Multani,
With due respect, we have only advanced in technology. I ask you that what is so new in twentieth century? except our paper letters and pigeons for communication are transformed into TABLETS,our paper fans are converted into electrical fan.Our khas ki tatti is transformed into air conditioner.
However,our western economical banking system is still centuries old as it depends upon riba system.This so called democratic system is centuries old and highly criticized by great philosopher Plato himself:
According to Plato's five regime:
Plato uses the "democratic man" to represent democracy. The democratic man is the son of the oligarchic man. Unlike his father, the democratic man is consumed with unnecessary
desires. Plato describes necessary desires as desires that we have out of
instinct or desires that we have in order to survive. Unnecessary desires are desires we can teach ourselves to resist such as the desire for riches. The democratic man takes great interest in all the things he can buy with his money. He does whatever he wants whenever he wants to do it. His life has no order or priority.
According to Plato,democracy is finally degenerated into tyranny.
I see no advancement in society nor I find better system in replacement.I see that parents are still burying their baby girls alive.I am still seeing modern day urban man in raping and involved in corruption.
I see countries like Israel(not accepted by Pakistan) involved in worse violations of human laws ever.I am unable to differentiate between radicalized Israel and TTP which are extremists yet they claim to be modern and better then Arabs.
I am still seeing people in state of bewilderment, bamboozlement and frustration.
I see that today's modern man is well equipped with information but is not enriched with human moral -worse then animal and yet he blames religion without realizing that he lacks intelligence like Lucifer to understand the actual message of God.Today's modern man-what a joke,still lives in caves and manipulates /fails to understand religion and lacks intelligence to use it as a tool for success.
Regards
In fact Israel is the biggest terrorist state that legitimizes occupation based on 2014 standards [ who made them? taken as axioms?] ! Heck the Greeks, like Aristotle knew better and seem modern and applicable even today. These are not 2014 standards for human beings.
About what Israel is doing, clearly, the world cannot see this. It is said in Islamic eschatology, that during the end of times, the world will be upside down. This is one of the meanings of Dajjal. He appears good from the outside, but whats inside is refuse. People's morals will make a U-Turn. Evil will be accepted and appear good, and good will be rejected because it appears bad.
It is a Sahih Hadith that each successive time will be worse than the one before until Imam Mahdi AS comes. Worse in terms of morals as you have pointed out. Morally, the wold is going down. There was this thread about milk production. I pointed out the degree to which fake milk exists in Pakistan. And millions of Pakistanis boil and drink the half fake milk [ mixed in water ]. Isnt this illegal? Last time i heard that in Karachi they are mixing flour with earth or some other materials to increase its volume and sell it to the people. Most Pakistanis, who live in the cities, might be eating illegal food daily.
Imam Abu Hanifa RA did not eat meat in Kufa for 7 years or so [ not sure exactly ]. Because he had credible evidence that meat in the market might be illegal, because he had heard with evidence that sheep in Kufa were stolen by the Khuza'il tribe around the city in southern Iraq. He knew that sheep would probably live around 7 years. So should Pakistanis stop eating roti or drinking milk because of haraam going into their stomachs [ mixed up foods called "milawat" in Urdu ]
And the fact that the Pakistani government hasnt been able to do anything about this, and the Mullahs in the country as well from whichever group.
This sort of problem does not exist in the West because they have law and order, but how much of the pharmaceuticals, food products, and other stuff being sold in US, for example, is FDA approved based on the moral benefit. Tonnes of products are not even FDA approved for many of the claims they make.
The advancement in society that westerners usually talk about is summed up in the works of Carl Sagan. He called for annulling superstition [ religion ].
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Slav Defence bro, like you have graciously pointed out, indeed the advancement in society today is just technological. Not moral, not societal.
Social Systems in the west are in shambles. Divorce rates are sky rocketing, and are now sky rocketing among Muslims too. Children are increasingly getting destroyed with addictions, psychiatric issues, and family break-ups. The institution of marriage is slowly dying away.
That is why brother, like I have understood what you said, we should thank Allah that He has given us the gift of His religion, and we should use it to study how to deal with the issues of 2014, and improve our nation state as Pakistanis.
The concept of the "Nation State", i feel, means upholding and progressing morally. We as Pakistanis have the chance to be a light to the world as a nation state because we are doubly blessed. We know about 2014 issues, as seen on this forum, and we have Allah and knowledge of Him.
All sufis say, that a man who knows Himself, knows God.
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Jungibaaz , the moderator, is correct to point out that most [ legit] scholars in Pakistan are still largely illiterate about worldly issues and as such are stuck in previous centuries. They cannot be relied upon to solve the issues of 2014. Because they live in a largely irrelevant world as pointed out by the OP @
FaujHistorian That is why people in Pakistan never vote for them in politics. Because the common man knows this unconsciously. It is human fitrah.
The islamic scholars in Pakistan are largely distant to modern reality, and so are most of the politicians. Both the groups are filled with corrupt people additionally. Which adds gasoline to the fire.
