The features that should be particularly stressed:
- It has a fossil dating back to 450 million years.
- By looking at the fossil, they claimed that it had lungs that
were being formed and primitive feet.
- They said it is a transitional being whichwas about to pass from
water to land.
- An alive Coelacanth was found. It was the same as its fossil
dating back to 450 million years.
- The examination made on the alive Coelacanth revealed that what
they called as the primitive lung was in fact an oil sac.
- The examination again revealed that what they called as the
primitive feet were actually fins.
- They said it was about to pass to land. However, Coelacanth is a
deep-water fish that cannot survive in shallow waters. It can survive
only below 150 metres.
- If Coelacanth were notcaught, it would be represented as the most
well-known water-to-land form, just as Tiktaalik of today. Darwinists
would show its pictures and it would be included in the textbooks.
If they were also extinct, Darwinists would also show the following
living beings as transitional forms:
Platypus
- Platypus is a mosaic living being.
- Despite being a mammal it reproduces by laying eggs. It has hair,
posseses glandula mammaria and nurses itschicks.
- It has a beak similar to bird beak and has curtained feet just
like waterfowls.
- It has poison like reptiles and again like reptiles they leave
their eggs in a section in theirbodies.
- This living being has fossils dating back from the dinosaur
period (208-146 million years) and it has not changed in any way.
- Tiktaalik is also a mosaic living being like platypus and all its
features reveal that it is a perfect living being.
Handfish
- The pectoral fins of this living being which look like hands is
quite developed.
- Hand fish use its pectoral fins to walk on the ocean floor.
- Just like Coelacanth it is a bottom-dwelling fishliving in the
depths of the ocean.
- If this fish were extinct and its fossils were found,
evolutionists would not hesitate to claim that it was a transitional
form from water-to-land and they would claim that their developed fins
were feet about to develop.
- However being a fish living in our day, the possible claims
regarding this perfect living being become void.
Flying Fish
- Fish beloning to a total of 50 species use their developed fins
like wings and thus cover short distances by flying.
- With a height of 1,5 metres, flying fish can flyabout 2,5 metres.
- These living beings live in our day and are created perfectly.
- If these living species were extinct and only their fossils were
found, evolutionists might haveseen them as a transitional form
between bird and fish. However, these living beings that are perfect
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Coelacanth is not a transitional form, it is a perfect deep-water fish
Pikaia is a perfect cambrian living thing. Claiming that it is a transitional form fossil isa deception.
Pikaia
Pikaia, because of several of its features, was included in the phylum
Chordata, which also includes vertebrates. The first known Cambrian
representative of this phylum, it had a pair of short tentacles on the
front. The trunk consisted of solid blocks of muscle, curved in an
Sshape. The tail expandedin the form of a fin. Pikaia swam just above
the sea bed. It propelled itself by using the muscles to undulate its
body.
The Vertebrates That Evolutionists Never Expected!
Vertebrates are defined as organisms with a spinal column and
spinalcord, a skeleton consisting of bone or cartilage, a brain
protected inside a skull, a closed circulatory system and a heart
consisting of two, three or four chambers. They are divided into five
classes: fish, amphibians,reptiles, birds and mammals. Widely
distributed across the world, their bodies contain a wide variety
ofhighly developed and complex structures.
As the evolutionist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould admits, Darwinist
textbooks particularly stressed the fact that no evidence of
vertebrates in the Cambrian had ever been found, seeking to portray
this as evidence that Cambrian rocks confirmed the truth of Darwin's
theory of evolution. In their scenarios regarding vertebrate
evolution, evolutionists suggested that Pikaia, a Cambrian chordate,
was the ancestor of all vertebrates.
Yet as they were soon to see, these claims were unjustified.
Excavations performed in Cambrian rock beds inChina produced results
that completely overturned evolutionist scenarios regarding
vertebrates. The chordate now known as Haikouella, unearthed by the
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology's Jun-Yuan Chen and his
team, possessed a brain, heart and circulatory system, gills, a
notochord, a well developed musculature and—in all likelihood—apair of
eyes.
