Suhaib Webb – How to Embrace Islam Exploratory vs. Museum Mentality

			I think that's one of the challenges. My
		

			wife is born Muslim. I, of course, became
		

			Muslim. So
		

			she sometimes like, even my daughter, my 20
		

			3 year old daughter who's obviously born Muslim,
		

			she's like, I'm not a convert. She says
		

			that to me.
		

			I'm like, what does that mean? She's like,
		

			you're you're, like, crazy about this stuff. Right?
		

			I was born with it. You're, like, really
		

			over the top.
		

			Right? And she told me one time, it's
		

			like knowing how to ride a bike and
		

			then the guy who's reading the instruction manual.
		

			And he's, like, super excited about, like, the
		

			wheels and the pedals. And then, you know,
		

			and she's like, I should ride the bike.
		

			You know? And so what I I thought
		

			about that conversation with her, and I said,
		

			you know, I think for
		

			someone who embraced Al Islam,
		

			Islam is very much like exploratory.
		

			Whereas maybe for you, and I said to
		

			her, this is, you know, my responsibility.
		

			Maybe for you, it's kind of like something
		

			in a museum.
		

			So, like, how do we sort of move
		

			away from that where there is that appreciation
		

			for what it means in the past, most
		

			definitely, but then at the same time, everyone
		

			should have
		

			somewhat of an exploratory
		

			ethos
		

			when it comes to their interaction with religion.
		

			And that makes it exciting. That makes it,
		

			sort of even mysterious
		

			mysterious and spellbounding.
		

			So when we're reading these stories and these
		

			chapters about the prophet, it's it's important that
		

			we think about, of course, what they mean,
		

			but there's duality.