To this day, we are not accustomed to addressing the causes of crime before it occurs.
What we witness today in sudden crimes arising from momentary disputes without premeditation, which provoke widespread societal condemnation—such as certain incidents of domestic homicide at a time when drugs have proliferated and living conditions have deteriorated—are things we had not heard of many years ago.
Between a moment of anger and a murder… there may be only a single second!
Behind the doors of criminal courts, the legal battle does not revolve around evidence alone, but around a far more complex question:
What was going on inside the defendant's mind at the moment the act occurred?
Did they truly intend to take a life?
Or did they merely intend to cause harm, only for it to end in a disaster they never anticipated?
Here emerges the delicate legal distinction between intentional homicide and assault resulting in death—a distinction that can alter the fate of a case entirely.
Most family disasters do not begin with a desire to kill; they begin with unmanaged anger, emotions spiraling out of control, a harsh word turning into an assault, and an assault turning into a tragedy.
An angry person does not lose their mind entirely, but they lose part of their ability to weigh consequences, and in seconds they may make a decision they will regret for many years.
You must always remember:
A moment of anger may end in minutes,
Yet its consequences may last a lifetime.
So do not allow a fleeting emotional outburst to turn you from a party in a dispute into a defendant in a criminal case, or turn a home that was safe yesterday into a tragedy people talk about today.
The law does not put anger on trial,
It puts on trial what anger has done.
The majority today have begun thinking without reason; hence we see theft, banditry, the absence of societal accountability, and the perpetrator escaping punishment due to affiliation with an armed faction or protection by their family. That is why these incidents leading to murders have proliferated.
We must all cooperate and spread awareness within society to reduce these incidents.
With respect to you all….. Abu Ismail Hamad Qutaish.