*The Role of Contemporary Educational Institutions and Mobile Phones in the Apostasy of Muslim Girls*
Today, the biggest tragedy for the Muslim Ummah is not that the enemy has become powerful, but that our own daughters are falling prey to the enemy's deception. Those daughters who once had the veil of modesty, shame in their eyes, and the light of faith shining on their faces, today the same daughters are wandering in darkness in the name of enlightenment, imprisoned in the trap of freedom, and have lost both their honor and faith in the name of love.
It is a bitter truth that contemporary educational institutions and mobile phones have become major causes of apostasy today. Those educational institutions from which the light of knowledge once emanated, today the candles of faith are being extinguished there. That instrument (mobile) which was to be made a source of knowledge and research, has itself become an ambassador of misguidance. But the fault is not only of the educational institutions or the mobile phone, the fault is of the mind that has become devoid of Islamic zeal, and of the heart in which the warmth of faith has been extinguished.
Otherwise, can anyone tell me about a girl who spent her life among non-Muslims and lived with non-Muslims for a long time, studied at a university in Yemen and won the Nobel Prize? When a journalist asked her a question, she gave such an answer that the journalist was ashamed. He asked,
You have reached such a high position, you have won the Nobel Prize, and you come in hijab, why is that?
The girl replied, "When a human being was unconscious, he was naked. When he learned consciousness, he put on clothes." Meaning, consciousness clothed him, and in unconsciousness, man was naked. Hearing this answer, the journalist was ashamed, and surely it was not only a wise answer but also a slap in the face of all false ideologies, and a great lesson for a shameless society.
If girls want, they can keep the lamp of chastity and faith lit in these educational institutions. The only condition is that the veil should be their pride, the Quran should be their guide, and Muhammad Arabi ﷺ should be their ideal. Otherwise, this same education, which could have been a ladder to progress, will become a path to the destruction of faith, as it already has.
Then its interpretation will be from this poem of Allama Iqbal:
If education takes you away from Allah, it is also a tribulation.
Wealth, children, and estate are also a tribulation.
If raised for injustice, the sword is also a tribulation.
What is the sword, even the slogan of Takbir is a tribulation.
Suggestion: Today there is a need for scholars, thinkers, and the wealthy to jointly establish such institutions where faith is taught along with knowledge, where piety is taught along with a degree, where a girl not only learns to read but also learns the art of becoming a mother of the Ummah. If we do not do this, our daughters will read books but be unaware of the Quran, they will speak but be devoid of modesty, and they will shine but without the light of faith.
And the mobile? It is the most dangerous weapon of today! On one side, sentences of love come, on the other side, the roots of faith are cut. Those fingers that once counted the beads of the rosary, today click on indecency. Those eyes that once read the Quran, are now making a spectacle of their fate by looking at pictures.
If only they understood that leaving Islam does not bring freedom, but it is the beginning of a life worse than animals. Those who thought that they would find peace by changing their religion, are today moaning at the lowest level of humiliation and chastity. Their laughter has now turned into screams, their love has now become a punishment of regret, which I have mentioned in several writings.
For God's sake, wake up! Generations emerge from these girls. You are all intellectuals, I am a student, for God's sake, do something for the Ummah, otherwise you too will come under its category in the court of Allah, and you too will be questioned in the court of Allah. We had given you this ability to guide the nation, then why? Tell me, what will be the answer in the court of God? And I feel like crying when I read this hadith,
Khatam-un-Nabiyeen ﷺ said: (Meaning) It is better to prevent a Muslim from becoming an apostate than to convert a disbeliever to Islam, because a disbeliever cannot harm Islam as much as an apostate can, and we are seeing its result.
In the end, this is what comes to my tongue 😔
How strange we are, we have forgotten the art of living
We have forgotten the footprints of our ancestors
Reaching the destinations is a very distant thing
We have wandered so much that we have forgotten our own address
*✍️Student of Al-Jamia Al-Ashrafia✍️*