were from his Benefactor and must be acknowledged as such.
Thereby acknowledging the Benefactor, he could be held
deserving of further blessings.
But exactly at the same time,
dajjal
appeared and mislead
man into a satanic culture of entertainment, justifying this by
invented philosophies. Everyone wanted to fulfill his or her
desires right there and then. They forgot that every blessing
brings with it responsibilities. And without discharging these
responsibilities, man has no right to enjoy these blessings.
In present times, the entertainment culture is in vogue. All
that men and women want to do now is enjoy life to the full.
The most popular motto of today is: right here, right now.
A great number of books have been written to justify this
ideology. One salient name in this field is that of Sigmund Freud
(d. 1939) He was a great advocate of such thinking. He wanted
to prove that human desires have a crucial role to play in the
formation of the human personality. He held that by suppressing
desires, one’s personality became scarred by repression and the
process of psychological growth became distorted. As such, it
was necessary to satisfy one’s desires freely. Due to this
misleading ideology, permissiveness today prevails all over the
world and human society has been reduced to a jungle of well-
clad animals.
A great fallacy lies hidden in the ideology of Sigmund Freud
and other western thinkers of his ilk. They attributed the growth
of personality development to the unbridled fulfillment of
desires, whereas such development was a product of the human
mind. Indeed, it is man’s mind which promotes the growth of
the human personality. The truth is that in this case the
fulfillment of desires is only distraction, and as such is an obstacle
to intellectual development.
Dajjali fitna
by its nature is not a new evil. It has always
existed in the form of satanic
fitna
. What is particular about it
is that this fallacious ideology has come to form the basis of a
civilization. Finding it very attractive, people in general will
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