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Written by Dr. Pooyan Ghamari
Collapse is never sudden.
It creeps in quietly,
silently,
wearing the shoes of habit.
The day you notice the shadows have lengthened,
before you question the height of people,
look to the sun.
When the light fades,
even the shortest figures turn into walls.
Civilizations do not fall to enemies;
they fall to forgetting:
forgetting wisdom,
forgetting inquiry,
forgetting dignity.
The Geography of Inversion
In a land where
thought is idle and illiteracy is busy,
where laws have words but no voice,
advisors are sick and lawyers are silent,
young people tire quickly
and the old still dream of flying,
life continues,
but meaning has migrated.
Where
men soften to be accepted
and women harden to survive,
neither man has failed
nor woman triumphed;
humanity has retreated.
Where
the wealthy call theft “cleverness”
and the poor, with wages that merely keep them alive,
grow accustomed to “gratitude,”
ethics is exiled from the economy.
The Qur’an: The Death of Discernment
The Qur’an does not see danger in falsehood itself;
it sees danger in blending it with truth:
“And do not mix the truth with falsehood,
nor conceal the truth while you know it.”
(Baqarah, 42)
When the truth is deliberately hidden,
society does not go blind;
worse,
it sees clearly yet still loses its way.
The Torah: Humans as Stewards, Not Owners
The Torah teaches that
humans were not made to possess,
but to preserve:
“The Lord God placed the human in the garden
to work it and to keep it.”
(Genesis 2:15)
Wherever humans imagine themselves as absolute owners,
the earth is wounded
and the future indebted.
The Gospel: Truth as the Source of Freedom
The Gospel does not link freedom to power;
it links freedom to truth:
“You will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.”
(John 8:32)
When truth is sold for convenience,
chains become invisible
and slavery becomes courteous.
Zoroaster and the Avesta: Ethics Before Power
In the oldest Iranian tradition,
the principle is clear:
Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.
Power has no meaning without ethics,
nor knowledge without action.
A civilization that separates these three
has already collapsed.
Buddha: The Root of Suffering
In the Dhammapada it is said:
“All things begin in the mind.
If the mind is corrupt,
suffering follows like a shadow.”
When the collective mind is troubled,
no law or wealth
can halt suffering.
Confucius: Collapse Begins at the Top
Confucian teachings say:
“If rulers are not upright,
the law becomes ineffective;
and if exemplars fall,
the people lose their way.”
Corruption always starts at the top,
but it always spreads from below.
Shams of Tabriz: Death Before Death
Shams of Tabriz warns:
“When the heart dies,
the human form remains.”
Dead-heartedness means
prayers without presence,
laws without justice,
knowledge without courage.
The dead-hearted
turn religion into a tool,
law into a ladder,
and human beings into a cost.
Socrates: The Right to Question
Before he was condemned, Socrates
set one standard:
“An unexamined life
is not worth living.”
When questioning becomes a crime,
false answers rule.
Then,
the small are seen as great
because standards have broken.
Nietzsche: The Collapse of Standards
Nietzsche did not fear the fall of people;
he feared the collapse of standards:
“What is called virtue
is sometimes a disguise for weakness.”
When standards crumble,
even the righteous
lose their direction.
The Shared Compass of Humanity
This text is not a complaint;
it is a map.
The Qur’an speaks of hiding the truth,
the Torah of stewardship,
the Gospel of the freedom of truth,
the Avesta of triple ethics,
Buddha of the mind,
Confucius of exemplars,
Shams of the heart,
Socrates of questioning,
and Nietzsche of standards.
All, in different languages,
point to one truth:
Civilization cannot be saved
unless humans are not made cheap
and truth is not up for sale.
If the shadows have grown long,
the sun can still be called;
not with shouting,
but by returning to reason,
to a living heart,
and to the courage to stand beside truth.
This voice
is not the voice of a culture;
it is the voice of humanity.