Does Islam need the law to protect itself?
Does Allah expect us to punish those who does not perform his/her 5 times prayer?
Does Allah expect us to punish those who eat in the fasting month of Ramadhan?
Does Allah expect us to punish those who refuse to pay his/her zakat?
Does Allah expect us to punish those who refuse to perform haj?
And finally, does Allah expect us to punish those who leave Islam to embrace other religion?
We human beings, are in no position to answer any of these questions as we cannot speak on behalf of Allah. So the issue now becomes “whether we could?” Is it within our capacity to deem someone as sinful and therefore punish them?
Imagine yourself manufacturing a laptop. Only you would know everything about that laptop. Only you would know what the laptop should do, how it should function, and whether it is functioning the way it should.
The same concept applies to humans beings. Allah is our creator. He creates us, therefore he knows everything about us. He tells us what to do and what not to do, and only He is able to monitor our deeds i.e. whether what...
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The Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at McDonald’s has just started blogging. In his blog, he claimed that the driver that motivates them to adopt CSR is doing the right thing and because it is part of their company ethic and identity. But is McDonald’s really doing the right thing? For decades McDonald's has been criticized for selling unhealthy food, exploitative advertising targeted at children, production of packaging waste, and ecological damage caused by industrial processing of its products. One could argue that the CSR programmes that McDonald’s have undertaken are actually done to distract the public from the ethical questions posed by their core operations. I agree with this because most of the changes that McDonald’s had introduced for the past decade has not been successful in addressing the main concern of the public i.e. the food it serves still harms people, promotes obesity among children, and has detrimental effects on land and water.
On May 1 2002, the Centers for Disease Control issued a report stating that childhood obesity and related diseases had doubled in the past 10 years, specifically citing high-fat fast-food as a cause. If McDonald’s is truly concern about...
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