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Morals That Did Not Exist in Jahiliyyah

٨ أبريل ٢٠١٥
Morals That Did Not Exist in Jahiliyyah

1. My nephew said to me: I know a group of young people organizing a trip to a mixed swimming pool. I reminded them of Allah and said to one of them to provoke his "nobility": Do you accept your sister to swim with men?! He said: (Normal... I don't even take my sister with us)!! 2. In our country, many boys when they reach puberty want to prove their "manhood" so you see one of them say to the other (may your father be cursed) and the one cursed laughs at his father! Even curses his honor: (...your mother), (...your sister), and laughs!! These people are so lost that you don't know how to address them! Their problem is deeper than lack of religion, as they don't have the foundation on which religious discourse is usually built... They don't have the nobility that is provoked and the innate nature that is addressed by the words of Allah and His Messenger. Islam came to a people who had nobility, honor, generosity, and jealousy... even the crime of burying daughters was motivated by jealousy that their daughter might fall into fornication. If someone's honor was insulted, swords would be drawn and heads would fly! In the authentic hadith, when a young man came to the Prophet (peace be upon him) saying: (O Messenger of Allah, permit me to commit adultery), it was enough for the Messenger of Allah to ask him: (Do you love it for your mother), (your daughter), (your sister), (your aunt), (your paternal aunt)... and the young man would respond to that: (No, by Allah, O Messenger of Allah, may Allah make me your ransom). It was not expected from a (human) and an (Arab) other than this answer. So the Prophet built on this jealousy. Today, there are those who claim Islam and may answer these questions with (Yes, I accept it)!!! What do you say to him after that?! And Al-Bukhari narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: (Among the greatest sins is that a man curses his parents) so the Companions said in amazement: (O Messenger of Allah! How does a man curse his parents?!) as they could not imagine for a moment that this would happen from a (human)... So he answered: (The man curses the father of the man, so he curses his father, and curses the mother of the man, so he curses his mother) and the situation at that time was that one would curse someone's father or mother in anger and the other would respond by cursing his father or mother in anger. I do not think the Companions knew that people would come - and claim Islam! - cursing each other's fathers laughing! They could not imagine that in Jahiliyyah, let alone in Islam! O father, O mother, when you sit with your children watching series that destroy modesty... You leave with an appearance that Allah did not approve for you... When you neglect to raise them on dignity, nobility, honor, and jealousy and leave them to a life of laziness, emptiness, and triviality... Know and be aware that you are destroying in the children essential innate qualities... they become corrupted in some of their traits to below the morals of Jahiliyyah! And then: if the traits are bad, no manners will benefit nor a scholar!