Muslims Have You Internalized

If Islam was true, how could a Muslim convert enjoy heaven knowing his mother, father, etc. were in hell because they didn't convert?

Firstly, are you sure your mother and father are in Hell? Because it is not a difficult thing to get into Heaven. All you have to do is sincerely search for the truth. If they did not have access to Islam, all they had to do was find the closest religion to the truth they could find. All they had to do was realize the contradictions in their own religion and reject them.Or were they too lazy to do that? If you are sure they will go to Hell because they did not have even an atom’s weight of faith in their hearts, then the only reason you feel sad about them in this world is because you have not fully realized their character.You can’t overlook the fact that they are your parents and are thus biased, but in the Hereafter God will make you completely realize what they have done and you will be able to look at everything from an unbiased point of view. This is the same reason we don’t allow relatives to judge each other in court.And in heaven, you will have far better company, and you will know it is better company and you will have internalized that even if perhaps you weren’t able to internalize it in this world.

My Muslim boyfriend can't get over my past sexual experiences. What should I do?

You are the sum total of your experiences. Whoever and whatever you are today, you are because of what you’ve seen and done over the course of your life leading to this day. Hopefully there’s nothing controversial about that.Where we may find controversy, however, is here: If your boyfriend does not accept your past, then at some level he does not accept you. You and your past are a package deal. You are not a cafeteria plan. If he wants to be with you, he must accept the fact that you existed and interacted with your environment in the several years before the two of you met.If he rejects what you’ve done, then he rejects who you are. It’s as simple as that.He may not realize that’s what he’s doing. If you like, you can sit him down for a little conversation in which you outline for him pretty much what I’ve just written: if he imagines a future in which both of you are walking hand in hand through the vicissitudes of life, then he needs to stop imagining that he or you can do anything about your past, or his. If he cannot do that, you’re going to have to rethink the idea of continuing to have anything to do with him.As long as he’s constantly looking at the past, he’s effectively walking blindly into the future. That’s a good way to walk into traffic or off a cliff.

Why is secularism in India still not internalized among the people, government and courts?

Several reasons:What in the name of “GOD” is this foreign and Western idea called ‘secularism’ is something that neither Hindus, nor the Muslims, nor the Christians and nor the Parsis can or do fully comprehend. (I do not, myself.)When it is explained to them, it makes little to no sense. It’s too novel, too alien, without any rots in India (or the Middle East).. and also feels like interfering with Indians’ age old held beliefs.Co-existence makes better and complete sense to Indians, and they have been co-existing (peacefully or otherwise) for several centuries now. Now why all of a sudden they need to embrace ‘secularism’ to coexist is something that baffles them. Just because the West feels they should ? Oh come on !It’s being dictated. It’s being imposed. Are you kidding ? Can anything be dictated to, preached to or imposed upon Indians ? They would like to do some preaching for the people of the world, you know.Will it make a difference ? Will it change people’s mindset and way of thinking and feeling ? If people’s mindsets were to change, they would neither need secularism, communalism …capitalism, communism ..realism or idealism.Even ‘democracy’ has not been fully internalized by Indians (in my opinion) even though they have been practicing it for nearly a century now. There are still elements of feudalism in our democracy. terms like “war cry”, “battlefield” “fight” “boxing ring” “floored” “victory flags”..etc…etc… are frequently used in the media and by the people to describe our elections.People view secularism just as a feature of the law and constitution. Who internalizes their constitution and laws ?So secularism hangs there like pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekanand etc. Something to respect. Something to take a little guidance from.But who is REALLY going to become Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekanand ..or …SECULAR ?No one.

Are Muslim women who say they choose to wear a hijab to protect their modesty an example of internalized oppression?

According to my studies, not only it is not an example for internalized oppression but also it is justness and benefit for that.If some people call “wearing hijab” as an internalized oppression, it is just their idle-imaginations who think so. How can we call wearing hijab as an example of internalized oppression if such covering is very constructive for the woman who wears it? Among its benefits:Protecting the dignity of woman (and family values/privacy)Mental/spiritual tranquilityApproaching GodEtc.Meanwhile, internalized oppression occurs about the persons who hate themselves, and actually it is called “self-hate” too, but the Muslim woman who wears hijab to protect her modesty, doesn’t hate herself that puts it on, and actually she wears a hijab by being aware that it is to her advantage (as an order of Islam) to be so.Besides,From an intellectual perspective, full, integral modesty is not possible without hijab because, in principle, virtues such as modesty and chastity have external concomitants that have to observed, abandoning which leads to moral ills that are contrary to that virtue.Further information:Hijab, The Dress of Modesty in IslamIs modesty without hijab possible?