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18-Nov-2019 9:41 pm


So many traps all around.

Even if I decide to withdraw from all confrontational dealings in the world, and focus only on prayers in Mosque -- I am still not out of trouble.

Someone sitting beside me says, "Hay! You are doing that wrong. You should do it that way."

The trouble starts the moment he said it. And now there's absolutely no way out.

I can say, "But we don't follow hadith directly, we follow the fiqh/rulings that are delivered by scholars based on all haidth..." -- and I am in trouble. He will be claiming, "Hay everyone! Look at this man, he denies direct and clear Haidth!!!"

I can say, "But I read in another hadith that says the opposite ...." --- more trouble. He will be claiming "look at this man! he read a few hadith and went astray, he doesn't know of other hadith or explanation!"

Then I can "argue" with him, as per his demand, and go on a deeper level on what his hadith means and why I follow that. And then I am in even deeper trouble than where I started.

Therefore once he has said the above, there's no safe way out. None. I am trapped no matter what I reply.

And I -- just wanted to -- say my prayers -- alone -- in a mosque!

18-Nov-2019 9:41 pm

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18-Nov-2019