What significance does Islam have to offer us as a species?
Part II of II
...What about starvation, ignorance, abuse, disease; you are not responsible, are you?
You exist in a society. Society is not a thing. Society is not an entity of its own. Society is the total sum of actions generated by the people that exist within it.
Society may be ruled by ruthless dictators, but it is done so only because the people living within that society allow it to be so.
Society may be governed by a vote of the people, but it is the effort or lack of effort of the people within that society that allows government to ignore the subjugation of the oppressed.
Society may decide to electrocute the mass murderer, but it is the individuals in society which create the atmosphere, the ambiance, within society that allows such actions to take place.
But you say, “I didn’t do it! I didn’t do it!!”
Ah, but in the end, if there is an eternity to which we go, if we have free will, if we are not just puppets, accountability has to be reckoned with.
Justice implies answering two questions, not one: “Did you do it, did you encourage it?” and “Could you have done anything to prevent the journey of others from being interfered with?”
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But we are only human. Are we, or are we souls in human bodies?
Are we capable of taking action?
Are we capable of working to eliminate suffering by loving one another?
Will we be held accountable?
Will justice be denied or are the Islamic beliefs correct?
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