Sometimes I wonder why temptations come in the way exactly at the moments when one has to make the toughest decisions. Why is it so that when one wants to finally break away from the past and make a new beginning, when one has gathered the courage to take the first stride and when it's time to start, a temptation that's hard to resist beckons you and makes you drag your feet; you would love to give up resisting, to turn back to something you've always wanted and yet.............Is this the trial, the "azmaish"?
It's hard to view life from a logical perspective in every respect. Sometimes logic fails and one is helpless, unable to understand, unable to make head or tail of your life. I once read in a book that at such moments when one feels lost, it is best to give up trying to make a sense out of things and accept life as it is, though acceptance is hard to come by. After all, we are not in the driving seats. I am fatalist when I say that we are all prisoners of fate at sometime or other in our lives. I remember Hazrat Ali when a man asked him how much control we have over our fate and Ali asked him to stand on one leg, which he did. But when Ali asked him to take both his legs off the ground, he was helpless. The answer was: this is the extent up to which you can master your fate.
So, it's better sometimes to give up, to accept that perhaps fate might be too much for you. But at other instants, it's better to fight your way to put the first step on the long, narrow, hard road that leads to God. The demons may call you back, the temptations may hold your feet, but fight and God will give you the strength to master your fate. Whom God beckons, nothing can stop.
Faroha Liaqat
It took me the harshest time in life to understand the control a person has on his destiny.
ReplyDeleteOnce the perfect balance between the "Taqdeer" and "Tadbeer" is understood there can be unlimitd peace regarding future contingencies.
Tadbeer (what a human does) can only reduce the probability of failure. If u have time to work u can reduce the probability of failure to 10% 2% or even 0.001%.
The result essentially comes from Allah.
If u wana score distinction in an examination u can increase the probability of ur success from say 0.2% to 70% by working extremelyy hard but the result ssentiually comes from destiny.
This means risk aversion IS a part of TADBEER and does not suggest the lack of faith in TAQDEER
However if u cant increase ur chances of success, cant avert risk (for example due to the lack of time) then staying in peace rather than frustration is the true joy of faith in destiny.
For example in Ghazwa e Badr, they cunt purchase horses, cunt build up their muscles before the war, they showed absolute faith in the fact the Allah controls all the strings.
This is the finest understanding I have yet learned from my life, when I read ur blog I felt u too like to think so deep (I have hardly seen ny person) so I thought I should share
Thank you for sharing your understanding about Taqdeer and Tadbeer. It is a very delicate concept but it takes time to recognize this. It takes some hard jolts in life to understand that we are not as much masters of our destiny as we would like to be. All of us, at some point of our lives, feel "bai-bas", because we come up against fate. It is necessary I think; it makes one realize how very weak we are before the All Powerful
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