LET US PLAY THE GAME... Unless you are born into Sunnah, there are stages every reverts to sunnah undergo. STAGE OF REPUDIATION Or STAGE OF DENIAL You will hate brothers with beards and jumpy trousers, you will wonder why they make islam so difficult. You will claim EMAN is in the heart and no need for show off. You will single out some unkempt sunnah brothers and use them as the excuse why you wont keep beard or wear jumpy trousers. You wont see the neat and corporate ones among them as shining examples of Sunnah. You will blame you non-compliance on those who are dirty. You will use them as excuse on behalf of those who hate sunnah. STAGE OF TOLERANCE Here you will have stayed or known sunnah brother for a while, you would have interracted with some, spent times together, in class, discussion secular issues, in office and work place, being on the same public buses or assisting each other at some times or another. You will now accept them as what they are and be surprised that some of them are so intelligent, educated, knowledgeable in other topical issues apart from religion. You will be surprised that so, some of these people are so exposed? STAGE OF ENVY Here, you have realised they dont bother about your discouragement and occassional teasing of their beard, trousers and so on. You will begin to silently envy them and wish you could also take up Sunnah without people saying you are going fanatical. You will remember all the past feelings you also had for them in the past and fear you may also become a victim of same from others. STAGE OF TRIAL Now you will begin to delay shaving your beard until it grows longer than before. You will still cut it, you are only trying to see how people will react to it. What you are doing here is called water testing. You will be praised by some and discouraged by others. You will still remove the beard next time you visit the barber shop. STAGE OF RISK TAKING Here you will select one of your trouser, usually the oldest one or the least liked one and take it to the tailor to reduce the lenght above ankle. You will start wearing it inside the house and later to run some short errand in the neigbhourhood. Many will ask you if you have joined Tableeq. You will jokingly reply Is it not good?. You are only trying to measure the deep of their minds about it. STAGE OF CONSOLIDATION Here, you will begin to wear the jumper more frequently and to farer place. You will begin to trim your beard and leave it to grow to a predetermined lenght. STAGE OF ASSURANCE Your observers have identified you with Sunnah now and they are getting used to your new appearances and activities. Some begin to call you Afa or Malam or uztaz as a way of teasing you, but you wont be bothered any longer. STAGE OF RESOLUTION Now you are convinced you have broken through and no fear in your heart again. You will take the rest of your trousers to the tailor for adjusting. You will make your new cloth to same trouser lenght and you become thirsty for knowing Islam more than before. You want to attend Halqoh and isamic programmes. You wish to fast on monday and thursdays, you wish to perform Tahajud etc. STAGE OF REMINISCENCE You begin to remember you old self and the way you used to mock sunnah followers. You remember your prayers were not as regular then as now. You remember how you used to be involved in some Haram things but now avoiding them so that people wont use your new life to abuse Islam and others. You now see your self as a good ambassador of islam and ready to protect the image and integrity of Sunnah by staying off bad people. You now wish to drop remaining bad attitudes in you and you pray to Allah even for it. STAGE OF ANTI-CLIMAX You see some brothers in your former positions, who look down on you as no-social and non-entity, but you feel sorry for them and wish they could also become followers of Sunnah. You will resolve to relate with them patiently until Allah uses you as a model to guide them also into Sunnah. It is at this stage you will now appreciate how other also tolerated you and indirectly got you assimilated into the light of Sunnah. TELL US THE STAGE YOU ARE NOW! BE SINCERE...
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 16:31:10 +0000
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