
The Importance of Community in Islam - With Dr Shadee Elmasry
The Thinking Muslim
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Moslems, I Think It's a Modernity
I think that the individuals with islam can resist a lot of these ailments, but they need that community. The cities have pulled people in ever since the industrial revolution. And so peoplee moving from their local communities and living these local lives seems like it's lame. But internally, i think they're far more wholesome and give people far greater feeling ofa connectedness than the cities do. I actually like the middle, right? There's the country, the rural ara, and then there's urban areas. That's really what it takes. If you get caught in the edge, in the edges, you're going to be frustrated.
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