@MattisRedacted@POlGNANT@iloveqatar This narrated by one person in thousands of miles away in Iraq not Madina where prophet lived all his life.
In his 90s senile when there was problems between Sunni and Shia, the Shia do not like Aisha.
People before the Qur’an weren’t morally blind. They had fitrah, the innate moral compass every human is born with. Revelation doesn’t create morality; it anchors it, clarifies it and corrects where people go off the rails.
Your question assumes objective morality only starts when a book appears. That’s your mistake. Revelation is a confirmation and preservation of truths humans already sense, not a brand-new invention dropped out of the sky.
So yes, people before the Qur’an had access to objective morality. What they lacked was a final, preserved uncorrupted standard that prevents the exact chaos you’re arguing for: everyone treating their personal feelings as universal truth.
You’re proving the need for revelation by asking the question.
You’re pretending you’ve found a moral axiom as self-evident as math, but you haven’t.
“Worst suffering is worse than highest bliss” isn’t a fact, it’s a preference. You feel it’s obvious, so you treat it like a law of the universe. But unlike 2+2 it can’t be demonstrated, measured or proven independent of human sentiment. It collapses the moment someone rejects your premise, and you’ve got no external standard to appeal to.
That’s the whole problem:
You keep importing moral assumptions and acting like they’re objective truths. They’re not. They’re emotional intuitions you’re elevating into universal rules.
Math works because its axioms don’t rely on human psychology.
Your moral axiom does, which means it’s not objective, no matter how loudly you insist otherwise.
“The worst suffering is worse than the highest wellbeing” is already a value judgment, not a scientific fact. You’re assuming a moral hierarchy to justify a moral hierarchy. That’s circular. Evolution doesn’t hand out values, and physics doesn’t care about suffering or wellbeing.
And claiming religion evolves is just a lazy cliché. Human interpretation evolves, the moral foundation doesn’t. You’re confusing people changing with principles changing.
If your system rests on assumptions you can’t justify, it isn’t objective.
If you’re borrowing moral axioms to sound consistent, you’re not grounding anything.. you’re just patching holes.
If morality is just an evolved survival instinct, then nothing is truly good or bad. It’s whatever helps a group survive including genocide, exploitation and oppression. Evolution doesn’t produce ethics.
And if everything is subjective, you can’t claim atheists are morally equal or better. Those words lose all meaning.
Religion gives a fixed standard and accountability. Your view gives instincts dressed up as principles. Don’t call that morality.
How do you even claim to be Muslim while casually tossing Bukhari aside like it’s a blog post you don’t like? What kind of “modern Islamist” builds his religion on whatever fits his mood and then accuses others of ignoring evidence?
You’re hilarious. You deny Bukhari deny Sunnah deny the conditions of jihad deny classical fiqh,then suddenly you want to play guardian of Palestine? Pick a lane.
You’re the one saying “don’t obey rulers when it comes to helping the oppressed”
but you reject the very hadiths and fiqh principles that define when disobedience is allowed.
Then try to use Qur’an 4:75 as a political slogan instead of an actual legal ruling with conditions, scholars and centuries of interpretation behind it.
And now you’re asking:
“Will you obey rulers if they forbid helping the Palestinians?”
Let me flip it back on you:
How would you even know the correct ruling when you’ve already thrown away the Sunnah, the scholars, and the jurisprudence that explain it?
You can’t pick and choose.
Either you take Islam as a whole (Qur’an and Sunnah) or stop pretending you’re the brave defender of the oppressed.
Because right now you’re not defending Palestine. You’re using their suffering as a prop in your anti-Sunnah argument.
That’s real hypocrisy.
This just shows you’ve never opened a real historical source. He fought practices every major Sunni scholar before him called shirk.. grave worship, vows to the dead, and seeking help from saints.
Your Taif story is propaganda. It was a military battle against armed forces, not some massacre of civilians like you repeat from 200 year old Ottoman pamphlets.
And the ISIS claim is the laziest take of all. ISIS hated Ibn AbdulWahhab, called him a sellout, and labeled his followers apostates because he refused the Khariji mindset.
So how is he a Khariji when the actual Khawarij considered him a disbeliever?
If you want to criticize, do it with facts, not with recycled colonial narratives that fall apart under five minutes of reading.
You did reduce morality to preference, you just dressed it up as “the most good.”
But the most good according to who?
According to you, your society your mood your calculation.
That’s subjectivity with a calculator on top.
And your hypothetical still doesn’t prove your point. Here’s the real answer:
In that impossible scenario, perfect knowledge perfect certainty zero margin of error, the act isn’t justified because I like torture, but because one duty overrides another: preventing mass murder overrides causing individual harm.
That’s not subjective. It’s hierarchy of principles, the same way “don’t lie” yields to “don’t allow murder” in every moral system worth anything.
Now the twist you’re ignoring:
If your worldview is right, morality = whatever produces “the most good” then torture IS moral in that scenario, full stop.
Not because it’s right, but because your own rule forces it.
Your framework leads directly to justifying torture, war crimes, eugenics, whatever you can argue produces “net good.”
And that’s the problem with your position:
You pretend it’s neutral and rational, but it collapses into utilitarian subjectivity the moment you stress-test it.
So here’s the answer you wanted but won’t like:
In your hypothetical, the moral choice is driven by objective duties in conflict, not personal taste.
In your worldview, anything is fair game as long as you call it “for the greater good.”
That’s the difference.