Verily, this brotherhood of yours is a single brotherhood, and I am your Lord and Cherisher: therefore serve Me (and no other).

But (later generations) cut off their affair (of unity), one from another: (yet) will they all return to Us.

(Qur'an 21:92-93)

This was where my Qur'an 'daily readings' app pointed me this morning--and it seems especially apt during this (largely dysfunctional) meeting of the United Nations, as it's addressed by the author of a horrific #genocide, while failing to do anything at all about our society's destruction of our global #environment or its human impacts.

We can interpret this on all sorts of levels: the Islamic brotherhood; the Abrahamic brotherhood; the brotherhood of mankind--even the brotherhood of all creation to whom Allah gave free will (i.e., adding jinn). But wherever we choose to focus, the message is clear: we are all in this TOGETHER, and we will return, all together, to be called to account--for our actions as individuals; for how we have taken care of our brothers and sisters; for how we have performed as stewards of Allah's creation.

And right now, I'd warrant, we're doing pretty dismally ON ALL THREE COUNTS--which I suspect is what these ayat are warning us about! #Astagfirullah #JummahMusings