No religion is also a religion (Religion)

Member Name: ishti50

Product:	Religion
Date:	10/10/05 (90 review reads)
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We live in an era where it is almost believed that practicing religion is foolish or dangerous. Somewhere I have heard before that "if you are capable of practicing your religion without any kind of intimidation or fear of anyone one else - you are luckier than many, as there are thousands of people who can't do that in the world". I personally believe that practicing no religion is also a type of religion. Religion doesn't necessarily has to be monotheistic or polytheistic in nature. It may be complete denial of God as well. I am not sure what the literary source of the word religion is but in my mother tongue, "Religion" is described by a word synonymous to "Characteristics". Therefore, to me no religion is also a type of characteristic of many people.

A consumer driven society can easily provide for all sorts of spiritualistic people, if not 100%; it should be about 90%. However, this is only my opinion and not supported by any survey. I am a Muslim myself. I find it easy to some extent to practice my religion. I am no scholar of my religion but only a few days ago I heard one scholar of my religion to say that many Muslims in today's world can acquire more knowledge than the previous saints of Islam with much less effort. But what makes it difficult for us to practice Islam is the materialistic world. There are far too many attraction to forget about religion now than to learn and practice it.

However, since Islam allows to do most business and trade that are ethical in nature, it is not difficult for a Muslim to find good means of living in the modern society. In fact, (to the best of my knowledge), Islam considers the Muslim who lives in a society in peace and practices religion as a better person than one who flees from the society to search for Allah (God).

We do not need to search Allah in deserts and forests. Allah could be waiting for us in our ailing neighbour's house, or at the places where disaster-stricken people are suffering in pain.

A consumer driven society can provide for the spiritual needs of the people, if they know where to look for spiritual relief. Coming from a country where I saw hundreds of children collecting food and livelihood from dustbins and landfills, I know where to look for my salvation. The national poet of my country (Kazi Nazrul Islam) wrote - "The greatest truth of all is human being and there is no greater truth than that". A consumer driven society provides for the need of human beings and that is more than sufficient to provide for the spirits of those who need salvation. At least that is what I believe.

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