For over 6 billion population in the world, faith is sacred, even to those who considered themselves as agnostics and atheists.
As for me, a mere Muslim, I have my own faith, and like any other people who dare to take up so many challenges in his life, I have been jumping off so many cliffs with leaps of faith and yet, I am still standing. Figuratively, of course.
Because I know, I am weak, no matter how I confide that I am strong in taking up challenges day by day.
But sometimes, there was a time when I began to ask myself, or more towards re-convince myself that why am I being a Muslim. Is it just because I am born as one, or actually I have understood of why I am one. And to be honest, its not that hard to figure everything out, once I began to understand that the truth, is actually not hard to look for. You just need to open up your eyes, and look around, and ask yourself, are you going to let people feed you the 'truth', or are you going to find it yourself. And once, when you're content that you have all the answer you need, you choose.
And I choose to believe. I choose to submit. I choose to pray. I choose to be a good person. I choose to give RM1 to a beggar. I choose to go to the mosque to pray. I choose not to hurt someone's feeling, intentionally or unintentionally.
I do too, however, choose to do bad things. And to feel, or not too feel guilty about it.
But that's the fact of life that you've got to embrace, no matter how you deny it.
Everything, or every step you choose, absolutely on your own choice.
It's like the sixth foundation of Muslim's faith: The Qada' & The Qadr. There are things that God already planned out for you - all is as God wills it - which is of the Qada'. But even that, He gave you the freedom to determine your life, your own destiny to choose, may it be bad or good, and that's Qadr.
And I choose to do good things, because as much as Buddhists, we Muslims also believe in the concept of 'Karma'.
"So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it; And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it" - Holy Quran, 99:7-8
And to believe, you have to do more than just to submit; you need to understand. Of course, you can't understand the whole concept by yourself. And for that, you need to learn, with an open heart.
And to be honest, truth itself will reveal, along with the faith. And God knows, how long we have been living off lies that has been fed to us, for centuries.
What if someone comes and tells you that Hitler is a stacked actor and he was funded by the Rothschilds, a Jew family that control the World's money fund, which covers the whole Nazi operation and fuel their jets, as well as the chemicals that had been used for the Holocausts?
What about the conspiracy theory about 9/11, the fact that the building has been planted with bombs, and went off way before the plane hit the building of the World Trade Centre? That is something that can be told without even have to dig in the US Government Top Secret archives, and can be seen in numerous videos in YouTube alone.
What if the involvement of United States in the WWII, was somehow planned, as there were reports that said the US government knew about the attack on the Pearl Harbor a week before Dec 7, 1941?
Ooh, yes my friend. We came to the very dangerous age of Faith and Truth.
What don't people realize that Faith alone, can be used to turn against to those who follows it blindly, and those who seek the Truth.
So, you gotta know your Faith, and relearn it.
"Faith is a friend, you make it or break it." - Faith by Seven Collar T-Shirt
I'm hungry, again.
4 comments:
awesome bro. =)
a lot of ppl nowadays only follow blindly without even understanding what they are following.
sad really.
islam is quite logical and Allah is fair.
That's the thing.
Everything is logical yet subjective. It's like looking at a rubik's cube. you may get a different view on each surface yet they're on the same scale.
Btw, holyshiznut, you're famous now Maria! Keep up the good work!
hahahaha!! fame is temporary. =p
anyway, love what you wrote, your perception on faith and islamic teachings. =D
but yeah, different people, different understanding. though im glad we have quite the same idea. hehe!
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