And how about when we’re told that we’re being “tested”…

We start to think… Who is testing us? Why is he testing us? Does he not already know if we’ll pass or not? Who are we to oppose his judgment anyway? And what will happen if we can’t pass the test? How long are we going to be tested for?

It’s funny how we automatically think that we’re being tested by someone ‘out there’… As if he set up the world as a test arena and sent us all here for his amusement, happily observing how we’re all struggling…

It’s funny how we think the sun rises and sets for us… And the seasons change for us, and that plants and animals are all to serve us, and that all the galaxies and in fact the universe exists for us!

The average human life span is equivalent to about eight seconds in terms of a solar year… In this light; I would suggest man stops taking himself so seriously and wakes up to the reality…

Nobody out there is testing you!

The creator has created the system and told us “Know yourself, find Me in yourself, adopt my morals and live accordingly.”

The sun isn’t rising and setting for you, the rain isn’t falling for you! You found yourself in the midst of events… And you can either be in the best of conduct, in line with the teachings of the Rasul (saw) and thus your essential reality… Or, put your knowledge and intellect aside, and act according to your primitive conditioning and judgments, ending up in a regretful state that can’t be compensated!

Every situation you encounter at every moment is a test… It is the test of your knowledge!

If you make the right response you will be lead to new questions and situations…

If you make the wrong response you will be lead to other questions and situations…

Whatever you do, you can’t go back to a question you’ve already answered.

The system is ruthless.

It is definite.

And immutable.

The system hasn’t been created for you. You just found yourself in this system.

“I created the worlds for you” was addressed to the Reality of Muhammad (saw) – the POINT!

Our bodies are no more than food for the worms and birds. The earth has a way of putting us in our place if we don’t act fast and learn our place before it’s too late.

Man is one who is smart enough to think about his happiness not just in his immediate future, but also in his future after death.

I’ve spent 54 years in vain… I’ve earned nothing. I’m in absolute need, externally and internally… I still haven’t figured the workings of the system in which I exist. I’m still expecting miracles! I’m expecting the sun to rise from the west for me, and for the Satan and the Antichrist to abandon their ways for me…

The system is calling out to me at every instant, but my ears have become deaf, my eyes blind, and my heart seems to have become sealed; I am unable to perceive the truths of the system…

We reap what we sow my friends…

Being HUman is so much more than the label we think it to be…

 

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