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Summary: This reflection uses Qur'an 2:170 to criticize blind ancestor worship and blind loyalty to old customs, especially when Hui Muslim communities repeat inherited practices without measuring them against revelation, truth, and sound religious understanding.



Someone advised them: “You should obey the revelation sent down by the Allah. They said, "Otherwise, we must abide by the teachings of our ancestors." ” Even if their ancestors were ignorant and did not follow the right path (should they still abide by their legacy)? [2:170] Today we are going to talk about a rather heart-wrenching topic. This topic may be rarely mentioned by imams and scholars, because the most talked about topics are "recognition, etiquette, fasting, classes, and pilgrimage," "filial piety to parents," "husband and wife love," "raising children," and "supporting the elderly." Very few imams and scholars emphasize the topic of "ancestor worship" alone, so today I, a "dying man" lying on the hospital bed, will say a few words. Due to my limited knowledge and the torture of illness over the past few months, the article may not be very smooth. Please just read it. If this article offends you, please don't worry about it.

In our country, when people are free, they always brag about how glorious their ancestors were. They were either powerful officials or wealthy merchants, or they were extremely talented and knowledgeable super-literati... In short, "My ancestors are very good, so I am superior to you!" "A few friends said this while exchanging cups at the barbecue stall, a group of friends said the same while sitting at the dinner table, and the neighbors still said the same when they "set up a dragon gate formation" on the road, as if any family without particularly awesome ancestors would be looked down upon by others. In fact, what I want to say is: "In China, as long as the family can have a genealogy passed down, then the ancestors of this family were once prominent bosses. There is no need for everyone to always talk about their ancestors every day!" "I would like to say: "No matter how great your ancestor is, where are they now? Is he still there? In fact, these are just a speck of dust in the long river of history. People always have to look further afield, instead of relying on the protection of their ancestors to stay green forever! no matter how great your ancestors’ achievements were, it was already many years ago. Is the influence of your ancestors still useful today? Your ancestor was an honest and careless person, but you, a complete rotten person who eats, drinks, whores, gambles, cheats, beats the blind, scolds the deaf and chases the lame, what qualifications do you have to brag in the name of your ancestors? If the ancestor could come back in a dream, he would definitely give you, this unworthy descendant, a few big slaps in his dream! "...

In fact, ancestor worship is also a common phenomenon among our Hui Muslims, especially the blind worship of previous scholars. Whenever young imams or scholars ask questions about controversial teachings [such as when to break the fast and enter the fast, when is "Gedler", whether shrimps can be eaten...] and other questions, people will always say: "How old are you?" You only have so much knowledge, but you can’t do this or that! Is he more knowledgeable than ‘elder baba scholars’? This has been done since the days of ‘elder baba scholars’. If you say this is not okay and that is not right today, we won’t listen anyway! We have to do it the way the ‘Old Babas’ do! "It is necessary to respect the old scholars, but the living and learning environment of the old timers at that time was completely different from now. In order to pass on the flame of faith from generation to generation, the old timers chose many "compromise" methods. But today we have no worries about food and clothing, and can access any information and books on various channels, including a lot of information that the "old Babas" have never seen or heard of. When someone comes up with conclusive and correct evidence, what are we objecting to? Are we against the teachings of Allah, or are we against the fear in our hearts after others use true knowledge to break our thousands of years of ancestor worship?

Ancestor worship is a major sin for us Muslims, and it is a sin that will destroy the world. You can refer to the Chinese translation of Kitab al-Kaba'ir as "The Book of Major Sins", which is also translated as "The Seventy Deadly Sins". I won't say more about how serious ancestor worship is. Those who are interested can read the book I mentioned for themselves. Of course, no matter how much you tell someone who is not interested, they will only think that you are "challenging inherited authority" just to gain traffic. Another thing is that the old-timers are modest and cautious. If they see that they are being mythologized by future generations, I wonder if the old-timers will stand in court with us unscrupulous descendants in the court of Allah in the days to come!



My article today is not to tell you to abandon the fine traditions of your ancestors, but to tell you that when someone can produce accurate evidence, some of the things we have passed down from generation to generation need to be improved. Instead of standing there stubbornly, mumbling, "My ancestors did it this way, so I will do it too!" ”, then this goes back to the scripture quoted at the beginning of my article. If our ancestors were unlearned and unskilled people, would you still follow them like this?