The science journalist Fred Heeren describes how the discovery of
Haikouella produced results that were the exact opposite of
evolutionist expectations regarding Pikaia:
Biologist had been expecting to see something that would like a
primitive ancestor to the middle Cambrian animal called Pikaia,
formerly promoted as the world's earliest chordate. Rather than
finding evidence that Pikaia had a less-complex ancestor, Chen instead
found a chordate that already displayed many vertebrate
characteristics 15 millionyears earlier. (Fred Heeren, "A little fish
challenges a giant of science," The Boston Globe, 30 May 2000, p. E1.)
Thus it was that evolutionists had to abandon Pikaia, which for
decades they had depicted in textbooks
Pikaia
as the ancestor of vertebrates. The fact thatthe first known
chordatehad a highly developed anatomy and—moreover, that it had lived
15 million years before Pikaia—totally overturned the claimed
progression of the theory of evolution. The elimination of this
fictitious ancestor thus dealt a severe blow to the scenario of
vertebrate evolution.
Yet the real blow came with the discovery that vertebrates had also
lived in the Cambrian! These findings were the remains of a fossilized
fish, dating back 530 million years, found at Haikou, near Kunming,
the regional capital of the Chinese province of Yunnan. These remains
literally stunned evolutionist scientists.
Research by Chinese, British, French and Japanese scientists showed
that this was indeed a vertebrate. All the details of the animal's
head and backbone could be seen in the remains. Such key features as a
lobate extension to the head, eyes and possible nasal sacs provided
detailed information regarding the creature. Many of the vertebrate
features were right before scientists' eyes, and, what is more, in a
fossil dating back 530 million years old.
This fish was given the name of Haikouichthys. Scientists are agreed
that it is a true fish because of its gills and the zigzag arrangement
of the muscles known as myotomes—features unique to fish.
Besides, Haikouichthys isnot the only fossil fish that belongs to
Cambrian. Another fossil,known as Myllokunmingia, was unearthed in
Chengjiang. Philippe Janvier of the National Museum of Natural History
in Paris says that this, too, is definitely a vertebrate and
describesits significance:
It's important because up to now the vertebrates were absent from the
big bang of life, as we call it—that is,the great early
Cambrianexplosion, where all the major animal groups appeared suddenly
in the fossil record. ... It is practically certain that these are
vertebrates . (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/504776.stm)
The theory of evolution maintains that organisms emerged gradually,
and that their complex structures are expected to appear only toward
the end of the fictitious evolutionary process. Given that pointof
view, the chordate Haikouella and the Cambrian fish Haikouichthys and
Myllokunmingia represent major problems, because these animals have
reduced by15 million years the timenecessary for the chordate
evolution scenario and reduced the time necessary for the evolution of
fish by afull 50 million.
Thus, the sudden appearance of these animals has reduced to nothing
the time that these organisms supposedly need to evolve.
Naturally, these discoveries caused great astonishment among
evolutionist circles, who needed to explain the sudden appearance of
vertebrates in the Cambrian Period. This only added another problem to
the Cambrian, which was in any case full of question marks. A great
many evolutionists have finallyhad to abandon their previous scenarios
regarding the evolution of vertebrates and to admit that on this
subject, they have no answers at all.
John Maynard Smith has described this variety:
But in the Burgess Shale,information about soft parts is beautifully
preserved. These fossils have been known for over fifty years, but
recently they have been re-examined. It is now clear that there
existed in the Cambrian a very wide array of forms, some of which may
differ in their basic bodyplan from anything alivetoday. It also seems
likely that, with a few minor exceptions, all thebody plans that exist
today were already present in the Cambrian. (JohnMaynard Smith, The
Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 19.)
Eldredge:
Indeed, the sudden appearance of a varied, well-preserved array of
fossils, which geologists have used to mark the beginnings of the
Cambrian Period does pose a fascinating intellectual challenge. (Duane
T. Gish, Evolution:The Fossils Still Say No!, Institude of Creation
Research, California, 1985, p. 66)
Bob Holmes described the fact of the Cambrian in the 18 October, 1997,
edition of New Scientist magazine:
Glass skyscrapers, Gothic cathedrals, yurts, Georgian terraces, Shinto
shrines, wattle and daub, Victorian railway stations, Bauhaus, igloos,
mock-Tudor. Imagine that all the architectural styles that human
ingenuity could ever devise appeared during one 35-year period,
sometime in the middle of the 15th century. Imagine how today's
historians would be trampling over each other in their eagerness to
learn what made that window of profound creativity possible.
That'sroughly how palaeontologists feel about the Cambrian explosion.
