THE POWER OF POWER!By : Habib Muhammad Shahib

As time goes on, we can see many ideologies and paradigms coloring our history that also make

our relation within people become dynamic and colorful until nowadays. As the positive effects, those

paradigms can make people having many perspectives to solve their life’s problems and also they can

use the paradigms to be studied by many scholars to create the better civilization in the future. But as a

negative effect, there is a black side behind each paradigm which has ever existed on this planet.

Popular, we call it as the tool of power.

The socio-history scientists around this world have a similar definition for “the tool of power”.

Those experts believe. There are no civilizations which have existed until nowadays without using or

making a paradigm to rule their people. As an effect of using or making the paradigm, we can see from

many historical books that the violence actions always exist behind each paradigm which is totally

supported by the power of authority to support the existence of paradigm that authority in one society

(country) believes in. Even with the religion paradigms. We have to be honest. There are no religions in

this world without bloody stories to support their existence.

Based on the above, we have to be aware that the relation between an authority and a paradigm are so close. Maybe, in the beginning the paradigm is a free of value but with using authority, the paradigm can be changed to be a value that is not free from the interest, especially, the authority’s interest that leads in one society. So, we have to be ready to prevent the movement from government’s bodies or other parties (including religion parties) that will use their paradigms (ideologies) to push their people or followers to obey their power (rules). Even, if the governments or the other parties use violence in pushing or controlling their society (group). Because, on the earth, we have to fight to whom that use their power (violence) to control their society. Who are doing that, we can call it. May, Allah Blesses them. Amen.