One realizes the value of anything only when it is taken away from him. Whether it is time, life, wealth, parents or be it the heavenly blessings like faith(Eeman) . So whatever the blessing one enjoy when snatched from him, a man in such situation has nothing to, but only remorse and mental stress. In the same way, when a precious year of one’s life ends , a person suffers from a strange situation. There is a burden on his heart and mind and in such a situation, the heart and mind of a person go through different stages. While he remembers the moments gone by, he feels the hope and fear of tomorrow. He comes across all the work he has done in the past. Where he looks at his achievements, he gets the courage and desire to live again. But there he also remembers his failures and becomes hopeless. In such a situation, there arises a conflict between hope and hopelessness in him.
Keon gardash-e-madaam say gabra na jaye dil;
Insaan houn piyala o sagar nhi houn main.
Translation: Why should the heart not be afraid of circulation? .I’m a human being, I’m not a cup or an ocean.
Where one has dreamt and planed many dreams of life, he has no idea of the speed of time. In such a situation, the past, yesterday and today all seem to be moving together for him. In his heart, there is storm of immense desires & dreams, like the waves are striking in the sea. He wants to wrap up the whole universe in his control , but it is not in his power. Because in fact, he too is mortal in this world and there is a moment when he get away from this place. But a person buried under the shadows of greed and lust does not realize and observe it. Therefore, at this point, he shows a hurry at the moment. At the same time, in his heart and mind, the unpleasant twists and turns of the past time start circulating and are on the verge of breaking his morale. In such a situation. All his emerging aspirations seems impossible and deception to him.
He finds all the facts to be deceptive to him. In fact, everything in the world is temporary and nothing has to stay here for permanent. As the happy moments with us does not stay forever, likewise sorrowful moments also are temporary. In such a situation, desire for happiness and fear for sufferings disrupts our aspirations and disturbs our entire existence. Human beings are actually unable to understand the nature and speed of time, heartily and mentally. Because in fact, this whole world is nothing but a testing ground in actual. There is a diversity and difference in everything here and everything here is in conflict . Where day is in conflict to night, death with life, good with bad, scarcity with abundance and the happiness with sorrow. All these contradictory things posing tension to the mind and heart of a man are actually meant to expose the essence of nature. But man who thinks of him as intelligent, remains unable to Know these mysteries and thus remain far behind to these mysteries as helpless. To this day, he has not been able to know and understand the contradiction within him. He doesn’t have the power to understand mysteries. In such confusion, he does not see any way easily and does not see a source of guidance available to him. All these situations happen in every aspect of his life. And time is something that takes precedence over all blessings, which man can not control. In such a situation, patience and contentedness are the only things that give him the way out from this confusion and pave the way for understanding, distinguishing and handling conflicting things like good and bad, profit and loss, mortal and eternal and all contradictory things. Time always moves forward. And man has to face it from the front. Time is something that man does not live without facing, and in such a situation, it is impossible for man to exist without moving with time. This is the reason why many people cannot tolerate the change of time and want to get rid of it. This condition leaves him helpless and unsuccessful.
Who with every breath he draws creates an eternal life. Allah has exalted man to higher status over all creation and he has to be considered his Caliph. Therefore, it should have some god-given qualities. He should do something in this short mortal life that the even time itself should surrender before his intentions, desires and achievements. Do not be afraid of time and never give up your responsibilities. Rather do such actions that you and even your future time should feel proud of your unwavering resilience and resolution. In fact, man does not die in the flow of time, but not to attain goals( the main purpose of life) in given period of time is death in real terms. Flying off of the soul from the rest of the human body is actually a migration in which it goes out of the mortal world into the world of eternity and becomes aware of the results of his actions done in this world. So time belongs to him, which belongs to time. Man’s eyes are always on the passage of time. Time passes for everyone, but belongs to only some. The real feat of a man is to make time bestowed to him purposeful and this is thought-provoking and observable indeed. Everything in the world face time. From a dust particle to a bright sun. But the sun moves at the pace of time and makes the whole world beautiful and meaningful by showing the opposite phenomenon of day and night. While one particle loses its time by remaining the same particle. But the reality is that objects up to even a particle runs behind its purpose. But it is the ignorant man who deviates from the purpose being afraid from slightest obstacles and unpleasant conditions. And thus by giving up his responsibility, he actually loses his precious time.
The spectacular thing rather worth seeing is that for whom all the worlds have been in rotation. They too have started to have complaints about the cycle of days.
ut while Allah has made man weak, he has kept such mysteries and miracles in him. Man by realizing and exposing them can defeat the whole system of this mortal world. In such a situation, man has to move forward by understanding the great rules of research and thinking and patience and perseverance.
Delve into your soul there seek our life’s burried tracks; Will you not be mine? then be not mine, be your own right.
Where man feels that the source and center of time is only hidden in the rotation of the earth, the moon and the sun. But in reality, all these secrets are hidden even in his own existence and the rotation of the sun, the moon, and the earth is only to provoke the revelation of this secret within him. The wise man connects his observations with his imaginations and puts them in the scales of research and thinking hidden within him and becomes familiar with the real facts. Allah SWT says in the Qur’an to guide mankind.
It is He Who made the sun a shining thing and the moon as a light and measured out its (their) stages, that you might know the number of years and the reckoning. Allah did not create this but in truth. He explains the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) in detail for people who have knowledge.
[ Al-Quran: S. Younus )
In the present world, which has become customary today, time is celebrated. In fact, all these actions are contrary to man’s basic responsibilities and purpose. Rather, man’s journey and intellectual horizon is above all these despised things. Celebrating the arrival of the New Year is all fictitious and far from the real aim. What’s the time? Time is a sort of respite process. Do whatever you want in it. If you want to be a successful person, do good deeds and if you want to loose then do bad deeds. Choice is Yours’, either you want to earn or loose.
