A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Abu Zayd ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadhrami ( r.a. ) said, “Blindly following ancient customs and traditions does not mean that the dead are alive, but that the living are dead.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ When our practices and our beliefs are no longer based knowledge and understanding, but on custom and blind taqlid , Islam has ceased to be a religion and is reverted to mere superstition.   It is not enough to merely follow and to believe; we have to know why.   It is this mere following without understanding that has constrained something very vast.