In just 35 million years, the blinking of an eye for evolution, animal
lifeerupted in an explosion of inventiveness that far outshines
anything the planet has seen before or since .(Holmes, "When we were
worms," New Scientist.)
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Pikaia, because of several of its features, was included in the phylum
Chordata, which also includes vertebrates. The first known Cambrian
representative of this phylum, it had a pair of short tentacles on the
front. The trunk consisted of solid blocks of muscle, curved in an
Sshape. The tail expandedin the form of a fin. Pikaia swam just above
the sea bed. It propelled itself by using the muscles to undulate its
body.
The Vertebrates That Evolutionists Never Expected!
Vertebrates are defined as organisms with a spinal column and
spinalcord, a skeleton consisting of bone or cartilage, a brain
protected inside a skull, a closed circulatory system and a heart
consisting of two, three or four chambers. They are divided into five
classes: fish, amphibians,reptiles, birds and mammals. Widely
distributed across the world, their bodies contain a wide variety
ofhighly developed and complex structures.
As the evolutionist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould admits, Darwinist
textbooks particularly stressed the fact that no evidence of
vertebrates in the Cambrian had ever been found, seeking to portray
this as evidence that Cambrian rocks confirmed the truth of Darwin's
theory of evolution. In their scenarios regarding vertebrate
evolution, evolutionists suggested that Pikaia, a Cambrian chordate,
was the ancestor of all vertebrates.
Yet as they were soon to see, these claims were unjustified.
Excavations performed in Cambrian rock beds inChina produced results
that completely overturned evolutionist scenarios regarding
vertebrates. The chordate now known as Haikouella, unearthed by the
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology's Jun-Yuan Chen and his
team, possessed a brain, heart and circulatory system, gills, a
notochord, a well developed musculature and—in all likelihood—apair of
eyes.
The science journalist Fred Heeren describes how the discovery of
Haikouella produced results that were the exact opposite of
evolutionist expectations regarding Pikaia:
Biologist had been expecting to see something that would like a
primitive ancestor to the middle Cambrian animal called Pikaia,
formerly promoted as the world's earliest chordate. Rather than
finding evidence that Pikaia had a less-complex ancestor, Chen instead
found a chordate that already displayed many vertebrate
characteristics 15 millionyears earlier. (Fred Heeren, "A little fish
challenges a giant of science," The Boston Globe, 30 May 2000, p. E1.)
Thus it was that evolutionists had to abandon Pikaia, which for
decades they had depicted in textbooks
Pikaia
as the ancestor of vertebrates. The fact thatthe first known
chordatehad a highly developed anatomy and—moreover, that it had lived
15 million years before Pikaia—totally overturned the claimed
progression of the theory of evolution. The elimination of this
fictitious ancestor thus dealt a severe blow to the scenario of
vertebrate evolution.
Yet the real blow came with the discovery that vertebrates had also
lived in the Cambrian! These findings were the remains of a fossilized
fish, dating back 530 million years, found at Haikou, near Kunming,
the regional capital of the Chinese province of Yunnan. These remains
literally stunned evolutionist scientists.
Research by Chinese, British, French and Japanese scientists showed
that this was indeed a vertebrate. All the details of the animal's
head and backbone could be seen in the remains. Such key features as a
lobate extension to the head, eyes and possible nasal sacs provided
detailed information regarding the creature. Many of the vertebrate
features were right before scientists' eyes, and, what is more, in a
fossil dating back 530 million years old.
This fish was given the name of Haikouichthys. Scientists are agreed
that it is a true fish because of its gills and the zigzag arrangement
of the muscles known as myotomes—features unique to fish.
Besides, Haikouichthys isnot the only fossil fish that belongs to
Cambrian. Another fossil,known as Myllokunmingia, was unearthed in
Chengjiang. Philippe Janvier of the National Museum of Natural History
in Paris says that this, too, is definitely a vertebrate and
describesits significance:
It's important because up to now the vertebrates were absent from the
big bang of life, as we call it—that is,the great early
Cambrianexplosion, where all the major animal groups appeared suddenly
in the fossil record. ... It is practically certain that these are
vertebrates . (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/504776.stm)
The theory of evolution maintains that organisms emerged gradually,
and that their complex structures are expected to appear only toward
the end of the fictitious evolutionary process. Given that pointof
view, the chordate Haikouella and the Cambrian fish Haikouichthys and
Myllokunmingia represent major problems, because these animals have
reduced by15 million years the timenecessary for the chordate
evolution scenario and reduced the time necessary for the evolution of
fish by afull 50 million.
