Page 51 - The Debased Culture of Superficiality

HOW SUPERFICIALITY

MANIFESTS ITSELF

Bedouins and Their Debased Culture
In the days of the Prophet Muhammad (saas), as in every
period of history, there were those whose crude and shallow
minds could not understand the subtleties of religious moral-
ity. Faith had not settled into their hearts. As already said at
the beginning of this book, some who adopted this religion of
superficiality were the Bedouins:
The desert Arabs are more obdurate in disbelief and
hypocrisy and more likely not to know the limits which
Allah has sent down to His Messenger . . . (Surat at-
Tawba: 97)
It is revealed in the Qur’an that the Bedouins were more
given to disobedience and ignoring boundaries. Even though
they personally met a blessed individual like the Prophet
(saas), engaged him in conversation and heard his message,
and even though they witnessed his special moral character
and noble and modern demeanor, most Bedouins remained
backward, crude and shallow. This could be seen in their
inability to properly appreciate Allah’s glory, their wrong
attitudes toward religion and obedience, the way they sat