Mohammad Rafoqie
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By Muhammad Rafique Etesame
Usually, the people pass their lives in a “triangle,” i.e. eating, drinking, sleeping and fulfilling the sexual desire (as seen in the above sketch).It means that:-
(1) Man rises up from his bed in the morning at first.
(2) Then takes his breakfast and goes out for his business, He returns home at evening and takes his dinner.
(3) Then goes to the bed at night for sleeping and meets his wife to fulfill his sexual desire (if needs) and then again it is morning.
This is a triangle of his desires wherein he passes his whole life.
While, according to the teachings of Islam, man has not been created mere as to eat, drink or to calm down his sexual desire. These are his natural requirements, but there are some other considerable facts above them.
It means that he should think about his creation at first; i.e. where has he come from and where will he go after his death and what was his real purpose of life etc?
So, he was created by a drop of semen then remained in the womb of mother for a fixed time. The Holy Quran reveals,” Hath there come upon man (ever) any period of time in which he was a thing unremembered? Lo! We create man from a drop of thickened fluid to test him; so We make him hearing, knowing. Lo! We have shown him the way whether he be grateful or disbelieving.” (Ad-Dahar:3).
After passing a period of almost nine months in the womb of his mother, he was delivered in this world. He was then only a small baby. Then step by step he becomes a young and strong man. Then after some time, he becomes an old man and becomes so much weak again as he is a child. All these changes in his body show that there exists a Creator Who has created him and created the entire universe. Who cannot be seen but all the things are under His command and control.
Almighty Allah Ordains in the Holy Quran,” We shall show then Our portents on the horizons and within themselves until it will be manifest unto them that it is the Truth. Doth not thy Lord suffice, since He is Witness over all things? How! Are they still in doubt about the meeting with their Lord? Lo! Is not He surrounding all things”? (Fusilat: 34).
To learn about His existence, man should consider in the signs of his own creation. The Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said that he who recognized himself (his reality), he would recognize Allah Almighty . (Al-Mishkat).
And man should also consider in the horizontal signs of the universe. It means that he should think about the creation of the earth, the skies, the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, day and night, four seasons, and how it rains, blowing the air etc. He will, surely note that the entire universe is being run under the fixed rules and regulations since its creation. The Sun and the Moon rise up in time and set in time .It has not been happened so for that the Sun does not rise sometimes or it rises from the west or the north or from the south rather than the east; or the Sun and the Moon knock each other, or the Stars and Planets knock one another, because they move into a fixed circle as the Holy Quran reveals,” And the sun runneth on unto a resting-place for him. That is the measuring of the Mighty, the Wise. And for the moon We have appointed mansions till she return like an old shriveled palm-leaf. It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit.” (Ya Sin: 40)
If a man gets the sufficient recognition of Allah Almighty, then it is necessary for him to think about the real purpose of his life as it is mentioned in the Holy Quran,” O mankind! Worship your Lord, Who hath created you and those before you, so that ye may ward off (evil: Who hath appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky the canopy; and causeth water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you. And do not set up rivals to Allah when ye know (better). (Al-Baqarah).
So, everyone should
pass his life according to the teachings of Islam as proved by the good example (Uswa-i-Hasanah) of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). In order to become a successful one in his worldly life and also in the Hereafter . We see that the beasts also pass their lives in the above mentioned triangle. They also eat, drink and fulfill their sexual desire. Then what is the difference between the man and the beasts?
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