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Coping With Life...How To Live In Peace, Tranquility And Security!
- Introduction
Reality Of Life
Who Am I?
Why We Panic?
Constant Change Is The Actual Reality
No Action Can Happen Without A Doer
Surrender To The Higher Power
The Message
What Is The Purpose?
Creator And His Purpose Of Creating Me
Think...Contemplate...Seek knowledge!
Quran Verses
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Introduction
Life is a ride full of unexpected twists and turns. We can never expect things to go a certain way and we cannot demand definitive outcomes in our future since we don’t know what lies there.
But One Thing We Can Be Certain Of Is That
Life Will Never Be Perfect
It Holds For Us Happy Times,
Difficult Times, Sad Times,
And The Unknown Times...
The challenge is how I handle myself and live a positive life regardless of all the pressure and changes. A wise woman once said,
Falling Down Is A Part Of LIFE...
Getting Back Up Is LIVING;
If I don’t try to gain the maximum of my life and leave a mark behind, what good has my life been?
We cannot control life; we cannot control the changes in weather, health, time, our emotions, places, and condition. If we are not prepared for such changes; then when they occur, will cause us to plunge in a state of despair, anxiety, emotional disability and breakdown.
Today, We As Human Beings, Forget Reality...
We Forget The Truth!
We forget this basic understanding of life that we are unable to control life and are not able to avoid the negatives that it brings our way.
With All Their Advancement,
Humans Today Are In A State Of Denial And Heedlessness;
We Can Also Call It A State Of Blindness And A Lie.
In order to grasp this thought fully, let’s proceed step by step.
First, I am a human being. I am a creation among many creations in this universe, and I am not a Creator. Regardless of where you are from and what believes you hold, we cannot deny one simple fact that we are humans, and thus limited.
We are vulnerable in our very existence; we are born small and helpless, then we attain youth, middle age, and eventually become old and in need of help again. We are also certain that regardless of when and where and how, sooner or later we will die.
So, Do We Understand Why We Are Here?
What Is The Purpose Of Our Lives?
What Does Death Mean?
Is Death Really The End Or Is It The Beginning Of Something Else?
Do You Have The Answers To These Questions?
Regardless of our understanding of our vulnerability, our understanding of volatile future, and our certainty of death, when we actually face death, we panic, become miserable, and despair.
Because we realize that we have no control over these changes and that causes us to feel weak, unstable, and worried.
Most Of Us Humans Take Success In Life
As Our Right And A Result Of Our Abilities
At that time in life when we get what we want, we feel secured, peaceful and successful; which causes us to be comfortable, relaxed, and eventually arrogant.
This situation can last for some time until a condition happens that shakes us from this state; let it be a natural disaster, disease, financial problem, major lifestyle difference or loss of loved ones.
Because Of Our Detachment From Reality For So Long
And Our Inability To View Life As It Really Is,
We Fall Victim Of Intense Agony, Misery,
Worry, Fear And Sometime Despair
It’s all because I forget my state of vulnerability as a human and I don’t realize that none of these changes are under my control and there is nothing I can do about them.
Constant Change Is The Actual Reality
Let’s ask ourselves a question:
What Happens If I Believe I Can Control My Destiny
And I Can Plan The Future The Way I Like?
If we believe that then anytime, we have an accident, natural, political, or financial disaster or any major change in life, we fail and are unable to cope with the new reality of our lives. Whereas, in truth, this constant change is the actual reality of life and it is normal.
Weather change, aging, death are all very normal occurrences of life. Even the natural disasters and wars are normal occurrences and we know they will happen.
The Problem Arises When We Believe
That We Are Above These Changes And Somehow
They Will Not Affect Us...
When We Are In This State Of Mind,
We Forget The Truth And Are In A State Of
Illusion And Deception
And this is the condition of the masses today. We are drugged by the high speed life and its many fading attractions to the point we forget:
Who We Are?
Who Is Controlling Our Lives And Our Future?
Where We Are Headed?
What Is The Purpose Of Our Lives?
What Really Is Death?
And If There Is Any Life After Death?
These are very simple questions which majority of us never even give a thought. In this state of oblivion the norm become abnormal and the abnormal become the norm.
No Action Can Happen Without A Doer
When we are young all our focus is on studies, physical fitness, securing a well paid job, getting a beautiful spouse, children, comfortable lifestyle and its many luxuries. During all this we fail to ask ourselves the very basis yet essential questions discussed above and prepare ourselves for the inevitable.
If I Have Managed To Secure All The ‘Success’ In Life,
A Single Stroke Of Fate, Any Accident, Natural Disaster,
Or Illness Can Snatch It Away From Me
In A Spur Of The Moment!
