Tom Facchine – Ayah Series #13 – Surah Al-Kafirun

			One of the main ideas of sorts of Caffee rune is that Muslims need to be content with being
different. We need to be happy with being different from other people, that it's okay that we're not
like everybody else. It's okay that we don't dress like everybody else. It's okay that we don't
believe in what everybody else believes. It's okay that we don't celebrate the same holidays that
other people celebrate. It's okay that we do things different that we eat different foods and other
people eat. We arrange our families in different ways, and other people arrange their families, we
need to be okay. And confident in the way that Allah gave us. And just because we're okay, and we're
		

			confident in what Allah gave us doesn't mean that we're pushing it on other people, we can let them
have their freedom and their choice. And but they also have to respect us. A lot of times, we say
that, we want toleration and we want tolerance and these sorts of things. But what really happens is
that Muslims are the ones compromising, and everybody else, nobody else has to compromise. Everybody
stays with what's comfortable for them. And we're the ones that have to make sacrifices, whether
it's, you know, touching the opposite * or dressing in a certain way, or what have you. It could
be a lot of different things, food, dress, prayer, the whole idea of tolerance in the first place is
		

			that I get to be me, and you get to be you. And if you're asking me to leave, or to compromise,
things that I believe in, that's not tolerance at all. You're trying to convert me or you're trying
to get me to assimilate. That's called assimilation. So sorts of cafiero and one of the main points
is that we're not supposed to assimilate in that sense of what assimilation is. There's other types
of assimilation that are fine. We're talking about understanding how to interact with different
people, I go out onto the street, I'm not awkward. I understand how to interact with non Muslims, I
understand where they're coming from, I can talk to them, I can be nice to them, I can be kind to
		

			them, that's, that's fine. But if we're talking about me, changing my religion, or violating my
beliefs, or going against something that I believe in, just to fit in just to get other people's
approval, sorts of Kathy Runa Allah says that we need to be comfortable with what Allah gave us. And
we're comfortable with what we have, and will let other people be comfortable with what they're
doing.