Moral imperative
This refers to Mr. Md. Anwarul Kabir's article on morality published in your daily on 22nd June. Indeed, at this point of time religion has lost its strength to instil morality in human psyche. However, the reason behind this failure as Mr. Kabir has argued in the article, "This failure of religion can be explained in line with Freud's conscious and sub-conscious states of mind. Although the majority of Muslims consciously try to be religious, their sub-conscious mind contradicts it. The vehicle for religious belief is the fear of the Day of Judgment. Ironically, this fear is not effective in the sub-conscious of the modern people. The precondition of religion is the surrender to religious scriptures. But the logic oriented sub-conscious mind is reluctant to accept anything blindly. So, at present, though people consciously engage themselves in religious rituals, religion fails to reach its prime objective". I am not fully convinced.
Contrary to his argument, many believers do not follow the religious scripture blindly; rather they rationally follow the religions. Believing in God is not an irrational act as science has not discarded the existence of God or life hereafter. In fact, it is out of scope of science as it only tries to explain the objective reality of life. But there is another face of the coin-- that is subjective reality, which can logically be explained with religions following different methodologies. Albeit, Mr. Kabir's article implicitly portray religion is an illogical discourse, this is not true in reality.
The true religious persons (whatever religious doctrine he/she follows) are logical and must uphold high moralities. Another point to be mentioned is that participation in rituals does not confirm a person's true belief in religion. All the devotees in mosques are not religious; many of them are, in fact, munafiques (hypocrite) as Islam labelled them. In fact, decay of morality in human society is due to decrease of truly religious people.
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