Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 86
86 islam’s response to contemporary issues unbridled role in the society; indeed, they flourish at the expense of other refined values and draw their blood like parasites. Sigmund Freud, no doubt, was the product of such a society. He began to analyse every human motivation through the coloured eyeglass of sex. To him, the most pious child-mother relationship was sex-related. Even the father-daughter relationship had no sanctity but was sex- oriented or sex-generated. Almost everything that man did, irrespective of him being aware of it or not, was for the deeply subconscious sex urges. I wonder if in the time of Freud, society had achieved the degree of promiscuity, which prevails today, but it was enough to give birth to a completely sex-dominated understanding of the human psyche. But if Freud was right, it is even more essential not to permit society to play incautiously with such dangerous forces as may cause a short circuiting. Alas! The present climate of modern societies would not even attempt to understand the nature and features of the Islamic social climate. Whether man agrees or does not agree with the concept of God playing a role in human affairs and shaping man’s destiny, and whether man is willing to modulate his social behaviour in accordance with the revealed word of God or not, one thing is most certain—man can neither defeat the Act of God (i. e. , Nature) nor the Word of God (i. e. , the revealed Truth). Both the Act and Word must be found in harmony with each other to be considered valid. Any social behaviour which man adopts in direct contradiction of the Word of God is bound to end in disaster. Man cannot have unlimited and unrestricted pleasure however he may desire it. All he can do is to swap certain values and options. A society which seeks to escape responsibility or the realities of life with the help of opiates and drugs; a society which is obsessed by sex, vain