Back to front – Saudi News

I did not make a mistake in the title of this article, as we used to say that phrase in a different way: going backwards, as it is opposite to one’s direction, but this “backward” is associated in our minds with always backwardness, even though contemplating the matter indicates that what we left, and we want Returning to it may be progress and advancement, human progress and moral and cultural advancement.I say this, and I have read in an Arab magazine an investigation informing us that civil society organizations in the United States have launched a campaign of “ten thousand dollars for chastity” these days, with the aim of preventing sexual relations before official marriage. Forbidden relationships did not occur between them, on condition that they not serve alcohol at their wedding ceremony.

The aim of this “moral” campaign is not only to preserve chastity in itself as a value, nor to not drink intoxicants as a virtue, but the motive behind that is: “to prevent the spread of AIDS through these relationships,” according to the committee’s declaration, and if I see this reason does not reflect the truth Motives, because AIDS prevention has other means that can be adopted, in addition to what has been announced, and the requirement that alcohol not be served at the wedding ceremony has nothing to do with AIDS, which makes us affirm that there is a return to what pure humanity was like before the moral turmoil in Western societies.

The tendency to spread chastity among young men in the West is a phenomenon that is not recent, for there is a trend among Western girls themselves in many European countries, such as France, England and others, calling for preserving the virginity of girls before marriage, which is consistent with the original traditions and morals of these societies, in their previous eras.

Sociologists believe that this campaign will lead to the belief of young people in sound ideas, especially as they have many directions, some of them health and medical, given the health and physical problems that these illegal relationships lead to, including trends of a social nature, where these relationships lead to Genealogy mixing, as well as maintaining good family relations.

Although the campaign is completely far from linking its behaviors and goals to religious motives, it did not indicate from near or far that its demands are closely related to what the religions decide, Jewish, Christian or otherwise, we have the alternative, and the successful treatment of the diseases of the age and the intractable problems of the West, Islam offers alternatives And solutions, but it seems that just as we failed to manufacture and market civilization equipment in the West, we also failed to export what we possess – and did not produce – of the components of civilization, the fortifications of humanity, and I mean Islamic morals.

The American civil society organizations adopt the method of “carroting” for young people, represented by ten thousand dollars, will not fundamentally solve the problem they suffer from, as it is essential for young people to believe in the moral and human value of virtues, either that the preservation of morals becomes ten thousand dollars or More, in my belief that this will not help anything, just as the desired system to achieve chastity will not continue, as long as society as a whole is moving in the opposite direction, as such campaigns should be accompanied by other campaigns that stop pornographic films, limit the spread of alcohol, and enact laws. Contributes to the right to the protection of chastity, the maintenance of honor, and the application of the basics of human rights.

In general, we are happy for such a trend that protects mankind from disease, and spreads virtues throughout the entire universe. We say to them, and to those who walk in the ranks of “liberation”: Now we are examining the truth, and praise be to God Almighty for the blessing of Islam.

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