1) You may adjust how you wear hijab if it threatens your safety. If you live somewhere that won't let you wear a scarf or an abaya you may use other clothing to fullfill the same purpose. This is good to know because even in America there are places that would not be safe if you went in a scarf or abaya (like my home town). I will post hat opinions at a later date :)
2) You are permitted to combine/ make-up prayers if praying in a public setting would threaten your safety. I know even in the most progressive areas of the US, praying in public would threaten one's safety.
3) This happened earlier in the Qur'an but I like this one. If you cannot fast for a medical reason then you do not need to. However, you should try to do your best to fast and make sure that you eat only what is needed during Ramadan. You should also make food for the poor and those who are fasting.
However, the Qur'an also states that you should make an effort to live in places that will allow you to practice Islam to its fullest. Places you will not feel threatened. Unfortunately, even Islamic countries threaten one's ability to completely practice Islam so there really isn't a place on earth that seems to allow full peace to practice (except for maybe Deerborne, Michigan (USA))
Tidbit of wisdom, Salaam.
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You really think your *safety* would be threatened in most of the US if you prayed in public?
ReplyDeleteYes I do. You'd be surprised by how some people act. Maybe not in large cities who are use to muslims but back where I am from there would be trouble. Although the scarf would cause more trouble, people probably wouldn't even know i was praying where I'm from. They'd just think I was weird and stare at me.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I'm sorry to hear that. I guess I think it's different to be stared at because you look different from the norm or are doing something "weird" than to be threatened. But you made it like most places even progressive ones would be like that. I really hope that is not the case. :-/
ReplyDeleteI live in a conservative area of the country and while we do have some racists for sure, most people I know would never threaten someone's safety .. especially if that person were merely being modest and/or praying! Such needed things in these days!!
I think you are thinking of the 2% who would do something stupid instead of the 98% who would never think to threaten anyone for something like praying.
Just my opinion. :)
Maybe. There are no muslims where I am from. The only exposure people have in my home town is the TV (not good). They still beat up homosexuals regularly where I come from and get nervous if an african American moves into their neighborhood. They are behind the times.
ReplyDeleteWhere I am now its not much of a problem because seeing a muslim is common. You get stares but thats about it. I would not be comfortable praying in public because I think it's a private thing but where I live now no one would even notice you praying. We have weirder things here than that lol!
Heh. I'm not sure what people around here would do. We have Muslims...somewhere...but they seem to blend in. No hijab, for sure. And there're still racial tensions. Some of my old neighbors still flew the Confederate Flag. High and proud. :) I've since moved to the next town over, and the neighborhood is much more racially/sexually/ethnically diverse.
ReplyDeleteits amazing how moving one town over changes so much. My school was an hour from my home town and my college town was WAY worse about tollerance than my home town. We even got threats from people for doing "the Laramie Project" lol. The preachers were gonna get us! AH! lol
ReplyDeleteI wonder about how it would be to pray in public here. I've surely never seen it... Like for example at the mall, in a corner... People would get really uncomfortable and the person would likely get a remark from someone at least... There aren't enough mosques to be able to go to one for each prayer if you're out for the day, so I would not put myself in a situation where I'm praying on the floor somewhere in public. I wouldn't want to go through that. I'd probably try to go in the car and pray sitting or something if I was really needing to. I think time given to God is good enough, even if it's not in the fully correct positions. It's still correct to me if it's needed.
ReplyDeleteI agree Candice. Plus how can you pray if you are worried about people watching you or its really loud like at the mall? I couldn't. And I know you are not suppose to pray unless or until you are in the right state of mind to do so.
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