If you contemplate the types of characters around you, you will find an amazing wonder of the diversity of God’s creation and the difference of human souls, and you may be guided by meanings that were absent from you before when you read the Almighty saying: “And in yourselves, do you not see” (Adh -Dhariyat: 21).
And it was stated in the easy interpretation of this verse, “And in the creation of yourselves, indications of God Almighty’s ability, and through that it indicates the oneness of your Creator, and that there is no god for you worthy of worship other than him, you have neglected it, so do not see that and you consider it?”
This means the wonders of God’s making in creation, material, structure, breath and meaning, and Al -Suyuti said in his interpretation of this verse in the interpretation of the majesty, “And in yourselves there are also verses from the principle of your creation to its end, and what is in the composition of your creation from the wonders, do you not see it and you can infer it on its maker and its ability?”
It was stated in the interpretation of al -Baghawi that Ibn Ata said on the authority of Ibn Abbas, explaining the meaning of the meaning of which “he wants the difference of tongues, pictures, colors and nature”, and measured their counterparts from the verses that call for thinking about the soul and the creation of God and its creativity in its formation, and its wisdom in its difference and contrast.
Perhaps you realize the purpose of repeating the divine matter by thinking about ourselves, and what this includes thinking about it, its hidden and its secrets.
You must look at yourself and those around you to find one of the characters described as the victim, and you may be, so how did Islam look at the sacrifice? How did philosophers define it?
Islam’s view of sacrifice and its position on it
If we link the concepts of sacrifice and altruism, then Islam has urged them as two solid foundations that must be instilled in the Muslim individual and focus on them, because they are one of the most important pillars of the pillar of the Islamic community and the preservation of the structure of the Islamic state.
The first Islamic community is full of images of sacrifice and altruism, not the first of which is what the supporters did with their brothers from the immigrants of participatory, giving and honor by sharing everything they possess among themselves.
However, the concept of sacrifice does not impose on a Muslim one that does not tolerate psychological or material burdens, but rather according to his capabilities and capabilities, and this idea is the stall of the Persians in liberating the concept of sacrifice in Islam, as many discussions took place, and some Muslims linked it to the jihad of the soul and sacrificing what is difficult for the soul in the greatest reward.
Self -sacrifice and money in Islam is one of the greatest forms of obedience, compliance and surrender to God, longing and seeing testimony for the sake of God, love, obedience and desire to win the paradise and the neighborhood of the prophets and the righteous.
The concept of sacrifice includes the individual and the group, and it differs according to the need of the situation and the ability of individuals and the assimilation of societies, for example, the sacrifice of time may be that its importance is sacrificing according to the need and choosing time and the appropriate type, so it does not depend on the estimation of the individual alone when it aims to serve the entire society.
Who among us did not hear the sacrifices of the Companions in the first knee when one of them came – who is the wealthy rich – with his entire money when the Muslims needed money, and another bought for the Muslims a well to be raised from it when the water was rewarded, and another prepared a complete army of his money for love and dignity and see what God promised them in his dear book as the Almighty saying in Surat (Al -Raad: 22) Prayer, and spent what we had in secret and publicly, and teaching them with bad good for them, those who followed the house.
And the Almighty said in Surat Al -Hadid﴿ Those who recite the Book of God and perform the prayer and spend from what we have made them secret and publicly hope for a trade that will not be overlooked, and many other stories of sacrifice, each of which dominates the story of certainty in the true heart of the Muslim.
Not to mention the altruism and seeking Islam in the needs of all Muslims, and his saying, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, may fall, “Whoever needs his brother was God in his need” within the same framework.
If you help your Muslim brother, it means that you do from yourself, your time, and perhaps from your money and your health, and between giving and sacrifice a thin hair, whether in the act and application, or in talking about the verb itself and mentioned later.
The concept of sacrifice for philosophers
The American writer Napoleon Hill went on to “the great achievement Walid is a great sacrifice, and he cannot be an ugly selfish child.” The animal. “Do you see us agree with him?
The concept of sacrifice philosophically refers to leaving and abandoning something important for a person for an most important thing, which may be a principle, belief or human being.
The sacrifice is a verb that proves one’s commitment and loyalty to the goal that has abandoned something important for it, especially since the idea of leaving and abandoning causes many and varied pains that may be physical or psychological or both together, for abandonment may mean loss and may mean deprivation.
And the sacrifice is often seen as a noble act that no person can be strengthened, so something is overlooked by something – and both of them are great for the soul – it needs high psychological strength and strict self -discipline, and the act is not a sacrifice without these psychological conflicts that range in its intensity according to the person and his noble goal that sacrifices for it.
The concept of sacrifice is mixed with the general thinkers of the idea of atonement for sins and psychological disinfection as is the case with Buddhists, and the concept is mixed with some philosophers and thinkers of the Islamic character in the concept of self -raising, refining and jihad, based on the difficulty of sacrifices on the one hand and the severity of its impact on the human soul, as it is often based on violating the passion, comfort of the soul and its pleasure.
