format_quote Originally Posted by
kritikvernunft
I quickly discovered that only the poor are racist. So, that is how I learned to spit on the poor. You see, these guys have no money. Till this very day, I do not like the lower classes at all, because they have no brains and no money. They do not need to defecate, because they are the defecation themselves.
Assalaamu alaikum,
I would like to point out that this attitude is
completely foreign to Islam. kritikvernunft, who does not identify as Muslim (though he sometimes presents himself as having an Islamic viewpoint), is purely expressing his own views.
God does not sort us out according to our wealth. Nor is rank, fame, offspring, ethnicity, or any other of the ways we humans tend to sort people important to Him. What counts is our
taqwa.
Taqwa is a layered and rich concept that is hard to translate. It means protecting ourselves from damaging our own inner Selves and wronging others, though our awareness, awe, love and respect for God. Someone who has
taqwa is very aware of God, and consequently pursues the Beautiful Divine Qualities (kindness, generosity, forgiveness, etc...) in his or her relationships with others. It is similar to the traditional understanding of the the word
godliness in the sense of piety and goodness of a human being trying to please God.
On another point, the idea that one's wealth somehow can make one less discriminatory towards others is astonishing. What has wealth to do with the universal human tendency to regard the group they identify with as superior to another they don't identify with? Indeed, it seems to me that kritikvernunft only shows with his post that evaluating others by their wealth is the way that
he himself is experiencing this human weakness...
May God, the Kind, the Loving, Give strength and inner peace to those who are treated unjustly and unkindly by their fellow humans.