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Extremism vs. Moderation – Yang Rafyiqa bt. Abdul Latif

‘You see only with your eyes, so you are easy to fool’. The recurring words that oftenly conquering my mind from The Karate Kid movie. It is needless to say that majority evaluate things and come out with conclusion along with roomless filteration of heart and mind which certainly corrupt the understanding. I humbly came out with this journal because of the false judgement nowadays that being pious is to be seen as being extremist and being moderate is to obey some of the teachings, and neglect some of them, so it would be ‘balance’ a.k.a moderate. The reality is being a pious servant has nothing to do with extremism. I should emphasize that extremist is those who are limitlessly doing ritual worship to the stage where the actions burden him/herself. For instance, performing night prayers without sleep, fasting without break fast, and keep distance from woman without married for lifetime. Whenever a companion swayed towards extremism, Prophet Muhammad s.a.w firmly said  ‘be awar