Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Islam critiqued wants concrete examples; who are the spiritually degenerate?

In answer to the video "No Compulsion in Religion"

They are those whose spiritual disorientation has obscured their lives. They are sucked in by irrelevant distractions although they can physically hear the calls of admonition, as if being called from afar and dimly perceiving what is being said 6:71. Their spiritual senses become clouded to a point that they begin perceiving acts and concepts that are otherwise a corruption of mankind, to actually be an improvement of humanity 2:11-12.

Sometimes, the sight of spiritually upright people causes their mockeries, aversion and rejection while they should serve as examples for them to follow 23:110,27:56.

David decried that atitude of the spiritualy degenerate, those full of hatred and aversion towards the doers of good Ps38:21. Even the most selfless of acts such as giving to charity is stripped from all goodness in their sight; it becomes a pretext of mockery and rejection of not only those that practice it, but a means of sarcastic attack against the revelation that demands it 9:79,36:47. These are the kind of people repeatedly addressed by the prophet Amos in particular, and others like Micah, condemned not only for their neglect of the poor but for their outright deceitful exploitation of them for wordly gains
Micah3:11,Amos8:5-6"When will the month be delayed, so that we will sell grain,..and to pervert deceitful scales...To purchase the poor with money, and the needy in order to inherit them, and the refuse of the grain we will sell".
In fact, any divine admonition, not just the calls for human empathy, is equally dismissed through any possible pretense
36:45-6"And when it is said to them: Guard against what is before you and what is behind you, that mercy may be had on you. And there comes not to them a communication of the communications of their Lord but they turn aside from it".
Even when the Quran points to external signs supporting its various arguments, they are equally dismissed while they are a source of wonder to the God-conscious
37:12-4"you wonder while they mock, and when they are reminded, they mind not, and when they see a sign they incite one another to scoff".
The Quran is refering to the psycho-spiritual reality, that the more one indulges in certain behavior, the harder it is to escape that behavior. The consciousness of this person begins to be molded in accordance with the life-style one adopts. Those who dont follow truth and make compromises with it, start to lose value for it, sometimes to the point they arrogantly start choosing falsehood over truth
54:4-5"And certainly some narratives have come to them wherein is prevention--Consummate wisdom-- but warnings do not avail".
This phenomenon is also considered a law of God, and is part of God's hidaya or guidance. The more one chooses to do good, the more God strengthens the will and love of the truth, as well as perception. The more one does evil and fails to repent, the more one's will becomes clouded with vice and lust. Man starts to see according to his whims and fancies. The prophet Micah addresses the sinful and corrupt Israelites as
Micah3:2"Those who hate good and love evil".


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