Mufti Menk – We Live In A Non Ideal World
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The speaker discusses their experience with practicing and struggling with religion, but also their experience teaching children how to properly address their religious beliefs. They describe their experience as humbling and transformational, with their father leading them and watching them grow up. They also mention their desire to bring their beliefs together in a positive way.
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So if there is someone generally practicing, they may not
appreciate that we're actually aiming at the vast majority who
are struggling to practice or not practicing, sometimes not even
Muslim I studied in Madina Munawwara in 1991
onwards, for a few years, and I can tell you that I was also very
hard initially and rigid with what I learned and the way I wanted to
do things. But when I got home, my father told me, sit and watch the
people for a whole year. Don't go out and start talking to them
until you see them for one whole year. So for a whole year, I was
just sitting and watching teaching little children Aleph and BA at
the at this madrasa. And it was very humbling, because I was
bubbling and bursting with a lot, and ended up teaching at a madrasa
adjacent to the masjid I was leading the Salawat. Barely ever
spoke to anyone, and so on. And then by the time I opened my
mouth, I was already calm. I already saw that. You know, you're
trying to bring people into an ideal situation, and we're living
in a non ideal world. So it's really a beautiful experience to
have had someone who's an expert in addressing people discipline
you and your own wishes at the same time, bringing the two
together. You.