Islam - The Only Life Style For Ultimate Success
Silence of Righteous is Un-Righteousness
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فَلَوْلَا كَانَ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ أُولُو بَقِيَّةٍ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْفَسَادِ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِّمَّنْ أَنجَيْنَا مِنْهُمْ ۗ وَاتَّبَعَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مَا أُتْرِفُوافِيهِ وَكَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ ﴿١١٦﴾
So why were there not among the generations before you those of enduring discrimination forbidding corruption on earth - except a few of those We saved from among them? But those who wronged pursued what luxury they were given therein, and they were criminals. (11:116). https://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/11:116
وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ ۚ إِلَّا تَفْعَلُوهُ تَكُن فِتْنَةٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَفَسَادٌ كَبِيرٌ( ٨:٧٣ )
And those who disbelieved are allies of one another. If you do not do so, there will be fitnah on earth and great corruption. (8:73)
Once I wrote to the management of a chain store about the type of magazines they place in the checkout lanes. I asked them to have a G-lane which children and people who do not want to see vulgarity can use and have THEIR FREEDOM too. After all, you want your store for all. Don’t you? Where is my freedom? And by the way, how come you close your stores nationwide on religious holidays and yet you disobey God by selling profanity? Is that not hypocrisy?
It so happened that while I was working on a project in a building with cubical offices, a person had a phone call. Even though he was at a far end, his loud voice could be heard by everyone in the building. That was fine except that his conversation became profane. I went out of the building for a while to let him finish. Eventually, I met the department head and we talked about work ethics and asked her if she can take care of the issue and she did.
Just as I am required to take time off from work to pray my Jumuah prayer and five daily prayers, I am required to leave a gathering or a conversation which is vulgar, obscene, immoral and ungodly. My employer must respect it.
Ch 4: RIGHTS OF ENEMIES AT WAR
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After dealing with the rights of the citizens of an Islamic State, I would like to briefly discuss the rights which Islam has conferred on its enemies. In the days when Islam came into focus the world was completely unaware of the concept of humane and decent rules of war. The West became conscious of this concept for the first time through the works of the seventeenth century thinker, Grotius. But the actual codification of the 'international law' in war began in the middle of the nineteenth century. Prior to this no concept of civilized behaviour in war was found in the West. All forms of barbarity and savagery were perpetrated in war, and the rights of those at war were not even recognized, let alone respected. The laws which were framed in this field during the nineteenth century or over the following period up to the present day, cannot be called 'laws' in the real sense of the word. They are only in the nature of conventions and agreements and calling them 'international law' is actually a kind of misnomer, because no nation regards them binding when they are at war, unless, of course, when the adversaries also agree to abide by them. In other words, these civilized laws imply that if our enemies respect them then we shall also abide by them, and if they ignore these human conventions and take recourse to barbaric and cruel ways of waging war, then we shall also adopt the same or similar techniques. It is obvious that such a course which depends on mutual acceptance and agreement cannot be called 'law'. And this is the reason why the provisions of this so-called 'international law' have been flouted and ignored in every way, and every time they have been revised, additions or deletions have been made in them.