right which is called Sharia the sacred
law now one of the things that you I
want you to answer a little this is
importantly we get back to this colonial
idea the Quran very clearly says then
total Bank of you who do what and asada
had to get me little home
the Jewish a tradition and the Christian
tradition which is not religious it's
the social phenomenon which I now think
is European and America this is the
judeo-christian phenomenon they will not
be content until you follow their Minda
now in the Quran does not say Dean which
is their personal piety or their
personal transactions with God no it
says their Nilla and how they function
up a collective body now the dominant
milla of our of our modernist condition
is the consumer society this is the idol
of the age consumption that we were born
to create to consume now first of all
two interesting things to note one is
the consumer in Old English means the
devil and the Quran says in animal but
didn't wanna shell thing the those who
are equipped to ously extravagant all
the companions or the or the brothers
the Brethren of the say a teen in the
champagne who are you know this perverse
element in human society and in the
human heart which is calling people to
lower functions and so that the idea of
the consumption now it is being
presented to the world as innovation
human as salvation that you will be
happy through buying that you will be
happy if you will have all those goods
that are going to make you happy this is
the constant message of the television
the constant message of media the
message of government's more it will
just make more schools if we can just
put more computers in the school if we
can just have more prisons there'll be
less crime so everything is more that
I'm not cynical either part of
capitalism absolutely well yeah at this
last stage is the epic but what Islam is
saying is no by having less you have
more by diminishing your exterior wants
and increasing your interior wants
because we have interior and exterior
wants our interior wants are not the
same because if I'm coal is my body that
shivering is not my soul and and I can
deal with that I just put a blanket on
and and I can resolve that crisis but if
my soul is shivering then what do I use
to cover up that well you can attempt to
put a blanket which is what consumerism
is you see no no vibe and the blank
doesn't work well here--here's
new and improved right this is what they
love to use in their commercials the new
and improved blanket this will really
make you warm or this new car which you
get this new stereo this new television
it just keeps going and going and going
and in the end this human being is left
consumed because the consumer is
ultimately consumed because life
consumes us
you