Saturday, October 25, 2008

Burnout

Time and Again, I`ve been reading a series of articles posted a year ago by an american convert brother umar lee that has been talked very much in the western muslim blogosphere with regards to the much evident ghulaat that has transpired with certain salafee organisations in the US that has brought about the social breakdown in their communities,excocommunication and boycotting between individuals which eventually brought up the decline in the Dawah in the country.

Umar has managed to open up a can of worms with his series and looking at the comments , more cans would be opened up. Nonetheless, he wrote out of his own personal experiences and its highly debatable that these things actually happen. What happens one might ask? Well its about salafees having a burnout due to the sad events umar had stated and whts worse, some of them leaving the religion all together or becoming sufis!

I can`t see this happening in Singapore at the moment as the dawah is relatively new whilst most of us are not converts and do not understand wht it feels like to lose an entire support system just because you are 'off' the list.

Umar`s Series(He deleted some from his blog, but i found a brother(apparently a burnout) who posted all of it in his wordpress)

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten(The one that has about 400 plus comments and counting)

Umar`s Clarification Of Some of the Comments in Part Ten and Some More Topics

If u guys want to comment,commentlah. Personally, for me, the question still remains in my heart, can history be repeated itself ? Could utopia be successfully implemented in a world that is so complex? I`m still sad at the state of affairs nowadays.




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