Quote: (03-22-2016 12:07 PM)mikado Wrote:
I already practice a very liberal form of religion. I drink (not now, because of them lift gains), I fuck outside marriage, I don't eat halal, I don't pray that regularly and I would hardly be called a muslim by my own mom if she knew what I was doing.
However I still keep the spirituality side and I believe in the Quran (at least spiritually). Nor do I ask for apologies from people for not believing in Islam, nor do things like request Halal
I think it's quite reasonably expectations of a muslim neighbour.
What you're describing is what's becoming normal (at least in America), American Muslim teenagers after high school and getting away from their parents.
They don't pray or follow the book. They drink, smoke, fuck, and like to party.
As they get older, they do drift back spiritually to Islam.
My change was more dramatic, when I was a young teen I guess I was lazy and stopped going to my mom's good friends house where we learned to read the quran.
I literally had no fucking clue what I was reading, but knew how to pronounce the arabic letters, but no clue what they meant.
At that moment I realized this was fucking pointless, and so was practicing this religion.
Not to mention teen angst and rebellion. I went full atheist, and said fuck god/mohammed/islam/jesus/christianity/etc.
I became that black sheep I described, eventually my family realized they aren't changing me.
I'm still not religious but I have a more open mind about spirituality, I don't pray or really think their is a god, more like....I just don't care about religion anymore, I got more important things to do.