Start New Year With A Clean Sheet
But don't forget to audit your
balance sheet of gains & losses
for 2025!
(M. Javed Naseem)
Keep
Your Scale
Of Good Deeds Heavy
To
Attain Salvation!
"And
those whose scales are heavy
(with good deeds), it is they
who
are the successful."
(al-Quran 23:102)
Allah has drawn the line between winners and
losers; and success and failure. Believers with good deeds, who
follow and promote the Truth and Patient Perseverance, are the
winners or the successful. Everybody else is a loser!
Man is a
social animal who cannot live alone – by himself. He needs others
and that makes us a community and a society. It is up to us if we
want to make it a material society or balance it with spiritual and
sentimental feelings. For that, the rules and regulations have been
laid out. There are man-made rules and then there are God-made rules
or laws that the Almighty Creator has conveyed to us through His
Messengers or the Prophets. While a man judges other people’s
success on material wealth, the Almighty has declared His own
criterion. God judges us on the scale of righteousness or piety and
commands us to do the same.
If we look around, we find evil
and misery everywhere. Man is not happy with what he's got, so he
tries to amass as much wealth, property or material things as
possible. We have forgotten that this world is a test for us. This is
an opportunity to work on our next life in the Hereafter which is
everlasting. We commit sins and crimes, without any regret. And then
we don't repent or ask Allah for forgiveness. This attitude merits
punishment.
"Evil has become rife on the land and at sea
because of men's deeds; so He (Allāh) may
let them taste
part of what they have done that
perhaps they will turn back
(from evil)."
(al-Quran 30:41)
The Word of God, the Holy Quran, tells us what is
liked by our Creator and what merits God's punishment. We all commit
sins but those sinners are better in the eyes of Allah who repent and
beg for Allah's forgiveness and mercy. That's the way to move
forward. Allah the Most Merciful never closes the door of mercy. It's
up to us how we benefit from it.
Say, "O My servants who have transgressed
against themselves [by sinning], do not despair
of the mercy
of Allāh. Indeed, Allāh forgives
all sins. Indeed, it is He who
is the Forgiving,
the Merciful."
(al-Quran 39:53)
In today’s material world, success is measured with money. Anybody who is wealthy and who owns buildings, is considered ‘successful’ while the poor are labeled as losers or failures. Money is the yardstick used to measure people’s success. But, as they say, money is not everything. And it is true too. You can buy a lot of things with money and make your life more comfortable with wealth, but the true wealth is not measured with the yardstick of money or material. Your righteousness, your love, your sincerity, your honesty, your wisdom, your knowledge and your sense of justice are a lot more valuable assets than money.
Generally speakingh, 2025 was a terrible year because the evil Zionist hypocrites made the world a playground where they played the game of 'death & destruction'. They are going all out to gain the hegemony or the control of the universe. Every opposition, every critic and every alternative is eliminated. Millions of people died last year because they were not considered fit to live in the New World Order that is being proclaimed by the evil Zionist hypocrites. It is simply their way or no way. They start illegitimate new wars ; they attack weaker nations ; they kill the opposition ; they don't even like the difference of opinion. They are behaving like colonial masters and are treating others as their slaves with no rights. You don't even have the right to protest against injustice and evil-doing of the powerful elite. The world is preparing itself for the new government – the government of the anti-Christ or Dajjal. All true believers will be punished.
No matter what the conditions, you should not stop fighting for justice, truth, human rights, and the righteousness. The world needs warriors to eliminate injustice, evil, disparity, discrimination of any kind, and to enforce the laws prescribed by our Lord Creator. The poor, the down-trodden and the voiceless need a voice. The weak need the strong to stand up for them and speak for them. That is what is badly needy at this time.
At the end of the day, it is your good conduct or
righteousness or piety that counts. Allah loves righteousness and
rewards it with mercy, blessings and forgiveness. That's the way
which leads us to Paradise and protects us from the Hellfire.
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