Originally posted by: terepehloomein
ok so since everyone's modernizing, you can MODIFY (means to change or make less extreme) your religion so that it fits in with the modern culture?
now i am really confused
ok...so lemmme try and explain this as clearly as i can..but i gotta admit i really m not AS religious - dont pray 5 times a day, i lis to music and all - so i might not have all my concepts clear..
but here's the deal..
i never said we CAN modify rules of oru religion - i dunno if we can or not..😕...but i said we DO modify them - for ourselves...try to interpret them in a way as to make them less extreme...listening to music is is wrong...wearing sleeveles is wrong...but we DO this stuff....why? like u said...since every1's modernizing - we want to move with the time too....but how to move with the world, how to match up to modern style - while adhering to the strict rules of religion (no music, no friendship with "ghayr mehram" aka guys who aren't ur bro or husband....no exposing clothes....etc).... so to save ourselves from the mental discrepency....we TRY to intrepret the rules to match our current lifestyle... if music isn't allowed, if wearing shortsleeved/sleeveless fitted clothes isn't allowed - we think to ourselves...ooh i can pray..and besides world's changing so these rules probably applied to OLD times -in current time we can only follow what we can of them...and listening to bit of music really wudn't hurt - after all every1 does it...
so in order to be part of the world, we mold a few rules to make them apply to us....i know whtever im saying is probably VERY confusing...but i really can't explain this more then this: even though some thinss are wrong, we DO them, just to move with the world, u can say we prioritize the world more than religion - which is sad...but yes...and this is why we try to compensate for our mistakes by praying
at the end of the day, if all you wanna know is whether listening to music is haram or not - it is not haram, but it is still wrong... things that are haram are absolute sins - but there r other stuff that is just wrong , not haram, but just wrong, for which we do get punished, not as severely as doing something haram, but still there is punishment...alcohol is haram, listening to music is wrong..
nywayz i hope my post made some sense!😊😕
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