The Negative Use of Opportunities
English book, p. 43
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
THE APPEARANCE OF DAJJAL his Benefactor and must be acknowledged as such. Thereby acknowledging the Benefactor, he could be held deserving of further blessings. However, precisely simultaneously, dajjal appeared and misled man into a satanic entertainment culture, justifying this by invented philosophies. Everyone wanted to fulfil his or her desires right there and then. They forgot that every blessing brings with it responsibilities. Moreover, man has no right to enjoy these blessings without discharging these responsibilities. In present times, the entertainment culture is in vogue. All men and women want to enjoy life to the full. The most popular motto of today is: right here, right now. A significant number of books have been written to justify this ideology. One salient name in this field is Sigmund Freud (d. 1939). He was a great advocate of such thinking. He wanted to prove that human desires have a crucial role in forming the human personality. He held that by suppressing desires, one’s personality became scarred by repression, and the process of psychological growth became distorted. As such, it was necessary to satisfy one’s desires freely. Due to this misleading ideology, permissiveness prevails

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