Mission Sisterhood: Role Models

Bismillah…

Today we make everyone else our role models, what do we see today?

We have Muslims fantasizing and obsessing over people who at this moment are of no benefit to mankind. What has Justin Beiber done for humanity? What has Beyonce done for you society? What benefit do you receive from following the liking of Lebron James?

Nothing. It is sad to see our ummah obsess over these people when we have the best of humanity to look up to. We have the greatest Prophet Muhammad (sws) who with the Quran and command of Allah brought light to all of humanity. We have Abu Bakr (R) who was not some muscle bound meat head that many of our Muslim brothers look up to but was As-Sadeeq and promised paradise. We have the modesty of Mariam, the courageousness of Khadija, the trust of Asiya, and the wisdom of Aisha. Yet we choose to look up to half naked gyrating women who have no impact on society.

The thing is today we follow people because of their looks and their popularity not because of their character or moralistic attributes. We don’t but the ladt name “bieber” on all of our things because Justin Bieber is a trustworthy individual but because he is attractive and famous. Boys don’t look up to gangsters because they are good people but so they can put on an image that they are “strong”. Girls don’t follow the most popular girl in school because she is a good person but because she is popular. All of these qualities of people are dunya based things, things that go nowhere in the sight of Allah and our meaningless on the Day of Judgment.

Of course, there is a mizan, not every non-muslim is meaningless to society, look at Lance Armstrong, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Steve Jobs, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, there are many to go around, but lets be honest with each other, we are not looking up to the likes of Bill Gates or Oprah, we are looking up to Kim Kardashian and Kobe Brayant.  And here is some food for thought,

The only thing promised to us is our death, nothing else, so we must prepare for it, so why not have the role models of those promised jannah.

Jannah is our one and only goal, inshallah.