Thus, the sudden appearance of these animals has reduced to nothing
the time that these organisms supposedly need to evolve.
Naturally, these discoveries caused great astonishment among
evolutionist circles, who needed to explain the sudden appearance of
vertebrates in the Cambrian Period. This only added another problem to
the Cambrian, which was in any case full of question marks. A great
many evolutionists have finallyhad to abandon their previous scenarios
regarding the evolution of vertebrates and to admit that on this
subject, they have no answers at all.
John Maynard Smith has described this variety:
But in the Burgess Shale,information about soft parts is beautifully
preserved. These fossils have been known for over fifty years, but
recently they have been re-examined. It is now clear that there
existed in the Cambrian a very wide array of forms, some of which may
differ in their basic bodyplan from anything alivetoday. It also seems
likely that, with a few minor exceptions, all thebody plans that exist
today were already present in the Cambrian. (JohnMaynard Smith, The
Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 19.)
Eldredge:
Indeed, the sudden appearance of a varied, well-preserved array of
fossils, which geologists have used to mark the beginnings of the
Cambrian Period does pose a fascinating intellectual challenge. (Duane
T. Gish, Evolution:The Fossils Still Say No!, Institude of Creation
Research, California, 1985, p. 66)
Bob Holmes described the fact of the Cambrian in the 18 October, 1997,
edition of New Scientist magazine:
Glass skyscrapers, Gothic cathedrals, yurts, Georgian terraces, Shinto
shrines, wattle and daub, Victorian railway stations, Bauhaus, igloos,
mock-Tudor. Imagine that all the architectural styles that human
ingenuity could ever devise appeared during one 35-year period,
sometime in the middle of the 15th century. Imagine how today's
historians would be trampling over each other in their eagerness to
learn what made that window of profound creativity possible.
That'sroughly how palaeontologists feel about the Cambrian explosion.
In just 35 million years, the blinking of an eye for evolution, animal
lifeerupted in an explosion of inventiveness that far outshines
anything the planet has seen before or since .(Holmes, "When we were
worms," New Scientist.)
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Dabbat al-Ardh (Dabba) refers to the computer and internet technology in the end times
Dabbat al-Ardh is one of the portents that will emerge in the End
Times.Apart from many hadith, Dabbat al-Ardh is also referred to in
the Qur'an.Surat an-Naml in its verse 82 refers to the emergence of
dabba as asign for the End Times:
When the Word comes to pass against them, Wewill raise a creature
untothem out of the earth that will tell them that mankind had no real
faith in Our messages. (Surat an-Naml, 82)
The following features of dabba have been suggested on the basis of
interpretation of this verse:
1. Dabba is the product of the earth.
2. Dabba is a thing or a creature that "speaks" and gives a particular
message, which is addressed to all of mankind.
The hadith explains that Dabbat al-Ardh is able to cover long
distances in asingle step, speak to people and can enter everywhere.
That dabba is the product of the earth indicates that it will have a
structure made up of minerals extracted from the ground such as metal,
iron, copper, zinc, cobaltor chrome. These elements make up the basic
structure of computers in our day. That it can speak to people and
cover long distances in a single steprefers to the Internet web.
Thanks to the Internet technology today, it is extremely fastand easy
to reach and convey information, to talk and communicate topeople.
Similarly, it will also be extremely fast and easy to communicate the
Qur'an to people. In the End Times, the Internet will be an important
tool for the domination of the moral values of the Qur'an over the
world. During the period of the Prophet Jesus' (peace be upon him)
descent and Hazrat Mahdi's (pbuh) appearance, the Internetis a special
opportunity granted to these two blessed people to make them easily
communicate the morality of Islam and ensure the domination of the
morality of the Qur'an over the world. Inour day, the communication of
the morality of the religion and expounding the invalidity of the
irreligious materialist ideologies can become possible by the Internet
technologies. By means of the Internet, every point of the world can
be reached by Muslims and, by Allah's leave, the morality of Islam
spreadsvery quickly.
