In our modern world, where religious declarations have become a commodity and fatwas are traded like currency, it is easy for political Islam clerics to categorize people as if they were mere chess pieces in an endless game. These men, standing on pulpits, distribute tickets to heaven and hell as if they were clerks at a registration desk, judging others based on superficial criteria that barely scratch the surface. Paradise? It is a reward for the righteous, according to them. Hell? The fate of those who don’t align with their narrow interpretation of faith.
But here lies the irony: these men, who speak of heaven and hell as if they have been entrusted with the matter of salvation, fail to see that the true path to paradise is open to those who embrace their humanity with sincerity, not by climbing over the backs of the poor. While they chant “actions are judged by intentions,” their only intention seems to be holding on to power, clinging to pulpits, and ignoring the fact that sometimes the devil speaks more truthfully than those who divide people into the “good” and the “bad,” and determine who will rise to heaven and who will fall into hell.
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