Recently, I was floating around DT, thinking that I really should post more when, quite accidentally, my cursor landed on an ad. Well, this screen popped up, going, “Muslim dating.” And I’m like – Hello?
Wow. Dating. That word sure gets one around. But, to be very frank, Muslim dating is a term I have never heard before, even though it seems quite a phenomenon now that I ask my friends about it. And I used to think I knew everything topsy-turvy about this world. Well, not everything but, still, quite a lot. Muslim dating – You know, I can’t help grimacing at the irony of it all.
I know we’re in the twenty-first century, and I know I’m the broad-minded sort of person, who does not mind the scores of couples in her surroundings at all, too. All the same, when you think of it from a more Islamic viewpoint, Muslims are not allowed to date. The word “love” and “marriage” definitely exist in the Islamic dictionary but, and no arguments about this please, the word “dating” does not. I don’t think God appreciates premarital PDA’s. And I don’t think I do, either.
So, if you will get that Quran lying atop your never-touched shelf down, please, we'll proceed to discuss a thing or two. What does the Quran, the Holy book whose teachings Muslims must adhere to at all times and costs, say about this? Well, from what I understand, marriage to a person you love is allowed. And dating? I don't think you'll find that encouraged anywhere, not even in the more "modernised" Islamic books Muslim writers pen down these days.
The question is - From where did the term originate, then? Muslim dating, I mean. When Karachi began to modernize? Or when Attaturk took over Turkey? I don’t know the precise date and time, but I do happen to know that the term still doesn’t exist for a true Muslim. Oh, yes, I’m all for lovesick people getting the ones they want. But Muslim dating?
Excuse me, please.
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07-06-2007 12:24 PM