Besides, the fact that " dabba " is used in Arabic as " nakhira ",
that is, as an indefinite word, indicates that it is a being, which
was unknown by that period.The great Islamic Qur'an interpreter
Elmalili Hamdi Yazir refers to thispoint as follows:
"In this verse since 'dabba' is used as a nakhira (indefinite name),
it makes us think that it should be a dabbawhich is different from the
dabbas we already know…"
Apart from the Islamic interpreters such as Elmalili Hamdi Yazir, some
dictionary authors also stated that "dabba",as its meaning of the
word, could also mean a ll sorts of technical equipment that can move.
Indeed, computer is also a technical equipment that conveys movements
and images of movements and ensures the transfer of information by
frequencies. However, more importantly, this dabba, a portent of the
End Times, which is the product of the earth, " speaks to people " .
There is almost no country, no nation and no community which is not
acquainted with the Internet today. Moreover, the Internet, which is
the product of advanced technology, addresses to every community in
its own language.
Times.Apart from many hadith, Dabbat al-Ardh is also referred to in
the Qur'an.Surat an-Naml in its verse 82 refers to the emergence of
dabba as asign for the End Times:
When the Word comes to pass against them, Wewill raise a creature
untothem out of the earth that will tell them that mankind had no real
faith in Our messages. (Surat an-Naml, 82)
The following features of dabba have been suggested on the basis of
interpretation of this verse:
1. Dabba is the product of the earth.
2. Dabba is a thing or a creature that "speaks" and gives a particular
message, which is addressed to all of mankind.
The hadith explains that Dabbat al-Ardh is able to cover long
distances in asingle step, speak to people and can enter everywhere.
That dabba is the product of the earth indicates that it will have a
structure made up of minerals extracted from the ground such as metal,
iron, copper, zinc, cobaltor chrome. These elements make up the basic
structure of computers in our day. That it can speak to people and
cover long distances in a single steprefers to the Internet web.
Thanks to the Internet technology today, it is extremely fastand easy
to reach and convey information, to talk and communicate topeople.
Similarly, it will also be extremely fast and easy to communicate the
Qur'an to people. In the End Times, the Internet will be an important
tool for the domination of the moral values of the Qur'an over the
world. During the period of the Prophet Jesus' (peace be upon him)
descent and Hazrat Mahdi's (pbuh) appearance, the Internetis a special
opportunity granted to these two blessed people to make them easily
communicate the morality of Islam and ensure the domination of the
morality of the Qur'an over the world. Inour day, the communication of
the morality of the religion and expounding the invalidity of the
irreligious materialist ideologies can become possible by the Internet
technologies. By means of the Internet, every point of the world can
be reached by Muslims and, by Allah's leave, the morality of Islam
spreadsvery quickly.
Besides, the fact that " dabba " is used in Arabic as " nakhira ",
that is, as an indefinite word, indicates that it is a being, which
was unknown by that period.The great Islamic Qur'an interpreter
Elmalili Hamdi Yazir refers to thispoint as follows:
"In this verse since 'dabba' is used as a nakhira (indefinite name),
it makes us think that it should be a dabbawhich is different from the
dabbas we already know…"
Apart from the Islamic interpreters such as Elmalili Hamdi Yazir, some
dictionary authors also stated that "dabba",as its meaning of the
word, could also mean a ll sorts of technical equipment that can move.
Indeed, computer is also a technical equipment that conveys movements
and images of movements and ensures the transfer of information by
frequencies. However, more importantly, this dabba, a portent of the
End Times, which is the product of the earth, " speaks to people " .
There is almost no country, no nation and no community which is not
acquainted with the Internet today. Moreover, the Internet, which is
the product of advanced technology, addresses to every community in
its own language.
