Imagine someone you love dearly is in desperate need but you don't know it yet. You are busy dealing with your life as it is in your world wherever you are. Your child had a terrible accident. They needed a blood transfusion, taken in and cared for, or even so far as an organ donated to them. Word came to you later. You arrive to take charge of your child. It doesn't matter the age you are or your child is. There is no bargaining here. These are the facts. It is after the fact you discover the person who cared for your child was a Muslim, or Islamic. Maybe the person who helped your child was a paroled murder, or a known adulterer, the town gossip, or even the enemy of your youth. You are a person of faith. The question is when do our principles become our prejudices or our prejudices merge into our principles. Would we be like Abraham and sacrifice the child because scripture "prohibits" association with the unclean. Would our faith be in the form of Peter's who cared for the man in the ditch when all others passed him by? There is evil is every one of us. There is also divine in all of us. What rules in us is that which we choose to honor in our lives. The question is this, how clear is the line between the principles we have based on our faith and the prejudices we form around them. Are these "prejudices" of the divine nature. Would you be grateful your child was saved or would you have sacrificed them rather than have them be 'touched' by the unclean.... Just something to chew on....
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