Letting Go Of The Past

Letting go of the past ……

I’ve noticed that, often when people leave an ideology, they become totally obsessed with it … like a person who cannot move on from their ex-husband or ex-wife.

This happens with ex-Sufis, ex-Salafis, ex-Shia, ex-Hanafis and even ex-Muslims etc.

Their entire life-goal becomes refuting the idea they left.

For some reason, they just cannot let go …

They feel a burning desire to tear their old ideology apart and safe the whole world from it.

And their hatred for it grows beyond reason. Like ex-smokers who hate smoke with a passion or a former husband or wife who tries to paint their ex as the worst of the worst … to the point of exaggerating. They develop irrational fears – in additional to the reasonable fears that may be real.

I’m not a psychologist so I don’t know why that happens – maybe it’s the brain constantly trying to justifying to itself why it left?

Or that it’s now in a better place for good reasons?

This religion is so vast and beautiful. If you obsess about one aspect, you lose out on so much goodness. I’m not implying we should not refute misguidance, but we should take the religion as a whole.

Don’t spend 99% of your time on 1% of this religion.