Losing Value With Time

Some bright students were solving their examination papers very enthusiastically. Some others were trying to choose any question from the list, to solve first while the rest of them were just thinking and looking around for some help. As the finishing time of the exam was approaching nearer, all the students became more conscious and alert. Those who were already busy became more fast. Those who were just thinking, now started writing whatever they knew, not even bothering about what the question is. Atlast the time expired and I, being the invigilator of the examination hall, took all the papers back from the students. Some of them even gave me blank answer sheets…!

In the examination of this life, some realize the importance of being Muslim at a very early stage. Others take sometime to understand the purpose of life. Some keep thinking until the last hour arrives and the remaining never bothers to hand over empty sheets.

I always preferred to use that medicine whose expire date is far ahead from the present date. The more far the expire date is, the more useful is the medicine. On reaching closer to the expiry date, even all the ingredients remain the same, but the medicine becomes useless. No matter how precious and costly that medicine may be, one day it has to expire and before that it has to loose its value with every passing day…!

Our life will also expire one day. We are loosing the value of our worships and righteous deeds day by day, as we are getting older. We are also loosing the chances of earning Sawabs with our growing age. We must not waste this precious time in “profitless” activities and I am sure most of us Muslims know, without any doubts, that what the “Profit” is.

Best of the Best

After going through local media news, I decided to boil the tap water before drinking it. After some days, I realized that I have to adopt some new method, so I installed a water filter. For further satisfaction, I used to boil the water first before passing it through the filter. Being unsatisfied again, I started using Mineral Water. Then there was the issue of “Purity”.
Atlast my doubts for un-hygienic water are cleared by using Pure Mineral Water of a famous brand. This is the level of my self-concerned and consciousness. In order to clear my doubts, I always take the pain and go for best of the best.

I use to ask myself, “Why I say prayers?” My inner-self replies, “In order to please Allah”.
I again ask myself, “Am I sure, that I am pleasing Allah with my prayers?” “I mean, what if Allah is not pleasing with my prayers?” “Am I doing something to clear my doubts?” “Am I taking any pain to be sure of pleasing Allah?” “I mean, what if Allah is not pleasing with my prayers?” I am worried and unsatisfied because I am not taking any precautionary measures to please Allah. “What else should I do, if I don’t even worry about it?”

Limits Of Freedom

To every independence and freedom, there always is a corresponding limitation. Freedom without any limit creates an unjust society. All of us (or most of us) today feel that we are free to do anything within our boundaries; what we fail to realize is the limitations we must abide by within our boundaries.

The Bright Side

First there was no electricity, then there was no water and atlast but not least, there was no gas in (few) major and (most of the) minor areas of Lahore. That is how 2007 ended and 2008 started. The shortage of basic food ingredients resulted in “Price Shoot up”. The crime rate is increasing. The poverty is prolonging. But; we have to look at the bright side which states that;

This is the only method of preparing the whole nation (at once) for any state of war. Because during war times, whole nation has to suffer with the disturbances in infrastructure; with already disturbed infrastructure, things will become easy at difficult times…..

So please accept the current pathetic situation with this bright side in mind…
Please go to Quran and read it in the language you understand the best, for correct picture of everything.

Message 73 (Fortotten and Forgetting)

These are the famous two confusing terms Forgotten and Forgetting. Let me try to clarify this confusion. Sometimes we forgot, but remember that we have forgotten. On the other hand, sometimes we even forgot that we have forgotten.

Suppose you have given debt to your close friend. You won’t ask him for your money again and again as he is your close friend. After sometime, when you will remind him of the debt and he may reply, “Oh sorry, I almost forgot”, which means that he remembered, he was forgetting (which is actually your good luck). But suppose if you ask your money back after a long time, he may reply, “What money? When?”, Now there could be two possibilities, either your friend is lying (which I neglect, because he is your close friend) or he may have “Forgotten that he is Forgetting”.

This situation of “I have Forgotten, that I am Forgetting” is worst as compared to single “Forgot”, which can be remembered. Hence it creates even worst situations. We Muslims, mostly, as a society, have actually forgotten that we are forgetting something. I am sure my point will be clear upto this point. That “something” is the teachings of Quran. We have forgotten that we are forgetting the duties which were given to us as a Muslim nation and as a Muslim individual. Let us hope for the best.

Go to Quran and read it in the language you understand the best.

Immediate Boss...not a loss

In my childhood, I used to fear my father before making any mischief. When I grew up the same fear appeared in the form of my teacher. Now days, this fear is the possession of my manager.
The important thing to note here is that; I feared from my father rather than my grandfather then I feared from my teacher rather than the principal of the school and now, I fear from my manager rather than the managing director of my company.

Although the MD of my company, the principal of the school and my grandfather have more authorities, yet I always felt fear from my “immediate bosses”. The reason behind is that we always take the pressure of our immediate boss, to whom we are answerable. The fear of “ultimate boss” remains somewhere in the back store of our mind; it is there, but not effecting our actions.

What we need to do being a Muslim is to realize that Allah is not only our Ultimate Boss; but is also our Immediate Boss and so we have to fear Him all the time.

Which Religion?

It is a matter of common sense that only one President is suitable on a nation for a specific period of time. There cannot be more than one president.

Similarly, there is only one principal or ordering authority of any school at a time. More than one principal will result in system collapse.

Same is the case with religion. We have to check all the religions to find out which one of them speaks about the commanding authority of Only One GOD.

And also which shows us the properties and qualities of a True Organizer, Who can organize the whole universe and all beyond it.

Creator cannot be like His creations; neither physically and mentally nor habitually and situationally. He must be the Most Powerful and the Most Sensible of all. Only the teachings of that religion must be accepted.

"This is the Book (Quran), whereof there is no doubt, a guidance to those who fear Allah (abstain from all which He has forbidden)." (Quran;Ch-41:V-53)

"Soon We will show them Our Signs in the universe, and in their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth. Is it not sufficient in regard to your Lord that He is a Witness over all things?" (Quran; Ch-41: V-53)