Because it's Muharam, I go to Mutrah everyday with everyone else to listen to an islamic lecture, that ends up by telling us one part abt the tragic story of what happened to the Prophets Grandson, when the muslims themselves stood against him, and killed him and his family.
Anyway, while the Sheikh was talking, he told us a story abt a man who lived during the Prophets time. Every time the Prophet would see him, he would tell the other men that if they want to see a man who's going to heaven then take a good look at him. All the men were trying to figure out what is so special abt him, what did he do that made him stand out. So one night, one of them men went over to his house, and told him a story abt fighting with his father and asked him if he could spend a few days with him. This man of course, did not refuse. Now the guest starts to watch what the man was doing, and he couldn't find anything special abt him. He goes to work, comes back, prays like the rest of em', he's not the type that would stay up late and pray, so he was even more puzzled, and ended up telling this man the whole story, and asked him frankly what was it that made him so special. Do you know what this man said. He said that he's the kind of person who loves good to everyone around him. If he saw someone who just won something, he'd pray to God to bless this gift and to give him more. He always wanted what was good and best to those around him.
See this simple quality in his character, made him stand out, and made him absolutely unique. I was wondering, how often do we come across people like this anymore? Even your closest friend would be jealous of you sometimes, even if they did not mean it. How hard is it for us to accept that someone else has done better, and we should give them credit for doing so, and at the same time, be happy for them, and pray to God to give them more and to look after them.
You might think of it as a simple quality, now that I think of it, only the strong ones out there are able to do so. You always wish what's best for yourself only, and you feel bad, even a bit, when even your friend surpasses you even once....
Posted by Noors at 12:26 PM
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I loved this narration of yours, specially because thats my only way of relating to 'religion', for one, and life in general. I do not believe in any one particular religion (for various reasons) and hence, I live my life on simple terms by just doing as much good as I can to people around me, without expecting anything in return from people I might have helped on my way.
Somehow this way of life makes SO much more sense than monotonously praying at specific times of the day, imagining this is all it takes to be a 'good' person.
Well, I believe that you need religion to guide you. To me, praying on it's own doesn't make you a good person, it has to be accompanied with all the good deeds that you are supposed to do to others around you, so we agree on this point.
This story in particular had a great impact on me, lol, I'm sure you got that from what i've posted there anyway.
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you can forget for that to ever happen now-a-days... i know of brothers who envy eachother... let alone people who always say "why him, why not me..." istead of "allah yizeedo..."
so sad...
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