Opposing the ruling classes of the liberal world order necessarily means opposing the intellectual and moral precepts upon which their power is based. Liberalism’s appeal is based on the idea that science and technology bring improvements in standard of living and the realization of human potential, and that liberalism is the most effective system for realizing these benefits.

On a moral level, this is seen to be a sign of superiority because relieving human suffering is understood as be a fundamentally good moral action. In a specific sense, this is true, but in a generalized and unlimited sense, it is completely wrong on at least two levels.

First, suffering can carry spiritual benefit, which is why the highest degree of faith is to be pleased with Allah’s decree, even when it entails hardship. Hardship is one way that Allah calls us to turn to Him and repent. In fact, the sahaba, radhi Allahu anhum, would become afraid if they did not get sick for a long period of time, because they feared it might be a sign that Allah was deferring their punishment to the next world. This is because suffering in this world can be a purification and an expiation for our sins.

Suffering is not something to seek out, but it’s not something to attempt to eliminate or avoid entirely either— to attempt to eradicate suffering entirely is a rejection of Allah’s decree.

وَلَنَبۡلُوَنَّكُم بِشَیۡءࣲ مِّنَ ٱلۡخَوۡفِ وَٱلۡجُوعِ وَنَقۡصࣲ مِّنَ ٱلۡأَمۡوَ ٰلِ وَٱلۡأَنفُسِ وَٱلثَّمَرَ ٰتِۗ وَبَشِّرِ ٱلصَّـٰبِرِینَ

And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient.

2:155

Viewing human societies and other facets of nature as systems, destruction has a vitalizing and renewing effect, and suppressing it leads to stagnation and decay. There’s no need to invite suffering, but speaking the truth and striving to act according to it naturally brings its fair share of hardship. This was the case with the prophets and saints of the past, and it remains the case today.

The idea of eliminating suffering is core to the United Nations, which seeks to eliminate hunger, disease, war, and poverty, an idea based in Christian doctrines of post-millennarianism, exemplified by Woodrow Wilson’s appeals to “progressive” Christians during the formation of the League of Nations.

Secondly, modern technology is a failure even according to the twisted standards of the modern secular, Judeo-Christian-pagan world order, because it does not actually relieve suffering, but only transfers it. Air conditioning is a good example of this logic of transferring suffering. Air conditioning can cool the interior of a building. This makes the interior of the building more comfortable, providing relief to the people inside of it.

However, large amounts of waste heat are generated in the process and expelled into the outside air, making it even hotter outside. The effect of one air conditioner is infinitesimal, but millions of air conditioners combined contribute to an overall process of warming. Warmer air worldwide contributes to the intensity and frequency of extreme weather conditions like flooding, droughts, wildfires, and storms which cause a lot of suffering. To make matters worse, as the world heats up, there is more pressure on the people to buy air conditioners.

This suffering is deferred into the future, but other suffering is also hidden in the past. It was only possible to develop air conditioners using surpluses of wealth that required causing extreme suffering to millions of people, and the viability of the global economy still depends on cruel, exploitative labor practices.

If nationalism as a legal paradigm were dismantled, regional wage disparities would level out, resulting in better living conditions for most of the world’s people, but this would also render most multinational technology corporations unprofitable. So this illusion of moral superiority depends on amplifying the significance of what humans can perceive, and denying the relevance or existence of what is beyond our perception. It also requires systematic deception in the form of deliberately covering up some facts while emphasizing others.

To summarize, by disobeying Allah and rejecting the truth, humans destroy themselves.