I want my friends to understand this: If I do not connect to you on certain levels and/or care to speak to you on certain topics, I will obviously not bring up such discussions with you. This does NOT mean that I think my judgement or understanding is superior to yours', with respect, I just don't really care to go bring it up with you unless you bring it up with me. That way, I know that we CAN perhaps connect somehow. That is just me.
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A few weeks ago, I heard a kid in my class ask a classmate, "Do you believe in God?" He responds, "I actually don't know. I feel like 'society' wants me to believe in God."
I'm thinking to myself... What?! This 'society' you speak of wants you to not believe in God, wants you to worship celebrities who are minions of the Devil who worship Satan like Miley Cyrus and the likes, and they want to advocate and fund the oppression of their own audience. Industrialized self-oppression! They brainwash the audience to believe that all they do to rebel from 'society' as well as to oppress themselves mentally, intellectually, and spiritually is benefitting them. This isn't what you call 'society', it's the modern Western world created with athiesm and devil culture as its primary basis. Delusional tosspots. However, there are in fact celebrities who do promote good, such as athletes. As far as I see it, they promote being healthy and being fit. I am not well aware of their lives off the court or field, but their life on them does influence the sensible audience positively atleast.
Many of the modern views influenced by the Western world are wreaked in atheism, excessive materialism, and narcissism. It is all a government-sponsored pacification. The athiest devil culture prepared for us in a gold platter. After all, it has become 'human nature' to these damned youths to feel this type of passion - to promote modern views which are imposed by the secular modernity-, and believe its rank in high in 'society'. With this being the modern disorder of this generation, all these youths, entertainers, and celebrities want is recognition for their uneducated movements and want others to believe they are rebelling because they are afflicted with 'unique' struggles - concerning religion and/or the common struggle - that none before them had - which is completely ignorant to think. The ones before us went through real, more intense, struggles, and at times, a lot more gruesome!
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal radhi Allah anhu, despite being tortured, the people want rebelled on his behalf against the Mutazila theological imperialism. This led him to be executed because he was protecting the orthodox theology of the religion.
Imam Malik ibn Anas radi Allah anhu was tied to the back of a donkey, dragged in the streets of Madinah, and whipped over seventy times.
Habib Muhammad bin Salim bin Hafidh was told to not give anymore Da'wah, nevertheless, he continued to call to Allah and was later killed by the socialist government regime. He died a shaheed.
Emad Effat, the senior Egyptian Sunni Islamic cleric at al-Azhar Mosque, was assassinated by being shot through the heart during protest demonstrations in Cairo.
The great activist, Malcolm X, Qutb al-Bilad, Qutb al-Irshad, Qutb al-Aqtab El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was assasssinated by the NOI back in the 60's when they were very influential to the crowds.
Omar Mukhtar died by the hands of the Italians after being tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for leading a resistance to Italian colonization of Libya.
Other scholars who died fighting for Islam, Al-Buwayti, the student of Imam al-Shafi'i, Ibn 'Ammar al-Shahid was killed by the Qaramitah, Ibn Taymiyya, Abdul-Ghani al-Maqddisi was imprisoned and tortured, and many more famous scholars and activists of the past went through similar struggles.
Muslims downplaying the rank of the Prophet is more inappropriate and offensive than non-Muslims doing it. Muslims should be spiritually illuminated by the words and character of the Prophet through the presented explanation of the Qur'ānic Tafsīr, Sunnah, and Hadīth. Muslims should inspire to be inheritors of the Muhammadan wisdom, character, and beauty. Muslims who downplay the Prophet say things like, "Oh well he was just a human." Nope. He is as the poet says:
"Muhammad (Salla Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam)is a man, but not like men;
He is an emerald, and others mere stone."
Let us keep in mind that the modernization concept of western moderate liberal 'balance' isn't 'Islamic' but learning the basics of Sunni Islam IS and a lot more important than rebelling to make Islam 'united' in ways that don't make it. Regardless of you being 8 years old or 92, there is no level of understanding that you need to reach to know why you follow Islam with conviction and who you follow in law/theology and stick to it. Do not be a sectarian zealot like myself! #armchaircoconutshake
We shouldn't listen to these stories of these righteous leaders and activists dying and be like, "Oh well, they are in a better place now, oh well..." Nope.
It would seem a little more appropriate for us to understand that their struggle is more intense than ours. This is REAL life. It isn't some fairy tale.
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
As you can see in the above photo, there are five levels to the hierarchy of needs. The overwhelming majority of us have easily attained the first, second, third levels and are working on the fourth. To me, not that my view is 'superior' to anybody elses, when we attain and complete what is in the first level and go onto the second, we do not ignore those who have not reached those levels yet. We do not continue our journey of life as though we give importance most to ourselves and none to others. As we continue our journey to reach the following level, we also help others reach the level you have already passed and the one you are attempting to aim for. The moment we stop helping each other, fighting for each other, and caring for others' needs, that is the moment human decency has been lost.
The majority of Muslim scholars, activists, and even the common people of the past who lived in both Muslim and non-Muslims societies attained only got through half of the second level, while barely passing the first level with much tribulation and difficulty. We must be thankful for our blessings that we have and make use of it. One of my siblings once said, "The blessings we have are to help us become closer to Allah." The overwhelming majority of us are pitying ourselves for not being able for reaching the level of self-actualization on Maslow's hierarchy of needds, while we don't even think about the struggles of the people in the past, and even today, who cannot even reach the level of pyschology/basic needs! This is sad, indeed.
I pray that we can be sincerely active on refining our hearts and minds, our homes, our masajid, and our entire Ummah. I pray that Allah protects us from the delusional Dajjalic celebrities and their corrupt ways. That Allah fills our hearts with love. That Allah fills our hearts will good understanding. That He fills our hearts with Taqwa. That He protects us from what the Prophet sought protection from. That He forgives us for our constant shortcomings. That He blesses us with good. That He blesses us with a good ending in Makkah or Madinah. That He increases us in love and remembrance of Him and the Prophet. I pray that Allah reunites us in the Garden of the highest level with the Prophet, his companions, his family, his wives, his inheritors and all the salihin and everyone who claimed to follow Allah and His Messenger according to what they best understood from it and we enter it with no judgment and we are all forgiven for our sins so we do not experience hell in any manner for a single moment and that it all happens easy.
"Ya Allah, Your decree for us is fair and just! And I beseech You by every one of Your Divine Names, by those You have revealed to us, and even those You kept secret from us, to accept our prayers, to let our love for You be an intercessor for us, to enlighten our hearts, to clean out our minds, to fragrance our dead hearts with life, for only You can accept our prayers."
Amin!
Peace and Prayers!
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