Being Honest and Not Hypocritical

Enlightenment

Are You Enlightened?

Arabs

For the past 2 weeks I have been getting emails regarding the new tower in Dubai. My Arab friends are mesmerized with the new tower, as if we have reached the pinnacle of civilization. They forget that Dubai is essentially bankrupt, that the tower of was built essentially with slave labor, and that Dubai is stands for everything that is opposite of Islam; did we forget the gambling, prostitution, materialism, and racism present there.

Now Talal Ibn Walid in Saudia Arabia wants to build one taller. That will be of great benefit to the muslims without a doubt. Yet while the Gazans living in a concentration camp are slowly dying away, poverty and corruption increase rampantly across the Muslim world, and the Muslim lands continue to be occupied and pillaged, the wealthy try to outdo each other in material wealth and glamor, instead of using their wealth to create jobs, provide better education and alleviate poverty.

The crux of this problem gets back to love of this world and material wealth. Muslims in love of this world will cheat, steal, kill, oppress, imprison, etc to gain wealth or power. As long as this disease exists, the umma will remain diseased.

Narrated Sahl bin Sa'd: I heard Ibn Az-Zubair who was on the pulpit at Mecca, delivering a sermon, saying, "O men! The Prophet used to say, "If the son of Adam were given a valley full of gold, he would love to have a second one; and if he were given the second one, he would love to have a third, for nothing fills the belly of Adam's son except dust. And Allah forgives he who repents to Him." Ubai said, "We considered this as a saying from the Qur'an till the Sura (beginning with) 'The mutual rivalry for piling up of worldly things diverts you..' (102.1) was revealed."