But some thinkers and those concerned with the types of characters and their programming have a different point of view, as some of them go until the varying matter between people is normal, so the sacrifice may meet as an idea with the jihad of the soul sometimes and you may separate, so what is difficult for you to do may like others to do, and what is difficult for yourself may have a pleasant or sweet impact on others.
The meaning and shape of the sacrifice may be confused with other meanings, as if it becomes a duty! Yes, do not be surprised.
“With some sacrifice and a bit of abandoning the chances of the soul, one can be a bond of at least one person,” says writer Abdel Karim Bakkar.
In fact, some people sacrifice for the sake of satisfying others from children, family and friends with their time, health and money, but these others do not see this as a sacrifice but rather a natural duty or behavior in its context.
It is more than that to see that it is a merit for them, and the eyes of the sacrificed personality are looking with despair, despair, and hesitation in itself “No praise, no thanks.”
Between martyrdom and sacrifice
Upon hearing news bulletins, we used to knock on the word “victim” and “victims” our hearing, especially when mentioning the incidents and the endlessly existing wars.
The media differs in its descriptions, so we sometimes hear the term “martyrs” and sometimes the term “dead”, each according to its directions and its goals, and what is concerned here is to consider the word “victim”, as the victim means the innocent who dies unjustly, and what is made or sacrificed for a goal, and the group is “victims”.
As for the sacrifice and sacrifice, it is what is slaughtered from the cattle during the days of slaughter in order to bring to God Almighty and the residence of the Sunnah, and its collection of “Adhdah” and “sacrifices”, and it has two different dimensions, one of which is heavenly linked to servitude to God alone, and the other is a societal earthly related to charity to people.
As for the difference between the use of the “dead” and the “victim” in a news, it reflects for us the extent of the news of the news authority with this victim, the dead may be a victim who deserves to sympathize with him, and he may be a criminal who deserves what he deserves, and the position may be neutral, but when the “victim” is said, this is a clear declaration and an explicit news of sympathy for him and his promise in the ranks of the oppressed.
It is no secret to the reader what the word “the martyr” holds if it is used to express the victims, and what it gains for the meaning of majesty, prestige and appreciation.
Given the term “sacrifice” – which is one of the Islamic terms – we find that it is a special term that means the slaughter of cattle and the distribution of its meat closer to God, and it is far from the meaning of the victim that kills or slaughtered unjustly, but rather the exact opposite, as this term gained deep meanings indicating the physical effort in order to satisfy God and make people happy and expand them.
The testimony in the way of God is based on the concept of self -sacrifice, and does a person have more precious than his soul to present it for the sake of his religion and belief? Yes .. Perhaps there is something more precious, so sacrifice itself is a broad concept, and people may vary in their ability to do in it, so sacrificing money may be easier than sacrificing time for some people, and some of them sacrifice themselves for the sake of money, and such sacrifice for family, child and loved ones, and here lies another secret of human differences, their variation and their variation in the ladder of priorities, even if they are one.
It is necessary to distinguish between the intended testimony in which one in which one exerts himself is satisfied with a reassuring, hoping for the reward of martyrdom for the sake of God and immortality in the paradise of Paradise and between the testimony that one gets a judgment written in the record of their destiny. The path of God.
The areas of distinction between the two states of martyrdom here is the decision, determination and courage, and this is the basis of sacrifice, and without it the martyrdom is not a sacrifice and sacrifice for the sake of God, for the Mujahid who drives himself to the fields of fighting and he knows that he may lose his life or may be hurt, he had promised himself before that what awaits him in his hereafter in belief and ratification of the promise of God Almighty to the Mujahideen who are martyred in his path in Surat Al -Imran They were killed for the sake of God, but alive with their Lord, who will give* happy with what God has given them of His grace and preaching to those who did not catch them from behind them, except for fear of them, nor are they grieving*
Tales are mixed and the strings are intertwined when the views differ towards the Mujahid young man and his sacrifice himself for the sake of God, as others who do not belong to the doctrine themselves and do not carry their ideas – but they fight them with ignorance or knowledge – to the actions of these young people as suicide.
These themselves are those who do not carry Islamic thought see the matter as terrorism and suicide, and they do not concern them with what the suicide of the Mujahideen youth means, and how they flee from it, and believe that it is one of the major sins that he has forbidden in their faith﴿ and do not kill yourselves.
Each of us must be a special pause that stands with himself to ask her about the meaning of sacrifice and its manifestations in his life, and does sincerity in the work require sacrifice what the soul yearns for? Are we from the deceased or from the faithful whose description came in the words of Abu Hamid Al -Ghazali, “All of you have dubbed the worlds, and the worlds have dubbed only the workers, and the workers have destroyed only the loyal.”