The moral breakdown of sexual permissiveness produces unwanted children, irresponsible fathers, criminals, social misfits, and many sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS.1
Paying an official extra to rush your papers is a bribe, because it pushes other people's papers aside and delays them.1, 2, 3
Corruption prevails because of people's own works, and God makes them suffer the consequences so that they may return; he would render corruption as misery.1, 2, 3
When corruption, lawlessness, and disobedience of God take over the earth, God destroys it, as He did in Noah's time.1, 2, 3
The principle that God diminishes usury extends to any sinful earnings, such as gambling, so those who seem to profit from them really end up losing.1, 2, 3, 4
The fourth kind is the retributive disaster, which strikes a society or person corrupted beyond reform, as with Sodom and Gomorrah, and it is the only kind one may attribute to God.1, 2, 3
The dictators of the region care only about their thrones, act as if they will live forever, and never learn from past experiences.1, 2
Violating God's laws brings misery, and the sexual moral breakdown of society costs people dearly through illicit pregnancies, abortions, neglected children, and disease.1, 2
We should appreciate God's creatures instead of killing turtles and destroying their habitats, remembering that God guarantees every creature's provision and knows its destiny.1, 2
Politics cannot be amoral; it is either good or evil, and evil politics in the last century brought predator capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and two world wars.1
Everything belongs to God and humans are His trustees, commanded to treat the earth gently; greater gifts bring greater responsibility, and denying it brings disasters.1, 2, 3
God gave Moses' people twelve springs so each tribe was satisfied without dispute, and He instructed them to enjoy His provisions without corrupting the earth.1, 2
Moral corruption breeds secrecy and betrayal in families, and corrupt societies rot and die, led by the politically successful rather than the wise.1, 2
Over past centuries some Muslims drifted from God, opening the door to materialism, corruption, unquestioning adherence to tradition, and blind nationalism.1
Use God's provisions to seek the Hereafter without neglecting your share in this world, be charitable as God is, and do not corrupt the earth.1, 2
God strongly condemns cheating and corruption, commands full weight and measure in trade, and tells us to be aware of what we send ahead for our souls.1, 2, 3
Many of the problems people face today come partly from greed, dishonesty, arrogance, and exploiting the weak, which amount to setting up material wealth as a god besides God.1, 2
A judge should not be swayed by the executive branch, and no one should be allowed to manipulate justice through wealth or power.1
In Submission no one is above the law, and the Quran condemns bribery, corruption, and nepotism as barriers to justice.1, 2
A reader holds that Hadith is not an acceptable guideline because it has caused corruption and misunderstanding of true Islam and made Islam seem harsh.1
The Hereafter is reserved for those who seek neither exaltation on earth nor corruption, and the ultimate victory belongs to the righteous.1
God gave Iran and Iraq immense oil wealth, but they gave it to Western weapons makers and used it to bring death, devastation, poverty, and misery on each other.1, 2, 3
Use God's provisions to seek the Hereafter without neglecting your share of this world, be charitable as God is charitable, and do not corrupt the earth.1
According to the Quran, God does not love aggressors, disbelievers, the unjust, betrayers, wasters, gluttons, transgressors, the unappreciative, the arrogant, corruptors, or the boastful.1
God loves the charitable and does not love transgressors, aggressors, the corrupt, betrayers, or the unappreciative.1
God does not love those who corrupt the earth.1
Mankind's time on this planet is fast approaching its end amid moral decay, violence, and increasing natural disasters.1, 2
The dictators ruling in the Middle East today do not come from Islamic principles but from global economics and the aftermath of European colonialism.1
God warns against all illicit earnings, but those who repent, believe, and live righteously can have their sins turned into credits by God.1, 2, 3
Readily committing evil and transgression and eating from illicit earnings is miserable conduct.1
God established the law, and believers must not transgress it but establish justice, avoiding evil and illicit earnings.1, 2
Believers must give full measure and weight, not cheat people of their rights, not practice highway robbery, and not corrupt the earth.1, 2
A lack of freedom of mind, economy, women, and citizens underlies many troubles of the Muslim world, an assessment the author judges valid.1, 2
Corruption in religion grew gradually worse since hadith appeared 200 years after Muhammad's death.1
Islam calls for peace, tolerance, freedom of belief, and mutual understanding, yet almost the opposite happens in the so-called Islamic world.1
Muslims themselves must realize what is happening to their religion and wake up from their illusions and false pretense.1
Terrorists who kill innocent people in the name of Islam are radical groups unrelated to mainstream Islam.1
Cruel and oppressive behavior is not new to our generation; it has plagued humankind since the beginning, as the Quran shows with Pharaoh, Qaroon, and others.1, 2
Hislam means corrupted worship of God, made of beliefs and practices God never revealed or authorized, whose source is someone other than God.1
Many doctrines and practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam lead people off the right path, and the many other religions are just as distorted.1
Religion has been corrupted so badly over a long time that its original face cannot be recognized unless a person is guided to the truth.1, 2
Religion itself is not the opiate of the people, but distorted, corrupt religion is an opiate that puts people into spiritual sleep.1
The Quran teaches that intelligence shows itself in forbidding evil, and that previous generations were destroyed because few did so while the transgressors pursued luxuries.1
God permits us to use the earth's plants, animals, and resources to benefit and appreciate them, but not to pollute, destroy, or deplete them.1, 2
Greed must not override sharing; the earth's resources should be used and distributed equitably, not wasted, and we must not corrupt the earth.1, 2