Measuring Our Social Piety

The thunderous chants of takbir (praising God’s greatness) greets the upcoming Idul Fitri holiday, which ends the solemn praying of Muslims throughout the fasting month of Ramadhan. The reverberating takbir signals the approaching victory.

Upon deeper contemplation, we will find that these thunderous takbir chants are our pledge and statements as mere weak servants of the Almighty.

The meaning of takbir, in my humble opinion, is truly a way to relativize ourselves as there is no entity greater and holier than Allah. Humans are fundamentally beings filled with limitations, deficiencies and weaknesses.