Thursday, February 5, 2009

A new path....a new meaning!

BismiALlahi AlRahman AlRaheem

"I set out for a path to discover

What’s been missing, a life without regrets.

I’m not afraid of tomorrow’s mysteries,

I have filled my emptiness with a faith."


ٱلَّذِينَ يَذۡكُرُونَ ٱللَّهَ قِيَـٰمً۬ا وَقُعُودً۬ا وَعَلَىٰ جُنُوبِهِمۡ وَيَتَفَڪَّرُونَ فِى خَلۡقِ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٲتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقۡتَ هَـٰذَا بَـٰطِلاً۬ سُبۡحَـٰنَكَ فَقِنَا عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ

"Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and consider the creation of the heavens and the earth, (and say): Our Lord! Thou createdst not this in vain. Glory be to Thee! Preserve us from the doom of Fire."
3:191

Nothing is Accidental




He it is Who has made the sun a source of radiant light

and the moon a light reflected, and has determined for it phases

so that you might know how to compute the years and to measure time.

None of this has God created without an inner truth .

Clearly does He spell out these messages to people of knowledge.

For, truly, in the alternating of night and day,

and in all that God has created in the heavens and on earth

there are messages indeed for people who are conscious of Him!

[ Sürah Yünus 10:5-6]


Literally, God has not created this otherwise than in accordance with truth —i.e., to fulfill a definite purpose in consonance with His planning wisdom, implying that everything in the universe—whether existent or potential, concrete or abstract—is meaningful, and nothing is “accidental.” Compare 3:191 : O our Sustainer! You have not created anything of this without meaning and purpose ( bäöilan ) and 38:27: We have not created heaven and earth and all that is between them without meaning and purpose, as is the surmise of those who are bent on denying the truth. (Asad, p. 289) [The Book of Revelations, p.135]

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