Girls Like Boys and Boys like Attention

Silly. There is no other way to describe the girls  and boys at my masjid other than silly. In the most holy of all months in the Muslim world, Ramadan, should be treated with some respect, but not in our Masjid. In this most sacred month the Masjid becomes a breeding ground for intermingling and hooking up. In this month there is more making up and breaking up than there is fasting or praying. Everyone seems to turn a blind eye to it, pretending not to notice the boys and girls sneaking off to dunkin donuts to have “private time”. However, this year I’m not going to look the other way…this year I’m calling everyone out on their bull $#!+.

After the athan is called and prayers are made, droves of people make their way to get food after along day of fasting. To complete their day of worship, the youth go to the front of the masjid to hook and mingle with the opposite sex. They then continue their night not by supplicating to God by performing the tarweeh prayer, but by hanging out outside the masjid talking, texting or calling one another. It is said in Islam that when you have two people of the opposite sex in a room, the third person there is Shatan. But in Ramadan isn’t Shatan locked up? With this said why do so many of us flock to the front to in hopes of committing a sin?

The answer is attention. From what I have observed the guys at our masjid go to the front because they like the attention they receive when they go there. With the hand shakes, hi fives and hugs they get why wouldn’t they. Both parties are equally to blame in this scenario, they guys go there to receive praise and admiration and the girls go in attempts of hooking up. You see the guys are attracted to the devotion girls fixated on them and after a while the girls become more than attracted to them. It became very clear to me that this pattern would not die down easily. Boys fall for attention and girls just fall into obsession.

But just because we can determine the cause of this flirtation does that excuse there action? In this blessed month are we supposed to turn a blind eye to this behavior because it has become the norm or should we create a change that might devastate the youth?

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~ by grapevine21 on August 26, 2009.