doubt about it, some assumptions are sinful. He says: ‘No doubt about it’—it’s
ironic that Allah put that there.
On the one hand, assumptions were things that
originally you had doubt over and eventually you became convinced of. But He
says let me tell you something in which there is no doubt.
Al-Ithm bi-maʿnā al-
jazā’ kadhālik
—
Ithm
can also mean to give recompense or
jazā’
.
Ithm
also
means compensation. In other words it’s not just any sin; it is a sin that you will
be seeing the price for. You will pay the price for it and others will see the
consequences of it. It’s not just some sin that the
angels wrote down and you
never saw what happened, only on judgement day will you see. No, you will see
the evils of it in this
dunyā
too.
You will see the evils of making assumptions in this
dunyā
. The brotherhood
will be destroyed; families will be ripped apart because of people just assuming
what the other meant. Nations, entire nations will be willing to go to war because
of an assumption. How many political scandals happen because of assumptions?
There’s a rumour spread that this politician did this, there is no evidence yet but
riots have already started in the streets. People have already started to die and
businesses have already started to be ruined. It doesn’t matter which country it
is, the fact is that based on a rumour, based on a
ẓann
some people died!
How serious is this thing? It’s not just something that ruins your personal life
or a community’s life. It can ruin entire countries. It can ruin entire nations. Can
you imagine, for example, the wars that we went to based on assumptions? We
sold the assumption that there are weapons of mass destruction, didn’t we? Now
the reality is known; it’s not a hidden thing. How many millions of lives have to
be lost because people buy into assumption.
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