Muslims currently at uni, what is your honest opinion of the culture?

Salams.

Muslims who are currently at uni or who have been at uni, what is your honest review / opinion of the lifestyle there? Did you find it very difficult to avoid haram situations?

I have this weird view in my head of there being fitnah around every corner you turn and pressure from the people in your halls to "socialise" when there is alcohol and music every time.

Would you say that it's easy to just mind your own business and study or is it really distracting with all the temptations around? If you had to give some important advice for a muslim going to uni, what advice would you give?

My dad is already freaking out about me going because he thinks it's going to be like a brothel... he said students don't always go out and they have parties inside most of the time.

Non Muslims, would you be bothered if a practising Muslim was in your hall? Someone who wears the hijab, prays, fasts etc?

TBH a Muslim's aim shouldn't be to have a high flying career, its to please Allah

If you go to University in the UK, there will be other muslims. Sure there can be a drinking culture, but not everyone is interested in that, and I'm sure you will meet people who share the same interests as you. I think it can be the case that often muslims make friends with muslims, and non-muslims, make friends with non-muslims. That doesn't need to be so.

Although I don't believe any of the major religions are beneficial to human kind, that does not mean I would treat you any different as my neighbour, I would want to get to know you as a person. The question is however, would you allow yourself to get to know me, or am I as a male non-believer, off limits?

Imagine reaching death having never really lived. I'm sorry for you and the millions of others who believe in life after death, rather than life before death.

Love a good house party 🎉

Are they brothels on the whole? No
Do people care if you drink? No
Do they care if you're Muslim on the whole? No
Do they care if you force your views on them (about alcohol, sex, partying, hating gay people etc) - (I've experienced this from a Muslim) Yes - duh

Id quite like a practicing Muslim to be in my halls, learning about a different theology different to yours is always refreshing.


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Imagine reaching death having never really lived. I'm sorry for you and the millions of others who believe in life after death, rather than life before death.

No haram loans, mummy and daddy will pay Alhamdulillah

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Christians are treated as second rate citizens.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jul/27/where-in-the-world-is-it-worst-place-to-be-a-christian

Oh right, most of these countries listed are Muslim majority.

Love a good house party 🎉

Are they brothels on the whole? No
Do people care if you drink? No
Do they care if you're Muslim on the whole? No
Do they care if you force your views on them (about alcohol, sex, partying, hating gay people etc) - (I've experienced this from a Muslim) Yes - duh

Out of all the muslims you have met, how many have done this? Very few I presume

8 out of 10

I doubt this is true, what exactly did they say to you? because there is a difference in expressing an opinion as a part of freedom of speech and radical preaching

Been told I'll go to hell for drinking, having pre-marital sex, supporting gay marriage unless I change those. Being told I must not eat bacon/pork etc, saying having an Israeli friend is a sin, having a pen with the union flag on it offended them and must not use it in a lecture they're in. There's more but that should be enough.

That doesn't relate to Islam at all....
Apart from that, where the hell do you find these people and how exactly did they express these views

Uh yes it does when they use Quranic scripture to justify it (same with ISIS - denying the link with them and Islam is absurd)

Uh they were at uni so a "normal and ordinary muslim".

Uh no mate. Since when does the quran say take offence to the union jack flag. If I took a violent line out of harry potter can I rightfully say that all of the harry potter series is violent and harmful to children and adults? Just because they take things out of context it doesn't justify it at all.

Read the quran for yourself and be the verdict, you are surrounded my many
"normal and ordinary muslims" if they were all like that then surely they would all be terrorists as well.