuse to drink
And get drunk
Lose control of your mind
And do things people later regret
Not even a sip
Maintaining your Islamic identity
While the non-Muslims give you funny looks
Thinking that you’re a fundamentalist and what the hell is he in a club for?
Maybe to blow himself up
But you don’t care
For their stares

Coz you know who you are
And not a damn kuffar

So respect is due to you
For holding onto Islam

You do haram knowing it’s wrong
While the non-Muslim things its right
You have intention to stop one day
While the non-Muslim think
Drinking, clubbing, sleeping around
Is what life is all about

You go to jummah and bow your head in ruku and sajdah
And make long duas and cry as you repent
For the times that you spent
With women and in bad places
As you turn your face to Mecca
While that very evening
Your desires lead you westwards
Following the crowd

But I respect you
For being true
To Islam
Not selling out and apostatising

You have good intentions
You fast and pray sometimes
More during Ramadan
Coz of the Islamic atmosphere around you
Although when u break your fast
U have a member of the opposite sex by your side
Sometimes, but I guess
Society affects us all in some way or another

Would it not be better for all of us to live in an Islamic society?
Where the rules were from the Quran and Sunnah
And it would be easy to follow Islam
Just like in this society it’s easy to follow non-Islam.

You are proud to be Muslim
And keep your Islamic name
And feel no shame
In writing Islam as your religion
And Muslim as your identity
In university and job applications

Although you know
That to be a Muslim nowadays
Means you’re discriminated against
Security checks and suspicion
Pressure to show that you’re a moderate
And not a fundamentalist

You feel the pain
As the bombs rain
Upon your brothers and sisters
In far off places
You feel angry with those Muslims who have sold out
And work for the west
In the armies and other jobs
Which aid the killing and shedding of Muslim blood

You are to be congratulated
For having
An Islamic section on your website
Among all the impropriety and sin

May Allah guide you and protect you
Coz it wasn’t your fault
That u were born and grew up in a society
With so much fitna and temptations
Where its hard to practice Islam
And be a good Muslim

Maybe one day
As you get older
And mature in your thinking
Islam in your life may be bolder
More than fasting in Ramadhan and Jummah
And you will devote your time and energies
For the pleasure of Allah your creator

Author:Showkotali@hotmail.com

[MalikOne™]

braappppp feelin that

Masha'Allah nice piece.

[Nusayba bint Ka'b]

Alhamdulilah ala khuli haL

[.: Anna :.]

Assalaamu alaykum.

Bro, unfortunately I didn't like it. It started out good with the reference to the hadith about the hot coal and all, to that point I did like it but some aspects I didn't find acceptable. Like this paragraph basically sickened me to be honest:

"Although you free mix
And got the pics
As a trophy
You know your limits
And refuse to take your girl friends virginity
Preserving her chastity
For her husband only"

You are making it acceptable for a brother 2 have a girlfriend and all kind of haraam but as long as he does not take it the whole way, it is as if you have congratulated him. I also found it offensive, as if to say that all Muslims living in these Western countries will act like that, which is not the case and I do think some other bros around here will also find it offensive.

Your poem/song seems as though its making an excuse for this behaviour:

"Coz it wasn’t your fault
That u were born and grew up in a society
With so much fitna and temptations
Where its hard to practice Islam
And be a good Muslim"

Brother it was not an easy time to be a Muslim in Makkah at the time of the revelation either... I think many people forget about that these days, when we talk of how we are being discriminiated for being Muslim we need to remember the days of the Sahaba, how they were tortured and tormented. Rasoolallah :saw: has had filthy things thrown onto him while he was praying. Bilal (r) was left out in the hot midday sun with a rock ontop of him, Abu Bakr (r) was jumped on and attacked and beaten, Muslim slaves like Aflah and Khabbab (r) were tortured because of their faith, and the sisters too, Sumayya (r) was brutally killed... despite this, these people have had such a strong Iman. It was not easy for them, but they havent taken the above attitude.

