HOW TO LIVE OUR EVERYDAY LIFE ACCORDING TO THE TEACHING OF THE QURAN
Prologue
How do we human beings know what is right and what is wrong?
Where is the guidance?
GOD in His Mercy gave us a Divine Book. It is a very special Book that can talk to each and every human being on earth; its language is universal, because it speaks to our hearts. Its name is the QURAN.
In It there is light and guidance and when we study It, we realise that it is a Book unlike any other Book. There is no way that a human being could have been able to come up with such a Book, for no human can understand all
aspects of life. Its narration about the many things that human beings do or say are as fresh as if it were written yesterday, and as old as if it were written at the time Adam was born, for it encompasses the past, the present and the future.
The experiences that we have in our everyday life, our jobs and positions are different due to so many factors. Each and every human being is given 24hours every day, and each and every one in the 24hours given has a choice of good and or bad, whatever situation he is in.
In order to apply the Quran to our everyday life, there are some tings that must be understood from the very beginning:
When we were created?
We were created at the same time in a spiritual form. All of
us were asked to bear witness, and we did; that was our covenant:
Surah Al-an'am (6): verse 98((It is HE Who produced you froma single soul: then there is a resting place and a repository. We detail Our Signs for people who understand.))Surah Al-A'raf (7): verse 172((When your LORD drew forth from the Children of Adam from their loins their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): "Am I not your Lord (Who cherishes and sustains you)? They said: "Yea! We do testify" (This) lest you should say on the Day of Judgement: "Of this we were never unmindful"))Surah An-nahl (16): verse 78((It is HE Who brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers when you knew nothing; and He gave you hearing and sight and intelligence and affections: that you may give thanks (to ALLAH)).
We are in this world to fulfill that COVENANT. This is why we always see people looking for new things, searching, getting into trouble, never happy with what they have. It is because they, we, all of us think that the materials of this world will make us happy. As soon as a new thing has been purchased the happiness lasts for a short while, and here we go again trying to buy a bigger thing and so on. The search ends the moment we realise that what we are looking for is actually inside us, and is OUR PRIMORDIAL
COVENANT: TO KNOW THAT GOD EXISTS, AND THAT WE SHOULD WORSHIP ONLY HIM!
It is from this very basic knowledge that we realise that we are actually made of two entities: the Spiritiual (soul) and the Material (body). When we were given the Quran we were given the Balance in which these two entities can co-exist in peace and harmony, and life becomes very beautiful. How do we achieve this perfectly balanced life? Is it a Utopia? No, it is a Reality.
Surah Yunus (10): verse 57
((O mankind! There has come to you an admonition from your LORD and a healing for the (diseases) in your hearts and for those who believe, a Guidance and Mercy.))
Body and soul, the soul
dictates our actions and the body acts upon them.
Surah Yusuf (12): verse 53
(("Yet, I do not absolve myself (of blame) the (human) soul certainly incites evil, unless my LORD does bestow HIS Mercy; but surely My LORD of Oft Forgiving, Merciful.)).
It is acknowledged that our soul can incite us to do evil, and it has to do so in order to have a choice. The choice dates back from the very beginning of creation. Good or bad? To act or not to act? To say or not to say? Emotions, feelings, love, ego, arrogance, hate; all play a role in the choice we make.
Let us learn how to apply, or for a better choice of words, how to live the Quran in our everyday life, after
all, every single day sums up to our lives.
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Angela Milo @ Hajjah Liza Abdullah
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