Re: The Essence of Worship
These are all big fatty hunky words if the “Tarbiya” is done by bunch of Tarbooz (watermellons).
Tarbiya (training, education) was supposed to instill three basic characteristics in a Muslim: Truth (Sidq), Trustworthiness (Ameen), and Tolerance. Unfortunately what we have now are the biggest liars, cheaters, and intolerant lot that nobody in the world gives a damn! Just go to any “center of Islam” like Cairo and you will experience it first hand. Sure blame it on Amreeka for putting liar and cheater MAToos among the Ammah!
No worship or prayer can do any good until the heart is filled with tolerance, truth and trustworthiness. It however will take at least 1400 years before we see Muslims of any significance to have these characteristics.