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da_killer786
06-20-2007, 02:03 PM
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To our Parents/Elders

We hope you are well and we hope you are in the best of faith and health. It has been along time since we talked and due to some extremely unfair comments that are being circulated about us, we thought it would be best that we try to give our take on things.

That world is being told that we have become slaves to a culture centred around music, lust and desire. This is true for many of us but it should not be surprising to you really, since you were the ones who introduced us to music in the first place; playing it in our ears while we were in your womb, playing it while we slept in our cots and playing it while we played with our toys. As we grew older we began to understand the messages of these songs, we endeavoured to follow the themes that we encountered; hence money pride power lust and desire became the five pillars of our faith. The same can be said about most of the ailments today. You either introduced us directly by taking us to or allowing us to go to places and functions where these things were going on or our daily baby sitter and the television, showed them to us unknown to you in our own homes.

When we first started going to the evening classes we would just repeat that which was being taught without paying much attention to what was being said. We would go there, spend two hours and then come home to our games and toys. But as we grew older and we began to understand, we could not reconcile the two. We were told that swearing was not allowed but you two would swear at each other all day, we were told that true success lies in the Hereafter but you indoctrinated us with the belief that the riches of this world were everything.

So we went on in this confused state unable to talk to anyone because you would either be out to work or too tired to speak to us when you came home. Our days were spent in the parks and streets playing games coming home only at meal times to packs of pre-prepared food from the takeaways or restaurants.

As we reached our teens we began to form ‘crews’ i.e. circles of friends who became our make shift families. You never use to know our crews even though we would be with them all day every day. We began to experiment with different methods to try to alleviate the disillusionment that we had grown up with. Drugs, drink, lust, music and fashion became our gods. Unknown to you we began to form illicit relationships with the opposite sex, talking to them on mobile phones, texting them late at night emailing them from our bedroom computers. We would sell our chastity to the highest bidder, to the one we thought would give us the most enjoyment, the most fame the most honour. When the money that you use to give us to buy the clothes, the jewellery and the accessories that we wanted was not enough, we turned to stealing, selling drugs, robbing cars – anything that would help fund our lifestyle. We would frequent the nightclubs and bars returning home via the backdoor in the early hours of the morning. We never knew that Haraam money would only incline one towards sin as we had grown up in a household sustained upon Haraam income. And so it went on, day-by-day, night-by-night.

Then the phone calls, the letters and the visits started. Calls from school, letters from college, visits from the police, the abortion clinic, the probation service. ‘Look at the way she dresses, look at the way he walks, they deserve whatever comes in their way’ were the comments people would whisper behind our backs. You would wring your hands and bow your head in shame and shout and scream in our faces. ‘You have brought dishonour to us, is this what we brought you up to be?’ we would just shrug our shoulders – knowing full well that you were not truly worried about us but what others thought and said about you – and slam the door as we left the house. We would retreat to the parks, our cars, the city centre, anywhere were we could waste the hours, piling ourselves with drinks an drugs to try to etch the pain out of our minds. Some of us restored to self-harm.

Sometimes we would visit those buildings where we used to study as youngsters; frequent late night gatherings held for us by the scholars and we would spend time with workers of the faith that we were supposed to practice. Our hearts use to gain hope from these gatherings, we use to leave with the intention to change. But when we came home you used to mock, ‘since when have you become a Moulana, since when have you become an Alimah, you who was born yesterday are telling us how to lead our lives?’ the strong ones amongst us remained firm and rectified themselves, becoming role models and friends for the rest, but many of us fell by the wayside.

We write to you today from the prison cells of our country, from the street corners of our cities, and from the parks and estates of our land. We write on behalf of our dear friends who are in their graves, those who died and are dying an early death due to their habits. We confess our faults and apologise for our shortcomings and plead forgiveness from those of you who sincerely tried and are still trying to help us. We know that many of us are rebels without a cause who have no excuse, but we want to change.

We request you to ponder over how much effort you have made or are making to relieve our plight and consider how much worry you have for us and try to understand what part you may have played in what we have become. We ask you – our parents, our elders and our communities – is Islam only about a few rituals or is it a complete code of life and are children your own property or are they a trust from Allah?

We await your answers and request your Duas.

From the youth of Islam.
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