Mohammad Fraytees

“اتباع التقاليد لا يعني أن الأموات أحياء، بل أن الأحياء أموات.”
― ابن خلدون

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أن المسلم لم يخلق ليندفع مع التيار ، ويساير الركب البشري حيث اتجه وسار ، بل خلق ليوجه العالم والمجتمع والمدينة ، ويفرض على البشرية اتجاهه ، ويملي عليها إرادته ، لأنه صاحب الرسالة وصاحب العلم اليقين . ولأنه المسؤول عن هذا العالم وسيره واتجاهه . فليس مقامه مقام التقليد والإتباع إن مقامه مقام الإمامة و القيادة ومقام الإرشاد والتوجيه . ومقام الآمر الناهي . وإذا تنكر له الزمام ، وعصاه المجتمع وانحرف عن الجادة ، لم يكن له أن يستسلم ويخضع ويضع أوزاره ويسالم الدهر ، بل عليه أن يثور عليه وينازله . ويظل في صراع معه وعراك ، حتى يقضي الله في أمره . إن الخضوع والاستكانة للأحوال القاسرة والأوضاع القاهرة ، ولاعتذار بالقضاء والقدر من شأن الضعفاء والأقزام . أما المؤمن القوي فهو بنفسه قضاء الله الغالب وقدره الذي لا يرد(4) . ”
― أبو الحسن الندوي, ماذا خسر العالم بانحطاط المسلمين

“Once, an elderly general practitioner consulted me because of his severe depression. He could not overcome the loss of his wife who had died two years before and whom he had loved above all else. Now, how can I help him? What should I tell him? Well, I refrained from telling him anything but instead confronted him with the question, “What would have happened, Doctor, if you had died first, and your wife would have had to survive you?” “Oh,” he said, “for her this would have been terrible; how she would have suffered!” Whereupon I replied, “You see, Doctor, such a suffering has been spared her, and it was you who have spared her this suffering — to be sure, at the price that now you have to survive and mourn her.” He said no word but shook my hand and calmly left my office. In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. (#92 ff.)”
― Isaac Asimov, Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Jokes, Limericks and Anecdotes