Ramadan 2025 Day Thirteen: Killing Kids is Bad

“Those who love the life of this world more than the life to come,
And who turn others away from the path of Allah,
trying to make it crooked,
Such are the ones who are lost,
Having gone far astray from Divine Presence.”
-Sura Ibrahim

2780. 


That’s the number of known children under the age of 18 who were killed in Gaza by Israel in less than the first 20 days of the genocide its leaders brought to its final stage on October 8, 2023.

2780 lives to come.

I legitimately wonder what it is we lose in our souls when we are confronted with horrors like this one, and our response is to enable them further. What does it cost our souls to ignore the direct A-to-B connection between our actions and the indiscriminate execution of children? Or, even worse, to acknowledge it and say it is a worthy price to pay to keep “the life of this world” a certain way.

I don’t want that way. None of us should. That way is so far astray from any Sacred intention, any Holy Love, any Divine Presence, no amount of repentance will ever fully repair the evil it endorses and causes.

This one is a short one. Because it should be so blatantly obvious that if the path someone points you towards is 2780 children killed in 20 days, you know God had nothing to do with shaping it.