Questions tagged [taqlid]
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To what extent are reverts required to avoid behaving like non-Muslims?
I'm a revert and, due to my upbringing, I often behave in ways that I see described as imitating the kafir. I'm struggling to balance by Muslim identity with being respectful to how my parents raised me.
There's a lot of minor everyday things which…
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How is the notion of a "revert" compatible with not imitating non-Muslims?
Often we say a person reverts to Islam, since
...we all have a fitrah (innate nature) to the values of Islam, because we are all born as Muslims. -- ashes999, in answer to Why are converts to Islam called reverts?
At the same time, we are…
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How to distinguish "imitation" from "doing the same thing"?
Imitating disbelievers (tashabbuh) is forbidden:
...the Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) definitively prohibited it and said: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.” -- Islam Q&A
Thus, if we imitate a disbeliever, we are…
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