(43): The Death of Common Sense

Muhammad Muhsin Ibrahim

@muhsin234

It’s a familiar saying that common sense is not so common. Many people regard this saying as silly, or worse. However, evidently enough, many events around the world are corroborating it today. Common sense is indeed getting scarcer by the tick of a clock. Humans’ faculty is becoming faulty and faultier. Bad is considered good, and good is considered harmful. Right as wrong, wrong as right. Demarcation line between almost anything hitherto thought as positive and/or negative is being thinned, blurred and shall soon vanish.

A weird law was given a nod in South Korea in the past week. Adultery is now legalised, and soon thereafter, condom makers’ shares surge. Fornication has since been permissible in many countries, though, provided the persons involved have reached puberty, and there’s no compulsion. Wonder; this new, lewd law was virtually nothing sensational, even on social media, as other, perhaps more pressing, news eclipsed it. It nonetheless remains a sensation in my sense. I couldn’t, and still can’t, put up with the irrationality and animalism of the law. This is doubtlessly a bad omen for the disappearance of Common Sense.

However, some may argue that the decriminalisation of same sex marriage is wrong. Yes, it is no less wrong, but not as much. Think about it. Now you have no case whatsoever with anybody you caught having an affair with your wife. Your wife! It’s now okay for either or both officially married partners to have extra-marital affairs, even if either or both couples are aware of that. How obscene!

I am afraid, but common sense is more than dying; it is on the verge of extinction. Murder is literally okayed by some so-called jihadi extremist groups. Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, has, in one of his video messages, called on his disciples to simply kill whoever they see. ISIL have been doing the same. To them, murdering anyone who does not share their rogue ideology is lawful and even rewarding. At a state level, the Israel Defence Force can shoot dead Palestinians and hardly any punishment follows.

Again, in some countries and cities, smoking cannabis is approved. The recent example of this horrible, anti-health campaign is Washington, DC, the capital of the U.S. Other countries like the Czech Republic, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, etc have already legalised it and perhaps some other killing drugs. Soon, others will follow.

Inasmuch as I try to refrain from being proselytising so often, I believe it’s worth doing here. Islam takes human physiology into cognisance and thus allows a man to have multiple wives under certain conditions, such as the ability to judge fairly among them, wherewithal to cater for them and so on. Likewise, a day or days for each wife is/are stipulated, etc. Allah, our Creator, knows the psyche and the desire of His Creation. Had that been observed, there would have been no need to go to the extent of authorising multiple sex partners; I am sure many people would not agree to this. It will create lots of conflict, for we are naturally jealous.

The earlier we realise the aforesaid, the better for humanity. I hope and pray that someday murder will not be generally legalised. If it does, then our societies will be like a jungle: only the fittest can survive. Though I don’t think even animals will ever go down to that intellectual and moral bankruptcy of allowing others to have sex with their wives. But for us, humans, it’s really heart-numbing and very dire for the future. Rest in peace, Common Sense!