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My Sheikh, Your Sheikh, Let's Go Have a Milkshake!
By Altaf Husain - USA
You know the drama all too well. Perhaps you have been an Actor in the drama or a silent observer or, dare we say, the instigator. With variations in the actual script of the drama, the all-too-familiar scene could unfold like this: A group of sincere Muslims have gathered to worship Allah Almighty.
They are preparing to pray and then, after prayer, they will head out to a restaurant for dinner.
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SCENE 1
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Sincere Muslim #1: Wait, did I just see you put water on your socks?
Sincere Muslim #2: Yes, I'm perfoming wudu', as if that was not obvious enough.
Sincere Muslim #1: But you didn't wash your feet!
Sincere Muslim #2: Wiping my socks is just like washing my feet! My sheikh says it is.
Sincere Muslim #1: Your sheikh? What does your performing wudu' have to do with your sheikh?
Sincere Muslim #2: My sheikh has taught me everything I know, including how to perform wudu'. Who is your teacher?
Sincere Muslim #1: Well, I am a very independent-minded person and I am self-taught. I do not need a sheikh to tell me how to perform wudu' or how to interpret Islamic teachings. I can do it myself.
Sincere Muslim #2: Suit yourself. I just feel it is much easier to have a reference point, a person who is learned and who can facilitate the learning process. That's why I like to refer to my sheikh.
Meanwhile, a few other members of the group are chatting before prayers about where they might like to go and eat dinner. The following scene unfolds.
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SCENE 2
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Sincere Muslim #3: Hey, what about dinner? Where are we going to eat?
Sincere Muslim #4: It doesn't really matter. I just want lots of food, cheap.
Sincere Muslim #3: It does matter where we eat. The place better serve halal food.
Sincere Muslim #4: Chill, sister! No one is thinking about eating pork tonight.
Sincere Muslim #3: I didn't mean pork when I said it better be halal; I meant we should find a place that serves halal meat ? what's so difficult about this?
Sincere Muslim #4: Well, first of all, my sheikh says all the meat in America is essentially halal, except of course pork. So we can eat meat at any restaurant.
Sincere Muslim #3: How's that possible? My sheikh says we are allowed to eat meat prepared by the People of the Book (Christians/Jews) but he says meat consumed in most restaurants can hardly be considered as prepared by the People of the Book!
Sincere Muslim #4: So where do we eat? As I said, I want lots of food, cheap. But most of your halal restaurants are so expensive.
Sincere Muslim #5: Listen, you guys, between eating meat allowed by your sheikh and my sheikh, we're not going to eat anything tonight. Can we just go and have a milkshake instead?
You know the drama all too well. Perhaps you have been an Actor in the drama or a silent observer or, dare we say, the instigator. With variations in the actual script of the drama, the all-too-familiar scene could unfold like this: A group of sincere Muslims have gathered to worship Allah Almighty.
They are preparing to pray and then, after prayer, they will head out to a restaurant for dinner.
----------------------------------- ------------------------------
SCENE 1
----------------------------------- ------------------------------
Sincere Muslim #1: Wait, did I just see you put water on your socks?
Sincere Muslim #2: Yes, I'm perfoming wudu', as if that was not obvious enough.
Sincere Muslim #1: But you didn't wash your feet!
Sincere Muslim #2: Wiping my socks is just like washing my feet! My sheikh says it is.
Sincere Muslim #1: Your sheikh? What does your performing wudu' have to do with your sheikh?
Sincere Muslim #2: My sheikh has taught me everything I know, including how to perform wudu'. Who is your teacher?
Sincere Muslim #1: Well, I am a very independent-minded person and I am self-taught. I do not need a sheikh to tell me how to perform wudu' or how to interpret Islamic teachings. I can do it myself.
Sincere Muslim #2: Suit yourself. I just feel it is much easier to have a reference point, a person who is learned and who can facilitate the learning process. That's why I like to refer to my sheikh.
Meanwhile, a few other members of the group are chatting before prayers about where they might like to go and eat dinner. The following scene unfolds.
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SCENE 2
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Sincere Muslim #3: Hey, what about dinner? Where are we going to eat?
Sincere Muslim #4: It doesn't really matter. I just want lots of food, cheap.
Sincere Muslim #3: It does matter where we eat. The place better serve halal food.
Sincere Muslim #4: Chill, sister! No one is thinking about eating pork tonight.
Sincere Muslim #3: I didn't mean pork when I said it better be halal; I meant we should find a place that serves halal meat ? what's so difficult about this?
Sincere Muslim #4: Well, first of all, my sheikh says all the meat in America is essentially halal, except of course pork. So we can eat meat at any restaurant.
Sincere Muslim #3: How's that possible? My sheikh says we are allowed to eat meat prepared by the People of the Book (Christians/Jews) but he says meat consumed in most restaurants can hardly be considered as prepared by the People of the Book!
Sincere Muslim #4: So where do we eat? As I said, I want lots of food, cheap. But most of your halal restaurants are so expensive.
Sincere Muslim #5: Listen, you guys, between eating meat allowed by your sheikh and my sheikh, we're not going to eat anything tonight. Can we just go and have a milkshake instead?
Comments on this journal
also talking about wudu. I haven't come across a lady doing it incorrectly...It happened to me once that two 16 years old girls were hesitant. Instantly I showed them how to do it. Most people I know do wudu without their socks. I heard a man saying that u can do it with your socks. They are people who might do their wudu with their socks.
Ali: Halal milshake ??? Obviously the milk used to make that drink was taken from a cow alive :P