The human life, in this world, ranges from 40 to 80 years on average with the overall world average for life expectancy going no further than 67 years –and then it all ends. One must, for his own sake think of what he/she has been making of the little time they have been given.
As time goes on, many of us start ignoring things that are actually the only reason for our existence. Even Muslims have started running away from their religious duties while the non-Muslims go ever further by denying Islam. With some topping it off by rejecting the ideology of religion over all; things could never get worse!
We need to ponder upon how everything is perfectly in place like a gigantic machine that has billions of small pieces; each has a separate nature and job, but they assist each other in their existence. If just one little thing goes wrong it can all fall apart, but it doesn’t! Because there is a greater power at work, because there is a God watching over us! He is there all hearing, all seeing –the provider, creator, owner and master. He tests us, sometimes by putting us through hardships and sometimes by boundless ease. Sometimes by giving and sometimes by taking. It is us who decide our fate in the end; it is our choices that decide where we end up.
Whenever there is a journey –there can only be one way to reach the destination, and there can be a hundred of misleading paths. When one starts his journey he faces crossroads every now and then, it’s the traveler who decides which path to follow. As it is taught in Islam, the righteous path has been shown to us; each one of us has been given a choice.
Why is there a choice? One may ask if there only has to be one righteous path, why lay tracks to mislead the traveler? The answer is love, God’s love towards his most prized creation; humans. God loves his creations so much that he boasts numerous times of their loyalty towards Him. God states repeatedly in Quran that the believers will never digress, the true believer will never make the wrong choice. Even if he makes a mistake, God offers him mercy if he repents.
God is ever merciful, but every journey has a time limit, every traveler has to keep track of the fuel tank. Human life is the time we have that is the only fuel we have. After being given all the liberty, we could wish for we are justifiably expected to get back “in time”. Life’s short, we must always excel in this world, but we must also not forget whom we belong and to whom are we going to return. May God be merciful when counting our sins, and may we be granted one last chance to turn to him before our time ends. Amen.
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