Question by Semaj: How far will your personal spirituality allow you to go to stop a crime?
If you can stop a violent crime by being involved and interfering with the commission of that violent crime would you? Is your spirituality strong enough to risk life, reputation, economy (law suits) for the safety of an innocent victim? Or would you stand back and at most just be a witness and give your side of story to the police?
Best answer:
Answer by Old Spice Guy
I’d use any force necessary to stop a violent crime on an innocent person, including deadly force if necessary.
Give your answer to this question below!
I’m not spiritual but I’d try to stop a violent crime if it was within my ability.
I have done. I got hurt pretty badly, too. I’m not spiritual.
Depends on the situation. Until a crime is committed, it is only a potential crime, BTW. So if you “stop” someone before they do a crime, you might get in trouble yourself….
I will go as far as using my shoe to stop a crime.
If I had to protect someone then I would.
It is a very important question which we must all ask from our conscience.
To some people spirituality has nothing to do with the worldly things. Players
of Pakistan’s cricket team were under the influence of a religious party and
never disclosed a word to authorities or the press about match fixing going on
in the game. On the other hand, an air hostess wrote a letter to a newspaper
at the risk of her job, that turnaround time given to PIA crew was higher than
the standard of other international airlines, costing millions to the airline. I
admired the girl for her honesty that she showed at the cost of her own perks.
Islam teaches us that the primary job of every Muslim is to order the good and
stop the bad in the society. There is a very famous verse in Quran which
declares Muslim nation as the best among nations of the world which undertakes
to support the good and stop the evil. Scholars often quote a companion of
prophet who tried to protect an infidel woman, who was being teased by the
vagabonds on a road and was killed as a result. A Muslim woman who went
to a Jewish locality close to Madinah was teased by the son of goldsmith and
was unclothed. When the news reached Prophet Muhammad SAW, he took
a small team with him to convince the Jews to handover the culprit to the
government, but they were confident of strength of their fortress and challenged
him, which resulted in punishment of the culprits and expulsion of Jews from
Madinah.
Famous poet Iqbal has said: ” The ideology that is not written with the blood of
martyrs is sheer philosophy “.
Peace and love .
M. J a v e d Iqbal