Live is full of charm, amazing things somehow sad and annoying
acts. Sometimes we feel we are the true people with so much in our lives. Some
other times we feel proud on our deeds. Somehow we also accept that we were
wrong while dealing with friends, family members or even with our selves.
However all these conditions depend on our mood, surroundings and feelings. While
dealing with life in each and every respect we forget our reality and try to
impose something else on our nature which actually doesn’t match our character.
The biggest thing is that we need to sit down and think who we actually are,
what are our priorities and what should be our priorities, how we did and what
we are doing and what should we do? I am not sure about others but most of the
times I mixed my necessities with my priorities and at the end of the day I
feel embarrassment. Once I read in Faziel-e-aamal that we should sit down every
day and should done self-assessment. This will help us to understand the
realities of life and will also help us to be in limits.
I had a chance of ’Finding myself “this RAMADAN. Basically it was
a time to go deep inside me and search how and what I normally do in my life.
Similarly I experienced the same in people all around me and in our society.
Any way it was a nice experience and I got many chances to realize the truths
about me and my life. Hereby given are the different attitudes we usually use
to approach life.
The first thing I experienced in this regards was to search for my
identity. If I will describe myself
in few words I may say, I am life and life is me, I can feel, I can see, I am
patient, An egoist, taking life as experience,, expect a lot, friendly, believe
myself, love my family, believe in honesty and commitment, hate haters,
volunteer, like poetry, travelling, reading, white color, Moody, taking
pictures, love games, nature, peace, communication, sky, sea and mountains.
Is it a true definition of me?? Is it my true identity?? Let us
think another way
We use different parameters to identify someone, which might be
nationality, ethnic groups, race, skin color, gander, religion and much more.
Though we use many or few of these parameters to identify each other at work
place and this is a source of haters among the society. This kind of
differentiation leads to unrest and injustice in society and promotes
humiliation instead of stability and peace. I think the most important identity
is that we are human beings. We are made by One God, Allah who is the creator
of the universe. We need to understand that we are the creators of Allah so we
all are respected for one another.
Sometimes the socioeconomic status become your identity e.g. the
poor and the wealthier. Both these classes think different and act different.
Sometimes people are classified into educated and un educated. We think
education can give a better chance. We have divided ourselves into many classes
and sects and different kinds of people who at war with each other. We always
think about ourselves and we want more and more without realizing that we
already have a lot. This lust for power, food and wealth never came to end.
Somewhere the differences are because of good looking and no so
good. We want perfection always and in every field of life. Without considering
our resources and surrounding we want to live the lives of emperors. No matters
how we look like but we want a perfect match. We want a more beautiful woman to
marry. We want a wealthy family to get married with.
We want to be looking good and if we fail so, still we want to be
praised.
Sexual identity is also a big identity according to which the
differences among man and woman and she males are a big source of
differentiation. Some societies consider woman as a source of amusements,
somewhere woman is considered as slave and in some society’s woman are as much
important as man.
Somewhere people are identified on the bases of ideology. Some of
us are communist, conservative, liberal, fascists and socialist. The problem is
that every one of us considers he/she right and thinks that the rest of people
are wrong. Every one of us wants to impose our wishes, likes and dislikes on
every other man and woman and this sort of behavior has endangered the peace
and rest of the universe.
Some of the difference and identity are on the basis of religion
e.g. Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Jews. Sometimes religion
becomes a big identity. Religion belongs to us and we belong to religion.
Everyone is independent in following the religion of their choice and everyone
has the right to attract people towards their religion. Today the problem is
that every other religion believers want to impose their religion on the people
of other religion. We might not be good followers of our religion yet we want others
to follow our religion.
Spiritual Identity is the most important identity. Some of us are
aware of it while most of us don’t know this kind of identity.
Not everyone is free today in Life????
If you will ask someone like this his/her reply will be ….What???
I am not free??
Politically we may be free but, as soon as sin has a tight grip on
us, we are not free.
We are not free because we are addicted to greed, ego, pride,
power, lust, discrimination, anger, jealousy and much more.
Sin destroy everything we have, the thing which we are addicted to
can really destroy ourselves, these can damage our real face and
characteristics e.g. technology is a good thing but if controlled by a sin it
became a bad thing. We can see the war against poor and on the name of war
against terror is actually controlled by dirty minds and lust for power so it
is a bed thing which is imposed with the help of technology in the form of
media, weapons and wealth. So we can
say, Sin is the cause of all sorrow.
Everybody agrees to the statement that happiness don’t depend
totally on wealth and money alone cannot give you happiness. Some people have
awesome life style but they are not satisfied and thus taking
counseling/medicine/drugs for this satisfaction. They have everything that
world required for happiness but they are empty.
Allah offers forgiveness
from sins. Allah knows that we are very week and we are made of clay. Allah
knows its creation the best. He knows we forget our lesson and move towards a
sinful life, but Allah who is the most merciful is always waiting for our
return.
It is time to think, Are we free? From the influence of sin and
evil.?????
During all this Ramadan I found we are not free from the influence
of evil and devil. Yes, every one of us want to get the true freedom, freedom
from evil, devil, worries, poverty, injustice, corruption and all the bad
things in our society. But we need to return to our creator. If we will be able
to do so, if we will be able to know the truth noting will influence us in our
lives. The freedom will give us joy and happiness and will give us a clear
vision. May Allah almighty forgive our sins and give us the courage to follow
the right path, yes the path of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.Waslam. Ameen
