April 03, 2005
A Time to Pray and A Time to Act
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Pour Out Your Pain to God!
j. Turn to God Almighty and pour out your pain to him. Tell him how much you hurt – and he knows.
k. Tell him how helpless you are to do anything – and he knows.
l. Tell him how you are sorry for all the things you did in the past that you should not have done – and he knows.
m. Tell him how you are now ready to turn a new page – and he knows.
n. And then beg him to show mercy.
o. And do so with hot, burning tears flowing down your cheeks and your chest.
p. Cry. Cry. Cry some more. Let your heart break into a billion bits and burst out through your eyes.
Sob like a Baby!
q. Sob like a baby. And beg some more.
r. Don’t order him, as if you were the master. Instead, beg him like the slave you are.
s. Let your tears, your tone of voice, your body posture, all show and speak that you indeed are looking and acting like a beggar.
t. And then wait, like a beggar, with uplifted hands and wide parted mouth, with teeth showing, face contorted and body atremble.
u. Wait in abject humility and surrender before someone who has all the power, of which you have not an iota.
Act like the Slave You Are!
v. Act like the slave that you really are. In front of the master that he really is. The real and only master there ever was or is. The real and only master and God a human being should ever have.
w. And then look out. Maybe those raindrops are the sky showering blessings upon you, giving you the good news. Maybe your voice has been heard.
x. Maybe the One, the Only One, up above in the sky, liked your style, your language, your utter humility, your abject surrender, your pathetic pleading. And then his ever-flowing mercy came to the fore and said: Let this slave of mine have what he or she wants.
y. You have won the day. Your petition is granted. Your prayer is accepted.
z. Now get up and allow yourself a smile fit for the most abject of slaves in front of the most powerful of all masters on how you caught the crumb he threw in your direction.
Go Out and Change the World!
aa. Get out and get busy changing the world of the master for the better – the plantation earth that he created for you to work and to enjoy and to be accountable for.
bb. Get busy doing the job you should have been doing all along.
The job for the doing of which he created you in the first
place.
cc. The job for the not doing of which he punished you by not listening to your prayers earlier.
dd. And at the same time get busy cleaning your own personal life of all the mess that should not have been there in the first place.
ee. Do everything in your power to make sure you do not burn the bridges you have just built to your master or blow the break you have just received from him.
Rejoice!
ff. Rejoice! For, you are now a man or woman of God. God now is on your side. And you are on God’s side.
gg. You have become God’s instrument in this world. He is now the eyes with which you see – so make sure you see no evil.
hh. He is now the ears with which you hear – so make sure you hear no evil.
ii. He is now the hand with which you hold – so make sure your hands touch nothing that he made unlawful.
jj. He is now the feet with which you walk – so make sure your feet do not take you where he would not like to see you.
kk. You are now in God’s protection and Satan is sorely disappointed in you.
ll. You are now dead to the world, and the world is dead to you, as you are no longer its slave or a prisoner of its seductions and charms.
Living with God
mm. But in reality you live on in God. And you will live on even after you die. And the world will find life through you.
nn. Now when you speak, you will speak with the voice of God.
oo. Now when you pray, the heavens and earth will rush to do your bidding. From now on, as you say, so shall it be.
pp. For, you are now on God’s side and God Almighty is now on your side.
qq. So, do prayers work? Yes, prayers work! Absolutely, positively! Indeed they do!
rr. Do they work for everyone? Yes, they do.
Call Me and I Shall Respond, Says God in the Qur’an
ss. That is God Almighty’s promise in the Qur’an. “Call me and I shall respond!” That is what he says in the Qur’an.
tt. Here is also what he says in the Qur’an: I am close enough to hear your supplications
uu. Think of me and I shall think of you, he says in the Qur’an.
Talk about Me and I Shall Talk about You, Says God in the Qur’an
vv. Talk about me and I shall talk about you, he says in the Qur’an.
ww. So, let us all clean up our act and call him.
xx. Let us all shape up and think and talk about him.
yy. And let us all turn to him in supplication – for ourselves, for our parents, for our families, for our teachers, for our neighbors, for our benefactors, for all those who have done us a good turn, for our communities and for our societies.
zz. And for the whole world – a wretched, miserable, misguided world, so hell-bent on running away from his mercy and on destroying itself in every pernicious, perfidious, wicked, ingrate, atrocious and insane way it can lay its hands on.
aaa. At the same time, let us also do what he put us on earth to do in the first place: To act to make this world and this earth a better place for all!
bbb. To be the managers, guardians and custodians of our earthly abode.
ccc. In his name and using his laws and guidance.
ddd. And using the teachings of his prophets Abraham, Moses, Jesus and, finally, Muhammad – May Almighty Allah bless them all.
And while you are at it, please do not forget me, my parents, my teachers and my ancestors in your prayers.
Thank you and God bless you.
Yours prayerfully,
Dr. Pasha, Ph.D.
P.S. Do bear in mind that our manuscripts are mostly drafts in need of further research and revision which we are often unable to undertake or complete due to time and resource constraints.
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© 2005 Syed Husain Pasha
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