Our nation has reached this embarrassing situation today. to the influence of the general environment, it is actually more about people's rigidity and unwillingness to accept things that are inconsistent with their subconscious minds [even if these things are the truth], and then these conventional things are passed down from generation to generation. This reminds me of the fable "The Little Hedgehog Carrying a Watermelon" that I learned when I was studying. Does the sentence "My mother never taught me that" sound like what we say today, "It was like this in the 'elder baba scholars' period"! Today, our bodies are living in the 21st century, but our minds are still stuck in the feudal society. It is completely in the stage of "I will learn whatever the teacher teaches." There are not many people who can calm down and think about the future of this nation and the truth. Anyway, they all have an attitude of going with the flow and having no desires or desires. I just follow what my ancestors did, regardless of whether it’s right or wrong. To quote an internet buzzword, I just do it!

At the end of the article, I still want to pray to Allah to bless the seniors with a generous and everlasting paradise, and to improve the level of the seniors in paradise! Also pray to Allah to enhance our faith and change our rigid thinking! Aminai! view all

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Summary: This essay gives direct advice to mosque teachers and imams as students return home, asking them to protect young Muslims from factional hostility, keep fiqh differences in proportion, and guide students with humility, knowledge, and unity for Allah.

This tweet was supposed to be written on the last Sunday, but it has been delayed for another Sunday. Last week, when my cousin came to my house for tea, my cousin and I were having tea with a neighbor. Suddenly my cousin said "Hey" for a long time. The neighbor and I asked him what was wrong. He said, "My precious son is here. He wants to cut off relations with me!" ", and then we were both shocked on the outside and tender on the inside by my cousin's words.

It turned out that my cousin’s son was studying and reciting Qur'an texts at a famous mosque in southern Yunnan. This was originally a very good thing, but they had a holiday there some time ago. After returning home, my cousin took him to our mosque to pray. After returning home, he told my cousin, "Our teacher said, your kind of salah behavior is wrong, and only our posture is correct!" ", and then my cousin argued with him. The result was that the more the two fathers and sons argued, the more they both felt that the other was wrong, and then there was the scene that my cousin said at the beginning.



In fact, what I want to say is that some problems are originally very simple, but in the end we make them complicated. I don't care about "raising the hands three times" or "raising the hands once", nor do I care about "Gedimu" or "Ikhwani", nor do I care about "Jahriyya" or "Khufiyya" or other factions. In fact, these are just branches on the big tree of Islam. Everyone should do their own thing and don't point fingers or even malicious attacks on behaviors that are different from themselves.

What I want to say to all the imams at the beginning of the school year is that students are pure blank slates. How the imams educate their children will be remembered by the students. This is a process that every student will go through on their way to school, whether they are in secular schools or schools of various religions. No matter what knowledge the teacher teaches the students, the students will implement what the teacher said as the truth. Originally, our nation and this group are now in a troubled era. If our teachers and imams still convey some remarks to the students that are not conducive to local unity, then when the students enter the society and return to their hometowns, they will be out of tune with the elders in their hometowns, and even abuse each other. Is this the result you want to see, all our teachers and imams?

"Unity" is the main command. As for how many times we raise our hands or "opening prayers and eating meals" that we have been arguing about in northeastern Yunnan for hundreds of years, these issues are just some Sunnah and some are not even Sunnah, just some customary things, so such disputes are completely meaningless. If the unity of a place is destroyed because of these weightless disputes, then the gain is not worth the loss. I am not belittling the Sunnah. If we were asked to choose between giving up one commandment and giving up a hundred Sunnah, then we should not hesitate to choose to give up a hundred Sunnah. But how can we today give up the great commandment of "unity" for these trivial things? Doesn’t the root cause of this problem have nothing to do with our teachers?



Students are too naive, so I think when our teacher teaches students knowledge, no matter what faction or movements you teach in class, please emphasize to the students at the end: "If you go back to your hometown, the factions and movements in your hometown are different from ours. If you can persuade the people in your hometown, do so. If the people in your hometown do not support the behaviors you have learned, then give up decisively and follow the factions and movements in your hometown!" "Only by emphasizing this sentence to the students over and over again will their eyes be able to tolerate behaviors that are different from their own. And these behaviors are inherently dispensable, light or serious.

when our teachers teach students, please do not interpret knowledge mixed with personal emotions. Instead, we should abandon our own personal emotions and interpret it realistically, without misinterpreting or over-interpreting it. Only in this way will students learn real knowledge, and when they enter society, they will be able to tolerate behaviors different from their own.



