Re: Saddle up your high horses, Here comes Trouble
Peace Demesne
If by accepting it will there be a risk of the taboo being deconstructed and making it seem acceptable … or by not accepting it will there be a risk in it festering if it does exist?
Sometimes it is better to be “hear no evil, see no evil” if when exposed to such things we are too weak to take action … because according to the hadith we need “stop wrong and evil happening if we see it, speak out against it, or hate it in the heart, which is the weakest state” but if we fear that we might become lured by it, fail to speak out or even start to engage in it … then surely it is better to stay away from the risk of being exposed to it.
Perhaps when people don’t accept something it is not because they are being arrogant, but because they fear they will find something that they don’t like if they look … and I don’t think we should criticise them for that … It is out of their sense of ghairat they do that …
For people like yourself … who can see things happening … keep them a secret and help the people who you find, need the help and direction and help them … sometimes being responsible for knowing too much is a big burden. Think of the those priests who are told by the people who confess their sins … “O father forgive me for I have sinned, I have killed someone” and then the priests need to decide whether they should tell the police or not … or encourage the confessor to give themselves in to the police to be put on trial and sentenced. For the truly repentant is the one who wants to be purified and asks to be given penalty … If it is the case that a person you know has sinned and is happy with it, and you aim to do nothing about it … then it is better to keep it to yourself or else that very thing could become a fitnah for the society and add to the ruin rather than cleaning it up.