I have read with utter bewilderment, in Aramica newspaper, the decency debacle between self-proclaimed two “decent Muslims” under the headline “Witchunt at
Columbia
University
”.
I rather share with fair-minded than mean-spirited people snippets of my article about religion, praying that it will help those religious “holier than thou” jungle dwellers from every faith on the face of this earth to properly and piously honor their Creator. Let us live in harmony guarding with our life “Sha’ret Muawiyya” (The single hair of Muawiyya) and heed (Jesus) Issa Ibn Mariam’s statement: “Who of you with no sin, let him throw the first stone.”
My bewilderment stems from the fact that all self-proclaimed honest, frank and decent people are now a day extinct. All religions confirm that there is no one good, honest or decent, no one, except for whatever they allow God and Allah to instill in them of their Mercy and Love. Hiding behind clichés of thoughts, arguments and debates is no more than intellectual debauchery.
If self-proclaimed decency is a label, then it is a libel where hypocrisy is a king, double standard is a norm and deceit makes of God, Allah and religion, a hoax, a prank and a joke. Not everyone who raises his hands towards Heaven is praying and many find it simple and uncostly to ostensibly go down on their knees pretending piety than to rise and do good alleviating the suffering of this wounded world.
Trashing other religions’ tenets and discriminately killing innocent people is not Holy Jihad but nothing short of sheer piracy, sordid bestiality and utter aggression. Our passive, uneducated and raw actions and emotions are embodiment of the maxim that says: “a human will remain human if he loses his sight but turns to a beast should blindness take hold of his heart”.
All Holy Scriptures collectively command us to worship God and Allah in “Spirit and Truth” and not in vain dissertations armed with all kinds of intellectual, physical and social weapons of mass destruction. I believe we have developed such a vicious cycle of inhumane habits of mind, attitudes, aptitudes and acquiescence that coils itself around our heart suffocating and stifling its generosity. God and Allah extol a generous heart, a loving heart, a forgiving heart as well as a giving heart coupled with a helping hand and a divine attitude in order to allow their light to shine through and reflect their goodness, loving-kindness and above all their unconditional undeserved mercy.
