Society and Home
Just a quick note before I write my little short story to illustrate another moral lesson. On one end of a spectrum, some Muslims, especially elders, say you can’t have an Islamic society with out a properly Islamic household. Others don’t mention the home as much as they do mention the society itself.
Actually, I don’t really respect either opinion for this reason; you niggas been arguing about it too doggone long! More than a generation at this point! “Brother, your kids are having kids themselves, how you gonna talk about an Islamic society? Your house is in bad shape!” “Oh yeah?! Brother, the society being built on kufr is a bigger problem than a forgiveable sin like zina in my house!”
Actually, both are needed and that’s all there is to it. It’s as obvious as sunrise after fajr prayer. Individuals compose societies and societies affect the composing individuals. It’s a cycle. Problems in the society come home with the individuals and the problems at home go out into the society with those same individuals. So both are necessary to reform as best we can do. I don’t see why we Muslims, especially African Americans, feel a need to debate about this. Wait, actually I do see why now that I think about it. Because after we took our shahadas we still kept being niggas and ex-slaves. And the immigrant Muslim communities are just niggas with other nationalities, that’s all. So, we still have nigga problems in the masajid because of it.
Do whatever you can to work on both or whichever is easiest for you, but stop debating about it! If you neglect one, it will ruin and setback the work done to improve the other.
Al X