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Just a thought!
Al Riyadh Word
Published in Alriyadh on 11 - 02 - 2011

Imagine yourself becoming a "Billionaire" at a moment, and started making millions from tens of resources, and then your ambitions became bigger to the extent that you wanted to own "Yachts" with French team of chefs, British servants working in accordance with the codes of discipline of "Buckingham" Palace, besides having powerful German guardsmen, and smooth Thai fingers for massage, watches, variant jewelries, costumes from the most famous fashion houses, luxurious cars, an anti bomb and bullet proof armored car, a long-destination aircraft and another for short destinations, palaces and hotels, velvet class guests, business administration that runs your trading and personal life, and that you arrange appointments and deals, and travel around the continents and business stations with companies and banks, and everything that has to do with business trading, and amidst all this empire, you a had a mother who prays the five times, goes umra and hajj, provides charity from her son's money not realizing the source of such money while it came from trading in all illegitimate and prohibited forms. Nevertheless, who shall be held accountable for this act of bad and humanity? Would what this pious mother is doing be considered to be a right act because she is spending from anonymous resource of money? And her God deals with it based on her intentions and piety?
Ideals are not fulfilled in normal individuals. However, is it by innate that the human is selfless and apt to make living by whatsoever means, or he is born pure and acquires attitudes from the surrounding environment?! The more important test lies in the question of whether predominance is for those who are given the choice of money but they refuse due to ethical reasons, or for those who are tempted to do so?
All ethics scientists, sociology philosophers, reformers have treated these cases, and analyzed the human's desires and the effects of the surrounding environment. However, they remained unable to reach the reality of the human personality. Perhaps one of the most exciting and shocking experiments was that of the imprisonment of normal people at one of the American jails and starting monitoring them. What happened was that some of them turned within few months into fierce people, and even more brutal than the jailers; they tortured and killed mobilized by inhuman motives, while some were transferred to mental hospitals to be treated from shock. Scientists concluded that the human being deals with a special physics that cannot be measured in comparison to others in terms of habits and attitudes changes.
It is not money that fulfills happiness, neither is it poverty that imposes criminal behavior. This is evident is the fact that the American world's richest millionaire, Bill Gates, remained austere while being a person who gained all his billions from his creativity. He provided his billions for charities, and a group of other people followed him in this. He found delight in this work, and he did not care about appearances. This automatic behavior is so much connected to the basic components of the first breeding that was created by common awareness based on the philanthropic nature of humanity.
Halal and Haram (religiously accepted and prohibited) are two parts of an equation that relies on the principle of values. It is here were conscience might be vivid or dead. And these words are not preaches, but, however, are a reflection of a reality we live.
The lucky is who keeps his normal personality balanced, and controls its desires; while conscience remains the absolute judge for those who can identify color and distinguish between them.


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