At such times, when we are faced with the reality of life, all of our achievements become meaningless and in some cases, a cause of increased emotional agony.
So What Is The Purpose Of Major Crisis?
Who Is Responsible For Allowing Them To Happen?
What Are The Messages And Lessons To Be Learned From That?
We, humans, are supposed to be the most elevated creation on earth. We have the intellect, the ability to understand and comprehend, the power to communicate our emotions, thoughts and feelings, and the bond between each other in humanity.Once something happens, we have to ask ourselves,
WHO ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN?
Since No Action Can Happen Without A Doer.
Even If We Say Force Or Natural Force,
Where Is It Coming From?
Who Directed It?
Who Controls It?
Why Now?
Why Here?
Why Me?
Surrender To The Higher Power
Regardless of our many researches, we cannot find the answer; because, instead of questioning the owner, the orchestrator, the one who caused this calamity to happen, we ask each other and all we can come up with is theory, not the truth.
By This Display Of Immense Force,
The Doer Is Manifesting His Immense Power
He Wants To Tell Us Who Holds
The Ultimate Control And Power Over All Things
He Is Telling Us To Wake Up From Our Slumber
And Recognize Our Vulnerability
And The Glory Of The Creator Of All Events!
Apply this to all facets of life. Any time events don’t go as planned, if we surrender to the higher power controlling the events, it will be easier for us to cope with the situation with dignity and honor.
All the accidents, diseases, natural disasters, every crisis, if you really look at it has only one message for us as humans:
YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL
I AM IN CONTROL
By this way, the first point is to wake up and think about what happened.
Where Is It Coming From?
Who Allowed It To Happen?
And What Is The Message?
One can either surrender and accept with dignity that change and turmoil in life that one has no control over or resist and fight it.
Arrogance causes us to fight with the larger events in our lives that we have no control over. We accuse the One who caused it of corrupting and destroying our plans.
But Honestly Speaking, Who Among Us Can Say
That We Are Immune To Any Suffering
And That We Can Avoid Any Negative
Based On Our Intellect And Money?
Nature leaves us helpless and broken and exposes our true vulnerability. Regardless of protective walls, sensors, accelerometers, alarms and other technological advancements, we cannot protect ourselves let alone prevent it from happening. Sometimes, it’s these gadgets that make us arrogant and we feel infallible.
It’s Almost Like The Divine Power
Is Challenging Our Intellect
And Questioning Our Reliance
On Man-Made Equipment...
The more advanced our technology becomes, the more disastrous the natural events get that render all our state-of-the-art preparations almost obsolete.
The purpose is to develop humbleness and humility within ourselves and recognize that nothing happens by itself; someone has to generate it down to the specifics of date and time.
When we receive a letter or a message, someone wrote it and addressed it to us. We don’t question the origin of the letter regardless of its content. Consider the natural phenomena unfolding around us as a letter from the Higher Deity, the originator of the heavens and the earth.
Instead Of Worrying About And Exhausting Ourselves
Over How To Prepare For An Inevitable Calamity,
If We Prepare Our Hearts And Souls
To Accept The Owner Of Everything,
Not Only Will He Make It Easy For Us To Handle
He Can Change The Course Of Events For Us...
Any natural phenomenon that we look at from orbits, galaxies, earth, biology, physics, chemistry, agriculture, everything in nature living in perfect harmonious system—we can come to one certainty given that we are humble and open minded:
THERE IS ONE CREATOR!
We have forgotten the most basic and essential concept of our humanity: we are a creation completely submitted to the Creator whether willing or unwilling.
Creator And His Purpose Of Creating Me
Any humble person should question why the Creator has created me and what does He want from me.
With this simple question we can start a journey of healthy inquiry that can lead us to the light, comprehension and understanding of the unknown.I invite you to humble yourself, and remember that as human beings we are very limited.
With All The Resources And Abilities
We Tend To Forget Our Limitations,
And Once In A While We Get Hit With Reality...
A situation which makes us paralyze, puts us in the corner and makes us question our very existence; and this is what it is all about.
Think...Contemplate...Seek knowledge!
Think about your vulnerability, contemplate over the purpose of your existence, and seek knowledge of the Creator. The One who is in control of everything; to the point I am not in control of my own body.
If Any Miniscule Disruption To My Bodily System
Like Minor Insomnia Can Cause Me
To Lose Control Of My Surroundings,
Then How Can I Control
The Larger Events Of Life
Any disaster is simply a wake-up call from the Creator. He wants me to recognize Him, believe in Him, worship Him, show gratitude to Him, and believe with no doubt that I need Him in my life.
