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on being strange...

Date: May 26, 2002 | 14 Rabi al-Awwal 1423 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: thoughts
There's a well known hadith in which the Prophet (sAas) said,

"Certainly Islam began as something strange, and it will become strange once again as it began. So blessed are the strangers."
You can even read articles addressing this issue: Al-Ghurbah: Feeling As A Stranger in This World and Advice to the Strangers.

In this day and age it seems that anybody who is a devout Muslim is seen as something of a stranger even within Muslim communities, which is what is meant by the hadith and the articles. Think how strange then for a Westerner to convert to Islam! Actually what I was going to say is that anybody who converts to Islam probably is "strange" or at least is not afraid of doing her own thing even if it's unpopular.

But does this mean that converts are weird? Well, if you think from reading my blog that I'm strange, maybe this is why wink

But what's important is that those of us who care enough about the deen to keep trying to improve in it need to stick together and be especially tolerant of each other's "strangeness" rather than keep fighting amongst ourselves.

...And on a less pious note, here's our theme song. Remember that because of the Islamic rules against musical instruments, this is a cappella:

People are strange, when you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone People seem wicked, when you're unwanted Streets are uneven, when you're down When you're strange- faces come out of the rain (rain, rain)
When you're strange- no one remembers your name
When you're strange, when you're strange, when you're strange

Lyrics taken from http://www.brave.com/bo/lyrics/peoplear.htm

~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 06:16 PM

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