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Islamic parables and stories. (Read 2013 times)
Acid Monkey
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Islamic parables and stories.
Aug 3rd, 2008 at 9:27pm
 
Any good ones?
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Reply #1 - Aug 3rd, 2008 at 9:54pm
 
One of my favourite ones is one that highlights the political nature of Islam.

It's regarding a pious man who lived in a city that was filled with impiety.

God almighty had ordained that the city was to be destroyed because it was so filled with evil and wickedness, and so he called upon his angels and commanded them to lay waste to the city. But they mentioned that there was a man who lived in that city who was one of the most pious and earnest worshippers on earth, and so their Lord commanded that they should continue the destrution and in fact begin with that man. He lived all his life amongst those people and did not try to fix the society in which he lived, believing himself to be pious and righteous because he carried out his own private rituals of worship.

So no matter how good you are as an individual, you must always work for the betterment of society, and must take an active role in the political life of the society, and that is in fact part of your worship, which would not be complete without this aspect.
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Reply #2 - Nov 14th, 2023 at 9:57pm
 
abu_rashid wrote on Aug 3rd, 2008 at 9:54pm:
One of my favourite ones is one that highlights the political nature of Islam.

It's regarding a pious man who lived in a city that was filled with impiety.

God almighty had ordained that the city was to be destroyed because it was so filled with evil and wickedness, and so he called upon his angels and commanded them to lay waste to the city. But they mentioned that there was a man who lived in that city who was one of the most pious and earnest worshippers on earth, and so their Lord commanded that they should continue the destrution and in fact begin with that man. He lived all his life amongst those people and did not try to fix the society in which he lived, believing himself to be pious and righteous because he carried out his own private rituals of worship.

So no matter how good you are as an individual, you must always work for the betterment of society, and must take an active role in the political life of the society, and that is in fact part of your worship, which would not be complete without this aspect.



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