By: Magda Ali

My dear brothers and sisters, I feel that it is necessary to address an issue that evidently, we have a tendency to avoid, a tendency to brush aside, neglect and abandon. BUT WHY, WHY BRUSH ASIDE? WHY NEGLECT? AND WHY ABANDON?

Do we not know that this struggle in itself is a blessing which Allah (swt) has bestowed upon us? If you haven’t yet grasped what I am referring to, please take a minute to think. Something which we take for granted, an opportunity which I believe was not granted to the generations before us. What I am referring to is the training of the human mind, the eradication of being unaware and uninformed, the prospect of putting one’s potential to maximum use: EDUCATION!!!!

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Raindrops collect together to form a vast sea, petals unite blossoming into a delicate flower, sand granules unite to form a dune, a blend of colours with one another compose a painting, pages together form a book, atoms form elements, even the planets that orbit the sun unite to form the solar system, and cells and other components make up our very blood. All around us we can see the union of elements to form part of a greater structure, a greater body. The very architecture of man and nature are in essence a structural assembly of various components, this is unity, it is an effective amalgamation of certain elements that together build a successful system or body. The difference between man and nature in this case is that in nature the principle of unity is innate, it is an inherent design of some aspects of nature to collect together in union, but in contrast the comparison to man is quite different, man must strive for such unity, this is the apparent difference.

The Qur’an states, “O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other)” (49:13).

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