Islamic Masculinity & Muslim Masculinity…
Islamic Masculinity and Muslim Masculinity are two different constructs the way that I see it. I see the former being the end goal and the latter as being the journey to get there. Islam and Islamic Masculinity does not need correcting or redefining. We simply need to make its definition clear to us as men and Muslims. When we have completed our manhood, then we simply eptomize what Islamic Masculinity is supposed to be. Muslim Masculinity on the other hand is a dynamic and an incessantly evolving state of manhood that is possessed by Muslims. That is deficient because human's and Human error is involved with that. Whereas Islam there is absolutely no error in it since Islam involves two things: Allah, and what God wants for his creation. Hopefully through Principles, Fortitude, Composure, and Submission, we may get there some day.
Many times I see the people mix up and confuse others with both terms and constructs. People attribute the deficiencies of Muslim Masculinity towards Islam as a way of living and Islamic Masculinity. First and foremost do know that people who take that stance are severely mistaken. Secondly, also know that what a man does who claims to be Muslim does not speak towards the essence of Islam and what Allah, God was trying to convey to mankind. The goal of Muslim Masculinity is to reach towards a perfect and ideal Islamic Masculinity. The channel that fills the gap between the two is The Masculine Development Model.
The differences between Islamic and Muslim masculinity are pretty simple, though to many it may seem like a miniscule nuance. The point of a Muslim man is to completely submit to Allah, to God, which means give everything in his soul and in his being away in order to get as close to Allah as possible. Why, you may ask? Because it is our nature. No one asks why Lemons taste bitter or why fire is hot, or water is transparent in its natural and pure state. No one asks because they inherently come to know that those characteristics are clearly the nature of those created things. It is just the way they were made. Such is the case of man in that submission to creator and initiator of all things is the most fundamental part of our nature as human beings.
Between 90-99% of our men in Mankind have a distorted view of masculinity. Usually masculinity is interlaced with a high dose of arrogance because the fundamental characteristic of manhood is to have some level of autonomy and some level of power and control. Having these inside the psyche and the heart marginalizes God and the role he has to play in the affairs of the creation. Arrogance is simply the feeling that you are completely self sufficient at some level, and that you are in no need of God's help and assistance. There are so many messages in the world that put out this message of arrogance and equate that to being the 'ultimate man'. There is no room in the mind and heart to submit to Allah if you feel like you do not need him. That right now unfortunately is the state of Muslim Masculinity, and we are trying to move the people towards the Masculinity of God, the Masculinity of Islam (Islamic Masculinity) that was created for us to fulfill our nature.
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