How To Withstand The Shifting Moralities
Nouman Ali Khan
Muslim Central
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. |
| 0:05.0 | We live in a time where morality, what is right and wrong, what is acceptable or not acceptable, what is politically correct or incorrect, changes every |
| 0:16.7 | year. |
| 0:18.4 | Forget changing every century, it changes every year. |
| 0:22.4 | And things that were completely unacceptable in American society |
| 0:26.9 | 30 years ago, 40 years ago, not only are they accepted now, they are celebrated now. The standards change. I just met a |
| 0:36.2 | number of college students in my walk across the bazaar trying to survive the |
| 0:41.2 | selfie situation who told me that when they're at college |
| 0:46.1 | among other Muslim students, the Muslim students are the ones that are asking |
| 0:50.6 | what's so wrong about homosexuality or what's so bad about drinking alcohol |
| 0:54.8 | and marijuana is not that haram is it or whatever. |
| 0:58.7 | These are not questions that were being asked 10 years ago or 15 years ago but they certainly are questions being asked 10 years ago or 15 years ago, but they certainly are questions being asked today. |
| 1:06.0 | And that is something that a lot of young people here experience in their college life, even |
| 1:10.4 | in their high school life. |
| 1:11.7 | And some of the young people sitting in the audience even have those questions themselves. |
| 1:16.0 | And of course we are put in a situation where we have to answer these questions in a way that will be acceptable to the world outside of the Muslim |
| 1:25.2 | community. |
| 1:26.6 | Because we want to be able to say that we are also civilized, we are up to date with the times, |
| 1:32.3 | we also have you know progressive values etc etc etc |
| 1:37.4 | etc. The point of it is when society goes this way we want to bend along |
| 1:42.2 | with society. We want to turn too. When they sway we want to sway. |
| 1:47.0 | When the tide turns and the winds blow the other way we want to blow the other way too. |
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