The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 296
Fifteenth Friday Sen11011 Mar 01, 1991 An Urdu poet has said: '»'-'LL·/ ,:,r. :Jf- ifi'vv 1 • T ,. j' if 1'f I,)!. J'�n' ll. r Lj "Who will not die on my beloved's naivety; he fights but fights without a sword" But this naiveness may be understandable, it may be intelligible, it may be mere ingeniousness; but your simplicity reaches the very pinnacles of ignorance. People whom you call your arch enemies and to whom you throw the gauntlet and tell that your religion has enjoined you to suck every drop of their blood, and then you beg them to give you arms so that you can slit their throats!! GOD DOES NOT CHANGE THE FATE OF THOSE WHO DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THEMSELVES Could there by any limit of i gn orance? When the whole nation decides to commit suicide; who and how can someone come to their rescue? Even God does not help such people as He Himself says: (Sura Al-Raad: Verse 12) "Surely, Allah changes not the condition of a people until they change that which is in their hearts". . �:r t:. ,•,. . �· :. . . . . �'{. ��� God never decides to aid any people and does not come to help them or make a change for the better in them until they change themselves. This verse has a dual meanings. Firstly, He does not help them until they bring a change in themselves. Secondly in another verse it is implie d that the nations that are callous of the blessings of God or decide to destroy those blessings with their own hands, Allah does not change their fate. This verse is open to interpretation which means that it can have more than one meaning. Firstly, that God will protect those blessings granted to them by Him as long as the people themselves do not squander them away. 296