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Dear Aapa,
As for minerals, natural resources and other economical excuses, trust me they are not valid. North America has all the resources needed, just they don't bother to explore them here. They need resources elsewere, to get a headstart in the islamic nations, that grew fragily in this wild world, with completely different values. These resources were used as excuse for getting the foot in, then they started to introduce little by little the western values in these countries ( complete such picture happened in my beloved country, that holded very far till 1990s the islamic values. Now is a complete chaos, thanks to Western intervention and forced influece, as per say) muslims embraced them little by little, and now we have a feast of Devil over our squeezed souls. Remember the hadith :"The qiyamah will not come until muslims will follow christians and jews in the needle eye". That is how it came true. It was meant to happen and it did. The point is each of us has to be very staunch in our religion, and even if differences among us are overwhelming, deffinitely are less obvious than disbelievers and believers, thus better show sympathy to our nations and support them, than give the West one more reason to pursue whatever is in their minds and plans, which I do not account them at all when I know there is the Creator's plan that shall prevail. Believers should help believers wherever they are, even with their shortcomings, for it is the shortcomings of our ummah in entirety that these days have come upon muslims. In face of such technology, less news is good news, so let us talk good of our nations, or tell less about our lives. West heads only with NEWS, NEWS and only NEWS. So hungry for this type reality that it even makes up LIE NEWS to just drive their LIFE MACHINE in their direction. We should not head this machine, we should only perfect our faith, and pay less and less attention to USA, NATO, UN, etc news. These are my thoughts on it. Less talk of Iran faults, and more dua for them.
We salam
Assalaam walaikum,
Yet these very issues that are being discussed are not a Johnny come lately. As I review the history books they have been described.
I thought America was in Iraq to dismantle the weapons of mass destruction. No act of Congress declared war. The American people were duped, as usual.
As for Afghanistan, it is for the minerals and resources as is the need to send troops into Africa. It was laid out almost thirty years ago with the Aid to Africa bill.
Has really anything changed. Is this not the Romans all over again?
And you are absolutely, 100% correct what does this have to do with the Love and Fear of Allah.
Our pious predecessors did not think about meddling. They thought about serving Allah subhana wa taala as the Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, taught us to do.