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.