Abdullah ibn Mas’ud said: The Prophet ‘alaihis solatu wassalam said, “Islam began as something strange, and it will revert to being strange as it was in the beginning, so good tidings for the strangers.” Someone asked, “Who are the strangers?” The Prophet said, “The ones who break away from their people (literally, ‘tribes’) for the sake of Islam.”

This hadith was narrated by Ibn Majah on the authority of Anas and Abu Hurairah radhaillahu ‘anhuma.

So, if others:

- Smoke and you don’t

- Eat and you fast

- Are involved in BGR and u remain single out of fear of HIM and of committing more sins (notice the word ‘more’ coz by remaining single it doen’t mean one is free of sins, just that by involving in BGR, the tendency to commit sins is higher. Faham kan? )

- Gossip and you avoid participating and listening to such worthless and meaningless “conversations”


- Speak on the phone with the opposite gender over unnecessary matters and you don’t


- Keep up to date with latest songs and movies and you are unaware of them

- Wear tight and translucent clothes and you stay true to the proper Muslimah’s way of dressing (i.e. loose, non-shape-revealing clothes, and unscented –no perfumes for Muslimahs outside the house, remember? :))

- Let their gaze land upon anything and you discipline yourself to lower your gaze

- Eat almost anything and you refrain yourself from consuming things that are syubhah (unclear of the status) and stick to only things that are halal…

If by doing all these makes you “strange”, then let it be . ;)