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| Kathy |
| 12/03/01 at 12:46:54 |
| slm Last night something interesting happened. Mary and I were invited to a Catholic church for a Informational Program about Islam. I took my trusty side kick puppet- Zach- and we did a spot on Ramadan. It went over well with the kids. Meanwhile Mary's husband was upstairs with the adults- giving his speech. It was going very well also. We joined the Imam for the question and answer period. My son who is 7, went and sat in the only seat left- far away from me. Many of the questions were about how Muslims treat or feel about Christians. After he answered the question in the best way- I saw my son's hand go up. He asked - "When I go to class at the mosque they always talk bad about Christians, why would they say those things?" |
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| eleanor |
| 12/03/01 at 13:26:16 |
| slm Ooops...and what was the response? Mash Allah! Ali is only seven? I thought he was 10 or 11! Did you not say he's in *fifth* grade? wasalaam eleanor |
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| Sparrow |
| 12/04/01 at 07:33:33 |
| I'm curious about thre response too... BTW, Kathy, sounds like you're raising a little boy who's not afraid to speak his mind, that's great! Peace, Sparrow |
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| Saleema |
| 12/04/01 at 07:45:38 |
| [slm] I'm dying to find out Kathy!! Tell us. The suspense is too much. [wlm] |
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| Mary |
| 12/07/01 at 23:44:59 |
| As-salaamu alaikum, Well Kathy I'm sitting here with horses mouth. He says he remembers the question and then he was saved by the cell phone ringing. Our son had to go eat again. He said when he joined the conversation again you had it under control. MashaAllah!! He did tell Ali that only Allah knows whom goes to Janna and whom goes to the hellfire. Allah is the Most Merciful Most Forgiving, and he can forgive all the sins of his creation except one. Committing partners with Allah. Then he gave one my favorite Hadith. That you may live a life full of sin until you are but one arms length from death and do something, and Allah will forgive you your sins and take you to paradise. Or you can live a pious rightous life and when you are but an arms lenght from death, you do something Allah won't forgive and you will forever be in the hellfire. Guess that gave them something to think about. Out of the mouths of babes,... Remind me that if Ali is in the audience not to take part in the Q&A part. Hey Kathy what is 49x174? |
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| Kathy |
| 12/11/01 at 15:30:05 |
| [quote]I'm dying to find out Kathy!! Tell us. The suspense is too much. [/quote] wlm First thing I thought was 'Ya Allah'. Second was - 'he is right- now for damage control.' I purposely brought him, so that he could learn at a young age, how to do Dawah- and by the time he is in his 20's- it would be comfortable for him, Insha Allah. Mary's husband is good at this- so I brought Ali. (Many of you seasoned board members may remember the trials I went thru a last year with my son's classes at the mosque. Every week he would come home with lines like- "Mom- you are a sinner because you wear pants", or " Mom, is it true you are worshipping the Turkey when you go to (your family's) home?". Imagine a five year old coming home- filled with fear that his cousins,aunts and grandparents are all going to burn in the hellfire. There were many examples of his teachings in that particular class- imagine of all the beautiful loving attributes of Allah swt you could teach to a little 5 year old- on the other hand dissing Christians was what the teacher choose to talk about.) All of these thought were whirling thru my head as all eyes turn to me, after Ali's question.- Of course in their minds, this just cements everything they have heard from the media. All I could do was to affirm this. I explained that indeed my son had been taught this by this one particular teacher. And as I found out I pulled him from the class because this is not what Islam is about. We are to live peaceably with the People of the Book... etc... Then I made a joke about how all schools have that one teacher that no one agrees with... it reduced the tension and they all laughed and agreed. It was a good lesson for Ali to learn. When doing Dawah- this is not the time to get political- or even have disagreements with ourselves. I have seen Muslims arguing over 'stuff' during a dawah presentation. A couple of weeks ago- our public museum had an Opening Gala Night- (for the rich and society people who pay for the museum) This was the same museum that is hosting our Ramadan Display. There were some disagreements between the ones who did the display- and a Muslim man(a self professed dawah lover)- who wanted it different. He actually attacked,verbally and loudly, two of the Muslimahs infront of all the people, and it was a long verbuse! Imagine the damage that made to people's impression of Islam. So the Imam can stand infront of these people and tell them that Islam means peace- but what they see with their eyes.... |
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| tq |
| 12/11/01 at 10:36:34 |
| Assalamo elikuim Mashallah Sister Kathy you handled it very nicely !! Wasalam tq |
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