Time flows like a river that never turns back. Most people waste their precious time with celebrations on the last day of the year. But in actual they are ignorant and do not understand the fact that a year precious year of their life has gone away and they have come close to death. But wise people understand every rim of nature. And consider every moment of their life as the initial and the final moment and they act with accountability at every passing moment and take life as a treasure before death.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) admonished a man and said:
“Make the most of five things before five others:
1)life before death, 2)health before sickness, 3) free time before becoming busy, 4)youth before old age and 5) wealth before poverty.” [Al-Hadith]
In order to understand Allah”s system, man needs to follow godly way and divine law. Otherwise, the animals also move, grow and flutter in their own way. But man is above than all these things. And his mirror of vision and concerns are greater than these things.
God has given man a few moments in order to test whether the man will try to understand the nature and purpose of this mortal world and whether he will use it to achieve the goal of eternal life .Actually this mortal world apparently has been created as a luxury, so that man is likely to be oblivious to the purpose of the Hereafter and thus man has to gone through a test.
Allah has given humanity a right way of life and a guide cum law book in the form of the Holy Qur’an, by following which man can get the real clues of the world and be exalted with his true purpose and destination.
Allah says in the Qur’an:Or lest you say, “If only the Scripture had been revealed to us, we would have been better guided than they.” So there has [now] come to you a clear evidence from your Lord and a guidance and mercy. Then who is more unjust than one who denies the verses of Allah and turns away from them? We will recompense those who turn away from Our verses with the worst of punishment for their having turned away.
[Al-Quran: Al-Anam]
Worrying about the Hereafter and giving up the worldly lust does not mean that a person should remain inactive with his hands on his hands. Rather, use this world to acquire things for the life hereafter and make this mortal worldly life dignified and meaningful with good deeds. Actually time belongs to a man Who does not begs from time, but gives something to time. He stops depending on time and by his unwavering ambitions, he shakes the time and makes it to surrender. And he creates such an environment where time seems to surrenders before man and asks him to stop, otherwise time is not in anybody’s control other than Allah only. Like in the journey a fellow who is behind asks the partner going ahead to stop. In the same way, great people beat time through their great deeds. Most people think that the world is a place of action and only a place of hard work and movement, not of comfort and negligence. But still it is surprising that why man delays the present for the future which he does not even know whether to come or not.
Though man knows that these few moments of mortal life are about to pass and the moments to come hereafter are not for action. But still, he prefers neglectful sleep and becomes irrational and defers it for the future.And thus living in the work place and place of earning he is wandering in search of rest.
Khabar Nahin Kya Hai Naam Iss Ka, Khuda Farebi Ya Khud Farebi
Amal Se Farigh Huwa Musalman Bana Ke Taqdeer Ka Bahana
I can’t see what it is: is it self‐deception of deception of God?
Having invented the excuse of fate, the Muslim has ceased to act meaningfully.
Modern man has made himself dependent on machines and has preferred to rest only. In fact, now the human body is also craving for movement, which was necessary for the better circulation of its blood. Modern man has only aimed to rest by resorting to machines. In fact, now even the human body is longing for movement. The necessary flow for human blood. He has now seen it as well as machines. It seems as if a man now wants to control over the Godly attribute “Kun -faya-qun” and want to pass on commandments to make things done, which is in reality a clear contradiction to his creation and existence. This is his utter folly and insatiable desire though the truth was that he should have been according to the intentions and commandments of his master and creator Allah… But thinking of attaining Godly character, man actually went against his creator and master and became the cause of declination and death for himself. Where man has been created weak and dependent in this world, but in a separate imaginary world he created due to his foolishness, he finds himself supreme, independent and becomes arrogant and thus falls in a big mistake of not knowing himself. Therefore resultantly he looses his purpose as mankind. In such a situation, he has to face only doubts and disappointments in his heart and ultimately only disparity and failures remain there in his destiny. Therefore, only by knowing the strengths and shortcomings within oneself and then using them in accordance with God’s law that a person can achieve his true purpose, status and destination. Thus, man’s exceeding or falling below his God-given power and ability are both ignorances. The beginning and ending of time is not in the capacity of man.
But the man has measured time bestowed to them by calling it minutes, seconds, days, months and years. It is like closing the sea in a jar. Under his same effort year 2023 stands to be coming to an end like previous years. Thus we are saying goodbye to this year right now, but it is not in our power to say about the coming year because it is not yet in the grip of man’s mental cage. In fact, man is under the compulsion of time. But in order to have the passion and the courage to face time, he defines time as a forced person to be separated, otherwise it is the man from whom the precious time has been taken away.
As usual, we bid farewell to time by naming it good and bad, prosperous and sad. For some, it is the year of oppression and for some it is the year of freedom, for some it is a year of cruelty and barbarism and and for some it is a year of justice and relief and a year of life for some and a year death for some. Thus the sighs and the laughter are all the same , but the human face and their ways have change . Some cried then and some cried now. some laughed then and some laughed now. some misled then, some misled now and some improved then and some improved now.
Thus this changing and mortal world is a mere test ground. Allah SWT has beautifully guided us about the fact of this life in Quran.
Who(Allah) created death and life that He might try you as to which of you is better in deed. He is the Most Mighty, the Most Forgiving.
[Al-Quran: Al-Mulk]
Today, the precious year of our life has been reduced from our life in terms of 2023. This is not time to celebrate, rather a time to reflect, review and resolve, and it is like a mirror in which the man comes to the fore all the actions of his past moments and therefore urges for introspection. It is pray to Allah SWT to keep us on the right track forever and exalt us to the higher status, goals & destiny. May Allah be pleased with us every moment and every year.
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