This was the title of my discussion with my wife last night. What would you do if you had to start a war (cold or hot, it does not matter) to show people the rightness? Obviously, you might be wrong and it may take lives to prove that.
My question is pretty clear: assuming you know the truth, do you think you have the right to break the peace to unveil the rightness and stop people from doing wrong?
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Abraham went into the fire to unveil the truth. Musses escaped to survive and show the truth. Jesus crucified and Mohammad had to fight. So I will choose the way that fits the situation. But I believe if the people have their ears open and the capacity to listen, there is no need for fight, there is just the need to talk. If you are looking for just truth and nothing else you have to know that truth comes with peace not fight. The ego comes with fight.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct. you need to find the strategy that works best.
ReplyDeleteIf you can pursue without breaking the peace (maybe just by talking) that would be great! unfortunately, even if people open their ears to listen, they do not have open mind, especially when you tell them they are wrong. As you mentioned we had fights too. I am pointing on those cases. Do you think human has the right to kill others to force them to accept his idea (the idea as a general concept which could be right or wrong)? I think if that was the case, we would have had a great life now!
Absolutely not! As lovely Chris De Burgh said: "Life of a child is more than mountains, life of a child is more than forests, life of a child is more than religions,...". The result of wars is only death and desolation. I strongly beleive that peace is much more important than righness, as we will never know what rightness is.
ReplyDeleteDear friend;
ReplyDeleteI was searching web and I though, you may be interested in my comment too. I wish you have been a member of persianblog or blogfa so Persian people could involve more in your discussions:
I don't give you my opinion because mine is not that much important. I give you the others which are super duper important and it surprises me that people won't accept them with their mind (logic). For example if you won't have to kill people for your ideology why Mohammad (the prophet of more than 1 billion people) did?!
So if you are a Muslim you shouldn’t even question that, you have already have the answer. Because sometimes you have no choice you have to be killed or to kill. Jesus chose the first path and he died on the cross. Hallaj did the same thing too. But Rumi played a smart way and he didn't tell what the truth is or if he did, he did it so hidden and complicated that no others could understand just the friends.
About the truth, he knows it? But about the ideology that you strongly believe is coming from god, you can do whatever god tells you but according to Sheikh Kharghani, if a person worth to live by god’s will who are you to decide to kill him!
Good luck
Jalaleddin, Thanks for your comment.
ReplyDeleteI am not part of persianblog. I feel more comfortable writing here.
I need to highlight couple of points:
1. Who are those super important people? I think all people are super important as far as expressing their ideas.
2. I am obviously muslim. But, unfortunately, most of religions do not accept critics talk about their ideologies. I, as a human being, have the right to question anything that I do not understand or it does not make sense. I preserve the right to find out the truth of what I am a part of. I do not want to be like a parot repeating whatever our ancestors did. Mohamad was a profit and if I was there, I would have asked my questions. If a profit could not answer my questions with a reasonable logic to convince me, I would doubt his word.
3. A big problem of Muslims is they think they should do whatever Mohammad did. No! it's been 1500 years since then. people and societies are different. Religion should be adoptable based on the current circumestances.
4. God gave us reasoning power. Even Islam says refer your logic "Aghl" if something does not make sense. So I always think about anything.
5. Please do not be so blind! Many great people were worth to live, but because of many idiots they have been killed. So besides God's will, human has a great role in the peace of the world.