With my mind wandering elsewhere, I quickly rushed through my fardh of Maghrib, not even worrying about the sunnah and nafl I was leaving out. And as for Dua.. There was just no time. Perhaps I could make Istighfaar later on. I mean, Allah is the Most Forgiving, so surely, I would be forgiven for this.
I rushed to the living room, switched on the television, eager to watch the Live Justin Bieber Concert which would be starting any moment now.
Does this sound familiar?? How many of us are guilty of ignoring our religious duties so that we don't miss our favourite movie, episode or show in which our favourite drop-dead gorgeous star acts???
We, as humans, are not perfect. That is why we have role models or "idols" whom we look up to and sometimes imitate because, to us, they are the greatest thing ever.
The issue with this, however, is that, nowadays, the youth choose self-centred, obnoxious and mindless celebrities to be their role models. They practically worship everything about these superstars.
One celebrity who has made it big in the entertainment industry is singer, Justin Bieber. The young superstar came into the spotlight and stole young girls' hearts with his singing and his looks. With millions of fans (called the Beliebers), Justin Bieber is practically one of the most worshipped and idolised young personalities in the world.
Justin Bieber fans have been known to act wild and outlandish when it comes to supporting their idol. However, some fans may have taken methods to the extreme with messages they sent Bieber on Twitter asking him to stop smoking marijuana. It was reported that Bieber fans were asked to slit their wrists to protest the music icon's choice to use marijuana as a recreational drug.
The fans were less than pleased when pictures surfaced online of Justin Bieber smoking marijuana while in California.
To show their displeasure, Bieber fans were asked jokingly on Twitter to send in pictures of them cutting themselves in protest of Justin Bieber using marijuana.
The initial posts were made as an incredibly harmful, disgusting prank. A user posted a message stating, "Let's start a cut yourself for Bieber campaign. Tweet a bunch of pics of people cutting themselves and claim we did it because Bieber was smoking weed. See if we can get some little girls to cut themselves."
Although the Twitter post was initially sent as a joke, Bieber fans took it literally and began to tweet pictures of themselves with slashed wrists and bloody blades. The fans even created the #CutForBieber hashtag.
Just think about it... millions of young people out there, all placing a sharp blade to their wrist, cutting themselves, all in the name of Justin Bieber, their supposed "role model" who was caught doing drugs!!
This incident is one of the many gruesome and outrageous acts done by people out of love and in support of their favourite celebrity. And, Unfortunately, this foolish way of thinking has creeped into the lives of many Muslims also. In Muslim homes today, you find pictures of these celebrities on the walls, duvet covers are of these rock stars, a 100 CD's of the latest Rock songs, a million DVD's of the latest movies with the hottest movie stars, and the in wardrobes.. All the clothes are inspired by these celebrities.
We have the best of religions and the best of Role models, Prophet Muhammed (SAW), so then, why the need to imitate other nations and cultures? Why the need to adopt and imitate these worthless people as our role models?
Hadhrat Ibn Umar (Radhiyallaahu Anhu) reports that Rasulullah (Salallaahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, `Whoever imitates a nation (in its ways and culture) becomes one of them.' (Abu Dawood)
By adopting even the appearance of the non-Muslims, that in itself is association with them and is therefore sinful.
Why do we Muslims, being the best of Ummah, feel that we need to follow others to be successful or happy? We should learn to lead by example, and let others follow in our footsteps, instead of following the West in all their corrupt way.
So...if you find yourself wanting to be a reckless idiot and cutting your wrist or doing some other crazy thing for a worthless celebrity.... Then go right ahead...but, after having cut yourself, just think... WAS IT WORTH IT ??! The blood loss,the pain,the disgust...
Justin Bieber (or any other celebrity for that matter) doesn't even know you exist! He doesn't know your name, he doesn't know how much you suffered for him. He doesn't care! You just a fan who helps him make a living. Don't be fooled when he says 'My fans...I love you!...you make me!'
Basically.. Just Be.. Yourself :)
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