If the philosophy our teacher’s teaching platform conveys to students is just “everyone else is a heretic, only we are correct!” ”, then you yourself are the beginning of the heresy. The most taboo thing for us Muslims is the statement "I am the only one who is right", because whenever such words as "I am the only one who is correct" appear, it is actually a sign of arrogance. Arrogance is the most annoying behavior of Allah. It was because of arrogance that Iblis fell into eternal hell. He was just because Allah asked him to bless the Prophet Adam, and he said, "You created me from fire, and he was created by you from the clay, why should I bow to him?" Because in Iblis' view, he who was created from the fire must be nobler than the Prophet Adam who was created from the clay, so he refused to bow to Adam. This is the result of arrogance and arrogance. Isn’t it enough to alert every knowledgeable imam among us?

Humility is the virtue of saints throughout the ages, and we should carry it forward. Therefore, I hope that each of us at our mosque teaching circle, when teaching students, please establish a correct outlook on life and values ​​for students. When each of us at our mosque teaching circle teaches students, please do not interpret knowledge with personal emotions. Otherwise, students will definitely learn biased things, and in the end, only our nation and this group will be harmed. There are countless lessons that have happened due to different factions in history. Have you forgotten it? view all

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Summary: This Muslim knowledge essay responds to an online article about salah, worship, Palestine, and public speech, arguing that media voices should respect core religious duties and avoid confusing personal limits with community guidance.



The day before yesterday, a tweet from a public account called "Weekly Notes" flooded Moments. In the circle of friends, many people are filled with indignation, and there are also a lot of people who are applauding. I didn’t want to say anything, but yesterday the author of the tweet posted another tweet titled “Regret and Gladness—Responses to the Reactions to the Weekly Notes.” I feel that if yesterday’s “Prayer Notes” was just what you were thinking, then yesterday’s “Response” is more like a naked provocation, provoking the tolerance of the entire religious community and challenging the entire community’s core belief in the “Five Destinies.”

The "Weekly Notes" article written the day before yesterday is indeed innocuous from a purely literary or public welfare perspective, and it is even worthy of everyone giving the blogger a thumbs up. However, the article’s characterization of salah as “a practice practiced by retired, idle old people” is extremely disgusting. If you can't or don't want to do it, it's your personal business. After all, "there is no compulsion in religion, right and wrong are clearly defined" [2:256], but you have to say out loud what you think you can't do or don't want to do, and then get many people to respond. This is disgusting. We all know that salah is a regular duty for every sane adult, and we all know that it is better to salah together than to salah alone at home. But there is a kind of strange and sinister language everywhere in your article, which makes people feel like they are stuck in their throats after reading it.



I admire your continued advocacy and hard work for Palestinian refugees. However, some things must be coded in the same code, and the concepts cannot be confused. Friends around me who have a sense of justice have all spoken out for the Palestinian refugees, and they are even actively donating money to purchase various living supplies for the Palestinian refugees. In fact, almost every Muslim compatriot also cares about the Palestinian refugees. No one is hard-hearted, but they are separated by thousands of miles and rivers. There are even many people like us with limited mobility. Apart from donating money, the only thing we can do is to hold up our hands and make dua for Palestinian refugees after salah.

The whole world is paying attention to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and everyone with conscience can see that the Israelis want to commit genocide against the Palestinians, just like the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese in our country. Therefore, our country has been urging both sides to exercise restraint and eventually brokered a short-lived ceasefire agreement. We don’t know how Israeli artillery fire will wreak havoc on Palestinian land after Ramadan, but at least during the ceasefire they are safe and can fast without worrying about shells of war suddenly falling on people’s heads.

I still say that I admire all the efforts you have made for Palestinian refugees over the years, but you can't force a group of people to follow your footsteps just because you can't do something well. For example, if a person doesn't like to eat cilantro, he can't say that cilantro doesn't taste good in front of a vegetable stall selling cilantro, nor can he say don't buy cilantro when meeting people on the street!

In fact, every one of us in the media often has to not only do what we should do, but also pay attention to the impact our words and deeds will have on the people around us. You cannot just say and do whatever you want based on your own selfish desires. Doing so will cause irreversible harm to the group and even the entire society, and will cause the group to fall apart or even be completely disintegrated.

I won’t say anything else, but wish you good luck! view all

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Summary: This Muslim knowledge essay responds to debate around respect for Quran reciters and imams, explaining the author's concern about paid event recitation, religious dignity, sincere service, and protecting the honor of people who serve Allah.

