DON'T FOLLOW THEM BLINDLY

By

Ibn Abdillah As-sudaisiy Al-Iloori

What else can be more crazy than the act of going to beaches naked (with bikini and boxers) meeting strange people (male and female) also dressing the same way? 

This practice was initially common in the white world. But I think this has found its way into the continent of Africa. That is how some Muslims now spend their vacations. Know, may Allaah bless you that, it is not everything that we can take or copy from the whites. 

No wonderr, the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه وسلم said:

 لَتَتْبَعُنَّ سَنَنَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ شِبْرًا شِبْرًا وَذِرَاعًا بِذِرَاعٍ، حَتَّى لَوْ دَخَلُوا جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ تَبِعْتُمُوهُمْ ‏"‏‏.‏ قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْيَهُودُ وَالنَّصَارَى قَالَ ‏"‏ فَمَنْ ‏"

You will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a mastigure, you would follow them." We said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said, "Whom else?" [Saheeh Bukhari]