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Okay kiddiewinks, story time. Hop on (or don't) and let's go back to the morning when I was so happy and it was sunshine and spice and everything nice and we were studying Manfaluuti in Arabic Literature.
So Manfaluuti was a very excellent Arabic writer from the twentieth century who was a member of the "Muhafizin" school of Arabic Literature; this means that his writings revolved around the revival of classical Islam,
the vices of society and their "treatment" (I'm sorry no big words my single brain cell is still a little sleepy), and the general goodness of the human heart.
The passage we read today was titled "Khuluq" and talked about the intentions behind human goodness & the source of it.
The passage we read today was titled "Khuluq" and talked about the intentions behind human goodness & the source of it.
In this passage, there was a line that had everybody debating in the class. I will translate it for you (and I promise only a rough translation because I suck at translations):
"It does not benefit man if what stop him from vice and leads him to virtue is his fear of hellfire or even the law; what benefits him is his virtuous deeds done because of a clean conscience that is his decisive force in life, the lighthouse that leads him to the shore
As he lives his life."
Upon this passage, a rather conservatively inclined (I don't mean that in a bad way at all) student interjected, saying that was an entirely unIslamic statement, seeing Muslims were ordered by Allah S.W.T. to fear hellfire and do good that they may enter
Upon this passage, a rather conservatively inclined (I don't mean that in a bad way at all) student interjected, saying that was an entirely unIslamic statement, seeing Muslims were ordered by Allah S.W.T. to fear hellfire and do good that they may enter
Paradise.
The teacher, instead of answering this herself, opened the floor to the rest of us, and I, mindful of the subject, recited that one particular verse of Iqbal's,
The teacher, instead of answering this herself, opened the floor to the rest of us, and I, mindful of the subject, recited that one particular verse of Iqbal's,
سجدوں کے عوض فردوس ملے، یہ بات مجھے منظور نہیں/بے لوث عبادت کرتا ہوں، بندہ ہوں، ترا مزدور نہیں۔
