Suhaib Webb – Transforming Culture- Embracing Progress without Compromising Religion

16 August 2024

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Speaker 1 discusses modernity's issues, including a lack of cleanliness and polished culture. He highlights the importance of communicating with guests and avoiding using the name of religion to justify holding onto something which is favored by other groups. He emphasizes the need to seize opportunities to communicate and avoid using the name of religion to justify holding onto things which are favored by others.

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No doubt, modernity has a lot of issues,

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but we don't throw the baby out with

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a bathwater.

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The prophet

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came into a pagan society.

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They were

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freaking crazy,

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and he didn't, like, throw out everything.

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It didn't get rid of their entire culture.

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Even Tamia has a great statement. He said

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Islam didn't come to the a cult to

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destroy anyone's culture. It came to polish it.

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It didn't come to it's impossible to ask

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people to lose their entire culture, but it

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came to to polish it.

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So this

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moment in the time of the prophet

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teaches us that we should seize the best

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opportunities to communicate, and we should never use

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the name of religion

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to justify holding on to something which is

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archaic

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culturally or socially

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if there's a new better way that doesn't

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compromise

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our religion.

"I really think this is one of the greatest causes one could support"

Mufti Ismail Menk