It is not success to build a large building by usurping someone's right.
This is a summary of the decline of our entire society. The era we are living in today is full of facilities but devoid of values. There is no shortage of problems, but there are fewer and fewer people who seriously consider them. We complain a lot, we blame a lot, but when it comes to changing ourselves, we become silent. Societies and nations do not improve by sitting idly by. Now, neither manna will descend from the sky, nor will any miracle descend, nor will any unseen help be bestowed just like that. All this happens only when nations are worthy of it. Now, if any change is possible, it is possible from within ourselves. We must first be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the basis of most of our problems is lies, deceit, dishonesty, and illicit earnings. We speak lies as if they are trivial and then expect truthfulness from society, although this double standard can never bring improvement. The truth is that lies have become so ingrained in our society that a truthful person feels like a stranger, a truthful writer is considered controversial, and a truthful speaker is considered rude, although the reality is quite the opposite. Truth is bitter, but healing lies within it. By ignoring illicit earnings, we expect our lives to improve, our homes to become havens of peace, and our problems to be solved automatically. This is just wishful thinking. It is just like sowing seeds in barren land and expecting a harvest, or considering a walnut on a dome to be worthy. We have distorted the meaning of success. Today, success is understood to mean a big car, a tall building, powerful connections, and getting ahead at all costs, no matter if someone's right is violated, someone is harmed, or someone's life is ruined. We need to change this thinking: is it clever to get ahead by deceiving someone? Is it wise to accumulate wealth by usurping someone's right? And is achieving progress at any cost the real goal?
The reality is that such progress is not progress but destruction. It is a race that is eating away at our ethics, civilization, values, and conscience like termites. Outwardly, everything is increasing, but inwardly, everything is becoming hollow. Now is the time for us to change our standards. We have to decide what success means to us. Is success only the name of wealth? Or is success the name of peace of mind, contentment of conscience, and divine pleasure? True success is what makes a person human, what keeps the heart alive, what promotes trust, justice, and compassion in society. Allah Almighty is pleased with a person only when he abandons oppression and adopts justice, comes out of selfishness and accepts responsibility, and prioritizes collective good instead of just his own benefit. We have to change our priorities. Instead of blaming others for every problem, we have to think about what I am doing myself? Am I honest in my place or not? Am I being honest and serious in my work or not?
Remember, nations are built by character, not by slogans, not by speeches. If we do not hold ourselves accountable even today, if we still consider lies, illicit gains, and injustice to be trivial,
then the coming generations will be even more insensitive than us. Then the same thing will happen that is happening today: lies will be called skill, deceit will be called intelligence, and success achieved through oppression will be considered worthy of emulation. There is still time. If we make an intention today, if we start to be correct within our own sphere today, then believe me, a lot can be changed. This journey is long, this path is difficult, *but it is by no means impossible*. Finally, I also request the writers not to make the pen only a means of inciting emotions, but to make it a means of reform. Write with the thought that your words are creating awareness or spreading chaos in society, giving consciousness or misleading, because when the pen takes the right direction, thinking changes, thinking creates character, and character improves nations.
The whole world knows that Islam is that civilized religion, which has not only taught man how to eat, drink, walk, and speak, but has also talked about every such thing of human beings which he needs in the world, and which he needs in the hereafter, even taught him how to think, and also told the result of good and bad thinking, and the concept of intention is not in any religion other than Islam, I will try to explain to you with a small example, a person is offering Fajr prayer without congregation, firstly he offered the Sunnah of Fajr, then he offered the Fard of Fajr, now you gentlemen can think for yourself, the thing that you have read in Sunnah, if you read the same thing in Fard as well, then your reward will be many times more than before, i.e. in comparison to Sunnah and Fard, while you have done nothing but you have changed your intention, for God's sake we have to change our thinking, we have to be sincere in our intention, so that we can earn more reward, and we have to understand the ways of the society.
I am still a novice, neither a preacher nor a wise man
A desire echoes in my heart, let me tell you the command of truth
May Allah Almighty grant us the ability to think and understand and say "Be" to every one of our legitimate desires, as is His glory, Ameen, O Lord of the Worlds, by the grace of the Holy Prophet ﷺ.
*✍️Mutallim Al-Jamiatul Ashrafia✍️*