Customize Your Engagement with Power

Every society has hierarchy. Every this is a reality in human society. Always will be, always has been, always will be. That some rise above others, some are richer than others, some are more powerful than others, some have more influence than others, and so forth. And that's and Allah has already told us that that's how human society is organized.

So the struggle is always to try to ensure that those at the top of the hierarchy, those with the most power, the ruling class, or what have you, don't exclusively serve their own interests to the detriment of the rest of the population. So every political theory that's come down the pipe has said that they have a way of doing that. Communism said that. Socialism says that. Democracy says that.

Even capitalism has their version of that. But at the end of the day, every single society, every individual society, even on a micro level, every society has to find their own way of how to interface with the power structure to ensure that their people and the population is included in planning, is included in policy so that they're not overlooked and they're not left disadvantaged and and that the power structure isn't exclusively self serving. Everyone has to come up with their way of of doing that. So we're not in favor of overthrowing any power structure, no matter what form it is. We're not pro or against any power structure.

But we're just realistic in insisting that you correctly identify what the power structure is Yeah. In this or that society. And then you have to figure out ways of interfacing with them to ensure that they are not exclusively self serving. It's unrealistic. It's delusional and it's very counterproductive actually to try to insist on one particular form of engagement with the power structure.

Yeah. And saying that one particular form of government solves all of these problems. It doesn't. It doesn't at all. Everyone has to come up with their own way.