IMPORTANT NOTE: This post was lost due to my former-host’s server crash. I recovered the content, but not the comments.
For almost two and half years I have not taken a class with the AlMaghrib Institute. When I stopped it was during the controversy which I will not mention nor will I link to it since it’s not worth it.
Beyond that incident and up until the 2008 ISNA convention, I personally had felt a grudge and animosity towards AlMaghrib (even after the Pledge of Mutual Respect and Cooperation). I didn’t have anything against the teachers nor the students (after all the students were my family by blood and by brotherhood), but it was against the idea and way of AlMaghrib. It was pure ignorance and stupidity. May Allah (swt) forgive me for the hardness of my heart. I guess you could say I was jealous, because there wasn’t an alternative choice that was similar in the method but pleasing to my opinions.
