To my people in Egypt, the country of my birth: Perhaps, today, there is a widespread sentiment of disappointment—maybe even hopelessness, as fears grow that things aren’t working out the way we’d hoped. But you see, you only become hopeless when you placed your hope in the wrong things... We were conditioned to believe that our enemy was outside of ourselves. That he had power over us. This is an illusion. The enemy is inside of us. All external enemies are only manifestations of our own diseases. And so if we want to conquer those enemies, we must first conquer the enemy inside ourselves. If we as a people think that changing our government is what is going to change the future of Egypt, we are sorely mistaken. We can change the government all we want, but if within ourselves we are still full of diseases, nothing will change. We can change our government all we want, but if within ourselves we are still disrespecting women, lying, cheating or abusing, nothing will change. We can change our government all we want, but if within ourselves we still love our mobile phones, our girlfriends, our boyfriends, our cigarettes, and our Facebook more than we love the remembrance of Allah….nothing will change. We must first conquer immorality, greed, selfishness, shirk, ultimate love, fear, hope and dependence on anything other than Allah.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 15:10:50 +0000
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