Mathieu
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I live in Canada, in a society where 40% of the youth around my age (16-18) smoke cannabis and where 80% drink alcohol.
I've been educated in the way of taking and drinking alcohol properly (My Scottish ancestry) and never though that drinking alcohol would be bad or anything.
I took cannabis with my friends to be 'cool' to get a 'buzz' for around a year and I decided by myself to stop it. It's not good for you and it's useless I don't need drug to have fun. Unfortunately, my friend are still smoking a lot.
Alcohol, oh alcohol such an hypocrite beverage. In my society everybody drinks and drinking is the way to go if you wanna be somebody. But reading about Islam I said to myself, I don't think that alcohol is really necessary and said I think that I'll stop.
Well yesterday I had friends over and we were drinking, I said I don't feel like drinking tonight. They all looked confused and said to me.. You ? You Mat you're not gonna drink, haha what the hell are you becoming Musulman ? I didn't say anything but in my heart I didn't like the indirect insult thrown at Islam. So like I sheep I started to drink but I didn't drink a lot.
The conversation went from girls to religion. I love to talk about religion since I'm really versed into it. We were four, 2 atheist, 1 Christian and myself the undecided. The Christian said to me you remember the conversation you had with my dad a month ago (His dad was a Pastor) my dad said that you were thinking like a Muslim. I said to him, that's lovely, since it's exactly how I think. The Christian and I were educating the other two about religions him about Christianity me about Islam.
One of my friend began to get really interested in Islam and he said, I feel that the Muslim they're like in a cage I see them and they always have to pray five times a day, it looks boring and it's like as if they were prisoners of there faith.
I simply said to him, for the Muslim, Allah is the most important thing in their life. So if for me, the most important thing in my life is my girl friend I wouldn't mind to pray five times a day to her since I love her I would even pray more then five times a day to her.
He simply felt silent.
He kept shooting some question about Islam to me and finally said, anyways I don't believe in God I want to live my life day after day. He said I don't like the fact that Muslim don't have the right to drink alcohol. I said, I like it.
They went in the car to sleep, I went in my home, open my internet and come on this website and I go to my introduction thread and I read all the great things that everybody wrote in it and I go sleep at peace thinking about how Islam is the truth.
30 minutes after, the Christian calls me and says to me that my friend is sick and he don't want him to vomit in his car. I said, alright bring him at my door, he's gonna sleep in my bed and I'll watch him during the night, I don't want him to be intoxicated. I watch him he vomits a lot, and its painful after around an hour he stops and before going to bed I say to him, now you know why Muslim don't drink alcohol and I go away to sleep.
I think that this sentence would stay in his head for a while.
Salam,
Mathieu
I've been educated in the way of taking and drinking alcohol properly (My Scottish ancestry) and never though that drinking alcohol would be bad or anything.
I took cannabis with my friends to be 'cool' to get a 'buzz' for around a year and I decided by myself to stop it. It's not good for you and it's useless I don't need drug to have fun. Unfortunately, my friend are still smoking a lot.
Alcohol, oh alcohol such an hypocrite beverage. In my society everybody drinks and drinking is the way to go if you wanna be somebody. But reading about Islam I said to myself, I don't think that alcohol is really necessary and said I think that I'll stop.
Well yesterday I had friends over and we were drinking, I said I don't feel like drinking tonight. They all looked confused and said to me.. You ? You Mat you're not gonna drink, haha what the hell are you becoming Musulman ? I didn't say anything but in my heart I didn't like the indirect insult thrown at Islam. So like I sheep I started to drink but I didn't drink a lot.
The conversation went from girls to religion. I love to talk about religion since I'm really versed into it. We were four, 2 atheist, 1 Christian and myself the undecided. The Christian said to me you remember the conversation you had with my dad a month ago (His dad was a Pastor) my dad said that you were thinking like a Muslim. I said to him, that's lovely, since it's exactly how I think. The Christian and I were educating the other two about religions him about Christianity me about Islam.
One of my friend began to get really interested in Islam and he said, I feel that the Muslim they're like in a cage I see them and they always have to pray five times a day, it looks boring and it's like as if they were prisoners of there faith.
I simply said to him, for the Muslim, Allah is the most important thing in their life. So if for me, the most important thing in my life is my girl friend I wouldn't mind to pray five times a day to her since I love her I would even pray more then five times a day to her.
He simply felt silent.
He kept shooting some question about Islam to me and finally said, anyways I don't believe in God I want to live my life day after day. He said I don't like the fact that Muslim don't have the right to drink alcohol. I said, I like it.
They went in the car to sleep, I went in my home, open my internet and come on this website and I go to my introduction thread and I read all the great things that everybody wrote in it and I go sleep at peace thinking about how Islam is the truth.
30 minutes after, the Christian calls me and says to me that my friend is sick and he don't want him to vomit in his car. I said, alright bring him at my door, he's gonna sleep in my bed and I'll watch him during the night, I don't want him to be intoxicated. I watch him he vomits a lot, and its painful after around an hour he stops and before going to bed I say to him, now you know why Muslim don't drink alcohol and I go away to sleep.
I think that this sentence would stay in his head for a while.
Salam,
Mathieu
