salam
is it too late to enrol?
I like the poster.
Wassalaam
JazakAllahu Khair for your interest. There are still places left for enrolment. If you go to the website there you will find all the info regarding this course.
Hope this helps.
Ma'sslaamah
The thing is that real heart does not look like anything from that poster ...
It seems to be the Western conception that heart is depicted as such in popular media and folklore. At least Muslims should not accept that. And I would expect a religious gathering to not subscribe to Western ideals.
Just my criticism of the poster.
May Allah bless the gathering.
JazakAllah !
Does that really matter?
Ameen to your du'a
To me, yes it does. It shows me that the organizers (perhaps the Poster designer?) are influenced by Western conceptions and ideals.
And this matters because..?
The poster also seems to be in English, which is a "Western" language... obviously they cannot be trusted.
If you read again what I wrote you will see that I talked about Western ideals and conceptions. Is English language in any way humanly imaginable related to "conceptions" and ideals? Language is a language, based on sounds, words, meanings, grammar. It has nothing to do with beliefs, ideals or conceptions. Words in English language might be created based on Western ideals but words themselves are NOT ideals. They represent ideals as majority of people have come to accept the meaning of each and exact word.
And I've already explained why it matters. Western beliefs and ideals are devoid of Islamic thought. So are "Eastern" ideals and beliefs. Islam no where tells me that the heart looks like that or should be shaped like that.
Its just that majority of people have to come to accept that symbol representing heart. I am just questioning that why a Muslim gathering should be using that .... specially when this symbol is heavily representative of the disgusting Valentines day. This symbol is also used on some medical tools that I've seen ... but medicine is not Islam. Medicine is a human endeavor but Islam is not.
Quran is in the language of Arab kaafirs. But does Quran use images of the Arab kaafirs in its pages? Especially those images which do not even represent the truth? I'd take a pen image to represent pen because pens do look like the images we are so used to see. But does this heart symbol look like a real heart?
And to end it off, I have no personal liking for the English language. I am using it here on these forums or in real life because I am forced to. The Muslim world I was born into deemed it necessary for them to teach the language to us as they just had begged out of slavery of the Western colonialism, more specifically the British/English imperialism. My university teaches in English. Businesses use English language. If I'd have it my way, I'd use a more sophisticated language and I actually do when I talk to friends and parents. Anyways.
I guess I just wanted to start an argument tonight no matter how trivial.
wsalam
The thing is that real heart does not look like anything from that poster ...
It seems to be the Western conception that heart is depicted as such in popular media and folklore. At least Muslims should not accept that. And I would expect a religious gathering to not subscribe to Western ideals.
Just my criticism of the poster.
May Allah bless the gathering.
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