From the Website of MILF
ON MIRACLE
(November 22-30)
Miracle is act or event that appears to be contrary to the laws of
nature; it is an amazing event or action that is extraordinary, or
unexpected. It is regarded as an act of God.
For believers of God, there is nothing unusual in this. God is omnipotent and He can do everything and all things.
But while we always seek divine intervention and guidance to show us
the seeratal mustaqheem or the Straight Path, it is not strictly in the
mold of a miracle, because the whole creation including the universe is
already a miracle. He had already made complete laws, which science
calls natural law, wherein all creations must subscribe to and obey
willingly, except man, who sometimes uses his rationality or
irrationality to defy His commandments including denying His existence.
However, if this belief is doing thing not in the proper way or
contrary to agreed template and still expect miracle to happen, it is
distortion. What to expect and get is the miracle of failure. Even the
philosophical concept of causality (also written as cause-effect or
cause/effect), though not an absolute rule, because of God’s
omnipotence, the desired end is largely determined by man’s action. Man
shall reap what he has sown; or in Islam, man shall have nothing but
what he strives for.
There is no magic formula in the current GPH-MILF peace negotiation
in finding a lasting, comprehensive, and lasting solution to the Moro
Question and the armed conflict in Mindanao.
Unless the parties abide by signed agreements and faithfully observe
the principle of continuity, they can expect no miracle in the end.
Instead, it only leads the parties to more complications and
contradictions after all issues are already laid in the negotiating
table.
The truth is that in this current negotiation the positions of the
parties are reduced to hard but simple concretes: MILF wants a substate,
the GPH offers integration. The MILF had already mellowed down its
position from “option to secede” to simply real self-governance, but the
GPH insists on integration, couched or sprinkled with misleading labels
like “partnership”.
Can we expect a miracle out of this situation?
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