Hidden Among The Suffering
Is The Greatest Blessing For Me;
The Chance And Ability To Receive
Peace, Tranquility, And Happiness
That No Gadget Can Provide For Me
Life Is Real With All Its Suffering And Pain
And So Is Death
The comfortable world that we have created for ourselves is illusionary and fake. Now it is the time to decide what we prefer, REAL OR FAKE? Because it is our preference that will lead us to perform actions and it is our actions that will decide our ultimate abode.
To be continued...
Chapter 7 Al Araf
Verses 94-102
Whenever We sent a prophet to a town, We took up its people in suffering and adversity, in order that they might learn humility.
Verse 95
Then We changed their suffering into prosperity, until they grew and multiplied, and began to say: "Our fathers (too) were touched by suffering and affluence" ... Behold! We called them to account of a sudden, while they realised not (their peril).
Verse 96
If the people of the towns had but believed and feared Allah, We should indeed have opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth; but they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to book for their misdeeds.
Verse 97
Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of Our wrath by night while they were asleep?
Verse 98
Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while they played about (care-free)?
Verse 99
Did they then feel secure against the plan of Allah.- but no one can feel secure from the Plan of Allah, except those (doomed) to ruin!
Verse 100
To those who inherit the earth in succession to its (previous) possessors, is it not a guiding, (lesson) that, if We so willed, We could punish them (too) for their sins, and seal up their hearts so that they could not hear?
Verse 101
Such were the towns whose story We (thus) relate unto thee: There came indeed to them their apostles with clear (signs): But they would not believe what they had rejected before. Thus doth Allah seal up the hearts of those who reject faith.
Verse 102
Most of them We found not men (true) to their covenant: but most of them We found rebellious and disobedient.
Verse 128
Said Moses to his people: "Pray for help from Allah, and (wait) in patience and constancy: for the earth is Allah's, to give as a heritage to such of His servants as He pleaseth; and the end is (best) for the righteous.
Verse 145
And We ordained laws for him in the tablets in all matters, both commanding and explaining all things, (and said): "Take and hold these with firmness, and enjoin thy people to hold fast by the best in the precepts: soon shall I show you the homes of the wicked,- (How they lie desolate)."
Verse 146
Those who behave arrogantly on the earth in defiance of right - them will I turn away from My signs: Even if they see all the signs, they will not believe in them; and if they see the way of right conduct, they will not adopt it as the way; but if they see the way of error, that is the way they will adopt. For they have rejected our signs, and failed to take warning from them.
Verse 147
Those who reject Our signs and the meeting in the Hereafter,- vain are their deeds: Can they expect to be rewarded except as they have wrought?
Verse 179
Many are the Jinns and men we have made for Hell: They have hearts wherewith they understand not, eyes wherewith they see not, and ears wherewith they hear not. They are like cattle,- nay more misguided: for they are heedless (of warning).
Verse 182
Those who reject Our signs, We shall gradually visit with punishment, in ways they perceive not;
Verse 188
Say: "I have no power over any good or harm to myself except as Allah willeth. If I had knowledge of the unseen, I should have multiplied all good, and no evil should have touched me: I am but a warner, and a bringer of glad tidings to those who have faith."
Verse 189
It is He Who created you from a single person, and made his mate of like nature, in order that he might dwell with her (in love). When they are united, she bears a light burden and carries it about (unnoticed). When she grows heavy, they both pray to Allah their Lord, (saying): "If Thou givest us a goodly child, we vow we shall (ever) be grateful."
Verse 190
But when He giveth them a goodly child, they ascribe to others a share in the gift they have received: but Allah is exalted high above the partners they ascribe to Him.
Verse 191
Do they indeed ascribe to Him as partners things that can create nothing, but are themselves created?
Verse 192
No aid can they give them, nor can they aid themselves!
Verse 193
If ye call them to guidance, they will not obey: For you it is the same whether ye call them or ye hold your peace!
Verse 194
Verily those whom ye call upon besides Allah are servants like unto you: Call upon them, and let them listen to your prayer, if ye are (indeed) truthful!
Verse 195
Have they feet to walk with? Or hands to lay hold with? Or eyes to see with? Or ears to hear with? Say: "Call your 'god-partners', scheme (your worst) against me, and give me no respite!
Verse 196
"For my Protector is Allah, Who revealed the Book (from time to time), and He will choose and befriend the righteous.
Verse 197
"But those ye call upon besides Him, are unable to help you, and indeed to help themselves."
