بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate
Assalaamu alaykum
Dear Friends
I pray that you are well.
There is good and bad in every place. If you look for good, you will find good. If you look for bad, you will find bad. It boils down to your attitude.
We always thought of having a system is good. Everybody loves USA for its system. Everything seems to run like clock work--consistent, predictable and efficient. If you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to register your car tomorrow, you can expect there are people working behind the desk to help you, the same way they were there yesterday or the year before. You plan your day without contingencies because you have complete faith in the system.
But having a system is not necessarily good. No human system is perfect. It works sometimes. It doesn't work sometimes. It may work for some, it may not work for some other. Sometimes no system is better.
This foreign place is notorious for not having any system (they say the system here is no system) but it works for millions of people and it works for me. For example, I can wait for a bus anywhere I want and I can tell the driver to stop anywhere I want (along the bus route). I cannot imagine we can do this in the good USA. If the bus driver did this, the police will ticket the bus driver for traffic violation and he will have to pay a hefty fine and penalty! And if I wanted to take a bus, I would have to drive to the designated bus stop!
So who need the system, fancy bus stop, well paved roads, state of the art bridges--who is paying for it? The people. When the people have to pay for the people's convenience and comfort, they have to work and the more convenience and the more comfort people want, the more they have to pay, and the harder they have to work to pay. And who lose? The souls.
May Allah grant us good in this world and the next and protect us from the Hellfire. Ameen. Please keep us in your night prayers. Jazakallahu khairan.
And Allah knows best.
Wassalaam
