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I wonder if Allah is pleased at the submission of ordinary Muslims to abusive power.
Allah is not the God of the Muslims only, He is the Lords of the Worlds, Creator of everything. Arab Christian and Arab jews use Allah when calling on to God. Check out a Bible in Arabic, you’d be amazed. And so we could take your question further and wonder if Allah is pleased at the submission of His Creation to abusive power, submission to evil?
Oh my goodness. That is the best image yet. During the years I wore hijab and practiced Islam, I was always being asked if I was Sunni or Shia. I honestly did not understand the difference and my response was usually along the line of, “Neither. I am simply Muslim. No man-made divisions for me, thanks.” Guess I was naive back in the day. Certainly an idealist.
Wish I had known I was merely sushi!
Well said, Sabba. I’m thinking that Allah would not be pleased with abusive power generally. And I can’t imagine that any abusive ruler is a genuine believer. A genuine believer would believe in evil being subject to divine punishment. Either they are just pretending to be believers or are so foolish as to be incompetent to govern. Or perhaps power corrupts them and drives them mad. Would it be going too far to assert that abusive power defies Allah?
I do not know Alan, but one thing I know is that though Religion seems to be everywhere and more and more so, God is nowhere.
Religion is meant to free a man from servitude, and especially servitude to other men.
If you only ‘fears’ God (fear in the sense of Love, fear to displease the Loved One), then you will fear no one else.
Jesus (PBUH) said you can not serve 2 masters and the one who has the fear of God in heart is invincible, indestructible.
About power, it is known that it attracts psychopath, people who already are evil.
The Last Prophet of God did warn us (mankind) to never ever give power to any one who seeks it.
Noor, you just about killed me!
Thanks Sabba.
Does not the Prophet’s warning place a sacred obligation on ordinary Muslims? And have they not neglected that sacred obligation for a very long time?
This is not meant as an attack on Islam or Muslims; but merely to be an important but hard question.
No worries Alan, I know it is not meant as an attack ^_^
As I said above, religion (in its formalism, in its strict attachment to and obsession with external appearances only), religion is everywhere but God is nowhere.
Religion, when it is devoid of spirituality, when it becomes limited to a list of dogma which one does not even understand anymore but which one follows ‘out of tradition’, when it is reduced to some external practices, I think then that religion kind of becomes useless.
Religion is meant to free us from bondage to other men – hence their attack on Religion as being the opium of the people. Had it been an opium, they would have encouraged it even more. Religion is our strongest shield against the synagogue of satan.
That’s why they stripped that shield from us or are trying to.
Religion is meant to free us from bondage to other men, while also reconnect us with the Cosmos (know your places in it) and lead us to the Creator.
Religion should be lived as if we see God with us, around us, as if we have a permanent conscience of the Divine.
There is this story in Sufi Islam where a master asked his students to find the best place to hide, where no one could see them and to commit the sin they wished.
When his students came back, they all managed to find a secret place and were bragging among each other, all except one who said “I could not find any spot on earth where I could hide from God”.
And it is this consciousness which has been lost centuries ago, by the Christians and the Muslims.
It is this most sacred consciousness which has been neglected first, leaving the door open for evil to creep in slowly and silently until we reach the stage in which we are in today…
This is my humble opinion.
Hope I make sense: let me know if do not!
Thanks again Sabba. I am grateful for your honest and humble sharing of information. It is said that Allah is merciful. Would you please explain the importance of mercy and compassion for sincere Muslims? I posted a comment yesterday or the day before trying to put the hard word on Christians about the fundamental importance that compassion should have for them. I’m thinking that there should be common ground (Crescent and Cross) based on mercy-compassion-benevolence between sincere believers following these two religions, as a basis for alliance against the fear-hatred-violence of Judaism and Organized Usury. This would only be possible between sincere Christians and sincere Muslims who should have a lot more in common with each other than with insincere Christians or insincere Muslims. Of course, I’d like to claim a share of that mercy-compassion-benevolence for sincere benevolent followers of other religions and even for sincere benevolent agnostics, like myself, and even sincere benevolent atheists.
I am no theologian and in all honesty, I never really thought of it.
I will now ^__^
I might come back to you on that some time, some day in the future, if the opportunity comes up and when it has all matured in my mind.
Thank you for planting this seed in my head!
• I completely lost respect for the author of this article when I read this:
“The outburst of the Arab Awakening (aka the Arab Spring) in December 2010 has proven once and for all that the Arab world is politically and intellectually flourishing. The Arab Awakening managed to oust four of the longest serving dictators— Zain el Abideen Bin Ali of Tunisia, Muammar Qaddafi of Libya, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, and Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen.”
It seems to me too self-evident to explain why, so I won’t.