Sense of Direction

God is ever wise. God preordains, and yet He blesses us with free will and reasoning. All that's left on our behalf is effort and faith.

Because my future is my decision... and God knows...

Racism 2

My faith does not have any space for racism. That is what is ordained in the book of God.

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"O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm for Allah, witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just; that is nearer to righteousness. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is acquainted with what you do."

5:8

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This is what is instructed. This is what is ordained. This is the path of wisdom and righteousness. I can't simply dislike a people (a race) just because of some negative sentiments that are stuck on any particular race or skin colour. That is the most unjust thing in the world.

The greatest thing about being human is the ability to think and tell between what's right and what's wrong. We can choose to be better or worse. Rules, traditions, cultures... they're just guidelines, for the sake of betterment, not for shutting down our thinking capacities; not for rendering progress obsolete.

I simply have no room for hating a people, for the sake of hatred itself... no, not even Jews. Jesus was a Jew, Moses was a Jew. And they are God's messengers, spreading light and truth upon the world. Negatively stigmatizing a race without giving it a single thought whatsoever is just lazy, irresponsible, and most heavily unjust. We are better than that.

Sadly, the world in which we strut on and earn our daily bread is not a perfect world. Where there is good, there is bound to be evil. Evil is the lack of good, and our world has had been lacking in good for quite some time. War. Greed. Oppression. Injustice. Sloth. 

I strongly detest evil. But being racist does not help rid the world of evil. It just makes things worse. Evil is everywhere, and evil does not recognize race. Slapping a particular race with the evil tag is really not helping. 

It's actually a "pointing a finger at another person, without realising that three other fingers are pointed back at you" thing, being racist.  

God does not simply make us many peoples and nations for the purpose of conflict. No.

I don't hate this guy because of his race.

Nor do I hate Joe who lives in Israel, simply because of his race.

Nor do I hate Saravanan in Mumbai, simply beacuse he's a tad bit on the dark side.

Nor do I hate Chong in Shanghai because he's too kiasu.

But I really detest what the immoral soldiers are doing in Palestine and to the Palestinian people. 

Am I a racist?

No.

Not because I believe in justice, no.

Because justice is nearer to righteousness;