Ideas are timeless. Time will not be able to crush it unless God has outlined it. Ideas, even though they are hit hard by the blocks of life, will remain alive even if the originator of the idea is hit. The idea is water, keep flowing and always adapt to a container that is willing to accommodate it. History has recorded it, no doubt.
Socrates, one of the best philosophers of Greece shouted to uphold wisdom against the establishment, as a result, he was poisoned to death. But, did the idea come to be buried with his body? No, it was his idea that poisoned the people to continue their ideals of struggle. Approximately 400 years after Socrates was poisoned, Jesus was killed on the cross for loudly shouting about the truth. Jesus' ideas did not end at the cross, even though he only had 12 disciples during his lifetime, the idea of Jesus even became the principle of more than two billion inhabitants of the earth today.
Ideas born from the womb of the heads of truth-seekers will never be destroyed. Because ideas are like water, they are the source of life for all creatures. Humans as the most successful species, as representatives of God on earth, need to express ideas to bring life to all creatures. It is too selfish to exploit nature only for the benefit of humans. Because ideas are water, the source of life for all living things!
Why water? Because no matter how hard the environment tries to get rid of it, it will not last. Water just transforms. Heated it to become steam, cooled it to become ice which later would still return to the water. It continues to flow, enters the ground, turns into a cloud, becomes salty in the sea, and so on. Water is not extinct, it only changes shape according to its container. In a glass, in a river, in a lake, in a pond, in the sea, and anything else it brings life to life. So are ideas!
Although it knows no extinction, the water that revives it has the potential to be deadly as well. Water that does not flow is deadly, it will become a den of disease. So are ideas! Well-established, comfortable, and secure ideas in the collective head of society or the heads of individuals will die if they don't flow. If water moves by flowing, ideas flow contemplatively, churn, and contradict other ideas.
Water that does not flow is still water, but it is no longer living water. Ideas are also still ideas, but to be useful they must flow. There can be no calm, ideas must continue to flare up with anything, whether other ideas, adapting to the environment, or the people. Anxiety must be eternal as a condition for the flow of ideas. If the idea in the head finds comfort, safety, and stability, there it is also transformed into a parasite.
Our fault today (especially those who claim to be religious) is not being able to distinguish between the contents of the container. Fussing over mountain water and river water, even though they are both water. Take for example the Muslim community which is currently experiencing degradation. Islam has ideas as its lofty ideals, but the Prophet Muhammad as the bearer of religion cannot be separated from time and space. He poured Islamic ideas through a container that was by the temperament of the social conditions at that time.
Zeitgeist is different every time. Every place's culture is different. Zeitgeist and culture are the containers, while Islam is an idea with lofty ideals. The weakness of Muslims today is that they are unable to distinguish and separate water from its container. Therefore, Muslims today are unable to distinguish Islamic teachings from Arabic culture. Not a few Muslims think that Islam is Arab and Arab is Islam. Even though the teachings of Islam are the water and Arabic culture is the container.
No wonder people who are imaged as pious and have a good character wear a robe, turban, beard, eye shadow, black pants, and black forehead. It is also not surprising that the image of women who are said to be Muslim is those who wear a headscarf to their knees, a veil, gloves, socks, to their sincerity, who are polygamous. They only captured the Islamic container at the time of the Prophet Muhammad, not it's content. Even though the verse of the Al-Qur'an which talks about the law, the percentage is approximately only 3.5%.
Compare this with a verse that talks about morals that can be found in almost every letter. How to forgive and be generous, how to be kind to everyone, how to be humble, and other good commands that are scattered in almost every letter. However, most Muslims consider people who eat pork more despicable than arrogant people. Even though there is only one verse that forbids pigs, whereas there are so many things that prohibit arrogance!
This is the condition of Muslims today. The collective idea of Muslims no longer flows even though there are reformers who continue to be agitated and nervous about the establishment of thinking of the majority of Muslims. Because security, comfort, and stability have long found a place in the collective head of Muslims, those lofty ideas have become parasites that carry disease!
Nowadays Muslims don't get tired of shouting kafir at other people, whether between or between religions. Even to physical contact because of that. They put a higher place for religion and schools of thought than God. They consider that a container is more important than its contents, even preferring a container without content rather than having to accept a container with another shape even though it is filled. Bid'ah they said. Sad, indeed.
Their heads are full of parasites, which makes it difficult for them to distinguish between the container and its contents, unable to grasp the main and secondary messages in religion, and at worst they are unable to distinguish religion as the way and God as the goal. Hopefully, this last assumption is wrong.
Something that has high benefits must have a risk that is no less high. The mind that generates ideas is highly beneficial, as well as risk. It needs to be realized that comfort, safety, and stability of thought will give birth to diseased ideas. Therefore, especially for young people, it is necessary to continue to be restless and continue to reflect. It is necessary to hit ideas in the head with other ideas so that there will be contradictions and reflections that make ideas not become parasites in the head but continue to flow to find their nature, search for the truth.
