Submitting to Ideologies Blindly ...Are you an Intellectual slave?
by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Friday, October 7, 2011 at 8:52pm
Intelligence and slavery do not go together. An intelligent is not the one who is getting high grades but it is the one who can examine, reason and then decide correctly.Our entire schooling has been teaching us to reason. Go back to your school days and recall your History lesssons.. give reason why did world war II take place? Why was the UN formed ?.. give reasons... reasons... Open your science text book and examine.. Why does the apple fall down and does not go up.. explain with reasons how does the steam engine work ?....... See your English text book.. Why did Romeo love Juliet ?.... why why why ....The entire ten years of schooling passes in learning to reason but rarely do we find our selves using that reasoning skills in our day to day lives !
When people stop reasoning, their intelligence get stagnant. When you let other people to decide on your behalf, when you go blindly following the general trend without cross examining then you have given your self into slavery in a different manner. Intellectual slavery is not a new brand of slavery in the market, but it always existed in human soceity. In every age it had a large numbers of slaves addicted to it. Pharoah made people into slaves.. A community like Bani Israel which is considered to be highly intellgent even today was totally enslaved by Pharoah for centuries.
Today this new type of slavery in in the market.. "The Ideological slaves" is what many educated people are turning into. It was this ideology that swept across the Russia in the form of Marxism.. and people in order to get rid of Czarism jumped in Communism. In the initial years of communism nobody believed that communismis harmful but they took unanimously as their saviour. Ideological slavery is promoted by writers, thinkers philosophers and politicans. It can whip up frnzy hatred towards a community or a race like Hitler's Mein Kempf or it can over turn many social norms and turn bad into good and good into bad e.g. Gayism and Lesbianism are taken as sexual liberty and abortions are taken up as personal choice..
When all of a sudden the entire society gets swayed by an ideology nobody dares to challenges it andif any one challenges it, he is looked down upon. This is excatly how people and nations are taken up to slavery and they are willingly giving up themselves to these intellectual slavery thinking it to be a good trend..As the Qur'an points out in the 36 th verse of Surah Yunus.. and a majority of them follow nothing but fancy and fancy can avail nothing against truth.... This is why Qur'anis a wise book...It protects us from being an intellectual slave...
Author : Nisaar nadiadwala speaks and writes on socio-educational topics. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com
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