Why not Islam day or week?
For past two days I have been seeing that Pakistani bloggers have been suffering from Mother’s Day phobia and trying to express their love for their respective mothers. As I mentioned here that idea of Mother’s Day or any other day is not only a copy cat Western idea but lame as well. For west such day could be justified because Western societies are already doomed and they don’t have a concept of respecting parents, having a family etc. So they found out a day to do things which is not part of their norms. This is why they celebrate days like father’s day,Mother’s day,Valentine’s day(to express love) because they try to amuse themselves. For us it’s part of our life, our society and our religion then why do we are seeking to represent us like them?
As I said several times that we are the nation which prefer to follow every lame thing done by West. We run away from those things of West(their positives) which COULD leave a good impact on us. Since West celebrates such days therefore we also try to celeberate it. After all Duniya K saath Chalna hay.
I was actually making thise post to ridicule such mentality which celebrates such days but suddenly I changed my topic. I thought, if we are so much fond of celebrating days then why don’t we ever try to celebrate a day as “Islam Day” or “Muslim Day” in which we try to implement Islam practically in our life and offer prayers and others things? Why don’t we bother ourselves to celebrate something like this in which we can try to follow Shariah for a week or even for a day? and if we don’t know a bit about it then atleast try to find out? Why do such things don’t come in our mind? just because it’s not glamourous and have no halla gulla and partying?no excuse to exhibit? We DO try to please a creature called MOTHER but never tried to please Allah who created not only us but our mothers as well? Ask yourself, the filth is in you! and when there is such filth then dramay bazi like mother’s day etc is just an excuse to fool yourself rather someone else.
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May 13th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Lets not celebrate Islam day or Muslim day, infact it would be a copy cat. Instead of helping us, it would take us astry.
Just like our sunni brothers started to compete with shias and started ‘taziey’ ‘alam’ etc etc.
Infact we should celebrate Islam Life and Muslim Life and
+ we should make every day a mothers day and fathers day
+ every day we should try to gain more knowledge about our deen.
+ every day we should read a bit of Quran and understand the meanings.
+ every day we should think that this is our last day of life and then we should make certain to take the best out of it and gain more reward from Allah.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Khalid I was being sarcastic. Agreed with what all you mentioned above.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Mother’s day is a Hallmark event, meant to sell more cards and gift and keep the capitalist economy in motion… and yes, its a chance for many to go the old folks homes where they have abandoned dumped their parents, and get over the one year of guilt.
Having an Islam day would actually be good for many of us, it would actually be the only day in the year to give religion some thought - as religion has been dumped and abandoned by us much like the old parents mentioned above.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:18 am
“as religion has been dumped and abandoned by us much like the old parents mentioned above”
you are right RV.