Life
Our mortal lives will one day come to an end. Why live then; what is the purpose? Career, family, partying, living life as today is your last? are the people who believe in God wasting their time by making unwanted sacrifices or are they right? Or are the atheist right? Are we just animals with higher intelligence that developed the idea of God? But then who created the animals...us? Why didnt God send the right message the first time? why so many messengers (Mosses, Isa, Muhammed). The message that was revealed last is right.... evidently being the quran and thus Islam. What happens to the people before Islam or whatever the religion you follow was revealed? Are they judged on their religion which existed in their time? What about the babies and the children that die at an early age before they can commmit a sin? Do they get eternal paradise? I can go on and on..so can any literate human!!! I guess life is unfair and it does not look like we are all equal... as related to God and the right religion... Wouldn't you want the answer at any cost? so that you can acheive eternal paradise and understand life? What if you some how get arrested and put into prison somewhere.. a rather remote area..your family and friends have no idea where you are and you have no way of contacting them. There is no way to trace where you are as your there are no phones around and your mobile is switched off and taken from you. You are all alone in this place...prison. You live your first few years as a scoundrel. Fighting, Swearing, sinning and almost had it with life. Then you turn to God and study his path. Yes you are in prison but you devote to God assume you can get the Holy books. You study the major religions of the world, you decide which religion is right and you follow his way perfectly for the rest of your life as you have nothing else to do in prison. You are in a solitary cell. You and your holy book and God. You have no family, no friends..just people around you that are like or unlike you. So for years you follow your chosen path..Gods path..the right path. I know the chances of this happening is nearly impossible as your family should be able to track you down!!! But say this happens.... is it a blessing from God? A lot of us say that there are too many distractions in the modern world to prevent us from devoting to God. But if this happens all your distractions are removed and you have nothing left. You life as you know it will vanish to be replaced with nothing but the Holy book and God. Your are no longer in contact with your family or friends.. they all think you are dead...so you have nothing..no distractions..your life as you know it is gone...stop reading and seriously imagine it for a while..imagine your family and friends do not know where you are and assume you are dead and have given up looking for you. You are alone with strangers and have nothing...but God. You eventually follow his path...if this is the price to pay for eternal paradise would take it? Would you have the guts to wish...to pray.... for this to happen to you in order to live the right path? Your family, friends everyone who cares about will be heart broken. The people who care about you most and you care most about would be devastated, their lives would be changed forever. But you are gauranteed a ticket to paradise at this price. Think about it long and hard.... would you want to follow the right path at this price..in the senario described above? If you choose yes, then do you really truly believe in God....or are you being selfish because you are afflicting your family with immense pain in return for eternal paradise? And what about them? would they join you at paradise?
What is your answer...
YES i wish for the above to happen and pay the price for the right path......
or...
NO i cannot/will not accept the right path at that price......
posted by Yusuf @ 11:16 AM
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About the people who lived before islam, I think they will be judged on what they followed back then. I believe god intentionally sent them a different message then because circumstances in the world way back then were totally different from what they are now so different rules need to be set. For example, the ratio of women to men is now something like 3:1 I think, that is one of the reasons why polygamy is allright in Islam.
And about children and life after death; isn't there an age before which a child is considered totally pure? Some people say a child must learn to pray before 7, because after 7, missing prayers will nto be excused...I think this is because until a certain age, the childs mind is not mature enough to understand the significance of religion and so it's not right to punish the child for that but I also believe that different children mature at different rates...so I'm not sure what this age is but I think that if a child dies before a certain age, then that child is considered pure and will goto what is our understanding of a heaven.
heh that prison thought was an interestign one and I used to think about something similar to that. I sometimes pray for something like that. It's real scary because sometiems I honestly mean it. My rationale is that god is more important than anything else, even your own parents or yourself. It's better to totally disappoint all of them and hurt all of them rather than disappoint god one bit in my opinion. So sometimes I ask god to show me the right path even if it's a totally different life, even if it means I will have to dress differently and can't live the same lifestyle I live. It's scary sometimes but then again, if we are doing something god doesn't want us to do, then we shouldnt be doing it. We will find happiness in whatever we do if god thinks its something we should be doing. But yeah, sometimes I just ask god to let me be how he thinks I should be...from the perspective I have on life now I feel like I won't like it but I'm sure if it's gods wish, that I will probably love it.
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