Post by Bayyinah | Nouman Ali Khan

We live in an age of irreverence where nothing is considered sacred anymore. Entertainment has made people irreverent toward everything: founding fathers, religious figures, God himself. Comedy shows mock Jesus and other spiritual leaders. The underlying message embedded into children from their earliest years is consistent, constant and clear: nothing deserves high respect; everything is fair game for mockery and can be reduced and ridiculed. The world sends this message over and over, but this is actually against the fitrah, the natural inclination that Allah placed within us. Allah says He gave the children of Adam karama, which means dignity and the capacity for reverence. Haya, which is shame and modesty, isn't something you have to teach children; it's placed inside them. They learn to recognize it and express it, but the capacity itself is there. Reverence is exactly the same, it's inside us by nature, placed there by Allah. It's being killed from outside by the world around us, one mockery at a time. Which means that when you try to teach Islamic reverence for the Prophet ﷺ to young Muslims today, you're not facing ignorance, you're facing something harder; the very ability to revere something has been corrupted in them. The fitrah has been wounded by the age they live in. The capacity for reverence is still there, but it's been buried under layers of irreverence taught as sophistication. Restoring that capacity is part of restoring a Muslim's connection to their own nature. This reflection is from the latest installment in the Deeper Look series on Surah Al-Hujurat with Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan on Bayyinah TV. Follow along at https://byna.tv/343