The long term sustainability
of the economic development models being pursued by various nations is under a
shadow these days with multiple crises-economic, political, social and
financial- afflicting even the affluent among the peoples and societies.
Instead of addressing the glaring inequalities in income and wealth and the
insane disparities in the resource distribution structures that under grid the
modern economies, the priority of our finest minds seems to have been diverted
to no less a thing than ‘playing’ God. How else would you explain the global focus
on ‘birth control’ as the panacea for gross mismanagement of economies/
resource distribution patterns?! Alas, for a world that has lost its sense of
proportionality and is out of ‘balance’, flawed logic, warped thinking and
anti- natural policies seem to appeal more than ethical concerns.
To contain the many issues
emerging out of the inequitable economic and social policies followed thus far,
nations seem to have found a magical solution in population control/ birth
control. Abortion and Birth Control as a conscious state policy to reduce
population figures is antithetical to the spirit of life and natural growth and
as such, against the Islamic values. In his Friday
Sermon of June 15, 2012 Khalifatullah Hadhrat Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib of
Mauritius (atba) explained at length the ethical teachings of Islam with special
reference to marital life- the ways in which Islamic ethics seek to inject personal
happiness, the joy of togetherness, emotional bonding and the bliss of progeny
into the very special relationship between a man and his wife. Drawing on the
fine metaphor of beautiful flowers, the Messenger of Allah of our times points
out that children are the Roses in the garden of life and calls our attention
to the traditions of the Holy Prophet (sa) who wanted to see hundreds of
flowers to bloom in the garden of Muslim Ummah.
Read the extracts from the Friday Sermon: