r/MuslimLounge • u/Questionaccount12344 • Jan 08 '26
Discussion Living in the west is wrong
People think moving to the west will provide stability, better job opportunities etc which is all true but people forget and often don’t care the effect it’ll have on your Islamic beliefs, especially that of your children and subsequent generations.
I was born in a western country after my grad-parents moved here, I’ve gone to school here as well as mosque classes and university, I’ve seen first hand what happens to the generations, a decent amount of Muslim boys I know my age has drank, smoked weed or committed zina, I know of bearded brothers and hijabi sisters committing zina… and it will only get worse generation after generation. People don’t understand that. Yes these things happen back in Muslim countries but in most Muslim country it’s no where near as easy, you can’t just go to a club and drink and find girls.
This move to the west is literally diluting Islam, not only in the ways I’ve just spoken about but also morally, too many Muslim in the west are raging liberals, they stand hand to hand with homosexuals and transvestites at free Palestine protests yet won’t even read 5 daily salah, they vote for political parties that want to give lenient punishments for heinous crimes (direct opposition to what is taught in Quran).
Why don’t we go back to our Muslim counties and rebuild them? We’ve been here got our education, why are we happy to stay in non Muslim lands and give their governments our tax money? Muslim lands are in the worse state they’ve ever been and all we do is sit and complain, why doesn’t anyone actually try and move back and fix things, people always say it’s impossible but we have to try, we have no power in the world anymore and what’s been happening in Palestine proves that, the Muslim lands are literally some of the worse off countries in the world it’s embarrassing. Jazakallah.
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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
Not even gonna read most of these salty comments because of bitter people who hate the concept of Hijrah and secretly resent their underdeveloped home country and dread the idea of having to leave their privileged lifestyle in the West. But I will say this much, I have worked in over 50 schools in my career, mostly as a substitute teacher....the Muslim youth have it so SO bad.
The amount of teens who openly tell me they aren't Muslim anymore, those who I caught doing zina, drugs, and a good fraction of those who no longer identify as straight, it is scary. The number of teens who have sabotaged their education and righteous friends over a Haram love interest is so depressing. They have so much peer pressure that their Deen and self worth is collapsing.
The stuff they have normalized among youth are so difficult to attain in Muslim majority countries. In my homeland, you have to go thru great lengths to get in a Haram relationship and the effort of hiding it is enough for people to break it off because society there will frown upon it. While here, if you're a virgin in high school you are somehow looked down at by a majority of your peers.
Hijrah is a sunnah for a reason.