Ecology and Islamic values - III
"Tawheed" and 'Adl, "Unity" and 'Justice"
Allah's Tawheed or Unity is central to the Quranic message, and with
that unity comes perfect justice. The idea that everything in this
world, indeed everything in all of the many worlds that surround us in
space and time, and perhaps other dimensions as well, stems from
asingle source, is a powerful message of unity. Since all of us, and
everything around us, are creations of the one Creator – Allaah, we
must respect the hidden unity that links the many to The One, and
recognize that whatever we do to that which is outside of ourselves,
we are ultimately doing to ourselves. If we abuse other people, we
abuseourselves—though the full effectsof that abuse may not be
apparent until the last day. Likewise, if we abuse nature, we also
abuse ourselves, and the consequences of that abuse will in the end be
fully felt, and perfect justice dispensed by Allaah when we return to
Him. Those who reject this knowledge rationalize their behavior by
saying, "Well, I'm not going to curb my wasteful lifestyle now,
because this catastrophe you're predicting probably won't happen
during my lifetime." Theydo not believe that they will suffer the full
consequences of their own actions. But the Quran stands as a clear
warning that this is not the case, amplifying the inner voice of
conscience Allaah built into our deepest nature: "Then each will see
what he had done in the past; and theywill turn to Allaah, their true
Lord, and all the lies they had fabricated will be of no avail to
them." [Quran, 10:30]
Zuhd, "Renunciation, asceticism"
Zuhd is an especially hard word to translate into English because the
closest cognate, asceticism, carries traces of Christian attempts to
"mortify the flesh." Mortification implies self-torture aimed at
making us feel revulsionfor our physical, earthbound existence. Islam,
however, has nosuch tradition of self-torture. Instead, Zuhd describes
a balanced, judicious approach to abstaining from excesses of
ease,comfort and pleasure-seeking, in order to detach the soul from
potential addictions and instead turn towards Allaah. The wise
detachment of Zuhd is meant to be practiced not just by a few
self-flagellating monks in hair shirts, but by each and every Muslim.
That is why Ramadhaan is a universal requirement, not anoption:
Fasting is a perfect lessonin moderation and self-control, as well as
compassion for the less-fortunate. This moderate, universal Zuhd
could, Allaah willing, help us create a genuinely sustainable world,
by healing the current order at both the spiritual and physical
levels. (These two levels, of course, are intimately connected.) Zuhd
teaches us that giving up our excesses is a blessing, not a
curse—especially if we do it voluntarily, rather than waiting for
Allaah-given natural limits to do it for us. In practicing Zuhd, we
are following a very important Sunnah. Though the leader of a
powerful, rapidly-expanding community, the Prophet Muhammad , lived
and died in a small, hardly-furnished house, leaving behind virtually
no material possessions. He was moderate in his consumption of food
and drink, careful not to waste a drop of water when performing
ablutions, fasted frequently, and prayed devoutly late into the night.
Let us pray that humanity soon discovers the wisdom of hisexample.
Fardh, "Obligation"
Islam prescribes certain specific obligations: prayer, fasting,
bearing witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allaah and
that Muhammad is themessenger of Allaah, paying almsgiving, and
performing pilgrimage are the best known. fardh has been viewed by
some scholars as involving general as well as specific obligations,
that is, obligations from Allaah that may not be specific enough to be
enforceable by the community: being charitable, just, and merciful,
remembering Allaah, putting ones family, community, and planet ahead
of oneself, and so on could be viewed as obligations in the general
sense. In the more common, specifically legal sense of fardgh, there
are obligations incumbent on everyone (fardh al-'ayn) and others that
can be fulfilled for thewhole community by some of its members (fardh
al-kifaayah). Because these obligations are from Allaah, they demand
to be taken seriously. Thus the Islamic world-view emphasizes the
notion of obligation, in contrast to the Western preoccupation with
individualism and rights at the expense of obligations and
responsibilities. The notion of obligation is obviously essential to
any serious attempt to save our environment. If we are governed by the
principle of individual "rights" we will not want to infringe on
anyone's"right" to consume more and more material goods—and to cutdown
forests, dig mines, exterminate animals, spew pollutants, and ravage
ecosystems in pursuit of those goods. An ethic built on obligations
before rights, like theIslamic ethic, seems better suitedto a world in
which is more than six billion people pursuing their"right" to
unlimited material consumption will spell doom for the planet as a
whole. In particular, the obligation of the fortunate to care for the
less fortunate must be universally acknowledged if we are to limit
planetary consumption in a humane, rational manner. Clearly the
Islamic ethic of obligation is well suited to saving the world by
correcting the unbalanced Western, and especially American, ethic of
"rights" whosebottom line is the right of the wealthy and powerful to
unlimited consumption of the planet's resources. - - ▓███▓
