Bilaterality

 

Islam is a religion of moderation and balance. All human systems have shown excess in their field of concentration and neglected the other fields. 

For example, man for capitalism is only an economic entity that works as a cog in the machine. He produces surplus value and consists merely of matter.

According to the point of view of Freud’s psychoanalysis, man consists of only sexual urges. Materialism remained blind to spirit and meaning. Christianity has lost its laws on human conduct and turned into a religion of belief without law, simply claiming ‘’God loves you’’. While Buddhism is simply a way of meditation and asceticism and lacks any guidelines on how to live life.

Taking a single issue and trying to explain everything with it (monism) has been the mistake of almost all worldviews except Islam. These other ways have a certain aspect of truth but are incomplete. 

For example, economics is a truth for human beings, but it is not the only truth. It is a relative truth that can have an importance of three percent, five percent or even from person to person. 

To avoid the heedlessness of analyzing everything single sidedly: 

“Look at the beautiful face that is proud of being as bright as the moon! 

But look at its end after seeing its beginning, so that you don’t fall into the stupidity of seeing only the worldly side of something without being able to look at the other side of it, like the single-eyed devil…”

“The devil saw the clay of Adam; he did not see his spiritual significance. He could see the mud of this world but not the spirituality which belongs to the other world…”

Islam builds a moderate society which is called the middlemost community. It stays away from exaggeration and understatement in every matter. It does not ignore or neglect any fact that needs to be taken into account.

The great companions of the prophet used to sing “the real life is the life of hereafter” but they didn't neglect this world and they had laws on how to live in this life. The true religion always inculcates to the believer, the direction of servitude which is balanced between this world and the hereafter. 

As it is stated in the following verse: 

“Seek the abode of the next world and what Allah has given you, without forgetting your portion of this world!...” (Al-Qasas, 77) In other words, Islam does not consider focusing on one side and completely neglecting the other side. 




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