For Discussion: Old Age problem of worshipping
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:33 pm
Salaam all,
This post is not really a question but wanted to get feedback from others so I thought I should just post it here in the Q and A section.
Based on the understanding I have developed in past year or so is that the purpose of Quran is for humans is to establish a system of life based on Quranic laws. The laws are outlined in Quran to provide equality, justice, human rights, social rights and any common sense good to man kind.
But based on the history of mankind, it seems like the human nature was always looking to worship something or some deity. Like as history shows us that when humans saw the sun, they started to worship sun. When they saw fire, they started worshipping fire and so on.
Even when Islam arrived in the Arabia people were busy worshipping dieties. Even Christians and Jews were busy worshipping Allah (and nowadays including us muslims too). It seems so difficult for a common human to disconnect from this concept of worship as I guess to some extent it is burnt into our physche to some extent. Only the ones who truly analyze things and try to understand the reasons behind the Quran and its wisdom learn to dis-associate from worshipping Allah and start to move towards OBEYING the laws of Allah in order to establish a just society.
I guess my dillema is that if I try to talk to an everyday muslim and tell him that our goal is to NOT WORSHIP Allah and rather obey the laws of Allah outlined in Quran then he will look at me thinking I am crazy or a kaafir etc. Majority of the people cannot comprehend NOT worshipping Allah. I look at our mosques these days and majority of them look nothing different to me than Hindu temples. Hindus worship statues and we (muslims) in similar fashion worship Allah.
A general muslim would agree that yes we need to follow laws of Allah outlined in Quran but they just cant seem to come out of the concept of worshipping Allah.
Any thoughts or comments? If I am thinking in the right direction then what are some of the steps that we can do to educate people that Allah does not need our worship and rituals. He would rather be much happier if we struggle to establish a just society using Quran as a constitution compared to show up at a local mosque (or what I call a muslim temple) and just be content in offering 5 ritual prayers.
My apologies in advance to readers who may think I am a kaafir or a non-believer in Allah because I am not.
Thank you,
Naushad.
This post is not really a question but wanted to get feedback from others so I thought I should just post it here in the Q and A section.
Based on the understanding I have developed in past year or so is that the purpose of Quran is for humans is to establish a system of life based on Quranic laws. The laws are outlined in Quran to provide equality, justice, human rights, social rights and any common sense good to man kind.
But based on the history of mankind, it seems like the human nature was always looking to worship something or some deity. Like as history shows us that when humans saw the sun, they started to worship sun. When they saw fire, they started worshipping fire and so on.
Even when Islam arrived in the Arabia people were busy worshipping dieties. Even Christians and Jews were busy worshipping Allah (and nowadays including us muslims too). It seems so difficult for a common human to disconnect from this concept of worship as I guess to some extent it is burnt into our physche to some extent. Only the ones who truly analyze things and try to understand the reasons behind the Quran and its wisdom learn to dis-associate from worshipping Allah and start to move towards OBEYING the laws of Allah in order to establish a just society.
I guess my dillema is that if I try to talk to an everyday muslim and tell him that our goal is to NOT WORSHIP Allah and rather obey the laws of Allah outlined in Quran then he will look at me thinking I am crazy or a kaafir etc. Majority of the people cannot comprehend NOT worshipping Allah. I look at our mosques these days and majority of them look nothing different to me than Hindu temples. Hindus worship statues and we (muslims) in similar fashion worship Allah.
A general muslim would agree that yes we need to follow laws of Allah outlined in Quran but they just cant seem to come out of the concept of worshipping Allah.
Any thoughts or comments? If I am thinking in the right direction then what are some of the steps that we can do to educate people that Allah does not need our worship and rituals. He would rather be much happier if we struggle to establish a just society using Quran as a constitution compared to show up at a local mosque (or what I call a muslim temple) and just be content in offering 5 ritual prayers.
My apologies in advance to readers who may think I am a kaafir or a non-believer in Allah because I am not.
Thank you,
Naushad.