Losing My Religion Analysis

Losing My Religion: A Call for Help is Dr. Lang’s third book that is a compilation of questions with detail answers based on his explanation in the light of Quran and Hadith. The questions asked are from American born Muslims that are immigrants with second or third generation, reverts or Americans interested to know about Islam and its teachings. The author clearly highlights the need to attract and engage the people of religion and abandon the sort of alienation or cold shoulder attitude of Muslim community in America. There is a major concern addressed by the author that is to eradicate the doubts, alienation and cultural gap among people of religion as well as the role of spiritual places like Mosque and Islamic Organizations. From his
This happens when a child is intellectually estranged and leaving him/her no choice but live a life of bigotry. Hence, the central theme of this book is to abridge the gap that seems to separate religious beliefs and practices. And according to Dr. Lang, human mind reason well. If that reason is used well, it will affirm the truth of divine revelation. These arguments made in the context of Muslim American Society is relevant to any other place in the world. Mosques are merely used for prayers and deliverance of speeches every Friday, other than that it does not play a vital role of checking spiritual nature of the society; thus disintegration is obvious among
Lang discussed and reasoned to the questions, issues and situation of American Muslim on different aspect of Islam. Issued raised by these young Muslims are related to spirituality in nature that is conflicting between faith and reason and they are not able to get any answer from Imams. Like for example, on the page 47, the question asked by the young American is based on conflict of reason and Dr. provided a logical answer to that is, “It is important to distinguish between a conflict with reasons and conflict with personal sentiments.” And thus provided more subjective reasoning pertaining the rulings in Quran.
Other concerns are pertaining to Hadith and its authenticity of literature as well as the role of Muslim women in society and status in Islam. Dr. Lang responds to these questions in a very laudable and precise way that consider existing realities along with the past traditional learning. Thus, he is urging Muslims to wake up to the realities whereby people are losing their faith, failing to see the relevance of divine