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I'm going to ask you a very deep question, and the answer is not going to be that easy.

In the time in the frame that we live in, where religion itself is under attack, where people of faith are considered to be backward,

where it's actually cool to be anti-religious.

What makes you a Muslim?

Why are you a Muslim?

What value is added in your life by the religion of Islam?

All too often, the way that some of us have been raised,

Islam translates as the rules of prohibitions, a set of restrictions.

All too often, especially when we're young teenagers,

has been there, done that guy, as I was also a teenager once upon a time.

It's as if

Islam is all about 80% of the food being haram for you all your friends are having

fun and you can't go about no dating this not allowed that not allowed and after

a while you're like well what's the point of being a Muslim and of course a time

will come in your own lives perhaps you face that already where you'll have the freedom to make that choice when you're 15 you can't have that choice because you're living with your parents when you're 25 when you're 35 when you're 50 nobody's gonna have you have to answer to yourself and you have to ask this question in your own life what religion brings to the table is nobility and dignity in life what

religion brings nothing else can bring what religion brings is you understand the most

difficult and the most important questions of life and it gives you solid answers to those questions.

Those questions that maybe when you're 15 they're not at the priority of your mind, but throughout

the rest of your life when you're 20, when you're 30, when you're 40, these questions are

the most fundamental questions of existence. Who am I? What am I doing here? What's the purpose of life? What is the very vision that I should have? What's going to happen when I'm no longer here? And maybe when you're 20, you're not thinking about that, but I assure you when you're 30, 40, 50. I assure you when tragedies happen. I assure you when loved ones start dying.

You yourself are going to start thinking, what is the purpose of life? What am I doing here?

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