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Are you guilty of separatism?  for those of us that don’t truly understand its meaning from the dictionary or the way it is represented in this blog, the definition is: somebody who favors keeping members of racial, religious, gender, or cultural groups separate.

Although for many of you that know me personally knows that I believe in dealing with the races and cultures specific to the individual needs of that community however when looking at the separatism that is present within our own community I often wonder where or when will we see that only befriending your sister that may dress differently than you when you want her to support your specific group, fundraiser ,needs etc. and not having any shyness about your distances from her, is not a part of Islam!  We as women have to get passed the ignorance of this type of behavior.

In Philly alone many new groups and sisters have wonderful ideas that will benefit the Muslim community however the lack of communication and wanting to work together as sisters in this deen has allowed many of us to become separatist or should I say we have that mentality of such a group.  I don’t know about how many of you feel about this however I will say that the ties that bind us together is not being valued strongly enough to keep this ignorance out of our community.  This to me is very disturbing because we always say that we “want for our sisters and brothers what we truly want for ourselves” but our actions prove otherwise.  My advice to many of our younger sisters as well as the older ones within our communities is to take heed to the proofs and ayats that speak about UNITY….  Stop trying to keep up with the Jones’ so to speak, if your heart is truly where you say it is then act accordingly and compete for the things that are allowed in this deen.  Stop eating the flesh of your fellow sisters.  Stop undermining your fellow sisters. Stop putting the evil eye on your fellow sisters. If your heart is truly where you say it is.  Then let the acceptance and reward from your work come from Allah, not the people that only you choose to accommodate within your specific circles.  This is written out of love for all of my fellow sisters in Islam… I pray that I have not offended anyone and that Allah will allow this message to be conveyed as just constructive criticism to those that may not really see that what they are doing is not correct Islamically.