Asalamualiukum Warahmatullahi Wabarakathu
Hope that everyone is keeping fine by Allah’s rahma. I enjoy blogging a lot, but couldn’t blog for a while because I was very busy and tired during the past 2-3 weeks. I had many thoughts and would have liked to share, but finding the time was a major problem with a tight schedule. I witnessed many internal crises in office and elsewhere, with bombs detonating at least once every week, Srilanka is turning out to be a very dangerous place to live in.
Each and every situation we face in life has its own lessons in store for us. It’s we who need to comprehend it and rectify our shortcomings in order to be better Muslims. Although life is transient, we mortals live as if we will live forever. We forget the commands of Allah SWT, miss our prayers every day and find excuses for doing so, visit the mosque only on Fridays and live our lives to please everyone but Allah, in anticipation of days in the future in which we can engage in ibadaat. When we are young we feel that we have years to come and it’s when old age settles in that we should increase our ibadat, youth is the time for merriment and joy, joking, fooling and idling, it’s not the time for ibadaat. The youth view there age as a license to engage in all evil practices and would just smile away when their mistakes are pointed out. This is the time to have fun, not the time to ponder over religion. But its only if we ponder over the sudden loss of lives during the blasts would we understand that death has no barriers, young or old, woman or man, when our time is due we will leave this world in our current state. We will never be given another chance, this is our only chance, and lets try to make the most out of it.
I would like to have kept out of this topic, as its prohibition in the context of Islam is well known. But the ignorance shown by our youth despite all warnings has made me write about it, at least a bare minimum, as I feel it would be useful in today’s context. We often hear stories of romeos and juliets of our times. Young men and women would do everything possible to win over the man/woman of their dreams. This might be fine with the kuffar, but we as Muslims should lead an exemplary and righteous life as guided by Islam. Does such “hanky panky” technique of winning over the one you claim to love last forever? Based on what do you admire the other person? Looks can be deceiving, so can be their apparent behavior. In a context where both parties behave in a manner to impress each other nothing would be evident, but its in the face of realities of life that one would understand the fleeting dreams in which one has been living in the past. Then it would be too late to turn back, also my dear sisters and brothers please ponder over the evils of this virus, it will engulf you and leave you in a state of moral bankruptcy because each and every moment you are engaged in it you will be disobeying your creator. Please try not to fall prey to this contagious virus, save your imaan and increase your worship of Allah swt, he is the source of all strength and for the one who places his trust in him he will suffice him.
“And He provides for him from (sources) he never could imagine. And if any one puts his trust in Allah, sufficient is (Allah) for him. For Allah will surely accomplish his purpose: verily, for all things has Allah appointed a due proportion.”
So my dear sisters and brothers, don’t fret and frown over the fleeting things in this life and employ unislamic ways of achieving them. We will only get what Allah has ordained for us and he is the provider, the sustainer, whatever he has ordained for us is best for us. May Allah SWT give all of us the strength to increase our IMAN and be better Muslims. Ameen.
Hope that everyone is keeping fine by Allah’s rahma. I enjoy blogging a lot, but couldn’t blog for a while because I was very busy and tired during the past 2-3 weeks. I had many thoughts and would have liked to share, but finding the time was a major problem with a tight schedule. I witnessed many internal crises in office and elsewhere, with bombs detonating at least once every week, Srilanka is turning out to be a very dangerous place to live in.
Each and every situation we face in life has its own lessons in store for us. It’s we who need to comprehend it and rectify our shortcomings in order to be better Muslims. Although life is transient, we mortals live as if we will live forever. We forget the commands of Allah SWT, miss our prayers every day and find excuses for doing so, visit the mosque only on Fridays and live our lives to please everyone but Allah, in anticipation of days in the future in which we can engage in ibadaat. When we are young we feel that we have years to come and it’s when old age settles in that we should increase our ibadat, youth is the time for merriment and joy, joking, fooling and idling, it’s not the time for ibadaat. The youth view there age as a license to engage in all evil practices and would just smile away when their mistakes are pointed out. This is the time to have fun, not the time to ponder over religion. But its only if we ponder over the sudden loss of lives during the blasts would we understand that death has no barriers, young or old, woman or man, when our time is due we will leave this world in our current state. We will never be given another chance, this is our only chance, and lets try to make the most out of it.
I would like to have kept out of this topic, as its prohibition in the context of Islam is well known. But the ignorance shown by our youth despite all warnings has made me write about it, at least a bare minimum, as I feel it would be useful in today’s context. We often hear stories of romeos and juliets of our times. Young men and women would do everything possible to win over the man/woman of their dreams. This might be fine with the kuffar, but we as Muslims should lead an exemplary and righteous life as guided by Islam. Does such “hanky panky” technique of winning over the one you claim to love last forever? Based on what do you admire the other person? Looks can be deceiving, so can be their apparent behavior. In a context where both parties behave in a manner to impress each other nothing would be evident, but its in the face of realities of life that one would understand the fleeting dreams in which one has been living in the past. Then it would be too late to turn back, also my dear sisters and brothers please ponder over the evils of this virus, it will engulf you and leave you in a state of moral bankruptcy because each and every moment you are engaged in it you will be disobeying your creator. Please try not to fall prey to this contagious virus, save your imaan and increase your worship of Allah swt, he is the source of all strength and for the one who places his trust in him he will suffice him.
“And He provides for him from (sources) he never could imagine. And if any one puts his trust in Allah, sufficient is (Allah) for him. For Allah will surely accomplish his purpose: verily, for all things has Allah appointed a due proportion.”
So my dear sisters and brothers, don’t fret and frown over the fleeting things in this life and employ unislamic ways of achieving them. We will only get what Allah has ordained for us and he is the provider, the sustainer, whatever he has ordained for us is best for us. May Allah SWT give all of us the strength to increase our IMAN and be better Muslims. Ameen.
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