I got this off the same site I get the ‘Daily Muslim Wisdom’ Quotes.. I’m posting the topic and replies..
I just thought this was an interesting topic to discuss here too!
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Here’s the daily wisdom:
“Avoid those who regard their religion as a hobby, as an idle pastime, and are seduced by the life of this world. Admonish them, lest their souls be damned by their own sins. They have no guardian or intercessor besides God; and even if they offer compensation to God, it will not be accepted from them. This is the condition of those who have been damned by their own sins. They will drink boiling water, and be sternly punished for their refusal to believe.”
-Qur’an, Al-An’am, Suah 6:70
reply 1
QUESTION: Why so fear based “drink boiling water?”
Avoid “them” I can understand. Admonish them? Why not pay attention to you own spiritual life. It’s enough to handle. or shall we go to war over who has chosen the right religion?
reply 2
Yes, how right. The first and most difficult thing is to look within, not without. And I think the words of warning and fear-arising are meant to invite each of us to admonish those sub-personalities who lay within ourselves. The purpose of a spiritual life is to became a Whole, while there are so many “persons” inside us. Usually the language of sacred readings is symbolic, but the hidden meaning, I think, is quite clear and non-violent if I understand that I will be “drinking boiling water” if I do not watch out my own behaviour. I’ts that simple.The “others outside” are nothing but a mirror of our own “others within”.
Love
Apelle
reply3
I think the “drink boiling water” is symbolic too. It is saying that those who regard their religion as a hobby, etc. will not be satisfied, just like drinking boiling water would not satisfy a thirty man. They will find it is not what they expected. The will not reap the satisfaction of peace that the true believers have because they will not have done that which will bring them that peace.
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