This failure to uphold justice sets off a dangerous social chain reaction: turning passive “gossipers” into active “cheerleaders” for criminal behavior. Wazwaz warns that this is more than a social failure—it is a spiritual catastrophe. When we repeatedly witness truth and refuse to act on it, we risk a divine punishment where the internal “sensor” of our conscience is taken away, leaving us unable to distinguish right from wrong.
So wait patiently for your Lord’s decree, for surely you are in Our sight.
Imam Al-Hasan Al-Basri said of hypocrisy: “No one fears it but a believer, and no one feels safe from it but a hypocrite.”
By Fedwa Wazwaz, Engage Minnesota The elections this year turned ugly as presidential candidate Barack Obama was continuously portrayed as a Muslim, with a hidden negative inference that being Muslim means that Obama supports terrorism, and that being Muslim means bad and ugly. While such attacks came mainly from the Republican party, the Democratic party did not show a strong backbone to repudiate these attacks. Even Obama showed weakness in not fighting these attacks against Muslims and Islam by proclaiming he is not Muslim, he is a Christian. He lacked the ability to affect a change in the psyche of Read More …