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Allah's Tawheed or Unity is central to the Quranic message, and with
that unity comes perfect justice. The idea that everything in this
world, indeed everything in all of the many worlds that surround us in
space and time, and perhaps other dimensions as well, stems from
asingle source, is a powerful message of unity. Since all of us, and
everything around us, are creations of the one Creator – Allaah, we
must respect the hidden unity that links the many to The One, and
recognize that whatever we do to that which is outside of ourselves,
we are ultimately doing to ourselves. If we abuse other people, we
abuseourselves—though the full effectsof that abuse may not be
apparent until the last day. Likewise, if we abuse nature, we also
abuse ourselves, and the consequences of that abuse will in the end be
fully felt, and perfect justice dispensed by Allaah when we return to
Him. Those who reject this knowledge rationalize their behavior by
saying, "Well, I'm not going to curb my wasteful lifestyle now,
because this catastrophe you're predicting probably won't happen
during my lifetime." Theydo not believe that they will suffer the full
consequences of their own actions. But the Quran stands as a clear
warning that this is not the case, amplifying the inner voice of
conscience Allaah built into our deepest nature: "Then each will see
what he had done in the past; and theywill turn to Allaah, their true
Lord, and all the lies they had fabricated will be of no avail to
them." [Quran, 10:30]
Zuhd, "Renunciation, asceticism"
Zuhd is an especially hard word to translate into English because the
closest cognate, asceticism, carries traces of Christian attempts to
"mortify the flesh." Mortification implies self-torture aimed at
making us feel revulsionfor our physical, earthbound existence. Islam,
however, has nosuch tradition of self-torture. Instead, Zuhd describes
a balanced, judicious approach to abstaining from excesses of
ease,comfort and pleasure-seeking, in order to detach the soul from
potential addictions and instead turn towards Allaah. The wise
detachment of Zuhd is meant to be practiced not just by a few
self-flagellating monks in hair shirts, but by each and every Muslim.
That is why Ramadhaan is a universal requirement, not anoption:
Fasting is a perfect lessonin moderation and self-control, as well as
compassion for the less-fortunate. This moderate, universal Zuhd
could, Allaah willing, help us create a genuinely sustainable world,
by healing the current order at both the spiritual and physical
levels. (These two levels, of course, are intimately connected.) Zuhd
teaches us that giving up our excesses is a blessing, not a
curse—especially if we do it voluntarily, rather than waiting for
Allaah-given natural limits to do it for us. In practicing Zuhd, we
are following a very important Sunnah. Though the leader of a
powerful, rapidly-expanding community, the Prophet Muhammad , lived
and died in a small, hardly-furnished house, leaving behind virtually
no material possessions. He was moderate in his consumption of food
and drink, careful not to waste a drop of water when performing
ablutions, fasted frequently, and prayed devoutly late into the night.
Let us pray that humanity soon discovers the wisdom of hisexample.
Fardh, "Obligation"
Islam prescribes certain specific obligations: prayer, fasting,
bearing witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allaah and
that Muhammad is themessenger of Allaah, paying almsgiving, and
performing pilgrimage are the best known. fardh has been viewed by
some scholars as involving general as well as specific obligations,
that is, obligations from Allaah that may not be specific enough to be
enforceable by the community: being charitable, just, and merciful,
remembering Allaah, putting ones family, community, and planet ahead
of oneself, and so on could be viewed as obligations in the general
sense. In the more common, specifically legal sense of fardgh, there
are obligations incumbent on everyone (fardh al-'ayn) and others that
can be fulfilled for thewhole community by some of its members (fardh
al-kifaayah). Because these obligations are from Allaah, they demand
to be taken seriously. Thus the Islamic world-view emphasizes the
notion of obligation, in contrast to the Western preoccupation with
individualism and rights at the expense of obligations and
responsibilities. The notion of obligation is obviously essential to
any serious attempt to save our environment. If we are governed by the
principle of individual "rights" we will not want to infringe on
anyone's"right" to consume more and more material goods—and to cutdown
forests, dig mines, exterminate animals, spew pollutants, and ravage
ecosystems in pursuit of those goods. An ethic built on obligations
before rights, like theIslamic ethic, seems better suitedto a world in
which is more than six billion people pursuing their"right" to
unlimited material consumption will spell doom for the planet as a
whole. In particular, the obligation of the fortunate to care for the
less fortunate must be universally acknowledged if we are to limit
planetary consumption in a humane, rational manner. Clearly the
Islamic ethic of obligation is well suited to saving the world by
correcting the unbalanced Western, and especially American, ethic of
"rights" whosebottom line is the right of the wealthy and powerful to
unlimited consumption of the planet's resources. - - ▓███▓
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