Consider the case of a Chronic smoker and a Merciful Physician
[b]Often man is a slave of his own stupidity or passions which are like poison , even though the Doctor warns his patients NOT to smoke but the foolish patents continue to smoke and end up with an gangrene legs which needs to be cut in Oder to stop the poison spreading to other parts of the patients body and thus result in his death .
Similarly the merciful Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'alaalso punishes us for out repeated sins despite his warnings many times not to commit things which are harmful for the human soul , in the end the man reaches such stage in which Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'alais forced to act like an merciful Doctor and cut of the leg or punish us for our sins in Oder that our human soul may not die form these sins spreading the whole soul leading to its death , the best treatment in this case is severe punishment of Allah which is the best way of saving us from even more dangerous end that is the death of the human soul an the birth of and animal soul in its place
Know that you are not the master of your life , it is you creator who was , is and always will be the master of your life , health and happiness or sorrow
Know that everything in your life is directly related to how good and bad relationship you have with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, is not a puzzle when the master of the house or the Husband if he is not pleased then the whole family ,wife and children have to suffer , this is all due to negative vibes which the wife or the children are sending towards the master of the house , it would be foolish if the family thinks that the master of the house will let them enjoy all the luxury he has provided for them without they returning his generosity with love , respect and thankfulness , under such circumstances the master of the house is forced to take away all this luxury and happiness he has provided in Oder to reform his family which has grown indifferent towards him
So know that you serve the master of the house well and are never unmindful of him so that he may never get angry with you and punish with all the misery and sadness which we experience in the day to day life ------ now if we are ignorant why such bad things are happening to us and run more towards solving these problems instead of solving the root cause of the suffering that is your Lords displeasure then there is no hope for us we will continue to suffer like this and end up living a miserable unhappy life and in the end would receive the greatest punishment the fire of hell after we die and are raised up again by AllahSubhanahu wa Ta'alafor the Judgment
May Allah Protect us from such foolish ignorant life and worthless end
The Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) knew very well that people at Taif were no different from
Makkans. They also worshipped idols and were in constant contact with the people in Makkah. But he
(pbuh) did not despair, who dedicated his life for Islam by putting himself in danger like no other. As
he entered Taif, and proclaimed his prophet hood, people jeered at him. One said: “God did not find
anyone else for His message except you?” Another said: “I must be naive or a thief if I believed you to
be a prophet.” And so it went on.
Then in order to prevent him from preaching Islam, people of Taif set a group of children and
vagabonds behind him. They pestered him and threw stones at him. Tired, forsaken and wounded, he
sought refuge in a nearby garden. It belonged to Atabah and Shaibah, two wealthy chiefs of Quraish.
They were both there when the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) entered and sat under a distant tree.
He was alone. Then he raised his face towards heaven and prayed: “O Almighty! I raise unto you my
complaint for my weakness, my helplessness, and for the ridicule to which I have been subjected. O
Merciful of all the Mercifuls! You are the Master of all oppressed people, You are my God! So to
whom would You consign me? To the strangers who would ill-treat me, or to the enemies who have
an upper hand over me? If whatever has befallen me is not because of Your wrath, then I fear not.
No doubt, the field of Your security and care is wide enough for me. I seek refuge in Your light which
illuminates darkness and straightens the affairs of this world and hereafter, that Your displeasure
and wrath may not descend upon me. For the sake of Your pleasure, I remain pleased and resigned
to my fate. No change in this world occurs without Your Will.”
Atabah and Shaibah were watching. They sent for their servant named Adaas and gave him a plate full
of grapes. “Take this to that man under the tree,” they ordered.
Adaas was a Christian. He brought the grapes to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and bid him eat.
As the Prophet (pbuh) picked a bunch he said: “Bismillahir Rahmaanir Rahim” (In the Name of Allah,
the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate). Adaas had never heard this before. He was impressed by
it, because the man was invoking mercy and compassion of Almighty in spite of his desolate state.
