Imam Yasir Qadhi: Struggle of balancing modernization & traditional Islam
We all know of people who have left Islam that’s an existential threat another existential threat is not the leaving of Islam but the deformation of Islam because this is a very difficult question and that’s one of the questions I’m extremely interested in and I’m very very involved in what does it mean to be a Muslim in the modern world what aspects of the tradition are absolutely Beyond change immutable and what aspects can be can be fine-tuned.
This question does not have an easy answer. There’s going to be a lot of back and forth and there is a lot of back and forth going on. But that is an existential threat because some other Faith Traditions have changed so much to adapt to the circumstance that there’s very little left of the faith. We must be careful about acquiescing to popular culture too much.
That means we’ve lost our identity. What is that fine line? This is a question that involves theology, it involves law it involves hermeneutics, One of the biggest questions that troubles me. I go to sleep at night thinking about specific aspect along these lines. Many of my talks many of my Q&A deal with this reality.