Ramadan Dia Siete: Justice
Aug. 7th, 2011 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akilanajmahI'm sick today. I think my mild deviation from my normal routine messed me up. I'm having a hard time regulating my temperature-- I've been sweating and getting chills. Also my chest and throat hurt. Anyway, I'm going to fast as long as I can. I am super hungry, which I am usually not, today-- and all of these things, the sickness, the lethargy, the hunger, are signs that ye olde monthly visitor will be upon me. Hopefully that's the case am I'm not actually super sick.
I say all of these things though, to preface something else, it's obviously my restless illness that caused me to read a letter to the editor that said, essentially, Islam is a threat to the American way of life and that the Prophet (SAW) was a warlord that ran about after infidels.
*frown*
Yes, obviously this person had ZERO idea of what he was on about. About how everytime someone proposed a fight, the Prophet left in order to have peace and safety. That he kept moving himself and his people until there really wasn't anywhere else to go and a war was brought to him. But whatever right? You cannot educate everyone and even if Allah (SWT) came down and told this guy what was up directly, he probably would call Allah a liar and spit in His face. Some people are like that. The Revelation talks about them, so I'm unsurprised (beyond the fact that I actually read it. I try really hard not to read comments or ignorant letters to the editor).
So, today, I thought it would be a good day to actually talk about what the Revelation says about justice.
O you who believe, stand up as witnesses for God in all fairness, and do not let the hatred of a people deviate you from justice. Be just: This is the closest to piety; and beware of God. Surely God is aware of all you do. Surah Al-Ma'idah, 8.
O you who believe, be custodians of justice (and) witnesses for God, even though against yourselves or your parents or your relatives. Whether a man be rich or poor, God is his greater well wisher than you. So follow not the behests of lust lest you swerve from justice; and if you prevaricate or avoid (giving evidence), God is cognisant of all that you do. Surah An-Nisa, 135.
So yeah. There's that.
I say all of these things though, to preface something else, it's obviously my restless illness that caused me to read a letter to the editor that said, essentially, Islam is a threat to the American way of life and that the Prophet (SAW) was a warlord that ran about after infidels.
*frown*
Yes, obviously this person had ZERO idea of what he was on about. About how everytime someone proposed a fight, the Prophet left in order to have peace and safety. That he kept moving himself and his people until there really wasn't anywhere else to go and a war was brought to him. But whatever right? You cannot educate everyone and even if Allah (SWT) came down and told this guy what was up directly, he probably would call Allah a liar and spit in His face. Some people are like that. The Revelation talks about them, so I'm unsurprised (beyond the fact that I actually read it. I try really hard not to read comments or ignorant letters to the editor).
So, today, I thought it would be a good day to actually talk about what the Revelation says about justice.
O you who believe, stand up as witnesses for God in all fairness, and do not let the hatred of a people deviate you from justice. Be just: This is the closest to piety; and beware of God. Surely God is aware of all you do. Surah Al-Ma'idah, 8.
O you who believe, be custodians of justice (and) witnesses for God, even though against yourselves or your parents or your relatives. Whether a man be rich or poor, God is his greater well wisher than you. So follow not the behests of lust lest you swerve from justice; and if you prevaricate or avoid (giving evidence), God is cognisant of all that you do. Surah An-Nisa, 135.
So yeah. There's that.
