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Friday, August 18, 2006

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Adib, I enjoyed reading this post. Good topic.

Emily,
We discussed this subject matter before during our Bookcrossing meeting.I know what you meant.Thanks for taking time to write a note at my blog.
My regards to you and your family members.

Spot on observation. The family is the smallest unit of a society, but the most important as it is the inner circle of the bigger community picture.

Will definitely keep this thought in mind as I have got more responsibilities now.

Yes, cannot agree more. Good family upbringing must be inculcated since young. Iman, Ilmu, Akhlaq yg baik membimbing ke arah insan yang mulia.

This may be slightly off-track;
Real incident on ahlak.
I was once questioned by an Arab (non-muslim) man on why the muslim men can do the “naughty’ things before marriage but the women cannot. I had to explain to him that acts that are sinful will always remain sinful to whomever who did it regardless of gender. He said “no” his Arab friends told him that it is ok for men but not women. Again, I said NO & what was told to him by his men friends was WRONG.
Then he asked me why is it still being done? By this time some how I sensed that this guy was trying to be either “funny “or trying to demean Islam (showing that there’s double standard).
I told him, “If you asked me why your men friends still do it, then, I can only think that there must be something really very wrong with their ahlak”
The word “ahlak” came out spontaneously, and since he’s Arab, I thought I need not correct/change it to “morals”.
To my surprise, he looked stunt when he heard my answer and then abruptly ended the conversation. We then had a silent journey back to the office; no more conversation. I guess the word really meant something to him or it could have hit him hard…..

PS:
To all Arab & muslim men out there I know not all of you are like the ones related in the above incident. It’s not the race or the gender. It is the person him/ her self.


The Meaning and Origin of Akhlaq:
The word akhlaq is the plural for the word khulq which means disposition. "Disposition" is that faculty (malakah) of the soul which is the source of all those activities that man performs spontaneously without thinking about them. Malakah is a property of the soul which comes into existence through exercise and repetitive practice and is not easily destroyed.

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