Dear friend,
I don’t think people should be calling each other stupid and unthinking, even though one may be more intellectual and more experienced than others. As I see it, stupidity can be defined in many ways depending on different people's outlooks. One person’s idea of stupidity might not be the same for the other person. When people ask stupid questions sometimes it actually puts supposedly obvious things in a new perspective, opening another way to think about it. In a way one's intelligence is heightened by not calling others stupid as 'intelligent' means you already know more and that you do not need to belittle others in order to elevate yourself. Intelligent people should be more tolerable and have more compassion for the less intelligent because being intelligent means that you can play a better role in guiding the less intelligent to show them the correct way.
I don’t think Allah makes mistakes in sending people to earth at the wrong time. When you consider all the things you couldn’t achieve, you also have to consider the bad decisions you took in life or take into account the unexpected and unavoidable circumstances that you had to face that you might consider were wasted years of your life. I feel everybody has their limitations. Even though we want to achieve so many things Allah knows how much each person should have, can achieve or be allowed to progress because it is not one human who exists in this world. To us, we will ourselves be, no doubt, very important. But for Allah everyone is His Creation. Everybody has their own wishes, which, if all are granted, could probably cancel out each other's wishes, encroach on someone else’s rights or oppress the other person or create more chaos in the world. It’s not according to our plan that we are living even though we have the impression that we are doing so. It’s actually God’s plan and so many of our wishes and needs and desires will no doubt be crushed when life is seen from such a perspective. We could be subdued in so many ways because it is not ordained in His plan for us. Allah knows what’s best for us even though we think it is we who know what is best for us.
In my personal experience I’ve found that He made me suffer so much for years because of a greater plan. While I seethed with anger over my life’s sufferings every day, I later realised how Allah actually made me go through such difficult things so that I could finally see the complexity of how things actually worked in the world. If God had allowed me to live the way I wanted according to my wishes from the start, I would never have seen or known or believed the things I got to understand in my life later on. I could never have approached life everyday with strength, understanding its mysteries if I was given an easier path and if I wasn't guided by Him. It is said that the path to Paradise is hard while the path to Hell is easy and Allah tests us to strengthen us too.
I feel we shouldn’t compare ourselves to others at all even though we can be inspired by others. Everybody has their own life and path and everybody needs to be different. We should be able to accept ourselves the way we are with our many shortcomings because when you see somebody else as having achieved somethings, we are unable to see the full picture of that person’s life, the part where we can’t see what that person is lacking in their life or what shortcomings they have. They may not reveal it or sometimes may not know themselves what they lack or probably choose to hide it.
Different people are supposed to be good at different things. If one can’t become something in the way one wants but is good at another thing, maybe it is the role that person is supposed to play in this world. While having desires and ambitions and aspirations are part of human nature, I feel it is a great test to be able to see one’s own limitations and accept the harder things in life. I feel nobody can be good at all the things they want to do in life because others also have a right to their share of glory in the world.
Ultimately, as Muslims, it is not the competition of the world that has to be foremost in our minds, but the wish to be successful in the next life. Therefore, we should always weigh our actions based on whether we are trying to please God or whether we are trying to please ourselves or other people. If every action is done thinking about whether it would please God, we would be far from depressed at being imperfect.
Sincerely yours,
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