The first one is every time I hear somebody talk about Islam they keep telling me that the really good people
Lived a long time ago and really really bad people if you want to find them. Where do you find them right now?
so we're all really messed up and they were all really awesome and
The great golden days of Islam are not ahead of us. They are we're
Behind us, right and so everything good about Islam is already done
It's actually a part of history and most of the time I'm just made to feel bad that I don't live at that time
Over and over and over again that good people lived a long time ago were pretty much all terrible people this religion
Belongs in ancient times and if you really want to bring the good days back
Then you have to live and act like it's 1,400 years ago
You cannot acknowledge that you're living in 2015 or 1998 or whatever you can't do that
You have to imagine that you're living in a little kebobs time about the allahu. Taala
No, you should almost feel guilty that you don't have a camel parked outside
that's
The first attitude that it's basically i'll summarize it. The first attitude is that this religion is outdated
Here's my second attitude
My second attitude was that this religion is pretty harsh
It's pretty tough there's a lot of ways to end up in hell a lot and
The rules that this religion has on top of that seem kind of harsh and unfair to
how come a
Woman's testimony is only half that of a man
How come me you know, how come a man can marry for women?
How come you cut the hand of a thief?
What is that?
Why don't the prophets say this
Why did the Quran say that and there are so many things that when you first hear you're like really?
Is that am I the only one who's kind of bothered by that or is that like?
no, you should just believe it don't question it and I started developing inside never said it because you know what happens if you say
it
You know, so the religion is harsh and unfair
That was my second attitude harsh and unfair
the third attitude that I developed
Okay, let you know what I'm gonna give it a shot. Anyway, yes, it's harsh. It's unfair
Yes, it's outdated. But I'm still gonna try to be a good person. Let's see
You know what? I kept getting told no matter how much you pray. Your prayer is probably not good enough
You probably made 80,000 mistakes in the will do that lasted 30 seconds. You probably your hug
Probably didn't even count. Your prayers didn't count your recitation of Quran dental
as a matter of fact
you could you could grow your beard or
Dress Islamic we put a head job on if you're a girl you could do all that stuff, which are probably a hypocrite
Chances are you're a hypocrite in other words? No matter what you do. It's probably not good enough
So now what was my first attitude
That's how I did it. It belongs in ancient times. Also my second attitude
Was harsh and unfair. What was my third attitude?
You can't win?
that leads me to my fourth attitude and my fourth attitude is a result of the first three and
That was what's the point?
What what's the point I
mean
If it's so outdated and it's so harsh. I'm I'm a terrible person anyway
Allah has already angry at me anyway
Why should I make myself even more miserable?
Why even bother with this religion?
I mean
I'm not gonna tell my parents that I'm not Muslim anymore or I don't want to be a Muslim anymore because they might freak out
So I'll still go act like I'm praying
But whatever dude let me just live my life
Let me just live my life
You have to we have to create a space where young people can ask their questions and they're not going to be told a stuff
For the law Darlene, there's a shape on on you. Let me do some little key all on you
Let me blow this you have a deep spiritual problem
Hold on the problem might be spiritual. I agree
But if you don't allow a space for you where young people can feel free to ask their questions?
Then guess what they get that space elsewhere
They get it at the University where they can ask whatever question and it's fine and we can discuss it
What do we do in our massager?
somebody gives a lecture on some super
Academic thing like the fickle selling camels or something and then some guy reason. I have a question. What about alcohol? What about this?
What about that? What about children who speak against their parents? Etc, etc, etc. And the chef says please this is not our subject today
Please sit down
somebody else with a question
Instead of giving people the space to hear them out. We'd rather shut them up
Now transformation is necessary both on the academic front the way we approach the teaching of Islam
I think we we should be the Muslims should be the ones who begin
Critical thinking and education and critical thinking asking the right kinds of questions if we're talking about Islamic schools
Then we should be talking about how Islamic school should prepare you for public high school both emotionally psychologically
But also intellectually if we're talking about Islamic high school
Then the first introduction to philosophy anthropology sociology
You know
Evolutionary biology those kinds of subjects that shake somebody up in the first semester of college
Those kinds of subjects should not be dealt with the first time at the hands of non-muslims
But actually by Muslims who know what they're talking about. This is what needs to get done
If this doesn't get done then why are you surprised that these kids are shaken up?
It's really not their fault
Yes, we don't have the kind of resources, but you know what? You don't need many resources anymore
there are there there are social media networks out there what used to take millions and millions and millions of dollars to
Propagate you can just throw on YouTube if it's a powerful idea it'll resonate
It'll get out there
We just have to up our quality of our game
Those of you that have gone through a faith crisis and Allah has brought you out of that crisis
You are actually morally obligated to do something about others who are going through that crisis
What I'm trying to say once again
all four of those attitudes are not a problem of Islam it is unfortunately a problem of an unintelligent unfair
Disingenuous representation of Islam
So it is high time that the Muslim community that is trying to come to its senses
takes charge once again puts the
the smartest of our
intellectuals the smartest of our scholars the most level-headed of our people put put the onus on them on teaching this Islam the way it's
Supposed to be taught and that's as teaching it the way it's supposed to be dot meaning write a PhD paper or write another book
Or give another for our lecture
No
Because that's not never gonna reach a sixteen-year-old
My old 16 year old self my 18 year old self would never be interested in a fatwa
What does that mean?
Fat what?
You know, I
Wouldn't be interested in it
What would I be interested in? I'd be interested in a movie. I'd rather go see a movie
I'd rather go see like I don't know
I'll play video game. I
would
By the way, this is not some liberal modern progressive
concept
Presenting Islamic ideas through Creative Media as a matter of fact that in its core is a Quranic
Concept while our DRT Bobkov al moriata code half a new reality
Sobre for a founder behind a pile philosopher maybe he general those
I art of salute Allah idea have nothing to do with the arkarow
They have nothing to do with the day of judgment. They have nothing to do with the Sahaba
They have nothing to do with jihad visibility' that hasn't even happened yet, samake
surah they just have to do with epic horses that are going into battle an
action film and by the way, if the Arabs love something it was an action film and if it had horses what
fast and furious
It got their attention the Quran got their attention
Because Allah knows there are some things that captivate the mind that's looking to be crazy
You know to be entertained and those those ayat if you study the imagery in them
It's remarkably entertaining if some young creative people put that into film people will watch
They'll make an epic trailer, you know how they have epic trails of horses riding
Swords, there's an enemy standing their spears ready. And as soon as the clash is about to happen
this April
And I have to see this
That's literally what the Quran did
We need to not just learn what the Quran says. We need to learn how it says it
Allah has a divine way of teaching things