Week of 9\/6\/19 By: HH, age 16 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(actual note(s) from student(s)) submitted within one week of class \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(These notes are mostly unedited and represent a GISLA students understanding of the previous class the attended.) Student attend class on Sunday and submit their essay of what they learnt before the next class. Interestingly, as can be seen below the same class yields different lessons for each student even though the content of the class they hear was the same.)<\/em> This week, I didn\u2019t come to class prepared, I was\nsupposed to learn the English for surah Maun, and I didn\u2019t. For next week, I\nneed to have that done as well as read part of the speech by Imran Khan at the\nUN this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the beginning of class, we talked about a newspaper\narticle on a Tera Bloomer\u2019s first day of school outfit. She was wearing Jordan\u2019s\nwith leggings, a crop top, and a jacket over it. The article described that\nafter she left her room, her mom proceeded to call her a whore and a prostitute\nand her father said that she needed to change, and upon getting into a friends\ncar and leaving, her dad calls her and says that her outfit was not appropriate\nfor school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She called him a misogynist and hung up. In my\nopinion, I think that her parents were being rash; I understand the need for\nwanting to protect their child, but the comments that were made will only make\nher more upset with them and she will more likely continue to wear clothing\nlike the one described just to rebel more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This situation is common among many teens and their\nparents and often they aren\u2019t handled right. It is of no fault of the parents\nor the teens, its due to the disconnect between teens of this modern age and\ntheir parents, weather they were born and raised here or immigrants. The best\nway to mend that disconnect is through better communication, without parents\nand teens in any situation can\u2019t hope for a better outcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This situation also brought up the discussion of\nmoderation. Many people, especially Muslim parents who are fearful of more\nWestern influences such as the outfit described would proceed to wear nikab\n(Islamic clothes that cover everything except their eyes). While there is\nnothing wrong with this, it demonstrates the two extremes, and in today\u2019s\nmodern America, a nikab is something that many people stop to stare at. This\nbrings about one of my favorite point of Islam: the teaching of moderation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While I personally have nothing against girls who wear\nclothes to express themselves, like Tera, I personally try to wear clothes that\nare moderate, because it\u2019s what I\u2019m most comfortable in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n During the next part of\nclass, we discussed the teaching that the way we interact with and treat out\nfellow human beings is a function of our understanding of God and his message.\nThis means that the more we learn about and understand the layers of God\u2019s\nmessage, much like the layers of a rose, which is also one of the concepts we\nare tasked with memorizing (metaphors of everyday things and Islamic topic that\nhelp us better understand them) we better learn how we should treat our fellow\nhuman beings, and that the purpose of rituals, like prayer, was to strengthen\nour relationship with God. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Week of 9\/6\/19 By: HH, age 16 (actual note(s) from student(s)) submitted within one week of class \u2013 (These notes are mostly unedited and represent a GISLA students understanding of the previous class the attended.) 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Students graduate level 1 IF and WHEN they pass the Level one exam (some do it in 6 weeks and some take 3 years and counting\u2026) and students from anywhere in the world can test out to pass and earn the GISLA Level one trophy)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n