Bride Price among Pashtuns, is not what it is assumed

[Kakar-Wardak]

I remember reading somewhere that Ahmed ridah khan founder of barelvi school and pashtun by paternal lineage was against qawalli however barelvis are the most notorious for singing and listening to qawaalis.

[maneatinglizard]

Btw, I didn't know you were tableeghi.

I'm not really a Tableeghi. The last time I went on Khurooj was 3 or 4 years ago, and I've never gone on 40 days or 4 months. I support the movement, and most of my friends are Pashtuns who became religious through Tableegh (they also run the Masjid I usually go to), so I know Tableegh and Tableeghis well, but I don't do it myself very often.

I've never met an Iranian who fasts and Every Afghan Shiite I know dont fast. Majority of Iraqi Shiites I've met do fast. Every Afghan farsiwan and pashtun and pakistani pashtun I've met do fast accept a few who(Afghans ones) claim to be atheists. There are a lot of Desis where I live and I would say 10% of the muslim desis I know fast.

The only Iranian I know who's religious is a dude who became Salafi. He doesn't consider his own family (or himself before he became Salafi) Muslim lol.

I dont know if you could say that most US muslims are not religious in general, it probably depends on your definition of it. It's true not may are 5 times prayer types but I've went to many Masjids and for Friday prayer, they are always full.
This is my observation. It does not mean its the norm.

I think American Muslims are less religious than Muslims in other countries. Compared to other people in the West we're religious, but if compared to people in our homelands we'd be seen as irreligious.

Who told you that there is no haq-i-mahr in Muslim-Punjabi marriages?. Its not like Punjabi Muslims utter Sanskrit gyan instead of khutba of Nikah. They have some marriage customs like Hindus because they are Hindi after all.

Obligatory nature of Jahaiz is not just limited to Punjabis , this cultural practice exists among all Indian Muslims and its because of their Hindu past and because they live amongst Hindus. Punjab was barely 52% Muslim in 1947 and was Hindu majority few centuries ago. The partition drastically changed the demographics of West Punjab, otherwise Hindus and Sikhs were living in each village and Mohallah of Punjab before 1947.

Most cultures only do one type of dowry. Either from the groom's side or the bride's.

If you study history, you will know that Indian Islam was heavily Hinduised from the get go and various efforts were made by some rulers and ulemas to cleanse it from Hindu influences. Aurangzeb and Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi are well known in this regard , also Sikandar Lodi , Mahdavia Movement etc.

I'm aware, but I guess I didn't realize how pervasive the Hindu influences continue to be in Indian Muslims. I've never been to the Indic part of Pakistan/India, and the Indic Muslims I know here in the West don't differ in their Islam from other people that much. Even Barelwis are practically non-existent in America. Everyone here is either Deobandi, Ahli-Hadith, or influenced by Arabs (Salafi or Ikhwani, with a few Arab Sufi types).

[khushal]

I've had Desi Muslims tell me that hunting is Haram and most still follow a caste like system where the higher caste people still think certain work like cleaning up after themselves is beneath them. Very kaburjahn