I have heard so many sad tales of how we treat reverts among the muslims. I remember reading a post made by "writeous sister" in her blog a few years back about the kind of attitude people in her community showed her when she just reverted and I just could not believe it. I wanted to leave a link to the said post but I just found out that the blog is protected and you need a password to read it. I have seen threads on "ummah forums" with titles like "would you marry a revert?" or " should reverts marry themselves?" and so on.
I made a post about female circumcision in Islam and some concerned reader(s) decided it is okay to be uncivil towards me just because I dared to say what the respected scholars of Islam said about the issue. The person(s) somehow concluded for reasons I don't even know that I must be a revert which means to her/them I am not in a position to know or say anything about fiqh. I actually laughed out loud when I read that I was a revert, even though I personally don't see muslim reverts being in any way less than born muslims. I have a number of revert friends and some of them are better than many of us born as muslims in their quest for knowledge and pleasing Allah.
Even if you do not agree with a person's POV about a particular issue, at least you can say it in a kind manner, because at the end of the day we are all muslims striving for the akhirah.
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As-salamu alaikom warahmatuah,
ReplyDeleteInteresting post indeed! If this bad treatment towards reverts is true, then it is dispeakable subhanaAllaah! I detest injustice no matter who it is directed to.
However, I can honestly say I suffer injustice from revert sisters in my community. I am a born Muslimah upon Salafi dawah and I sense this entitlement to salafiyyah from the revert sisters. Some of these sisters, I personally sheltered them for many months until they were able to stand on their feet. Today, in a gathering, I see them mock my culture and elders from my pple without feeling ashame. I bring relatives along to bring them upon the sunnah and they observe such behaviours from my sisters in Islam.
I understand we should love the Sunnah but what ever happened to using adab (good character). Why would you mock a jahil person who doesnt even know the basic of his/her deen. Better yet, why cant you call them to Allaah and Salafiyyah with hikma & gentlness. How do you expect one to listen to your call when you are so condensending and rude.
It has come to a point where I sense alot of nationalism from my ikhwat, meaning that they hang out together because they are from a certain Country, and I am left lonely. I dont mix with the pple from my background due to fear of doing something against the Sunnah. I am polite to them but that it. I am mistreated by my so called sisters on the Sunnah who happened to be reverts.
In essense, we should really evaluate and learn who our allegiance lies to. It should be to Allaah and His prophet (pbuh) and those who strive to follow them. It should not matter what background a sister is from as long as she is a good companion in deen that reminds you of Allaah and here after. Thus, injustice and clichness exists both sides, May Allaah strength our Ummah, ameen.