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"We're talking about taking the message of Islam to the world, winning the modern world to Islam. We're not even winning with our own children!" "We always have to be checking and re-checking the work of the scholar because no scholar has the final word... If we rely on any century's thought, then we inevitably become stagnant intellectually and we stop reaching the minds of future generations." "[The kids] keep asking 'how much of this is religion and how much of this is culture?'... How do you tell what is essential to Islam from what is not essential?!... That's the question they're asking-- We don't even allow them to ask it and we don't prepare ourselves to answer it." "We have to allow these kids to come into this community and... voice their concerns, to voice their questions, to make their position known. And then we have to patiently and painstakingly and intelligently and rationally respond to them. Because as long as we fail to do that, we give them a one-way ticket outside of our community." "If our kids come to our community not so modestly dressed, it's better that they come than not come at all." |
