What is normal?

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I dont know! I wish I did! Nothing seems to be normal in my life! :hmm:
 
It is an open ended question for folks to define the baseline of normalcy without fixed limits or restrictions ...
 
If I knew what normal was, only then I would be able to understand abnormality!
We all have flaws, are we still normal?
 
I don't know what's the baseline?
Is it reaching certain milestones by a particular period of time? and if so what should those milestones be?
Is abnormal the exception to the rule or has it become the norm? How do we get things back to the norm if the exception has become the standard?
 
Hold on, BlueBell! If you're going to tickle my brain with philosophical questions this early in the day, let me get another cup of coffee...

I'll be back:sl:
 
asiya45 said:
But then we always have something to do! :heated:
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:haha: yes so true sis... I think we're in the period of' thoumma' and it is difficult because it is a winding road and seems limitless.. and to me seems very not normal to see every household with an affliction and no interjection of good in any form just to balance things or to give one the strength to bare with it...

Volume 9, Book 88, Number 182:
Narrated Usama bin Zaid:
Once the Prophet stood over one of the high buildings of Medina and then said (to the people), "Do you see what I see?" They said, "No." He said, "I see afflictions falling among your houses as rain drops fall."
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لميس;1510813 said:

:haha: yes so true sis... I think we're in the period of' thoumma' and it is difficult because it is a winding road and seems limitless.. and to me seems very not normal to see every household with an affliction and no interjection of good in any form just to balance things or to give one the strength to bare with it...

Volume 9, Book 88, Number 182:
Narrated Usama bin Zaid:
Once the Prophet stood over one of the high buildings of Medina and then said (to the people), "Do you see what I see?" They said, "No." He said, "I see afflictions falling among your houses as rain drops fall."
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Sister what is "Thoumma?"

Things in my life seem so abnormal.....
My husband and I visit India often... life in India is so different than the life in Canada but at the same time my life before marriage was so much different than my life now.
I had never visited a country out side of North America to even feel that abnormality untill 4 years ago. When I was in elementary I knew that I wasn't normal because I was a muslim and was forbidden to do things other kids did... Later on in my life I understood why my parents stopped me. I just dont bother trying to fit somewhere now that I have understood Islam.
And accepted myself as abnormal!!

It all just seems like a mind game!! :heated:
 
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My siblings call me abnormal :hmm: I dunno the definition of normal but if you ask me whats abnormal,then,thats me :skeleton:
 
asiya45 said:
Sister what is "Thoumma?"
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It means 'then'
“Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: ‘Prophethood will last among you for as long as Allah wills, then Allah will take it away. Then it will be (followed by) a Khilafah Rashida (rightly guided) on the pattern of the Prophethood. It will remain for as long as Allah wills, then Allah will take it away. Afterwards there will be a hereditary leadership which will remain for as long as Allah wills, then He will lift it if He wishes. Afterwards, there will be biting oppression, and it will last for as long as Allah wishes, then He will lift it if He wishes. Then there will be a Khilafah Rashida according to the ways of the Prophethood.’ Then he kept silent.” [Musnad Imam Ahmad]

So we're in that period now and I don't know how long it will last.. but surely every Muslim household is afflicted with something so sharp and decisive that it would split one that way or the other so that as the hadith states:

Abu Hurairah said, The Prophet said, Woe to the Arabs from the great evil which is nearly approaching them: it will be like patches of dark night. A man will wake up as a believer, and be a kafir (unbeliever) by nightfall. People will sell their religion for a small amount of worldly goods. The one who clings to his religion on that day will be as one who is grasping an ember - or thorns. (Ahmad.) .. I am talking of the caliber of Tariq Mehanna being imprisoned for thinking thoughts America dislikes.. that sort of gravity of abnormal .. unless that's normal.. I don't know
 
^Thank you, Sister BlueBell!!

A person can be ABNORMAL in many ways....but when a person becomes NORMAL...they become the target!!

So are we to be NORMAL or PRETEND to be ABNORMAL in a so call ABNORMAL society?
 
I don't know that we can pretend really.. we're simply passive recipients of what comes.. it is fate and it is unfortunately not a good time for Muslims:

Volume 9, Book 88, Number 188:
Narrated Az-Zubair bin 'Adi:
We went to Anas bin Malik and complained about the wrong we were suffering at the hand of Al-Hajjaj. Anas bin Malik said, "Be patient till you meet your Lord, for no time will come upon you but the time following it will be worse than it. I heard that from the Prophet."

I am not feeling optimistic unfortunately since every generation is going to experience a worse time than that which preceded..
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