(Response to a comment glorifying the American constitution on July 4th,American Independence Day)

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Let’s look again at these principles in the light of what we’ve learnt from Islam:
1)Men are not created equal.Men, and women for that matter, are created in ranks-in a hierarchy.Some are naturally stronger,some are naturally more intelligent .And it even goes further.Some are born with good character and others are not.I learnt that from Sheikh Nazim’s ongoing talk about genetics in human life(“the blueprint” he called it) -and that was well before the genome project got started!
2)Life ,itself, is in His hands not ours.He can take it in a moment as He likes.
3) And liberty is conditioned by His rules and orders not by our whims and pleasures.
4) And happiness is the exception.Difficulties and testing is the rule.The Sheikh said 40 units of pain to one unit of pleasure.The paradox here is that real happiness(inner peace and satisfaction) requires often giving up on worldly happiness.Most people,perhaps especially Americans,do not see that.Watch the TV ads if you don’t believe me lol
So basically,this document(The American Constitution) is flawed from the git-go.And if you break it down it is flawed in a VERY fundamental way.It gives far too much importance to human choice and not nearly enough to Divine decree.So maybe it is not so surprising after all that America finds itself in such a lamentable position.But don’t feel bad as an American.The Sheikh had even less liking for the French Revolution and its themes of Fraternité,Égalité and Liberté lol.He saw that period as the beginning of the end!