Picture this, a bunch of little islands all close to each other and slightly similar . That would be my view of the Muslims today and the slight similarity being our faith and the rest being our cultures.
We are a scattered bunch. We don't always reach out to each other from within the islands, like helping out our neighbors or fellow Muslims, much less help the other islands.
I'm talking in the general sense and everything I write is in my point of view so tell me if you see it otherwise.
You know all those little islands need to protect their surroundings from intruders. What if a calamity such as a tsunami is about to happen where citizens are required to evacuate from a certain side but since these islands are separated there's nowhere to evacuate to. Or some sort of unwanted boarder crossing happens. They have to keep a watch all round and when something happens it's hard to protect it. But what if...
| All those Islands came together with each watching the others back? Imagine that! |
Yes you've heard we should help one another and yes we know we should, but how many of us actually have done something? Or when we heard such-and-such a place has a problem and something terrible happened, do we feel bad in that moment and shove it aside later in our head?
Let's try to treat all problems as our problems, this also applies to me. If you feel nothing then there's something wrong from within that needs fixing.
Sometimes, I feel like I'm in a daze only to snap out of it when something really hits home. Give me a while and I slowly fall back into that slumber. Even in that state of slumber my mind is remotely "present" but it takes work just to fully awaken. I don't want to fall asleep again when reality is right in my face.
For those of us that have always felt bad about this and that was all, lets do something about it! I'm honestly serious. Let's brainstorm things together so that we can glue the islands together or heal the body of the Ummah.What do you say?
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