By Arif Kabir
“He has set up the Balance” – Surah Rahman, Ayah 7
Did anyone of you ever see the movie “Lion of the Desert”? In the beginning of that movie, Omar Mukhtar is shown as a teacher during the daytime and he is teaching all the children Surah Rahman. He stops at the Ayah shown above and reflects on it for a moment. Later on in the movie, while at war, he stops to rest in his ravaged hometown. He passes by his old school and picks up the tablets that the students were last writing (which was the beginning of Surah Rahman) and repeats the Ayah on Balance once more. It was clearly showing in the movie (judging from different clips in the movie) that he believed that the oppression that the Libyans were facing were one side of the balance and that he was the other side – providing the resistance against the Italians in order to keep the balance… Continue reading ‘The Balance Set By Allah’
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