Overall the poem just has such a low expectation of those Muslims living in this country:

" But I respect you
For being true
To Islam
Not selling out and apostatising"

This just seems quite low...

The poem although I dont know how you intended it, to me reads like an insult and an accusation against all the Muslim youth living here. We are not all like that!!! So this is insulting for those who are not, and for those who may be like that you are encouraging them in their wrong ways, instead of giving naseeha or writing something beneficial.

Please dont take offense at my comments bro, but I am just giving you my honest view about this.

Salam.

[MalikOne™]

Assalaamu alaykum.

nd for those who may be like that you are encouraging them in their wrong ways, instead of giving naseeha or writing something beneficial.
Salam.

In my eyes Its actually an encouragement to da youth cos it shows tha struggle is real but masha'Allah for keepin to ur islam. cos it goes on 2 say


Islam in your life may be bolder
More than fasting in Ramadhan and Jummah
And you will devote your time and energies
For the pleasure of Allah your creator

[.: Anna :.]

but before that he is saying
" Maybe one day
As you get older"

this is legitimising the view of "when i get older and after going to hajj i will become practising, for now i can just have fun and pray when i feel like it... at least i am doing some of my prayers masha allah." we cant hav this attitude, death will come in any minute, it doesnt ask your permission. Look at the ayahs in my sig, that one is mentioning charity but it is the similar thing:

63:10 and spend something (in charity) out of the substance which We have bestowed on you, before Death should come to any of you and he should say, "O my Lord! why didst Thou not give me respite for a little while? I should then have given (largely) in charity, and I should have been one of the doers of good".
63:11 But never does God grant a delay to a human being when his term has come; and God is fully aware of all that you do.

I think I understand the intention behind this peice but I am not at all comfortable with how it has come accross..

[baba]

Have to say I agree with Anna :)

[ur_yusra]

I think the poem is ok..

I'm thinking along the lines of.. maybe if someone reads it they might want to work harder at preserving their deen??

Allahu aalim.

[Showkat]

Salaams All

I wrote this poem after some Muslims on a secular Muslim student discusion board adviced me to write poems which are motivational as opposed to condemning and criticizing. The intention was to to show the relaity of those particular muslims and some muslim youth in the west, who are astray but still maintain some Islamic principles because their taqwa is weak and have the intention to one day change and become good pious muslims.

InshAllah i hope i have cleared up any confusion and jzk for the comments.

below is the link, please vist and join if you have the time

http://www.qmbsoc.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=327.0

[baba]

Oh I see. You should have explained that first lol.

[.: Anna :.]

Okay, I've read that thread... I see where ur idea was coming from but still I stick to my opinion which I put above. Anyway, I prefered that hijab thing which you did write. I didn't find that offensive in anyway as some people on there are saying. Before I wore hijab I had come accross something a bit similar to that.. like the main reasons people put for not wearing hijab, and the refutation for those reasons. It didnt offend me at all actually I liked it because it pushes u to improve urself. Sometimes people are not keen on anything which they view as critisism, but imo if people are doing wrong or something it is better for them that they have something explaining the reason not to do that, than something to make them feel good about it so they dont feel the urge to change. This is for everyone.. noone is without faults and we all have to strive to better ourselves, so I dont like the ones which make us think "oh its okay, i am doing some things good so i can feel okay about myself and maybe one day change." I prefer the one which makes u think "death could come any minute and i have 2 b as prepared as possible 4 yawm al qiyama"

[MalikOne™]

Yea there are somethings that cud've been put better

but I think hes tryna reach out to tha boarder spectrum of the youth anywhooo all to our own opinions. :)

[zayyan]

Blood I'm chillin' in the Dutty South:D

[tuliiip]

Al-salam alkom . I realy like it. I wise you all the luck and Allah bless you . for all my brother and sister in the west I proud of you . The west is your country now and you must try harder to be an example of the good muslim to show the whole world what Islam is realy about. ( peace not violence )
Happy Ramadan :)