Why is this life? What’s the
purpose of it? These are the questions we might ask our self when we get
depressed. God has made us His vice due to fact that we have the most powerful
tool on the planet “The Microcomputer” between our ears. It’s the ability to
think, ponder, innovate, create that makes us superior to the other creatures on
the world. We might not be as powerful as a lion, as speedy as a tiger, as
clever as a fox but we are intelligent enough to overpower these powerful
creatures by our mind.
"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or
poor." - Edmund Spenser
By this we can say that life is not just about eating, drinking, excreting,
sleeping etc but it’s a cycle in which we have to act as social animal where we
have to communicate, where feeling and emotions does exist, where there are
necessities to be met, where we want respect, where we want to be trusted, where
we want to be successful as a human and as a gentle individual, where we have to
follow our religion. Success makes a man happy but to be successful it takes a
lot of hard work and concentration. The first step of every action should be to
aim at a goal or to set a purpose so that all the energies converge at a point
and our mind do not get distracted from the path we want to follow.
We haven’t seen our God but this is our innate belief that He exists. We as a
Muslim pray five times a day, if you (the reader) don’t then you should. We bow
before our God but the mindset with which we start our prayers is of keen
importance because prayers mean direct communication with our creator. But if
our concentration is not there then the purpose of the prayer is not met. The
reason for writing this is that almost 5 years ago when I was in ninth class, I
heard my teacher saying that you duffer guys if you can’t concentrate on the
lecture and I wonder that how you people manage to concentrate in prayers. On
that day I felt that in fact I have never concentrated. I have rather been
involved in making castles in my thoughts while praying. This life is mortal but
we must prepare our self for the immortal life by shunning the way of Satan.
Everyone wants his hard work to be fruitful but it’s the mindset that also needs
to be checked before and after we take an action. Once a famous pious woman
Rabia Basri prayed to God that if I am praying due to the fear of Hell then put
me in Hell but if I am doing it only for Your pleasure then do not keep me from
having a glimpse of You. Have we ever longed to have a glimpse of our
Creator...?
We are just moving around a zero point in our life where there is regression in
every aspect of life. Some people say that our religion is hurdle in our
progress then if we ask our self that are we good practicing Muslims? The answer
will definitely be NO then are we progressing as an individual or as a nation?
Again a NO is expected in answer. The reason for our regression is that we have
nothing to aim at in our lives every day we keep on replicating our actions of
the previous days. If we are not progressing then the gravity (automatic pull)
will attract us downwards.
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you’ve always gotten." –
Anonymous
Progress and success gives energy to the life but with our aiming at something
in life is just like a weed in the forest growing uselessly but spoiling the
beauty of its habitat. Purpose gives a direction to life it converges all our
energies to one point. If direction is not set we can stray from our path. Think
of two arrows pointing in the same direction. If you make a tiny change in the
direction of one of them, if you push it three or four degrees in a different
direction, the change will probably be imperceptible at first. But if you follow
that path for yards and then for miles, the difference will become greater and
greater until there's no relation at all between the first path and the second.
By setting a purpose it is not meant to be a robot in fact it means that for our
every action the reason should be known to us. Most people like army for the
reason that they do things in an organized manner and work until goal set by
them is achieved. What we have done is that we have left all on the mercy of
luck. But it’s worth knowing that luck favors those who try.
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call
luck” - Anthony Robbins
In childhood most of us would have wanted to become Doctor, Pilot or may be an
Engineer and after growing up we realized that these profession does not suits
us (in fact our marks weren’t enough to meet the requirements). And we became an
IT student in hope that this time around things might turn well for us. This
shows our lack of seriousness towards the life in which every event has been
accidental.
A purposeless life leads to frustration because the dreams have been always been
bigger than accomplishments. It is said that actions are influenced by our
thinking then from where will the creativity and the positivity come? When we
have nothing to aim at. To get rid of this frustration, I think we should be
more inquisitive to our self. For this we must bring subtle changes in our life.
It might take long to adapt to a new mindset because things can’t be changed
overnight but once we set a direction to be chased, we will definitely be
internally more satisfied than what we are currently. In accomplishment of the
targets set by us we’ll be challenged mentally, physically, monetarily but the
best of the man can be found when he finds himself in threat, or in the delirium
of life and death ; all of a sudden a changed man comes out of him. A Poetess
describes this in a beautiful couplet...
When Heart Gets Sink And Soul is Torn
We Learn To Pick Flowers Out Of Thorn
In trying to achieve the target and the goals set by us there are two possible
thoughts that might come in our mind. One is that I can do it, when a congruent
command is given to the mind that things are doable then all of a sudden new
doors of creativity will open in the mind that will lead to our success. Second
is that I can’t do it, when we think like that all of a sudden every hope of
possibility of that event vanishes. So we should always be hopeful, because hard
work is never wasted rather you get success or you gain an experience.
“For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.” – Jim Rohn
At last I would say that be a doer but if you can’t do at least not be the one
who exaggerates things and also refrain others from taking brave steps.
Knowledge is good to have but implementation is more necessary. If we want to
make our every day count as a special day where we gained something new, we must
create our own world where work, enjoyment, love, friendship, necessities,
sentiments, mistakes, religion should have a proper definition. So that we find
our self socially, spiritually, financially and religiously on a higher place
from where we find our self today.
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the
sunshine warm on your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields, and, until we
meet again ... may God hold you softly in the palm of His hand.