Bismillah
We think if we have more of something, better quality of life, better quality of materials around us, better social circles, that is considered more successful than the ones who don't.
Your time is running out but you are running after things that are nothing but loss. We are so obsessed with more and better but that has nothing to do with success and failure.
The Quran takes something so basic as success and failure and puts a new Quran lens on it and after we put this lens, our definition of success and failure would be different. The fellow Muslim who sees the world through Surah Al Asr and the fellow Muslim who does not will see two different things.
When you think of someone who is homeless or deported or in poverty, the picture in your mind is not success but a huge failure. When Islam became a global power, it was a popular thing to be a Muslim, but now we find ourselves at a time even in a Muslim family, if somebody comes towards Islam, he is a weird crazy one. Becoming religious is associated with some kind of loss. Many countries in the Muslim world, people are afraid that their young sons and daughters might become religious because if they do become religious, that means they don't get a good job or career, won't get a good education, or they become a fanatic. They have all these fears that they will lose out in this life. This is not based on Surah Al Asr at all.
Islam today has become a label. Basically Islam becomes just a few things that we do but practically the way we see life and view the world have not changed at all, and not much different than everybody else. We consider the same things as success and failures as our non Muslim colleaques considered success and failures. Islam has been reduced to a certain rituals but not the way of seeing the world.
The Quran first came to change the way we see the world, everything else is secondary. Its function is to make you see the world from the lens of the Quran.
We think if we have more of something, better quality of life, better quality of materials around us, better social circles, that is considered more successful than the ones who don't.
Your time is running out but you are running after things that are nothing but loss. We are so obsessed with more and better but that has nothing to do with success and failure.
The Quran takes something so basic as success and failure and puts a new Quran lens on it and after we put this lens, our definition of success and failure would be different. The fellow Muslim who sees the world through Surah Al Asr and the fellow Muslim who does not will see two different things.
When you think of someone who is homeless or deported or in poverty, the picture in your mind is not success but a huge failure. When Islam became a global power, it was a popular thing to be a Muslim, but now we find ourselves at a time even in a Muslim family, if somebody comes towards Islam, he is a weird crazy one. Becoming religious is associated with some kind of loss. Many countries in the Muslim world, people are afraid that their young sons and daughters might become religious because if they do become religious, that means they don't get a good job or career, won't get a good education, or they become a fanatic. They have all these fears that they will lose out in this life. This is not based on Surah Al Asr at all.
Islam today has become a label. Basically Islam becomes just a few things that we do but practically the way we see life and view the world have not changed at all, and not much different than everybody else. We consider the same things as success and failures as our non Muslim colleaques considered success and failures. Islam has been reduced to a certain rituals but not the way of seeing the world.
The Quran first came to change the way we see the world, everything else is secondary. Its function is to make you see the world from the lens of the Quran.
وَٱلْعَصْرِ ﴿١﴾ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَفِى خُسْرٍ ﴿٢﴾ إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ ﴿٣﴾
By time, (1) Indeed, mankind is in loss, (2) Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience. (3) [Quran, Al Asr 103]
May Allah grant us a sound understanding of the Quran and our religion, and make us steadfast. Aameen.
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