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[quote]>>We have to be comfortable in what we do...... Could you please elaborate on the quote above, especially in light of what 'thinking' said.

Religious injunctions if followed out of moral pressure,  whether internal or external, leads to repression, suffocation and maladies associated with it. It may lead one to abandon one's faith.

One must follow what is right, to the best of one's abilities. Not to the best of someone else's abilities. Each stands on a different plane.

If your morals and intution guide you toward Hijab and avoidance of movies, then by all means go for it. I would respect that.

But please dont expect others would agree with you or for that matter follow you. That is your own truth, your own idea of what constitutes piety and morality.

Illustration: You stop yourself from eating a chocolate cake. You repress yourself.

Whether not eating that cake is right or wrong is a personal issue. Each will have different values attached to eating that cake.

Now suppose you follow abstinence, what happens? You end up eating much more cake to make up for all the abstinence.

So the basic idea is to be one with what you do.

One first decides whether to follow an injunction or not. Some believe watching movies is harmless fun (because they do not sexualize every situation), other believe watching them is harmful (perhaps they do feel the sexual energy). So the latter decide not to watch them, whereas the former watch them.

If the latter force the former to stop watching them, that would be out of the usual course for the former, hence they might end up venting their energies elsewhere, and you dont want to know where :)

The former can abandon movies if they are truly convinced it is morally wrong. Then there would be no problems.

That is what I mean by being comfortable

PS: Please also try to link the above with the following as posted earlier.

Some people dont want to listen to Koranic recitation 24/7! Why make it cumbersome, why turn them away from religion with all this incessant thing about always listen to Koran rather than anything else.

>>we can always pray for guidance, seek knowledge from all sides, and follow our heart's deepest intuitions as to which knowledge to trust.

But you do concede that there can be a difference of opinion and that intuition leads different people to different paths. Right?

Who is to say you have the absolute version of truth or for that matter I. We are all sinners. We have different trials and different capacities. Let us appreciate and respect that difference.

After all, was it not the Prophet who said 'The differences among the people of my Ummah are a sign of God's Grace'. Now I am not sure of the source or veracity, but this is what I read in some book ages ago.

Edited by: junaidj on Sunday, November 14, 2004 7:23 AM[/quote]

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