Thursday, December 4, 2008

Against The Belief

Assalamualaikum...

Have you ever watch "Wanted" ?

Well, I have...
I like the movie...

The movie is full of unique, impossible, yet wonderful shooting actions...
Basically, it's about a group of "noble" assassins (by the name of Fraternity) who choose their targets by translating the secret code that's produced by a machine...
However, one guy (Morgan Freeman) betrayed that "sacred" belief after he found out that the machine start to produce the names of the Fraternity members!!!
He doesn't want to get killed, so he changes the names and try to kill a guy in Fraternity (the father of the hero) who had already realised his (Morgan Freeman's) betrayal.

Well, I'm not trying to tell you more about the movie itself, I'm just interested in sharing the message behind the movie...

From my point of view, I think the movie tries to imply that people who believe in irrational school of thought can go against that belief when they feel it doesn't suit their needs...

What is considered as irrational belief?
If you watch "House" you'll notice that Dr. House considers religion is one of them...

Well, from my point of view, religion is not irrational belief...
Specifically, Islam...
Islam can answer the question that science can't answer...
The question that our minds can't answer...
"Why are we here on earth?" or "What is the purpose of life?"
Science can answer "How?" but can't answer "Why?"

Back to the statement "people who believe in irrational school of thought can go against that belief when they feel it doesn't suit their needs..."
Let's ignore the word "irrational school of thought" and change it to religion...
So, the new statement is "people who believe in religion can go against that belief when they feel it doesn't suit their needs..."

This statement can only be true if a person hold on to a religion that is not a divine religion, in other word, man-made religion...
Why?

It's simply because a divine religion answers the questions that are beyond human mind's capability...

So, if the religion is man-made, how can it answers the questions?

Now, back to the statement again...
If a person hold on to a divine religion, will he/she go against that belief?
Yes, and No...
It's subjective...
It depends on how deep the person understands the religion itself...
Islam is the way of life...
There are rules and guidelines for interaction between humans (including economics, social and all aspects of life), interaction between human and nature, and so on...
If someone has done a research on these guidelines, he will find out that it's for the well-being of human...


Human has desire, which is normal...
Islam gives the guidelines for all the desires...
Islam doesn't go against human desire, but shows the best way to fulfill it so that there won't be bad consequences...
Go and do research on Islam...
It's a wonderful and peaceful religion...
It doesn't teach terrorism at all...
Understand the true Islam, for you will be living a peaceful life, here, and the hereafter...

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