Daniel Haqiqatjou

Like I have to go and do this job that I hate.

I have to suffer and I make money.

And then when I come home, I don't even have a family anymore because we have become atomized

As individuals in society, like parents are estranged from their children, brothers are estranged from their brothers, and sisters are estranged, et cetera.

It's a very lonely life.

And then you're supposed to like replace that or get your kind of emotional and social needs met with friends, right?

but even that's being replaced because of social media like we just have these parasocial relationships through the phone yep and it's your body like your subconscious knows that that's not real like that's not a real replacement for what we actually need so people become depressed they become anxious they suffer from all kinds of psychological disorders and then the solution in the modern world is just to medicate medicate those problems antidepressants

it was very dysfunctional and people see like for a lot of the recent history like you had a new atheist movement for example that has really demonized religion as a whole like why would anyone want to be religious like why would you want to like be uh chained like you're chained and you're like a slave uh you have all these burdens to abide by religious norms like these are just restrictions what could be good about that it's just a burden like this is something from the stone ages we have to be progressive we have to be modern we

are free to do whatever we want however we want it yeah but now people are kind of realizing that well too much freedom is actually a bad thing like too much freedom too much choice like if you have a lot of choices you come paralyzed with choice like how do i live my life um i actually need guidance like i need so it would be great like if there was uh a pattern like a blueprint for how to live life and that doesn't mean i have no choice that doesn't mean like everything i have to go by a certain

template, but at least there's a blueprint, a guideline.

There's at least guidance for me to live my life.

And as a Muslim, that's what I like about Islam.

And Islam as a traditional religion, we do have practices and values and beliefs that we try to maintain and preserve.

And we don't want to change.

We don't want to be changing with the times.

We don't want to be adapting.

That's seen as being progressive and adapting is seen as a good thing.

But from the Muslim standpoint, that's actually bad.

God revealed a certain template for life.

God is our creator.