Shadee Elmasry – One of the Biggest Reasons Why Islam Works
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The speaker discusses the negative impact of warfare on people's spirituality and faith, citing the example of the devastation caused by the World War One and World War Two. They suggest that addressing this issue and promoting productive behavior is crucial to preventing warfare from damaging purity.
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When you leave, and you remove from a religion, any financial
element to it, and you don't basically say this is okay to do
and engage in and this is how to engage in it, or be
governance and warfare,
in the name of purity, spiritual purity, what ends up happening is
that those voids will get filled, and they will get filled with
something that was greatly damaging to the spirituality that
you were trying to preserve. So, one of the worst things for
Christianity, for example, is World War One, World War Two,
which made people so disillusioned with that. And I remember, a
scholar was saying, if they had had a law, on how to have
conflicts, then there wouldn't have been a void in which the
conflict became becomes an all out, you know, conflict that
consumes the entire continent, and demoralizes people and causes them
to basically to lose their faith and anyone who knows, you know,
sort of the history of, of belief in atheism in Europe that it's
World War One and World War Two are the right hook and the left
hook to belief and people started losing their faith. So that's
where you don't address a natural need of human beings. Something
that does happen.
Can't deny that it happens, whether it's conflict or trade, or
the even the ambition to make money. If you don't address it and
put it in somewhere productive. Then you open up a void and
something negative is going to come in there and damage that
purity that you were trying to have