Solution: The Morals Of The Qur'an

Solution: The Morals Of The Qur'an

People who are persecuted and tortured to death, innocent babies, people who cannot even afford a loaf of bread, who sleep, in cold weather, in tents and even on the streets, who cannot afford medical treatment, or who, despite being old and weak, have to wait for hours, or even days, for hospital care, people who are killed just for belonging to a certain race, women, children and old people who are thrown out of their homes because of their religion, enormous extravagance alongside poor people suffering from starvation and neglect, who are just left to die, children too young and defenseless to be able to look after themselves, children who leave school to work or beg for money to help their families survive, people who live with the constant fear of being slaughtered by their enemies…

Everybody is aware of the existence of such people as these. Almost every day we come across pictures of these helpless, miserable, homeless and needy people in the papers or on TV. Many people see their plight and pity them. However, they then either turn off the channel they have been watching, or turn over the pages of the newspaper they have been reading and forget they exist once more. Most people never think that they have to make an effort to save these people from the terrible conditions they live in. They ask "is it up to me to save these people when there are so many rich and powerful people in the world", and leave the responsibility to others.

However, prosperity and power alone are not enough to save these people, and to make this world a place where justice, peace, security, and well being prevail. For instance, despite the existence of many rich and developed countries in the world, people in Ethiopia are still dying from hunger. That people are still going hungry despite the present advanced state of technology and the many resources in the world is a clear indication that wealth and power by themselves are not enough.

In order for wealth and power to be used for the well being of these poor and needy people, first of all, people have to be conscientious. The sole way of being conscientious is belief. Only people who believe consistently act conscientiously.

Finally, there is only one solution to injustice, chaos, terror, massacres, hunger, poverty, and oppression: the Morals of the Qur'an.

When we look at the problems in the world in general, we see that they are all caused by feelings such as hatred, malice, antagonism, self-interest, selfishness, indifference, and cruelty. The way to finding a solution to these and eliminating them entirely lies in love, compassion, mercy, pity, the zeal to serve without expecting anything in return, sensitivity, sacrifice, brotherhood, tolerance, reason and wisdom. These traits are only found in those who fully live by the morals in the Qur'an. In one of His verses, Allah refers to the Qur'an's aspect of leading people out of darkness to light:

… A light has come to you from Allah and a Clear Book. By it, Allah guides those who follow what pleases Him to the ways of peace. He will bring them from the darkness to the light by His permission, and guide them to a straight path. (Surat al-Ma'ida: 15-16)

In another verse, Allah states that everything which conflicts with the Qur'an will end in corruption and confusion:

If the truth were to follow their whims and desires, the heavens and the earth and everyone in them would have been brought to ruin. No indeed! We have given them their Reminder, but they have turned away from it. (Surat al-Muminun: 71)

At the very moment you are reading this, millions of poor people are either suffering, or trying to avoid dying from hunger or cold. Or else they are being torn away from their homes, families and children, and forced to leave their homelands. For this reason, conscientious people must think about all this and act as if these troubles, adversities, and hardships had befallen themselves or their loved ones. Or they must look for ways to help those who ask for spiritual or material help. In one verse, Allah orders conscientious and faithful people with common sense to assume this responsibility:

What reason could you have for not fighting in the way of Allah-for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say, "Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from You!"? (Surat an-Nisa': 75)

When one considers the verse in the Qur'an, it becomes obvious how to do this. The most important thing for Muslims to do is to struggle in the intellectual domain so that the morals of the Qur'an prevail against lack of religion. The only salvation for the weak, helpless, homeless, and destitute is the widespread practice of the morals of the Qur'an by all the people of the world. For this reason telling people about the morals in the Qur'an and communicating the message is a very important and pressing way of worshipping for all Muslims. As is also stated in the Qur'an, "Our duty is only to proclaim the clear Message." (Surah Ya Sin: 17)

Those who do not use their consciences, who behave indifferently and uninterestedly towards orphans, the poor, and the unhappy, who spend the possessions given to them on vain things in the life of this world, who coldly watch women, children and old people under oppression, who feel happy at the spread of all kinds of immorality and ugliness in the world, and who encourage this point of view, will certainly account for all that in the hereafter:

Have you seen him who denies the religion? He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan and does not urge the feeding of the poor. So woe to those who establish prayer, and are forgetful of their prayer, those who show off and deny help to others. (Surat al-Ma'un: 1-7)