Belief in God and its need…

In life, you just keep moving and moving everyday and it seems not like a roller coaster ride but more like a boring drama that you just have watched too many times. At moments, you say, what am i doing here in this life? What is the point? This is the start for many people in their process to change their lives.

For others, it takes an accident or a tramautizing experience to wake them up. A car-crash? Oh GOD! You almost drowned? Oh GOD! Your local Masgid turn in some of your Muslim brothers? I would think that would wake you up. This sort of experience changes the way you think about life. 9/11, for example, had some Muslims who loved this country so much end up hating it after they were wrongfully imprisoned and tortured. Sort of like your country gets invaded by another who claims you have massive French Fries that they want to get a hold off. In the process, they focus more on the tons of Ice-Cream you have.

For even some, its just that little act of kindness that makes them turn to God, or Allah in the Islamic sense. They hear an amazing lecture, see an amazing Muslim or see others actually showing the kindness we all talk about but rarely show.

Many of us, on the other hand, are supposed to be born with this belief in one creator. So the Prophet (S.A.W) made sure we knew all humans are born in a state of submission to God but their parents, society or culture change them. Sociologists love talking of the effects of environment on people and they are justified in doing so. So you are born with something that needs to be re-inforced everyday as you grow up or it may get replaced with other ideas. You have someone grow up in a secularist society like our beautiful country, then majority of people will develop that attitude. Women grow up seeing tight skirts, clubs and freedom in a “naked” sense, thats what will seem normal to them.

It doesn’t necessarily mean this is what they were born with but over time, they got used to the evil or negative images and lifestyles around them. This is why Beleif in Allah and being raised with it is so important.

It saves you from falling in to the dark ways of men, ways that have been practiced by the past generations in order to lead us to death in our souls. It saves you from wondering what exactly is life for? It answers all of your life’s most deepest questions whether its original sin, fate and destiny or why do i have to love my parents and neighbors. This is what saves you from being confused by inconsistencies like why one man can be the savior but the hundreds before and after him can’t. It really saves you from wandering aimlessly in life. You have a higher goal, a goal to serve and prosper. You don’t give for the sake of giving but for the sake of the one who gave you life, death and everything. Isn’t that what “Treat others as you wish to be treated.” Funny how this quote applies to human beings but doesn’t apply to God. Who deserves to be treated with more love, hope and fear than your creator? This is the beauty of belief in one God. Most important of all, you have a spiritual life and a physical life. You need both to survive in this cruel world. A relationship with Go and one with those like you as well.

Belief in God gives you a consistent system of rules and laws and not one which makes homosexuality illegal 20 years ago and legal today. A system that keeps women with their pants on and a system that keeps men with their private parts harnessed. A system which doesn’t just talk justice, it gives justice. A system of perfection and balance, one of Prophets, Angels and even demons. A balance of good and evil to give you good things and test you with bad. A system of morals…need i say more…

A.R. Absolutist