Muslims, do you go to the pub with your work colleagues?

Subhanallah.
I'm pleased to read these posts- you've all given good advice ma'sha'Allah.
May Allah preserve your deen. Ameen.

امين يا رب العالمين

Frankly, I do not believe this is a place to be asking such questions relating to the deen...This forum is filled with Non-Muslims who know little to nothing about Islam and Ex-Muslims who will just put seeds of doubts and attack those who lack knowledge.

I went to a pub with my work colleagues for lunch yesterday since it was pay day, dress down day and nice weather. We sat in a 'beer garden' with the sun blazing on us and it was a new experience being there. It was a good opportunity for them to get to know me better and share more about myself personally since I haven't been working at my job long.

We had lunch and they drank and I didn't. I think it's important to show that I have no issue sitting with them while they eat ham and drink beer, and being in their comfort zone and away from mine. I felt welcome being with them and being the only asian person there, people treated me no different and were friendly.

I guess this just showed me that what you read on the internet can be so toxic on forums like this, especially in heightened times when there are terrorist attacks that cause destruction and division, it can make you paranoid that the world hates you, but in reality you encounter so many kind souls.

At times like this it's important to strengthen your personal and working relationships

It's quite sad to see our fellow Muslims falling for such traps and compromising on the deen. If you are friends with Non-Muslims or have colleagues who are non-Muslim make an effort to raise awareness to that aspect of your belief. Kindly decline the invitation and offer alternatives that would be suitable.

Do take into account your choices/action have an effect on the rest of the Ummah...If some Muslims make this a habit of compromising their beliefs then it sets the wrong image when us who are practicing decline as they will go "Oh but I have Muslim friends who come out for drinks with us"...Stick by your beliefs.

Word.
That is utterly true. I am always afraid for those brothers and sisters that make these posts and threads because this is the last place anyone should come for Islamic advice especially for those weak in their deen.
I don't understand why people won't go to their imams or their alims/alimahs. :/

I went to a pub with my work colleagues for lunch yesterday since it was pay day, dress down day and nice weather. We sat in a 'beer garden' with the sun blazing on us and it was a new experience being there. It was a good opportunity for them to get to know me better and share more about myself personally since I haven't been working at my job long.

We had lunch and they drank and I didn't. I think it's important to show that I have no issue sitting with them while they eat ham and drink beer, and being in their comfort zone and away from mine. I felt welcome being with them and being the only asian person there, people treated me no different and were friendly.

I guess this just showed me that what you read on the internet can be so toxic on forums like this, especially in heightened times when there are terrorist attacks that cause destruction and division, it can make you paranoid that the world hates you, but in reality you encounter so many kind souls.

At times like this it's important to strengthen your personal and working relationships

There is no trap.
Merely people who are willing to accept the friendship and invitations to socialise after work from coworkers of other religions or none at all.

We live in very unstable and troubled times.
There are so many racists, separatists and other toxic troublemakers who seek to create divisions between the people in almost every country.
Hatred, suspicion and distrust don't suddenly appear from nowhere.
They are created by vicious bigots who want to infest the world with their own hate, venomous propaganda and separatism.
To divide and create hostility between the various communities of "the other".
The ultimate purpose is to crush all support for the very ideas central to a peaceful and multicultural society.
History shows us how dark that path is and where it leads to.
To barbaric chaos on the streets, needless enmity between reasonable people, torture, genocide and utter destruction.
The dark ages, Ireland for centuries, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, India for decades pre & post partition.

This is why it is so crucial for every single person who rejects their evil vision of separatism and hatred to show their opposition.
By standing together with all fellow reasonable people of other backgrounds without pre-conditions, by being receptive to the hand of friendship from members of other faiths and by accepting invitations to socialise together & celebrate all the very best of humanity.

I'm afraid for people who make posts asking for advice and are encouraged by zealous ISOCers to never speak to non-Muslims and keep to themselves and only to their own kind.

Going to the pub hugely increases her chances of consuming alcohol, which is a huge sin in Islam. If her classmates cared one bit about her, they wouldn’t chose a pub, of all places, to meet up. Alcohol is an intoxicant and makes the human being, the most intelligent creature on the planet, behave worse than animals. There is no hate or trouble making, this is the fact.

I'm pleased to read these posts- you've all given good advice
May Allah preserve your deen.

My friend is a strict mormon,

I saw a muslim woman in a burka last week on saturday, she was with a bunch of white women and the white women were all dressed up like they were gonna go pub

I actually wanted to follow them and see ..but they got in a big van like vehicle that looked like it has been hired.

A muslim has never tried to convert me though. I wonder why?

You do know that Muslims can be white? I know a few white Muslim women that wear the burka. They could have easily been her sisters.

How can you guess from the way these other women are dressed that they're going to the pub? Fair enough, if it's an evening and they're wearing dresses and such it could be but it also could be for an event?

Okay.. wanting to follow a bunch of ladies is not normal.

And a van? Maybe because there is so many of them and they've got to get from A to B.

Like I don't get the point you're trying to make but I wouldn't jump straight to conclusions.
That's so vague that it could literally be anything.

Because you're not supposed to stand around shopping centres looking for people to leap on.
It's not even the right approach for starters.

Those white women definately were not dressed like muslims..

It looked like they were dressed for a night out imo, but i suppose it could have been an event..

I was wondering if they were not bothering me because I don't look muslim, and they were going for south asian people [yes i know muslims can be any race, but lets face it, it's mostly asians]

It's annoying when people recruit like that, I agree it's not the right approach. although i have seen it work a small amount of the time..