Like flotsam in a flood we are too frequently carried along by the overpowering flow of ideological currents, modalities of thought and expression of our times. Those who play at politics with deadly earnest, act, and the rest of us only react. Without firm and deep knowledge and connection with higher principles, our environments will shape and mold the form of our minds. Socially, politically, ideologically - the parameters within which we function (even the parameters within which we view and understand our own religion) will be driven and informed by a societal nafs that derives its structure from ambitions, desires and impulses that originate from and focus upon the gain to be achieved in this lower world.
The people in such an environment, even while they imagine themselves independent, are caught in the push and pull of the societal/political/ideological environments - objects floating in the stream. They have some restricted motion this way and that, but nevertheless the rushing river carries them along. Substance arises from depth of knowledge and understanding - without that solidity and profoundity of knowledge…
“…your numbers may be vast, but you will be as insubstantial as the foam of the water on the surface of the flood….” (hadith)
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