From motives of power and greed and not necessarily from need, and with a technology to match, man this century has depleted the earth’s natural resources, produced, and continues to produce waste and pollution on a scale which has never been known.
'The shocking context of the white supremacist terror attack in Christchurch cannot be seen in isolation from the ideological strands that get woven into the anti-migrant, anti-Muslim narrative that was primarily triggered by the publication of Samuel Huntington’s book, “Clash of Civilizations”. Huntington falsely proposed the major clashes of the world would occur due to the threat for the West from Islam and China. This phony theory obfuscated the realities of unequal power, the deep divisions between rich and poor, atheistic nihilism , it’s war against religion and morality and it’s social Darwinian lie of the survival of the fittest. Most importantly, 'religious illiteracy’ and 'cultural ignorance' about the ‘other’ lie at the root of all ‘clashes of ignorance’.
The Islamic society is the only society with a declared mission of promoting good and forbidding evil. Its definition of good and evil is not subject to the whims and desires of every generation or the perceived interests of a nation-state.
Evil should be resisted not by the mere good but by a superior good. The superior good is that we treat the one who ill-treats us, with kindness and love. Good has a power of its own which wins hearts, and no man however perverted and corrupted, can help respecting it in his own heart.
"People are asleep and when they die, they awake”. The Prophet [s] pointed to the coming of the morning light of eternity, in which all actions, which we have performed like dreamers in our present life, will be interpreted properly. Then we'll no longer see unclear dream figures, but unveiled Reality.