Oscar
Moderator
You’re right to see that cultish thinking runs deep, and it’s not confined to religion or politics. It’s bred from a culture where surrendering thought feels safer than standing alone. People confuse loyalty with blindness, and when someone refuses to chant in unison, they treat that as betrayal. This is how jahalat protects itself because it feeds on conformity, not understanding.
But when everyone joins a camp just to belong, the collective mind collapses. That’s when truth becomes someone’s propaganda and corruption becomes patriotism. The question isn’t whether one person can fix it; it’s whether one person can stay awake in a nation sleepwalking. Change begins with refusing to participate in the lie, even if it makes you a target. The alternative is accepting decay as destiny.
I openly tell the elders in my family who object to “new ideas” and so on.
Islam was borne out of “I will not follow the crowd” - and I use the example of entire history of Islam from Adam.
Be it Hazrat Ibrahim’s father lamenting why he objects to what his ancestors have done for generations.
To Hazrat Moosa’s derision of Bani Israel following the clout of the golden calf.
To our Prophet not listening to his elders.
The whole theme to me in Islam is “Say what is right, not what is popular”
