here's another one
You know your Islam is in trouble when...
...the last thing you learnt about Islam, the Quran,or Jihad was from CNN
...all your conversations with your friends have todo with guys/girls, or movies, or guys/girls inmovies
...you spend more nights at the club duringRamadan than at a Masjid
...you can't remember the last time you askedsomeone a question about something you didn'tunderstand in Islam
...you find time to watch three movies a week butfind yourself too busy to pray Salah regularly
...that Quran translation you were given last 'Eid isstill sitting on the top shelf of your bookrack
...the 'inner voice' you hear when you are incomplete silence sounds surprisingly similar to thelatest hip-hop song you heard
...you don't know any people who you can saySalaams to without feeling embarrassed
...the feeling that God is watching you in all thatyou do is never more than a passing thought
...you are available to receive phone calls at 2 a.m.
...your clothes and hair smell of cigarettes onSunday mornings even though you don't smoke
...knowing something is right or wrong and feelingguilty about it does not effect whether you actuallydo it or not
...you gave hope of ever entering Paradise becauseyou don't feel you deserve it after 'all that I havedone
...when you want something in your life youfantasize about it and say "I wish!"
...you can't figure out why you are never trulyhappy deep in your heart and why nothing good inyour life ever seems to last (why does it alwayshave to end?)
...the happiest day of your life so far was on aChristmas, Valentine, or a dance
...you are loneliest when you are sad or whensomething bad has happened to you (where did allmy friends go?)
...you don't think of the Prophet at least once a day
...when you hear of Muslims dying somewhere inthe world, you consider it part of 'politics' whichyou have nothing to do with
...your 'best friend' is a person of the oppositegender yet not your husband or wife
...you have no motivation to change things in yourlife
...when your faults are pointed out to you, youreply "This is who I am, for better or for worse!"
...listening to the Quran does not make you feelguilty
...you are actually flattered when people on thestreet stare or ask you out
...you friends never object to any of your badhabits or behaviours and vice versa
...you don't care whether you go to heaven or hellsince no one can really be sure about these things
...to you, Islam is just another 'organizedinstitutionalized religion'
...you actually agreed with everything yourphilosophy professor taught in class
...you generally feel crappy and often find yourselftelling people that you consider and justify yoursins as 'a part of who I am'
...you want to travel around the world someday butMakkah is not one of your planned stops
...your parents hate you and have said so to you
...you read the horoscopes yet have neverperformed Salat-ul-Istikharah
...you have never felt like falling down on your faceand crying to Allah
...you look down upon people who are morepracticing than yourself as 'just mullahs and ustaz'
...your past bad experiences with some Muslimsprevent you from getting closer to Islam and otherMuslims
i dont really understand some of it....if it's interesting enough i'll take a look again and add some comments or something.
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