{"id":113,"date":"2009-04-21T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2009\/04\/21\/all-these-mass-murders-murder-suicides\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:53:00","slug":"all-these-mass-murders-murder-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2009\/04\/all-these-mass-murders-murder-suicides.html","title":{"rendered":"All these mass murders \/ murder-suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim<\/p>\n<p>Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah<\/p>\n<p>The new stories are coming hard and fast now.  Every day, every single day, there is a story about a mass killing.  Many of the stories have similar details; Dad is in debt, loses his job or can\u2019t sell a house, so he kills his wife and children and then kills himself.  The latest story on CNN was about a guy who was in debt to the tune of almost half a million dollars.  He made almost a hundred thousand a year, yet he couldn\u2019t manage to support his family on that.  He murdered his three children and wife, then killed himself with a shotgun.  I guess there\u2019s some small comfort in knowing the taxpayers will be saved the cost of a trial.<\/p>\n<p>People who resort to murder and suicide are people without guidance.  Stress, depression, mental illness \u2013 all these play a part.  But a person who truly believes in God can never feel hopeless, even in the face of poverty.  Stuff is just <em>stuff.  <\/em>Your family is still your family whether you are living in a mansion or a trailer, whether you eat lobster or Ramen noodles.  If you take this coward\u2019s way out, you will deprive yourself of being with your family in the Hereafter.  Hell is a very lonely place.  Just stop.  Just stop and think about the worst that could happen.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the worst that could happen?  You could end up living in the basement of your brother-in-law\u2019s house, or you could be a family of five in a crappy apartment.  You might have to don the uniform of a fast-food restaurant.  Your kids will go to public school and might have to wear clothes from a thrift store.  Dinner will be Hamburger Helper.  Sucks, right?  Well, yeah, but you\u2019re <em>alive.  <\/em>You are together.  Life may suck for a year or two, but if you buckle down you can survive and even thrive.  You may never make it back to the heady heights of 64-inch plasma TV\u2019s, Escalades, and private schools, but you can carve out a simple but decent life for yourself and your family.  You won\u2019t lose your family\u2019s love if you have a financial crisis;  you will lose your soul if you slaughter those innocents and then off yourself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8276196425188955527-498344040359751768?l=muslimahinprogress.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah The new stories are coming hard and fast now. Every day, every single day, there is a story about a mass killing. 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