hafizsaad said:
i could not remove error in the post due to limited account.
anyhow, My all Above Question are interconnected to each other and not for debate but just for thinking..
Okay
The idea which has influenced most the climate of philosophical and religious thought is that body and soul are mutually antagonistic, and can develop only at each other’s expense. For the soul, the body is a prison and the activities of daily life are the shackles which keep it in bondage and arrest its growth. This has inevitably led to the universe being divided into the spiritual and the secular.
Those who chose the secular path were convinced that they could not meet the demands of spirituality, and thus they led highly material and hedonistic lives. All spheres of worldly activity, whether social, political, economic or cultural, were deprived of the light of spirituality; injustice and tyranny were the result.
Those who 'chose' the secular path could not come to conclude that 'spiritual' meant anything more than subjective meanings of fulfillment, or connection with some self-convinced personal unverifiable force.
How does the author make the connection between tyranny and secularism (materalism?) exactly? There has
never been a system of fascism, or totalitarianism that has
ever been secular and/or humanistic. Indeed, some of the most prosperous systems on the planet have been and remain
secular. Click
here.
Conversely, those who wanted to tread the path of spiritual excellence came to see themselves as ‘noble outcasts’ from the world. They believed that it was impossible for spiritual growth to be compatible with a ‘normal’ life. In their view physical self-denial and mortification of the flesh were necessary for the development and perfection of the spirit.
This conflict of body and soul resulted in the evolution of two different ideals for the perfection of man. One was that man should be surrounded by all possible material comforts and regard himself as nothing but an animal. Men learnt to fly like birds, swim like fish, run like horses and even terrorize and destroy like wolves ¾ but they did not learn how to live like noble human beings.
I have no issue with people considering improving their 'spiritual' nature as methods of self-improvement in their lives. Indeed at the very least their motives and desires for this provide basis for a form of placebo effect to intervene - which I have no grounds, nor place to question.
I have every problem however with general smears and unfounded attacks against people who choose not to do so. The author is hinting repeatedly that perhaps materialists, humanists, or even just general secularists have lost their humanity. Perhaps they are catalysts for tyranny and injustice. I mean, what is this?
Empiricist and materialist schools of thought have been the
foundation of all scientific accomplishment that have dragged us out of the dark age to first-world nations. They are the schools of thought that built up the Haber Process. They are the bedrock of modern transport, global communication (which we're using now), modern construction is all wholly, without exception motivated by materialistic ideologies. Where do you think our advancing life-expectancy comes from? Where do imagine the fruits we take for granted from the now casual immunisation of many diseases that ravaged our ancestors? What about the clean water and safe food that we enjoy? What about the lives saved and advanced through medical technology? They are every bit
materialistic but bring far more tangible joy to others than 'spirituality'.
Please, do not dismiss materialism as one of emptiness - for it has bought
everything we now take for granted.
For spiritual healing like Islam propagates that man has been created on a delicate balance. According to Islamic teachings, this balance is disturbed and causes illness when man does not live a life in accordance with Allah's (who has created him) guidance. Spiritual healing thus involves restoration of that balance through submission and gratitude to Allah which is only possible through keen observation and pondering/reflection), humility, sacrifice for other creations of Allah, through doing justice, showing forgiveness and having patience.
As I've said, the 'miracles' through surgery - bought through our desire to understand and heal have far more of a tangible impact on the lives of others.
I cannot comment on what you mean by 'spiritual healing' only to perhaps believe that you mean some sort of religious motivated self-improvement.
You have said about my question ("Some my atheist Friends have told me that they feel sometime loneliness, fear and lack of some unknown things in their heart. Is it true ?) you said Everyone feels these, brother you can ask this question from a true Muslim if he feel such situation ? if you believe on me, Muslims who are truly following Islam have no such problems and all above mentioned problems.
if all my question are true then i can ask why not we taste a path that may answer to all our these problems.
you said religion is a byproduct.
i again says it is possible that our logic may be false and we may be going against our nature.
As I said:
Everyone feels loneliness. Even
if every Muslim, devout or otherwise did
not feel such (which I doubt) - I would conclude it was a passive consequence of the teachings of Islam.
Makes my heart sink to see pictures of a brother without knowledge of Godimsad To see and hear that they feel lonely without Him.