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Now, I don’t blame Mr. Findley for his views. I respect him as a person
but I don’t hold the same respect for his opinions. He is entitled to
his views and his opinions, and I am entitled to accept or reject those
views. I choose to reject them. Mr. Findley is an American and a patriot.
In spite of all that, he’s a pretty likable fella’. What I mean is, I
expect him to answer in that way when asked how to analyze and resolve the
failures of the Muslims. He sees American, Hellenic, Christian-Judeo,
political, solutions to the injustices committed against Muslims. He
confuses the solution to our problems with the cause of our problems. He
looks at this dilemma in purely human terms. In other words, humans caused
these problems; therefore, the solution to these problems can be found
with humans themselves and in the application of human thinking and
consequently the application of human reasoning.
Well, no. I don’t
think so, Tim! |
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"He
confuses the solution to our problems with the cause of our problems." |
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First of all, we’ve seen how good man alone is at solving problems,
especially in the West. Ever since the beginning of Western Civilization
with ancient Greece, there is this mythological, Hellenistic notion of man
against the ‘gods’ and that no matter how upset the ‘gods’ are
against us or how hard they might try to destroy us; man can persevere.
Man can do battle against the ‘gods’ and win. Man is the one
who is in control of his destiny.
The extension of
that idea is that there is no need to consult God about anything. Man is in
control. We only need to look in us, ourselves, for the solutions to any
of our problems, whether it be famine, global warming or adultery, as in
the practice by some Christians of confessing their sins to a priest. The
irony behind all of this, of course, is that this logic and rationale
comes from a society that claims to need some kind of divine intervention,
as in the savior, Jesus, in order to gain salvation and approval from,
who?-God, Himself; Another Divine Entity.
Bottom line for
them is that, we don’t need God to tell us how to live our lives, we
just need Him to be there for us when we make a mess of everything after
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"There is no need to consult God about anything. Man is in
control."
(or so they think!) |
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Muslims, on the other hand, are supposed to believe that Almighty
God, Allah, is the Supreme Legislator in our lives. We are here for his
pleasure and not ours. We were placed here to obey His commandments and
not make our own. If we truly believe that God has the answers to our
questions and the solutions to our problems, then, why in the world are we
looking to the leaders of the West; religious or political. It’s so
painfully obvious that their societies have gone astray. I mean, if we
wanted to follow the political leaders of a country that has stopped
submitting to the Will of the Creator, all we have to do is follow our own
"Muslim" leaders in our own "Muslim" countries. We don’t have to come all
the way to America to disobey God. Muslims have strayed just as badly as
the other nations. Like their predecessors before them, they too, have “followed
the lizard into the hole.”
Now, I’m not
saying that man isn‘t responsible for initiating change in his behavior.
God provides for the sparrow, but even the sparrow has to be willing to go
scratch for his food. As Muslims, we all understand that God will not
change the condition of a people until they change themselves. To change
that condition, however, and in turn initiate the assistance of God, it
only makes sense that we start by seeking His guidance and not our own and
certainly not that of a society that has gone astray. I mean, talk about
the blind leading the blind here! |
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"O believers! Be steadfast for the sake of Allah and bear true witness and let
not the enmity of a people incite you to do injustice; do justice; that is
nearer to piety. Fear Allah, surely Allah is fully aware of all your actions."
Al Maida 5:8 |
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