A moment of reflection

(( Do not let the will play gardener to your soul Unless you are sure It is wiser than your soul’s nature. // E. L. Masters )) 

He had given us life so long before we set foot here. He carefully sifted for us by dint of love and wisdom the finest and most qualified of men among us and named them prophets and gave each a shared mission to awaken us and patiently teach us wisdom and good life lessons and sustainably help us all the way in order to get ready to sit for an exam they had already sat for and succeeded in and got rewarded for eternally. 

We must never forget that God has endowed our bodies, hearts and souls with life and bestowed strength to us so that we resist human ignorance, hateful weakness and cheap living but also and more importantly so that we insist on learning more and continue to love life more, hate the enemies of it well and forgive those who do not know as we move on. God alone is pulling the sky over our heads with no need of pillars as we see it. He then offered us the earth and beautified it and ordered it to serve us with many a tree, flower and fruit, to name but few, hence making it, observe the seasons and cycles of nature, look like a vivid carpet on which we walk, work and explore. To give but one example of God's creation, let us not fail to observe the cycles of life of a butterfly. There is in them a great secret waiting for us to fathom. Good life long learners are going to blush with a feeling of eternal indebtedness. In the meantime, what have we done to ourselves? 

Human beings, save a few among us but perhaps away from what we say and do, are sneering, mocking and looking down on one another. Horrendous atrocities and crimes are being inflicted on God's creation. If they are hidden and forgotten, they are written. How faulty, ignorant and deprived then are those of us who do not perceive. How impoverished and wretched are those who do not seek strength and wealth from the One who created them with His own Hands and gave them health and life when others are giving sickness and death. How dangerous and hurtful to their own selves are those who do not remember. If memory serves only those who forget, what do ignorance, refusal to learn and oblivion serve?

The Ayah/Verse 61 from Surat/Chapter of The Bees has it that: 

If Allāh were to punish people ‘immediately’ for their wrongdoing, He would not have left a single living being on earth. But He delays them for an appointed term. And when their time arrives, they cannot delay it for a moment nor could they advance it.