In all this madness, emotional and intellectual sanity can be maintained through empathy. For human societies are about what the society feels as a whole, not just what its parts feel individually. Empathy is the experience of understanding another persons condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. However empathy only helps you keep your sanity, to understand what is happening, to get a grip of things. Empathy does not lead you to what is right and what is wrong. It only helps you remain just, in the study of events and circumstances of the society. What is right and what is wrong comes from Islam and Islam alone. Murder of innocents is not justified by Islam.Neither is forming an alliance with the kuffar who occupy Muslim lands. Everyone has rights and those responsible for managing the society are its rulers. It is the rulers who must be the primary target of our criticism and our efforts of creating a better society. O Allah, help us keep our sanity and make us from true Muslims, as individuals and as a society.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:24:43 +0000
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