“Who are you?” Adaas asked. “I am the Prophet of God. Where do you come from?”
The servant said: “I am Adaas, a Christian. I come from Nainava.” “Nainava? You come from a place where my brother Yunus bin Mati (Jonah son of Mati) lived,” the Holy Prophet (pbuh) said. Adaas was
surprised to hear the name. “What do you know of Yunus(Jonah) Here no one seems to know him. Even
in Nainava there were hardly ten people who knew his father’s name.” The Holy Prophet (pbuh) said: “Yes, I know him because just like me, he was a Prophet of Almighty God.” Adaas fell on his knees before the Holy Prophet (pbuh), kissed his hand and embraced Islam.
This is my story:I was born on 8 of march 1989 in FinlandI live with my parents atm and we belong to a swedish speaking minority in Finland.I converted to Islam on 18 of may 2006 (for those who cant count:i was 17 years old when i converted) after studying Islam on the internet and through books,I got intrested in the religion after I read Malcolm X's autobiography.Currently im 19 years old and i am attending highschool.
From the Golden Sayings of Sufi Sheik Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Reh)
A Riddle
What did we see first when we came into this world, and what do we want to see again? There is something we saw before that we desire to see again now. Think about this mind, this eye, this desire, this nose, this ear, and reflect deeply. Think about the passage we came through and desire to see again. If we understand this, we may be able to bring some peace to our minds. We saw something when we came to this world, and now we desire to see it again. What is it we saw earlier, and what is it we try to see again?
The passage we came through is our place of birth. If we think about how we escaped from our jail, that dark room of the womb where we were imprisoned, we will understand something about that prison and what it really is. If we understand this we will have peace. Why did we enter that dark cave? What is our form composed of? Earth, fire, water, air, and ether make up this form. How did they enter inside there? Through what connections did they get there? The connections of arrogance, karma, and illusion (maya). What happened to these eight (earth, fire, water, air, ether, arrogance, karma, and maya)? What became of them? They are what imprison us, are they not?
This mind is the cause. Think about it. What entered that cave was imprisoned for ten lunar months and then came out. But having come out, we are still imprisoned by that jail. Why is this so? And why do we try to reenter the cave? Why does the mind try to go back there? Why does it go back in again? Think about this with your feeling, awareness, intellect, judgment, wisdom, and divine analytic wisdom.
If you analyze this with your divine analytic wisdom, you will see the path which can give you peace. Right away you will realize, "Oh, this is the path. This is how peace will come." You should find that path and once you have seen it you will know, "Oh, this is the path of peace." Once you understand, you will begin to ask, "What will bring this peace to this mind which has so many millions and millions and millions of states?" You don't need to sit and think about this all day, but you must reflect, understand it, and know it.
We carry this baby-mind around with us all the time, we keep this monkey-mind around all the time, and we keep this dog of desire around all the time. We take the three of them everywhere to help us. Wherever we go, these three qualities of the mind come with us. This dog always wants dirty, filthy, foul-smelling things, even feces. Like a large German shepherd, it drags you along while it sniffs at all these things. It keeps howling, "Woooo! Woooo!" It is so strong that it pulls you in the direction it wants to go and you keep following it. Then there is the baby. Whatever this baby sees in the store, it wants. It cries, "Give me this, give me that, give me this. Buy me this, buy me that." When you buy one thing, the baby plays with it for a while, then discards it, and demands something else. It demands everything it sees, and you have to keep supplying these gifts. That baby has no peace whatsoever--it cries all the time. And then there is the monkey. The monkey of the mind is equivalent to seventy thousand monkeys. When it sees a tree, it jumps. When it sees a piece of fruit, it jumps. When it sees a branch, it jumps. When it sees a leaf, it jumps. It jumps at whatever it sees. It assumes different forms and leaps at everything. Since this is their nature, how can you ever hope to find peace if you take these three with you?
