72MartyrsLater

Knowledge. Insight. Awareness.

We put a lot of stock in superficial knowledge, gained from the world. But we have inner knowledge as well. Purify it, and you will succeed. Purify it and you will not bend to the brainwashing of today's modern tryants. Listen to what is inside you and do not underestimate it's power. Listen to what is outside you, then filter through it. And when you have separated Truth from falsehood then you have two more responsibilites. To live right and help yourself find peace. And to expose wrong and help liberate your brothers and sisters. All over the world people suffer, from their own ignorance and from the ignorance of others. Corruption, greed and blindness of diseased hearts and minds ravage the entire world. If you aren't outraged, you haven't been paying attention.

Pay attention to the signs within you and without.

"By the Soul and He who made it perfect.

Then He inspired it to understand what was right and wrong for it.

Surely he who purifies it will succeed.

And he who corrupts it will fail"

(Quran 91:7-10)

Use Ali Qulli Qurai's English translation of the Quran at www.al-quran.info

QURAN:

... Do you not then reflect? (6:50)

...most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect. (30:31)

...No (they do not reflect). On their hearts there are locks. (47:24)

HADITH:

Hazrat Muhammad (s.a.w.w):

Those who help the oppressors are guilty of oppression themselves. Even if all they did (to help the oppressors) was to fill their (the oppressors') pen with ink or to saddle the oppressors' horses, still they are guilty of oppression."

Hazrat Hussain ibn Ali-

"Those who are silent when others are oppressed are guilty of oppression themselves."

TALMUD:

In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man. (Avot 2:6)

BIBLE:

I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.

(Job 27:5-7)

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. (John 16:13)

KALAMA SUTTA:

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.

Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.