Maranao Women Empowerment

hi kuya. well this is a problem that multi-media and technology has helped cause. what we can do is help propagate the values of Islam and not to be judgmental for only Allah has the right to judge.

let us be open-minded about change... sadly, it is here to stay. and our youth, the maranao youth, have become courageous enough to change. some for the better, some for the worst.

as for the maranao women who find themselves in immoral predicaments, we should not ostracize them forever. if we are pained but what they have done, how much more for them who are feeling and going through that pain. we have to understand them later on, see where they are coming from, put our biases aside, help them get up, show them that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful, and that they have a second chance in life.

everyone has committed mistakes for we were born imperfect. it is through these mistakes we learn and become stronger, wiser, better persons.... these mistakes will make us the kind of persons that God wants to face in the Hereafter... learned, humbled, and obedient.

what is bad is if we commit the same mistakes after each fall. this shows our stubbornness, our stupidity, our selfishness.

maybe the maranao culture will one day fade.... that is okay because it is Islam that should be our way of life. the Holy Qur'an orders us to be Muslims and not to be Maranaos in this lifetime. for it is our Islamic ways that will save us from the Hellfire and not traditions, culture and customs. My grandfather, the late Domocao Alonto, once told me, the Maranao society has traditions that open the gates to Hell. My late father also said that there are Maranao ways that are not only NON-ISLAMIC but ANTI-ISLAMIC.

yes we should not forget who we are but we should remember first and foremost our mission in this world and that is to be Muslims. if maranao women commit mistakes, that is between them and God. we are only here to mind our own ways and not to belittle others who have gone astray. we should just pray that they will be enlightened soon and hopefully, God will forgive them.

kuya raoul, welcome to my way of thinking..... :)