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A verse from our Holy book Quran states, "Every Muslim is a seed of Islam", this implies that all of us today, each individual, is a seed of Islam. The difference between a dead and a living seed is very clear, a dead seed becomes part of the soil it is sowed in, the bacteria in the soil eat it and decompose it completely, within a matter of days it becomes indistinguishable from the soil and looses it self completely in it. On the contrary a living seed gathers the useful and beneficial ingredients from that very soil and grows itself out of that soil into a tree, it becomes a source for many more seeds using the resources in the soil.
Once you relocate you will be in a place where you will have both the good and the bad things available to you and we have a choice to make every moment of our day, we can either adapt the wrong habits and practices and decompose and degenerate ourselves and our families completely in this culture or, we can actually use the science, technology and financial stability that we have here to become a source of spreading Islam and to present it to the Americans in its true form.
Today there is a lot of responsibility placed on the shoulders of people like you and me, by the grace of Allah we are in a situation where we can achieve a combination of scientific knowledge and religious practices in our daily lives. In Nahjul-balagha, Amer ul
Momineen Hazrat Ali (AS) is quoted as "Knowledge and religion are very constructive if present together but are very destructive if used
separately". I personally had a lot of problem in understanding this quote, how can something be beneficial in a composite for but be very destructive in the absence of the other component. My
dilemma was resolved when I heard a beautiful example from Dr. Kalb-e-Sadiq in explanation of this
quote, he told us that the analogy of this scenario is the same as that of hydrogen and oxygen, oxygen ignites fire and hydrogen spreads it, however if you combine the two you will get a mixture that extinguishes fire. Today the west continues to burn as
they here they have adopted the technology without any proper and correct ideology and the east continues to be stuck in primitive times as they have the ideology without the knowledge and understanding.
We my friends, today are in a unique position, belonging to a small segment of
Muslims who have a chance to attain a balance between both of these and become living examples and proof of how Islam can be a perfect way of life for this world and the road to salvation for eternity.
I hope and pray that you will be able to benefit from this list and after relocation you would prove to be an ambassador of your faith and country and would not dissolve into the wrong practices of other cultures rather introduce the people around you to the heights of morality and
spirituality that you enjoy as a Muslim.
Allah Hafiz
Adil
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