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