format_quote Originally Posted by
Nashita
I am an eighteen year old from India and I find it difficult sometimes to live a life where one is restricted in many ways.
Young people usually get deviated! It's not that easy to become a good Muslim. The young generation today is exposed to much more than what the previous generation was. There are so many distractions and this and that.
Modern life is what we call a care-free life and that's what most are heading towards , no one actually cares or bothers.
I see people of my age doing what not and then blaming it's because of the age .
Asalamu Alaikum
I'm 16, don't worry, there are loads of people like us, especially when you go to countries that are Muslim majority.
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format_quote Originally Posted by
AllahIsAl-Malik
how are things different? i dont really know much about India so I don't know the difference between its present and previous days
Asalamu Alaikum
I'm not Hindustani, but since I come from the same region (South Asia) I'll add my 2 cents.
Basically, there are several problems. The obvious ones are the same problems infecting everyone else, i.e the rise of liberalism, people mixing culture with Islam, and a lot of Sufi-type bidah.
There are some additional problems though that I find mostly limited to Hindustan, most notably, this Uncle Tom attitude a lot of Hindustanis who were born Muslim have. A lot of them feel the need to talk smack about their Muslim neighbours in Pakistan and be hyper-nationalistic about being Hindustani, whilst apologising for how Muslims dominated Hindustan for a thousand years and acting like those people have nothing to do with them (even though they are descended from them). The funniest part is, Hindustan still doesn't accept them (they get lynched, their Masjid's are taken down, Hindustani places are getting their Muslim names replaced with Hindu ones, Hindustanis cry whenever Muslims give their kids Islamic sounding names, Hindustanis consider them foreign to the land, etc).
It's all because Muslims are no longer the main power in the region. Once the Mughal era ended, you had a few Muslim dynasties spread across the region but none of them had a monopoly over it like they used to. As a result of this power vacuum, the British came in and conquered most of South Asia as well as Burma, this formed what was known as British India. Afterwards, British India was split into the modern nations of Hindu majority Hindustan and Muslim majority Pakistan (the latter then split into Pakistan and Bangladesh). Since Hindustan is a democracy, it means the Muslim minority is de-facto subservient to the Hindu majority. What makes it even sadder is Hindustani Muslims did kinda shoot themselves in the foot since most of them were actively against Pakistan forming for some pretty delusional reasons, e.g some of them thought they could somehow take over the place again if Muslims remained unified.