Many Westerners claim that the caste system is unfair. They base this belief in secular liberalism and modern morality. However, isn't it quite hypocritical how these same Westerners don't allow their daughters to marry to nobodies. Equality is de facto important in elites lives meanwhile it's not implemented in practice. How many LGBTQ+ activists we see in the mainstream media everyday ”willing to die for equality” but none of these activists would be willing to marry a lonely underprivileged young male to ease their life's burden. I would even argue that there are more incels than LGBTQ+ individuals and the isolation and emotional suffering these incels feel is a lot greater than the LGBTQ+ person's when they're misgendered. Still, there are no equality or attention in the media for underprivileged young males.
I read a while ago how Islam spread peacefully to Southeast Asia (like India) through trade routes. One reason for Islam's appeal besides trading was its individualistic social order. Unlike in Hinduism where your caste and worth is defined by your birthright and social circumstance, in Islam your worth is defined by your wealth, knowledge and piousness, all factors that a person can influence by himself. The key word here is piousness.
In the modern secular liberal West a person's status is defined solely by materialistic means like beauty. The wealth is a factor too like in Islam. However, the thing that makes Islam unique and the West lacks is a spiritual component. The West claims that human beings have inherent value but it's a sweet sounding lie. Everytime a Westerner needs to sacrifice their own happiness or invade a country, human lives don't have value anymore. A Muslim society can't produce such sweet sounding lies about metaphysical matters because Muslims actually deeply and profoundly believe they're accountable to God basing their worldview on His Guidance.
If a Muslim male is ugly and poor or even a slave, he can still be respected because his virtues and Islamic knowledge. Such a person then can attract a wealthy person's (or chad's) attention who can become his sponsor and set him free. He could even get married in the end. We have an example of this social climb in the story of the Prophet Muhammad's (ﷺ) unattractive companion Julaybeeb based on the 1,000 years old hadith tradition and reformatted to prose by alim.org,
Have you noticed examples of the caste system in your country? One indication is the classifying of people into work class, middle class and upper class. Continue the discussion in the comments.
I read a while ago how Islam spread peacefully to Southeast Asia (like India) through trade routes. One reason for Islam's appeal besides trading was its individualistic social order. Unlike in Hinduism where your caste and worth is defined by your birthright and social circumstance, in Islam your worth is defined by your wealth, knowledge and piousness, all factors that a person can influence by himself. The key word here is piousness.
In the modern secular liberal West a person's status is defined solely by materialistic means like beauty. The wealth is a factor too like in Islam. However, the thing that makes Islam unique and the West lacks is a spiritual component. The West claims that human beings have inherent value but it's a sweet sounding lie. Everytime a Westerner needs to sacrifice their own happiness or invade a country, human lives don't have value anymore. A Muslim society can't produce such sweet sounding lies about metaphysical matters because Muslims actually deeply and profoundly believe they're accountable to God basing their worldview on His Guidance.
If a Muslim male is ugly and poor or even a slave, he can still be respected because his virtues and Islamic knowledge. Such a person then can attract a wealthy person's (or chad's) attention who can become his sponsor and set him free. He could even get married in the end. We have an example of this social climb in the story of the Prophet Muhammad's (ﷺ) unattractive companion Julaybeeb based on the 1,000 years old hadith tradition and reformatted to prose by alim.org,
Have you noticed examples of the caste system in your country? One indication is the classifying of people into work class, middle class and upper class. Continue the discussion in the comments.