Yesterday I wrote an article "Why don't people respect imams today?" "Tweet, I successfully sent the tweet at 12:00 in the morning, and then went to bed. I originally thought that it would only get the same three to five hundred views as the ones I wrote before, but who knew that the effect of this tweet after being successfully sent was surprisingly good. When I woke up this morning, I saw that the number of readings was almost 2,000. I was a little at a loss. By about three o'clock in the afternoon, the number of readings had exceeded 10,000. I have not had such readings for a long time since I was officially restricted. In the past two or three years, no matter how thoughtful my tweets were, how sincere they were, and how much I expressed my hopes for the future of our nation, my tweets received only a pitiful three to five hundred to one thousand views. Maybe it’s because the topic was eye-catching yesterday, or maybe it’s because this tweet touched everyone’s heart. Anyway, the number of readers has been rising steadily, and more than a hundred new fans have followed.



As the number of reads of this tweet continued to increase, some friends who did not know whether they had read the tweet carefully also expressed their "questions", saying that this article was too arbitrary, and that it was very difficult for the imams [professional mosque imams] in some small villages, and I should not write such an article. Then I politely replied to these brothers and told them that the imams mentioned in my article that people disrespected were those "paid event imams" [professional Maiti imams] who were busy all day long for weddings and weddings, not the professional imams who had been silently working hard and dedicating themselves to the cause of the Allah. I told them, "What people hate is not the imams who work silently for the cause of Allah, but the "casual imams" who sell their feathers for three to five yuan or ten to eight yuan. However, it is precisely this group of "paid event imams" who "represent" the imams, which is what our hometown says, "one bad actor can spoil the whole pot." ", but fortunately these brothers also listened and did not continue to question me.



To be honest, regarding the tweets refuting the [professional paid imams], I have written two articles before, namely - [Which is more important, filial piety to parents or hiring hundreds of imams after the death of the elderly] and [When "professional paid imams" become widespread, how much harm will it do to our group? ], and those two articles were written more thoroughly, but the reading volume was not high, so they were not seen by everyone. The popularity of this tweet yesterday was unexpected but reasonable. I have been criticizing [Professional Maiti Imam] and it finally has some effect. To be honest, I think these [professional Maiti imams] are really the kind of people mentioned in the Qur'an, "They want to use this in exchange for a small price, alas! ” (2:79), they threw away the backbone of a Qur'an reciter for the sake of the ten or twenty yuan “suggestive gift”. Some people may say that they had no choice but to do it because their families were not rich and they could not afford to go out to work. It seems easy for anyone to say this. I am also a Qur'an reciter myself. Since the day I graduated, I have not received a single point of the "sadaqah gift" that I get for participating in weddings and weddings. Every time I receive this money, I pass it to the person next to me. Now I myself am terminally ill, and I don’t know how long I can survive. I have completely lost the ability to work, so I rely on my wife to do odd jobs in our county to support my family, which only costs about 2,000 yuan a month. Her salary is basically enough to cover the living expenses of a family of three. However, as long as I attend weddings and weddings, I will still pass on the "sadaqah gift" I receive to others. I am not flaunting how noble I am, nor am I trying to be miserable here. I just think that every Qur'an reciter should have that innate backbone. I always believe in that hadith that "the hand that gives is more valuable than the hand that receives." Therefore, I give alms as much as I can, but I always maintain my integrity as a Qur'an reciter, and do not let myself become a [professional paid imam] just for the ten or twenty yuan "token gift".

Now when our imams from Zhao (Zhaoyang District), Wei (Weining County, Guizhou), and Lu (Ludian County) attend weddings and weddings, they "begin the Qur'an recitation" very quickly. It only takes eleven or twelve minutes from begin the Qur'an recitation to the end of the Qur'an recitation. I just came back from Guangdong a year ago, and happened to encounter the death of an old man in our village. After everyone prayed to the deceased, they "opened the sutra" together in the main hall of the mosque. I had just read more than ten pages of the Qur'an, and then there was a person standing in front of me waiting for me to close the Qur'an. I looked up and saw that everyone had already closed the Qur'an and was waiting for me. I was confused and embarrassed and handed the Qur'an stand to the person who was waiting for me. I remember back then, when we first recited the Qur'an, the Qur'an recitation on such occasions would last at least half an hour. Why did it become like this today? I couldn't understand why it turned out to be like this. Later, when I talked about this with my friends, my friends woke me up. They said, "There must be another wheat body behind, and they are rushing to participate in the next wheat body." Then my friend gave me a meaningful and "you know" expression, and I was instantly enlightened...

I'm not targeting any one person, I'm just targeting those "professional paid imams" who are "paid event imams". If a Qur'an reciter abandons the backbone of the Qur'an reciter for a small price, then who else will be despised if you are not despised by "the community"? So I once again appeal to all Qur'an reciters to please cherish your feathers and don’t break your feathers easily! view all