Therefore, my children, who are the gems within my eyes, you must consider: if you hang onto these three how are you ever going to meditate? Even if you close the door and chant, "Ah ing" or "Oh ing" or "Om" or anything else, these three never go away. You may close the door and chant, you may close your eyes and chant, even if you stand on your head and chant, even if you fold up your body and chant, they will never go away. Whether you hide in a cave or hide in the dark, these three will be there. They live in such places: that is where the monkey jumps, the baby cries, and the dog pulls you around.
Yusha (Joshua) Evans was raised by his grandparents in Greenville, South Carolina in a very strict Methodist home. In his teenage years, he became very involved in the church and was studying at a small Bible college in his hometown with the intention of eventually enrolling in Bob Jones University. He was learning to read the Bible in Hebrew and Greek and was very interested in textual criticism of the Bible. It was during these years of intense Bible study that he read the Bible cover to cover a half a dozen times. In doing so, he realized there were many inconsistencies and contradictions. He realized the Bible was not the inerrant Word of God as he had always been taught. He eventually left Christianity and searched for the truth about God elsewhere.
He studied every religion from Judaism to Buddhism, Wicca to Bushido. While many religions had certain truths to them, they had major tenants or flaws he could not accept. All praise is due to God, one day he found himself talking with a young Muslim who invited him to jumuah, the Friday service and congregational prayer. When he saw the Muslims praying, bowing and prostrating with their heads on the floor, all the verses of the Bible describing the prayer of the prophets came flooding back to him. He asked for a copy of the Quran, read it from cover to cover in three days, and the rest (as they say) is history.
From the Golden Sayings of Sufi Sheik Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Reh)
Day-to-day life is a prison. From the time we appeared in the dark cave of the womb and throughout our entire life, we have been in jail. How can we live in this darkness? Some try to find peace in these prisons by accumulating money, by getting married, or by taking drugs. Some try to find peace by drinking whiskey, beer, and brandy. This is how they search for peace of mind. Others try to find peace through meditation and yoga. Others try to find peace through mantras and ritual offerings (pujas) or by giving away their money. People search for peace in so many ways, but we must reflect, we have to think: what will give us real peace? What is the treasure that can give us peace? We have to search for the path of freedom and escape from the jail in which we are imprisoned. Only then can we attain real peace in our life.
People have not understood this. So instead, they keep trying to find other kinds of peace of mind. Since the Second World War, for the sake of money and business, the world has invented so many new forms of meditation. With these new and different types of meditation, people think they have found a new 'peace of mind '. God's laws, human conscience, justice, truthfulness, patience, serenity, kindness, and duty have all been forgotten, and in their place man has discovered new forms of meditation that will supposedly bring about new forms of peace. People remain in their prisons, yet they still call it peace.
You can never reach real peace this way, my children. If you want to attain true peace, you must think. If you want peace, ask yourself what will make you peaceful. If you want peace of mind, you must first release yourself from jail. Your life is filled with accidents, and you are imprisoned by thoughts, sights, and sounds. They are your jail. They lock you in the prison of this body, the prisons of religion, race, caste, and blood ties, the prisons of money, desire, and love. All these are jails, are they not? Only when you free yourself from these, will you reach peace.
The mind contains all this. You can lock the doors, close the house, climb a tree, stand on your head with your feet in the air, close your eyes and sit cross-legged, hold your breath, close your mouth and shut your eyes, and do many forms of physical exercises, but to reach peace while remaining imprisoned is extremely difficult.
You have to think. The world is searching for peace. If you reflect for a while, you will see that there are very easy ways to attain peace. What are these ways? Whoever created this prison, this body of ours, it is through Him that we should seek our freedom. In other words, there is One who created us and He is the One who nurtures us and raises us. That is the point. There is one truth. We must understand the source of this truth and through that knowledge be freed from our attachments and from our jail. Only then is there peace. This is easy.