I attended a lecture today by Brother Idris Tawfiq, which has never failed to enlighten me and give me a sense of faith. Unlike other lectures that I have attended, I enjoy greatly his approach to religion (very peaceful!) and admire his ideology of respecting people of other faiths.
He quoted a very good example about Muslims wishing our dear Christian friends “Merry Christmas”. I remember clearly last year around Christmas time there was a big hoo-hah in facebook with my more “staunch” Muslim friends warning (and i’m not kidding when I say warn because some of them were like “You better not wish” 
) us not to wish our friends Merry Christmas because it means that we admit that Jesus was the son of God, which, in Islam, he isn’t. I, on the other hand, continued to wish my friends Merry Christmas, because I was taught that our intentions determine our reason for doing something, and in this case, my Christian friends were truly celebrating something which they believe to be true, and my way of showing respect to them would be to wish them if I were wished. I see no harm in that. And brother Idris reinstated by belief. He said that there is no harm in wishing that upon someone because in doing so we are respecting them and at the same time, we are in no way shrinking our belief in the Lord Almighty. After saying those words, does your belief in God and Jesus change? If not, why the conflict? Why are we battling each other on such small trivial stuff, when there are greater battles to be fought?
Just something to be thinking about 
On a different note, it’s officially Saturday and I am going to have me some fun:)
Happy Weekends!!
xxx
