Freedom or promoting evil?!
By: Saad Abakar Ali
It is becoming usual for some playboys today – in particular – to force us to see them misconduct while hanging out and walking the streets. It makes my heart and presumably many others bleed to an effect of a fear that their exotic behavior would spread among our children as a benevolent act or behavior. We know that children almost imitate everything they see or hear from adults.
We have come to see, day and night, on some places and streets – in broad daylights – young men putting their arm around the neck of a cheap girls – like them – in a provocative, immoral, and indecent manner under the pretext of “civility, liberalism, and freedom”, whose definitions are subjective in my money, and may pave the way to indecency and shamefulness as if virtue has no longer a place in the heart or the mind of those young men?!
The genesis of most indecent behaviors and off-beat ideas of today in our society began with leftist principles. Public indecency has nothing to do with our noble traditions: The communist manifesto issued by the Jewish godfather of communism (Karl Marx) and his comrade (Engels) reads:” Laws, moral rules, and religions are bourgeois illusions that hide behind bourgeois interests!!”
Unfortunately, those disgusting scenes are slowly becoming commonplace on the roads and some public places such as restaurants and family parks in a way that is harmful to the public, not to mention disobedience to the Almighty Allah, and disrespect for the rights of streets, passers-by, traditions, customs, and above all, the good Islamic teachings and morals!
According to our Islamic culture, morals mean all that is related to the actions and verbal utterances of a Muslim, and what is related to his relationship with his Lord, his relationship with himself, his relationship with other fellow humans and even all that surrounds him – animals and inanimate objects.
Thanks to the Almighty Allah, Islam teaches and makes a true Muslim, a member of an Islamic society, a responsible person mindful of his actions and words in all aspects of life wherever they are. No matter whether such responsibility is individual or collective, a muslim must not be indifferent to what is going on around them, which is one of the core characteristics of morals peculiar to the glorious Islamic teachings: advocating good and forbidding evil.
In a nutshell, freedom does not necessarily mean that someone enjoys absolute freedom to unleash their inner person to do or say whatever they want, wherever they want. Exotic acts like putting your arm around the neck of a cheap girl or embracing her in public are alien to our society. I personally deemed it a gross violation of public rights and a form of sight pollution. Society has also the right to stand up for our legitimate and public rights as individuals and collectively.
Nevertheless, the buck stops with the authorities to address indecency in public places and streets before the society gets affected by liberal and leftist viruses to ensure our young ones do not get contaminated with off-beat ideas.