By Omar Saif Ghobash
ISBN-10: 1250119847
ISBN-13: 9781250119841
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From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes Letters to a tender Muslim, a daring and intimate exploration of what it ability to be a Muslim within the twenty-first century.
In a sequence of non-public letters to his son, Omar Saif Ghobash bargains a brief and hugely readable manifesto that tackles our present international main issue with the educational of an skilled diplomat and the private accountability of a father. Today’s younger Muslims may be tomorrow’s leaders, and but too many are at risk of extremist propaganda that turns out omnipresent in our technological age. The burning query, Ghobash argues, is how reasonable Muslims can unite to discover a voice that's actual to Islam whereas actively and productively accomplishing the trendy global. What does it suggest to be a superb Muslim?
What is the idea that of an exceptional existence? And is it applicable to face up and overtly condemn those that take the Islamic religion and twist it to fit their very own faulty political agendas? In taking a troublesome examine those possible easy questions, Ghobash encourages his son to stand concerns others insist usually are not correct, now not appropriate, or will also be Islamophobic. those letters function a clear-eyed thought for the subsequent iteration of Muslims to appreciate the best way to be trustworthy to their faith and nonetheless navigate in the course of the complexities of today’s global. in addition they show an intimate glimpse right into a international many are unexpected with and supply to supply an realizing of the standard struggles Muslims face round the globe.
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The world you live in is different because the building of certainty requires more time, more knowledge, more experience, and more trust than ever before. Every child of your generation is in the same position, from the depths of Africa and Asia to the cities of North America. You used to have friends of the opposite sex. Now you are taught that the sexes should be separated. This way there is no chance of illicit intercourse—that is, extramarital sex—taking place. You are initially a little surprised that there is an assumption that men and women are so likely to have sex the minute they are with each other.
What better place than the warmth of prayer, the comfort of recitation, the certainty of moral worth? My generation knows this feeling too. It was my elders who headed off to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight in a holy war of jihad against the atheist Soviet invaders. The Afghans had a new leader take over in 1978 who was pro-Soviet. He started to introduce very big changes into Afghan society in the mistaken belief that he would be helping Afghanistan develop. The Afghan people are very tribal and devoutly Muslim.
Or listening to very moving, hauntingly beautiful recitations of the Quran. This means that we are, each of us, able to intensify and magnify the emotions that we would normally feel. This of course applies across the entire spectrum of human interest, from pornography to gaming, from playing the stock market to doing research at a university. We become enclosed in a virtual world of inhuman emotional intensity. This pattern is repeated across the deserts of Arabia and the bedsits of suburban London, and the open fields of Rochester, Minnesota.
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