salih was sent to his brother thamud as a warner. how does a brother warn another? the same way malcolm little was warned by his brother, when he was incarcerated. malcolm's brother sent him a letter exposing him to Light, to a different path, one of truth, known as islam, and taught by a sheik by the name of elijah muhammad.
often times, during conversations with friends, i find myself and others distraught with issues plaguing the world. there are fingers pointed at corporations that frack, exploit land and people, treat the earth as a dumping ground. yet, ironically, we are eating off disposable plates, and have huge piles of meat at our bbq, and blasting biggie talkign about robbing and how much head he gets, and all the gucci he wears, and we are rocking leather shoes and fresh new white-tees, and we are going out to eat at a restaurant later that week, that is supposed to have the best sweet potato fries, but none of us know the restaurant owner/s, the chefs, etc, and our father is doing such and such and our brother is buying this and that, and our sister is shopping at the big exploiter, and our mother is watching tv all day and alone most of the time...
so, talk to your Self, and talk to your family. a warning doesn't mean you know and they don't and stepping on stage and pontificating for an hour. it means building a relation, of sharing what you know, what light has been made available to you, and then trouble-shooting together of how to come out of the dark ways you and your family have been practicing.
this may be met with arrogance and dismissal and quarrel. that's okay. keep on.
keep engaging the way salih did with his family, by questioning, by interrogating:
27:46 He said: "O my people! why ask ye to hasten on the evil in preference to the good? If only ye ask Allah for forgiveness, ye may hope to receive mercy.
the risk that we and our family face is Life. every species, my pathology teacher tells me, has one sole biological purpose, and that is to survive, to propagate. if we can understand this, than we understand the mythology of a disease being wiped away, i.e. small pox, tuberculosis. hence the resurgence of these diseases right here in the modern/western/sanitized world. they take on new forms.
we risk extermination as a species, which would be sad, as we have so much potential for Greatness. our actions are immediately on a scale. not figuratively, but literally. our trial is based on what we do and don't do. our silence is an action. and this scale resides within us, because all of us know, understand our actions. salih reminds his brother and people of this, when they reject the omen, as one that he devised:
27:48. He said: "Your ill omen is with Allah. yea, ye are a people under trial."
the trial may be overlooked by those whose senses have gotten the better of them, which is most of us, at varying levels. lust quenched, doesn't satiate, but leads to greater lust. there are a few that hold much of the oath, this is the cry of the wallstreet occupation movement last year. but that virus of greed resides in more than a 1%. it is epidemic. these schemes that we carry, hurt, have consequences, and are not without Witness.
the nine men of a single family who sought to loot and deceive the town of salih, were themselves faced with themselves:
27: 50 - 53 They plotted and planned, but We too planned, even while they perceived it not. Then see what was the end of their plot!- this, that We destroyed them and their people, all (of them).Now such were their houses, - in utter ruin, - because they practised wrong- doing. Verily in this is a Sign for people of knowledge. And We saved those who believed and practised righteousness.
literally, this more often than not, does not add up in our day to day realities. the greedy, the hoarders, whatever class they are in, usually get away with mayhem. so going beyond the literal, the concept of action reaction, of karma, of consequence, in the context of an evermore, of a no beginning, no end, can be understood on a nucleic level, on a dna level, on the level that we continue with this karma through our children and their children who suffer, who carry this hurt. and they themselves are destroyed internally, eating more, drinking more, running and running and running away from the Truth.
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