Verse 198
If thou callest them to guidance, they hear not. Thou wilt see them looking at thee, but they see not.
Verse 199
Hold to forgiveness; command what is right; But turn away from the ignorant.
Verse 200
If a suggestion from Satan assail thy (mind), seek refuge with Allah. for He heareth and knoweth (all things).
Verse 201
Those who fear Allah, when a thought of evil from Satan assaults them, bring Allah to remembrance, when lo! they see (aright)!
Verse 202
But their brethren (the evil ones) plunge them deeper into error, and never relax (their efforts).
Verse 203
If thou bring them not a revelation, they say: "Why hast thou not got it together?" Say: "I but follow what is revealed to me from my Lord: this is (nothing but) lights from your Lord, and Guidance, and mercy, for any who have faith."
Verse 204
When the Qur'an is read, listen to it with attention, and hold your peace: that ye may receive Mercy.
Verse 205
And do thou (O reader!) Bring thy Lord to remembrance in thy (very) soul, with humility and in reverence, without loudness in words, in the mornings and evenings; and be not thou of those who are unheedful.
Quran Chapter 8 Al Anfal
Verse 1
They ask thee concerning (things taken as) spoils of war. Say: "(such) spoils are at the disposal of Allah and the Messenger. So fear Allah, and keep straight the relations between yourselves: Obey Allah and His Messenger, if ye do believe."
Verse 2
For, Believers are those who, when Allah is mentioned, feel a tremor in their hearts, and when they hear His signs rehearsed, find their faith strengthened, and put (all) their trust in their Lord;
Verse 3
Who establish regular prayers and spend (freely) out of the gifts We have given them for sustenance:
Verse 4
Such in truth are the believers: they have grades of dignity with their Lord, and forgiveness, and generous sustenance:
Verse 20
O ye who believe! Obey Allah and His Messenger, and turn not away from him when ye hear (him speak).
Verse 21
Nor be like those who say, "We hear," but listen not:
Verse 22
For the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are the deaf and the dumb,- those who understand not.
Verse 23
If Allah had found in them any good. He would indeed have made them listen: (As it is), if He had made them listen, they would but have turned back and declined (Faith).
Verse 24
O ye who believe! give your response to Allah and His Messenger, when He calleth you to that which will give you life; and know that Allah cometh in between a man and his heart, and that it is He to Whom ye shall (all) be gathered.
Verse 25
And fear tumult or oppression, which affecteth not in particular (only) those of you who do wrong: and know that Allah is strict in punishment.
Verse 26
Call to mind when ye were a small (band), despised through the land, and afraid that men might despoil and kidnap you; But He provided a safe asylum for you, strengthened you with His aid, and gave you Good things for sustenance: that ye might be grateful.
Verse 27
O ye that believe! betray not the trust of Allah and the Messenger, nor misappropriate knowingly things entrusted to you.
Verse 28
And know ye that your possessions and your progeny are but a trial; and that it is Allah with Whom lies your highest reward.
Verse 29
O ye who believe! if ye fear Allah, He will grant you a criterion (to judge between right and wrong), remove from you (all) evil (that may afflict) you, and forgive you: for Allah is the Lord of grace unbounded.
Verse 30
Remember how the Unbelievers plotted against thee, to keep thee in bonds, or slay thee, or get thee out (of thy home). They plot and plan, and Allah too plans; but the best of planners is Allah.
Verse 35
Their prayer at the House (of Allah. is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands: (Its only answer can be), "Taste ye the penalty because ye blasphemed."
Verse 36
The Unbelievers spend their wealth to hinder (man) from the path of Allah, and so will they continue to spend; but in the end they will have (only) regrets and sighs; at length they will be overcome: and the Unbelievers will be gathered together to Hell;-
Verse 37
In order that Allah may separate the impure from the pure, put the impure, one on another, heap them together, and cast them into Hell. They will be the ones to have lost.
Verse 38
Say to the Unbelievers, if (now) they desist (from Unbelief), their past would be forgiven them; but if they persist, the punishment of those before them is already (a matter of warning for them).
Quran Chapter 18 Al Kahf
Verse 57
Say to the Unbelievers, if (now) they desist (from Unbelief), their past would be forgiven them; but if they persist, the punishment of those before them is already (a matter of warning for them).
Verse 58
But your Lord is Most forgiving, full of Mercy. If He were to call them (at once) to account for what they have earned, then surely He would have hastened their punishment, but they have their appointed time, beyond which they will find no refuge.
Verse 59
Such were the populations we destroyed when they committed iniquities; but we fixed an appointed time for their destruction.
Daee Ahmed Moait
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