Mujeeb | The Blue Dragon

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This is partly why I decided not to keep quiet. Please read: *I had a counselling session last week. It was with a particular Habibaty who is preparing for her first MB exam. That is the first professional exam that those who study MBBS write, written in 300 level. It is a central exam and quite intense. Before the exam, they actually write one in 200 level called pre-MB. It is like a mock exam, just like when you're about to write WAEC and your school gives you a mock exam to prepare you and give you a taste of what the main thing will be like. Our session basically centered around preparing for her exams, and from the look of things, she does really get a hang of it, and I'm rooting for her. But we didn't suddenly get here. Our sessions have been a while coming. Her mother first reached out to me last year and booked counselling appointments for her. What happened? An 18-year-old teenager in 200 level, very, very brilliant, given her A-levels grade and the fact that she got her MBBS admission the first and only time she tried, suddenly stopped attending classes. Stopped reading. Stopped doing that which her parents sent her to the university to do. Because she had moved with the wrong crowd, not the type that you're probably thinking about. These types are the extremist types. The ones that tell girls that education is fitnah and exposes them to corruption, and all sorts of jargon. I don't know at what point she became brainwashed. But it all started with accompanying a friend to one halqah around the campus. After that day, she went back, and again, and again. And with each passing time, her Eemān “rises,” and she further disassociated from her education, as she saw it as mere distraction from her utmost goal, which is the ākhirah. She started spending all of her time going to these people’s halqah, madrassah, sittings, meetings, etc. Thankfully, she had a roommate who immediately notified her parents. And boy, were they disoriented? The mother was crying when she called me. She said they were not a particularly rich or even comfortable family. They scraped pennies to pay for her A-levels and for her school fees at the university. They had tried to correct her and even punish her by restricting her stipends, but she only got more adamant. They actually managed to get her to come home so they could talk sense into her, but instead, Habibaty started telling them about how corrupted the university system now is with the free mixing, the dress code required of her, how endless studying contributes nothing to her ākhirah. What if she died before she got to complete her education? She further worsened the situation by saying she was ready to get married to one of those people, yes, the same extremist people who brainwashed her. She was going to be a third wife to a man who was clearly not succeeding in taking care of the first two and their battalion of children. For a girl given so much, that would be tantamount to ruining her own life. It was the type of misfortune that one never recovers from, and one's generation continues to suffer for it. The mother said they had to lock her up in the house because she had grown way too stubborn. She was very exhausted already, and the father's BP was high. She said they had gotten my contact from someone who follows me on Facebook and knows I have a Mentorship for teenage Muslim girls. I was not surprised, actually. Parents call me for all kinds of things for their teenage daughters, and I'm so glad that they see me in that role. Aside from being a professional counselling psychologist, I appreciate the impact I have on young girls all over. The other time, a sister’s parents actually called me regarding their daughter’s NYSC. Both of them were speaking on the phone while asking questions: Is it ideal for a Muslimah? Is it ideal for this? For that? How about dressing? How about exposure and free mixing? Etc." 1/

If your ideology teaches you to restrain from responding to the Taslīm (greeting of peace: as-salāmu ʿalaykum) of another Muslim because they do not belong to your sect, then that is a path inspired by Shayṭān (Satan). If your ideology teaches you that no other Muslim will enter Jannah (Paradise) except those who follow your sect, then Shayṭān (Satan) has become your teacher. If your ideology teaches you to dismiss the contributions of Muslims across the centuries because they did not conform to your preferred orientation, then Shayṭān (Satan) has shaped your lens. If your ideology teaches you to declare Muslims innovators, deviants, or disbelievers with ease and without restraint, then you have been trained upon harshness, not guidance. If your ideology makes you love argument more than truth, and victory more than sincerity, then your heart has been diverted from the maqṣad (higher objective) of the dīn (religion). If your ideology strips you of adab (proper conduct) when speaking about scholars, elders, and the righteous, then it has robbed you of the nūr (light) of knowledge. If your ideology makes you see yourself as the only saved group and everyone else as astray, then it has planted arrogance in your soul under the guise of righteousness. If your ideology teaches you to break unity, sow suspicion, and thrive on division, then it serves the agenda of Shayṭān (Satan), not the Sunnah (Prophetic way). If your ideology makes you harsh with believers but silent or soft towards falsehood and oppression, then your miʿyār (standard of judgment) is corrupted. If your ideology disconnects knowledge from humility, worship from character, and creed from compassion, then it has reduced the dīn (religion) to a shiʿār (empty slogan) without rūḥ (spirit). If your ideology makes you forget that Allāh (God) alone judges hearts and destinies, then it has led you into a dangerous overreach. If your ideology teaches you to follow labels more than the Qur’ān and the Sunnah (Prophetic way), then it has replaced guidance with identity. And if your ideology does not bring you closer to Allāh (God) in humility, mercy, wisdom, and truth, then it is not guidance, no matter what name it carries. What does your ideology teach you?

One doesn't know what exactly your point is. But, let use basic Ile-Kewu lessons to correct this. Ibrahim (AS) took his wife Hajara (RA) and infant son Ismael (AS) to the desolate valley of Makkah, with barely enough food and some water, and left them there, following God's command. In searching for water, Hajara ran the hills of Safa and Marwah looking for water, until miraculously the spring of Zamzam emerged from the feet of the infant Ismael. From there, the mother drank. An Arab tribe, the Jurhums, passing through the way of Kada' saw a bird which naturally flocked near water hovering around. They got curious, sent a scouting party and discovered Hajara, her son , Ismaeel and the Zamzam spring. They cautiously asked permission to stay with her, she gave permission it that, they didn't have rights over h to e water, which they agreed to. And so, Ismaeel came to grow among the Jurhum tribe in Makkah and came to marry one of their women. When years passed, Ibrahim (AS) and Ismail built the Kaabah specifically for God's worship. True monotheism. It was like that for centuries, until an Arab chief Amr ibn Luhay al-Khuzai (a chief of Banu Khuzaai) on a trip to Syria saw people worshipping idols, praying for rain and victory, and brought the idol Hubal to Makkah and promoted Idol worship. This corruption was there for centuries, until Allah sent Prophet Muhammad SAW, to preach monotheism (Islam) and he thankfully smashed the idols in Kaabah and reverted the Kaabah back to its pristine state, rededicated towards Allah's worship alone that it was initially built for. The Prophet Muhammad SAW came to re-affirm the message of Ibrahim, the strict refusal to worship idols. Ibrahim was the first Prophet to smash idols. The Islamic motif itself starts with a motif. "There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah". When next you want to start a story, start from the very beginning, not starting from the middle. The story of the Kaabah is straightforward. Ibrahim/Ismail (Islam) === Paganism===Muhammad (Islam). Half-truths can also be worse than lies. Keep it a 100 please.