As a result of the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases study, it was found that the number of deaths from diseases caused by overweight is three times higher than the number of those who die of starvation. This research, which shows that those who die by eating multiply those who die of hunger, took me to the dark streets that I left in the far corners of my mind. And here, at every point I turned my direction, I encountered a contradiction, a ball of contradictions.
The problem of obesity, which has never been on the agenda in recent years, is considered as a result of traumas experienced by the person since childhood, a problem caused by mental emptiness and loneliness, and it is stated that people can get rid of the problem by reaching occupations that will fill this gap. However, since the problem is handled independently of central values, a solution is not possible, only statistical information can be given.
Our supreme religion bases its principles on moderation and considers everything that goes beyond the determined limits as waste, and waste is haram. We must admit that the needy have rights in everything that is consumed in excess, and every grain that contains rights will turn into a danger that will threaten the mental or physical health of the person. The measure set by Allah is sufficient for human peace and happiness, and going beyond it is harmful.
While walking through the streets of my mind, I pass the paths where waste is seen as a sign of wealth, a sign of pomp, and I get lost in contradictions. On the one hand, those who died of hunger, on the other hand, the haramzades who built their lives on material things… On the one hand, banquet tables, celebrations and people who gorged on a giant mountain, on the other hand, those trying to hold on to life by eating tree leaves, in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and all over the world. on the one hand, those who are left to hunger and loneliness... I walk and my anger rises a little more with every step I take... I see men who take off the clothes of humanity. I realize the darkness in the consciences of those who fold. I think of politicians, businessmen and property owners who are drunk with their rights and I come across the mountains of arrogance they have knitted. I see the hatred oozing from the eyes of those who take the bread of the weak and push them to the shore… Then I seem to hear the voice of Abu Zar, who reminds the reigning rulers of time from far away, about justice and the day of reckoning.
You remember; Abu Zar, who criticized the greed of the rulers of the time and their insensitivity to the rights of the people, was exiled to the deserted fields and paid a heavy price for this justification.
In the historical process, most of the administrators, office and position holders did not show the necessary sensitivity to protect the rights, left the people to starvation and became property owners through their rights. Money and property have a compelling temptation, so those who are weak at the point of faith are immediately swept away and use the public property as they wish, they give it to their relatives, and those who remind them of the truth try to shut up or punish them. Abu Zar, who became a model for all of us with his stance and justification, rejected the opportunities given to him as a share of silence and emphasized the violated rights of the servants, and paid the price of exile, poverty and loneliness.
Abu Zar opposed the rulers of the time, the tyrants, the abusers, those who did not use the public property fairly and gave it away, and he raised awareness by telling the public about their attitude. Abu Zar is a power alone, a voice alone, calling the statesmen, aristocrats, power and wealth owners of the time to justice, opposing the plunderers of public goods and announcing their dirty deeds to the public, usurping the rights of the poor and accumulating gold, money and silver over it. He was a Muslim who shouted the truth against those who tried to gain power. Abu Zar had killed all fears and stood before the rulers who took advantage of the poor people's bread, read the 34th and 35th verses of Surat At-Tawba and pointed out the price that those who deserved would pay.
[9:34] Believers! Many of the rabbis and monks wrongfully devour mankind's possessions and hinder people from the Way of Allah.33 And there are those who amass gold and silver and do not spend it in the Way of Allah. Announce to them the tidings of a painful chastisement [9:35] on a Day when they shall be heated up in the Fire of Hell, and their foreheads and their sides and their backs shall be branded with it, (and they shall be told): "This is the treasure which you hoarded for yourselves. Taste, then, the punishment for what you have hoarded."
Abu Zar took a stand against those who abuse public property, those who eat the right of property, and haramzades and tried to raise the awareness of the people on this issue. But his attitude aroused serious discomfort in the rulers of the time, and they exiled him to an ordeal, poverty, and loneliness. The body of Abu Zar, who met his Lord in the deserted fields, became soil, but the call he made to those who acquired property through the rights of the servants reached beyond the ages and continues to do so.