How can we avoid passing judgment on something we haven’t personally experienced?

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How can we avoid passing judgment on something we haven't personally experienced?

There are two things that Allah Almighty has bestowed upon human beings, but which human beings do not use out of ignorance. One is to imagine, that is, to be able to substitute. To exercise our imagination about the murderer being a murderer. The second is to look at what you see and hear as an example. These two energy points are the things that will provide the realization that will come from experiencing instead of experiencing in person.

If we can really do this, these two energy centers offer the ability to achieve the same level of realization without experiencing. To imagine is to look at the murderer being a murderer with the attitude of an example but without judgment, and the example is to draw the lesson to be realized from that subject. What is that attitude. Trying to understand what is the story behind the murderer becoming a murderer requires us to have a very thorough knowledge, it is not possible just by hearing about it. Because information can be wrong. It is also not possible by reading about it on social media, this can only be achieved by experiencing the murderer in person, by living with him, so that we can reach that exemplary position even without experiencing it.

When it comes to imagination, let’s go back to theft, theft is the taking of something that belongs to someone else into one’s possession or use without complying with the law. However, if we look at the expansion of the concept of theft, we cannot find even one person who is not a thief in a country of 80 million people. Sometimes theft is stealing someone’s property, sometimes their emotions, sometimes their time or their way or their turn. Sometimes it is taking away what someone deserves and sometimes it is reading their message secretly. It is taking information without asking.

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If God is the interlocutor we believe in, do you think He would say, -It doesn’t matter that you stole 10 TL belonging to that orphan, but if you stole 10 million, I would punish you‖? God does not make a difference in the quantity of the crime. Whether you stole someone’s money or someone’s time, the quality is basically the same. In His sight, it is the quality part (indallah), and that makes us all thieves in the quality part. For example, adulterers are judged like prostitutes in society, but we are all partners in what they do, qualitatively if not quantitatively. We are all marketing something. Sometimes we sell our bodies, sometimes we sell our knowledge, sometimes we sell something in our minds. It is also a slippery thing to market an idea that is not my own by changing it. Social media is all about this information nowadays.

Even though it may seem normal or ethical, sometimes with the law, sometimes with ethics, none of this makes any difference in the sight of Allah. When I look at it, whatever sin or evil there is in the world, there is also in my soul, even though our saying may seem like an emotional aphorism, it is completely real and lives in reality.

In fact, we are all living beings in which the same evil and sins continue to exist within us without exception. When we realize this, we solve arrogance. In fact, we are no different from each other. Theft, corruption, sins are present in all of us. If you look at life in this way, you will gain the right direction.

I am a person who sells his knowledge but I don’t sell my wisdom, but someone else has this knowledge but mine may be more organic. I only have an idealism about raising my students. I test them either as soil or a hollow rock or a flat rock, and I immediately remove the flat one from my life. I look at the hollow rocks to see what they can do for humanity, so I rain on them, maybe they won’t live, but they will carry the message. The one I look at is the one like soil. This is what I labor for. It is a great waste to put a precious treasure in an unprecious area.

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If you are not in this position, I suggest in every relationship;

Either you are a receiver, a giver or a mediator. You are either learning, teaching or being instrumental. Either be a producer, a buyer or a mediator. Other than that, I would not put anyone in the fourth section anywhere in my life. They are the most useless kind of creatures. Cats, dogs, and even worms that you are disgusted by are much more precious and special in terms of nature. This is the fourth class of human beings and the third type is the most useless type of human beings.

A question is often asked here, why did the Messenger of Allah give the message to his relatives and the polytheist society at that time when they were not practicing?

Invitation to faith can be done always and continuously. But what we are talking about is knowledge, wisdom and knowledge, knowledge of self, knowledge of God and existence. If any objection came to him about this Knowledge, the Prophet would stay there. There is always an invitation to faith, but the knowledge of the Self and the knowledge of God is different, you don’t say to your brother come and I will teach you what he is not there.

You teach it to the one who demands it, demanding is not enough, deserving is not enough, deserving is not enough, you teach it to the one who can really comprehend it and carry it, and if that is not enough, you teach it to the one who will give it a new construction and reconstruction with its glory. We are obliged to give the knowledge of God to those who can achieve this, but you can always invite to faith or teach verses. This is not a simple knowledge. It is the greatest treasure one can acquire.

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How long have you not looked at your right kneecap? How many years it has been with you and you have not looked at it, you are unaware of it, you are unaware of the change in your neck or elbow for so many years. Are you paying attention? But in your soul you want to reach; No! That is a deeper knowledge.

Everything that one doesn’t notice, that one doesn’t care about, is actually the most important thing for man. If your kneecap left you because of this, then you would realize its value. Just like you don’t notice your ear, because you are always outside, but if it hurts, if it screams or if there is a decrease in its function, you pay attention. Human beings are defeated by nisyan, that is, forgetting, that is, forgetting the most precious, or rather, not being sincere and not caring after familiarity and distances are gone. That’s why we sometimes stop the lessons in people’s lives. Sometimes we make them love, sometimes we make them hate, sometimes we do good, sometimes we do evil so that people do not forget what they have gained and lost, what they have achieved and always remain in perception.

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Ahmet Turan Esin

-He is interested in theology, mysticism and philosophy. He publishes his writings on fikrikadim.com. He gives seminars and lectures.

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