Freedom, an e-Nuri Perspective

[Nur]

This piece was concieved and written last Ramadan, inshAllah more of it will follow, e-Nuri Product Develoment is yet to roll out more provocative insights for the great month of Ramadanm til then enjoy, from my mind to yours.

 

 

Freedom is like light, the higher the source, the wider the scope .

 

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Here are my thoughts on Freedom

 

 

We often hear this buzzword on a daily basis, from ancient times to the present, freedom remained a concept people are willing to pay for with all they got, including their very lives, just like Patrick Henry said in the 1700s: " Give me liberty or give me death " if it will guarantee freedom for future generations.

 

The Great pyramids, one of the oldest shrines built for false Gods, were built by the labor of Jewish slaves of Pharaoh, they were built to immortalize the Kings of Egypt, Khufu, Khafrac and Manqarac, indeed if these edifices immortalized anything, it is the oppression of the Israelites and the robbing of an entire nation's dignity as human beings. Pharaoh, in his right mind believed that he was superior to the lowly Jews, that their suffering was justified as long as they served a purpose to the masters of Egypt who in turn faced their Gods with their offerings of the blood and toil of the captive slaves of the children of Israel.

 

In the story of Pharaoh and his subjugated Jewish slaves, we read in the Quraan how Moses led his people out of bondage, how he risked his life for seeking freedom for his people and how Pharaoh fearing the imminent rise of a great leader of the Jews, ordered the killing of all new born Jewish males, only to raise the very Jewish leader he was afraid of in his own palace to his demise.

 

Six thousand years later, the Children of Israel are returning the favor by doing it to the Palestinians, killing their children, demolishing their dwellings, and confining them like animals behind a wall of " security ". The Palestinians are learning what it was like being a Jew in Pharaoh's Egypt, or in Hitler's Germany, when man inflicts pain and agony on fellow man without mercy.

 

Freedom is a conservative entity, it is an integral part of a wholesome balanced and a just universal system, a system that guarantees equal rights, assigns equal responsibilities and opens doors to equal opportunities for all equally qualified stakeholders. As such, for a human to loose her/ his freedom, it takes another to claim to be more deserving of that lost right due to supremacy of sorts, moral such as a claim of Devine mandate like the case of the Zionist Movement of Israel, and/or sheer might, over his fellow man, by wrongfully claiming that which was reserved for his fellow man to be only his. The false claimant of superiority begins to limit the freedom of the inferior, usually by using a convincingly stronger force to subjugate his fellow human being into submission and in the most primitive sense we have the infamous and abominable institution known as slavery, an institution that was well established back home in Somalia as well as the United States for some four centuries.

 

Freedom in its absolute meaning is not restricted, to time, space or physical barrier, absolutely nothing could limit this type of freedom, that Absolute freedom belongs to Allah SWT alone, Allah SWT describes Himself in the Quraan, " Facaalun lima Yuriid" He executes (all of) His wishes" , and there we have a big wisdom, no one else can claim that trait, and every other form of freedom, lesser than the absolute Freedom of Allah SWT is gradually compromised to make room for or yield to that absolute freedom. So in that regard, the higher up the ladder one gets, through worship of Allah alone, the freer one feels, and the lower one gets down the same ladder by denying Allah SWT or disobeying him, the more enslaved one experiences to fellow mankind who he must serve as a slave . in effect , being the slave of a slave is not a good idea.

 

Allah SWT is the light of the heavens and the earth, His light is like that of a lamp, and that lamp represents all that is good of life and eternal happiness. If we indeed seek that light with all of our hearts and soul, we rise above it all; we became true servants of Allah SWT, thus bypassing the service of other slaves of Allah all together in order to serve Allah SWT directly. As slaves of Allah SWT, we become free of all that hinders our good character. Being certain that Allah SWT is the master sustainer who replenishes our bank accounts, we become more generous to our fellow human being, likewise, being sure of His control of our life as the originator and as the terminator of life, we learn to live free of fear, and so we become free to live a fuller meaningful life while it lasts.

 

During the Islamic conquest of Persia, a companion named Rubciyun Ibn Caamir, had these words to describe the reason for the invasion of the Muslim armies to conquer the Persian Empire " Allah has risen us so we can free mankind from the bondage of other men to the service of Allah, from the injustice of the systems that govern them to the Justice of Islam, and from the mental confinement to a physical world, to the vastness of the eternal life in heaven "

 

In our faith, Allah SWT stresses the term "CABD" or the slaves of Allah, Allah SWT refers to all of His Prophets as slaves, because the term slave specially when it is for Allah alone, is the highest rank a man can reach in the kingdom of Allah SWT.

 

Ironically today, 14 Centuries later, Muslims find themselves being lectured on a concept that they themselves pioneered and taught Medieval Europe, the concept of Liberty, justice and fairness, but because the driving force of the new conquerors is not to please Allah SWT, Freedom as presented back to Muslims today does not have the original flavors of the awareness of Allah, it became a hollow terminology that does not stand for anything meaningful, worst yet, all the freedoms that we read or hear about are meant for the protection of the individuals right to disobey his Maker. But because these faithless individuals who buy this idea care less about God, they are often very serious in the service of the institutions that grant them these phony freedoms; they dare not disobey these institutions, suddenly they find themselves having human deities in the form of lawmakers to obey instead of their maker.

 

Freedom as presented today is secular; it does not explain what happens after death, after we decompose, and after we are reassembled back to our forms for an eternal life of happiness and freedom, or an eternal life of suffering and confinement.

 

So, in that above sense, Freedom is like a light above our heads showing us the way below, we can see far if we are way up, taking Allah's light to see, as we descend down, and seek light from other than Allah SWT, we see less, thus we feel confined and less free. To put in a different way, If we seek to take the light of our freedoms from Allah, the highest source, all of our wishes are realized by Allah SWT, if on the other hand we seek to take freedom from those who deny Allah SWT, then the scope of the freedom will be much narrower, and we will end up becoming slaves for other than Allah SWT, so in order to be as free as you can, seek Allah alone in worship, obey Him and enjoy real freedom.

 

Nur

 

 

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[Waranle_Warrior]

Good choice sxb, The month of Ramadan is coming and we need more of your time(Inspiring articles)..

 

But nothing much in there better repost it.

 

Thanks