It is recognized that pure righteousness is unable to confront corruption. Rather, rolling corruption must be defended with transitive reform, and only organized reform can triumph over organized corruption. In light of this organized corruption, random reform becomes a mere futile effort.
Contemporary corruption relies on organized triviality
Contemporary corruption depends on creating abnormalities in the broad sense of thought and behavior, and consolidating the system of triviality through widespread influence on the younger generation.
In various stages of human history, influence depended on trivial content, but in an unorganized manner. An example of this is what Ibn Qutaybah mentioned in “Interpretation of Different Hadiths,” when he said, “In ancient times, storytellers used to turn the faces of the common people toward them, and conceal what they had with evil deeds.” Strange things and lies are part of the speech. The common people like to sit with the storyteller, as long as his speech is strange, outside the nature of the mind, or is gentle, saddens the hearts and angers the eyes.
But today this triviality has become a supported system that leads entire youth societies to a loss of meaning, as the Canadian philosopher Alain Dunough sees in his book The System of Triviality. He says: “Trivality encourages us in every possible way to fall asleep instead of thinking, to look at what is unacceptable as if it were inevitable, and to what… It is disgusting as if it were necessary; it turns us into fools.”
The way to overthrow the influence of triviality
The Canadian philosopher believes that the way to overthrow the system of triviality can only be through a collective method or what he describes as a “collective rupture,” and not by seeking individual salvation, with the ways of thinking that this entails to end the existence of institutions and rules that harm the public interest by consolidating triviality through influence. The wide one.
The creation of intellectual perversion by spreading atheism and questioning religious constants and demolishing legitimate assumptions, behavioral perversion by spreading ideas of gender and homosexuality and normalization of perversion, societal perversion by destroying the structure of the Muslim family through the ideas of radical feminism, and political perversion by normalizing with the Zionist entity and imposing a fait accompli in Jerusalem and the site of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and acceptance of political tyranny; All of this is done by creating influence and exporting influencers in the real world and virtual worlds, these influencers who penetrate the collective minds of young people through organized means of influence.
The way to confront this widespread influence of corruption is through a counter-influence created in a systematic manner, and working on it in a collective manner by young people who carry the concern for reform in their lives to confront corruption and build societies capable of adult life in light of this flood of organized triviality and systematic anomalies.
Examples of the importance of making an impact
The influence industry continues to gain importance from ancient times to today, with a clear difference in methodologies and tools.
If we ask ourselves: Why did God’s Prophet Moses, peace and blessings be upon him, not only refuse to charcoal Pharaoh, his entourage, and his magicians in his palace and in front of his entourage, but rather insisted and “said, ‘Your appointment is a day of adornment, and that the people will be gathered together at noon’”?
It is the need to make an impact on the largest possible audience; Pharaoh is not only intended to be understood, but also for the message to reach those who are deceived by him and subject to him.
We also sense this in the biography of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, through many situations, including announcing his call and making it public on Safa, sending emigrant delegations to Abyssinia, trying to influence the rich and notables, and sending Musab bin Umair, may God be pleased with him, as an ambassador to Medina before the Hijra, and how was he able to do so? Influencing its people, and his, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, setting up the pulpit for Hassan in the mosque, and having him as a poet, Hassan bin Thabit, and a preacher, Thabit bin Qais, and his refusal to kill Abdullah bin Abi Ibn Salul, and sending letters to kings and princes, and many other means of influence and industry. Public opinion.
But the entry of today’s world into a virtual state and the displacement of many young people from the real world, as they pitched their tents on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter, and obtained the citizenship of a new homeland on Tik Tok, with capitalism dominating the world, the tyranny of materialism, and the fluidity of concepts; All of this brought the influence industry into a severe and sweeping phase.
Impact industry and life engineering
The need to create influence leads us to engineer life at the individual and collective levels. Dr. Ali Al-Hammadi says that making influence is to have a leadership role in this life, it is to be active in the movement of life and lead the future, it is to be something useful in this world. People are adding something new to this life, because whoever does not add anything to this life is adding to it. The architecture of life and the creation of influence is to be a difficult number to be reckoned with, and that your situation should not be like the situation of those mentioned when he said:
The matter is settled when Tim is absent
They do not ask permission while they are witnesses
The architecture of life and the creation of influence is to be an outstanding leader who leads others and influences them. It is to leave your mark in this universe, and to leave you a beautiful impact and a fragrant memory that will benefit you in this world and the hereafter, as every human being has an existence and an impact, and his presence does not replace his impact, but his impact indicates The value of his existence, and may God have mercy on the prince of poets, Ahmed Shawqi, when he says:
A person’s heartbeat says to him
Life is minutes and seconds
So remember it for yourself after your death
The male has a second life
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