Redemption
We greet Ramadan. We keep fasts. It cleans our body systems. We stop lying. This makes our faith strong. We start prayers and praying. It keeps our souls pure. We prevent vulgarity. It keeps us away from casual sins.
When I had heard the topic of this month, it kept circulating in me. In spite of all the above mentioned activities, am I sure of my redemption?
In our daily dealings, when we start thinking ourselves as followers and others as disbeliever, we will never let our souls reach redemption. One of the commonest arguments seen is between two people that have different views about ablution. One believes that taking a bath requires no separate rituals of ablution while the other believes in separate rituals even after taking bath. He would consider the other a sinner and all his prayers and praying a waste.
How can we declare hell for him when "He" says that one is going to be judged on the basis of his intentions?
How can we declare hell for him when Islam is giving the meaning of "cleanliness" to ablution.
People can't have our thoughts. They can't see things through our frames because each of us has been forming a separate frame for capturing things since childhood.
If people have sleeping hours in contrast to ours, we call them insane.
If people don't eat the same food that we eat, we mark their taste as useless.
Starting from casual dealings to religious tasks, we keep on correcting others either by tagging them sinners or by marking them insane.
Everybody is right in his own perspective. Nobody ruins himself willingly. But the only difference is, he is not living in our reference frame.
We should let others do what they want to even if we consider them wrong. If it is revealed wrong to them, they will get over their shortcomings and on the very next stance they will be doing the right. Now, this right is not the mask of others but his own learning that is enough to correct and strengthen his foundations. Because what a person learns from his mistakes cannot be learned with any guidance or behavior. That is how Salaar Sikandar, after realizing his mistakes, held the religion so strong that even his parents were not able to break his foundations (Peer-E-Kaamil). Calling people wrong doers, insane or sinner will remove nothing, but feelings.
This is the month of HIS Blessings and we must not contaminate our souls by condemning others on the basis of thoughts we possess. HE is the writer of our stories and only Writer knows best what and when something should be done.
Iqra Mushahid (Batch of 2023)
When I had heard the topic of this month, it kept circulating in me. In spite of all the above mentioned activities, am I sure of my redemption?
In our daily dealings, when we start thinking ourselves as followers and others as disbeliever, we will never let our souls reach redemption. One of the commonest arguments seen is between two people that have different views about ablution. One believes that taking a bath requires no separate rituals of ablution while the other believes in separate rituals even after taking bath. He would consider the other a sinner and all his prayers and praying a waste.
How can we declare hell for him when "He" says that one is going to be judged on the basis of his intentions?
How can we declare hell for him when Islam is giving the meaning of "cleanliness" to ablution.
People can't have our thoughts. They can't see things through our frames because each of us has been forming a separate frame for capturing things since childhood.
If people have sleeping hours in contrast to ours, we call them insane.
If people don't eat the same food that we eat, we mark their taste as useless.
Starting from casual dealings to religious tasks, we keep on correcting others either by tagging them sinners or by marking them insane.
Everybody is right in his own perspective. Nobody ruins himself willingly. But the only difference is, he is not living in our reference frame.
We should let others do what they want to even if we consider them wrong. If it is revealed wrong to them, they will get over their shortcomings and on the very next stance they will be doing the right. Now, this right is not the mask of others but his own learning that is enough to correct and strengthen his foundations. Because what a person learns from his mistakes cannot be learned with any guidance or behavior. That is how Salaar Sikandar, after realizing his mistakes, held the religion so strong that even his parents were not able to break his foundations (Peer-E-Kaamil). Calling people wrong doers, insane or sinner will remove nothing, but feelings.
This is the month of HIS Blessings and we must not contaminate our souls by condemning others on the basis of thoughts we possess. HE is the writer of our stories and only Writer knows best what and when something should be done.
Iqra Mushahid (Batch of 2023)
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