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So since that Muslim Luke garroway headcanon was made, I kinda want to make him Muslim in one of my lucelyn multichapters. Haven’t really established a religion for either him or joss, but he has used god and Jesus in non religious contexts. My main concern cause I’m it muslim is I’ll fuck it up even with the research I’d do. Any of my Muslim followers (if any) have any opinions on it? Need some help here
You reblogged the first post that made me think about it and it fits so well! I’m not Muslim, so most of my knowledge comes from a personal interest in comparative religion, but Islam has such an emphasis on freewill, especially when it comes to the supernatural. Angels may or may not have free will, but there’s no question whatsoever that jinn do, and that they can be good or evil. Like humans, they can follow the path of Islam and be judged on judgement day. That fits so well for Luke, who struggled with bucking off Valentine’s black and white anti Downworlder ideology. The idea that Downworlders aren’t inherently evil or bad is so important to his character and it would be great if his faith helped him come to terms with that.
(On that note, I’d love to see more Muslim Shadowhunters in general, because it seems like it would be difficult to reconcile the strictness of Clave law when it comes to demons, given how much more forgiving the Qur’an is. Do they consider them different from Quranic jinn? CC really didn’t think her universe out very well when it comes to world culture.)
I just saw a headcanon about Muslim Luke Garroway and my gosh! Muslim Luke Garroway! It’s what I’ve been waiting for my whole life. @whoever wrote that, I love you.
Shadowhunters have religion, but they’re also Shadowhunters first and foremost. Luke was raised right, prayed regularly, respected his duty as a soldier of the Angel Raziel, who was made of light by god.
Jocelyn’s family was more generally Shadowhunter religious (non-denominational and very duty focused) but she used to sit with him while he prayed, and pray as well. She said it made her feel more focused.
Amatis was never very enamoured of their faith, but when she married Stephen he officially converted, because they both wanted to do things right. Imogen was not happy about that but Luke thought it was a sign of how much Stephen loved his sister, and that he would never leave her.
Valentine was hardcore Shadowhunter German Protestant. He always loved the idea of religion and a godly purpose and used drag Luke into talking religion with him.Valentine could twist any words and scripture to suit his purpose, until Luke thought of his faith in Valentine’s terms, according to Valentine’s rules. And if he thought of his love in religious terms, it was easier to deny how Valentine really made him feel.
When he became a werewolf he felt like god had deserted him. He was wrong now, part demon. He continued thinking that until he and Jocelyn threw the Uprising, and separated again. Luke was left alone, and he had a lot of time to himself to think, and read.
He found himself visiting mosques on his travels, to pray. Even if he was part demon, he could still pray.
And here’s the thing, the more he read the more he realized that maybe he wasn’t as damned as he thought?
In Islam what we would think of as demons are jinn, who like all beings have free will and get to choose between good and evil. They are not made evil and they are not doomed by existence. Humans have free will as well, and while there are other things in god’s creation beyond man’s knowledge, surely if Luke is still a man he still has a choice?
It doesn’t fit with the narrative Valentine wrote, but the more Luke thinks the more convinced he becomes that being a Downworlder isn’t a curse like he thought. He’s met good Downworlders, and great ones. He hasn’t hated them or even thought badly of them in a lot time, and now he finds he can’t even think badly of himself for being one of them.
He talks to a few scholars, asks “theoretical questions” and the answers he gets are mostly what he thinks himself, that any being who follows Islam, prays and fasts and gives alms, and lives a good life, should be considered a good Muslim. Luke thinks he has lived a good life, aside from the mistakes he made under Valentine that’s he’s still trying to make up.
He makes his pilgrimage to Mecca, and he prays and finds his heart lightened. He’s more confident in himself than he’s ever been.
So he goes looking for Jocelyn, who he last saw pregnant and grieving. He knows himself now and he knows he wants to be near her.
Little Clary sits next to him sometimes when he prays, like Jocelyn used to when they were kids. She says she likes the quiet, it gives her time to think.
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