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How did life start in the beginning and through what means? Does every one
of these innumerable species end in an individual living creature that is the
source of its particular species? If that is the case, how did that first
creature come into existence? Ordinarily, when theistic thinkers want to relate the matter of life to God
and Divine will, they bring up the problem of origin of life on the earth and
the question regarding the cause of the first emergence of life.
A genocide is taking place in Gaza. In fact, the reality in Gaza goes beyond "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". The right to exist is being stripped off the Palestinian nation; all the while the power of the US veto gives this genocide the required legal cover. Israel's genocidal policy against the Palestinians has been unremitting, extending from before the very foundation of the State of Israel in 1948, and is now at its most intensified stages in recent times. Viewers are urged to use discretion.
It has been narrated from Nafi from Ibn Umar that he said that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his progeny) said, "May (Allah) have mercy on that servant who gives benefit when he speaks or who is protected through maintaining silence. Surely the tongue is the thing which wields the most authority over a person. Be aware that everything that the servant speaks is against him except for the remembrance of Allah the High or the commanding of others to that which is right or preventing them from that which is evil or setting the affair right between two believers." One of the companions named Mu'adh ibn Jabal said, "Messenger of Allah! Will we be held accountable for that which we speak?" The Prophet replied, "Is there anything else except an active tongue of the person that will lead him into the hell fire? So then whoever seeks safety (from the fire), let him protect that which comes from his tongue." (Bihar al-Anwar)
When we start comparing freedom according to Islam with freedom according to the democratic capitalist system, basic differences appear to us between the freedom which has been lived by the capitalist society and advocated by capitalism, and the freedom whose banner Islam has borne and adopted by the society which Islam has created, providing its own experience on history's stage. When we say "freedom", we mean thereby its general meaning; that is, rejection of others' domination, for this concept is the one we can find in both civilizations, even when its frame and intellectual base vary in both.
Although the fundamental questions facing man have been answered in different ways and the differences in these answers have created various philosophies and schools of thought, yet by taking into account the positive and negative answers, we can distinguish and divide the various philosophies into the two general categories of materialist and spiritual. Islam is a perfect example of the spiritual schools of thought, whereas the most prominent contemporary example of the materialist schools is Marxism. The tenets of the Islamic worldview are none other than the well-known threefold doctrines of the faith. These are: the belief in the One God (al-tawhid); the belief in resurrection on the Day of Judgement (al-ma'ad); the belief in what God has revealed to His prophets (wahy, nubuwwah). In other words, Islam answers in the affirmative to each of the fundamental questions, and considers faith in them to be the real basis of man's happiness and felicity. It undertakes the solution of life's all other problems by relying on these three basic doctrines.
