Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Pure Life

What will you get for believing, having faith?
The Jannah, sooner or later.
If you supplement your faith with good deed? What will you get?
Various things are told at different places but at one place a Pure Life (Hayat-e-Taiyyaba) is promised.
There are further grades.
Surah Asr tells us that if above things, that is belief and good deeds, are supplemented by supporting truth and then by being patient and steadfast then you'll face no loss at all.
This is a mighty proposition from Lord Most Kind.
At one place it is said that the people of Jannah will have no regret except for the moments spent being forgetful of Allah (SWT). This is a painful idea. Who can claim that he has not passed even a moment without remembering Lord Most High?
Above proposition of Surah Asr is the one that lifts the sadness one feels in heart about past moments of forgetfulness.
Are there examples of people who can be taken as fitting the requirements of Surah Asr.
Well there are People of Allah.
Apart from them?
Actually that is what engendered the present post.
People at Aligarian forums have dug out an old article of William Dalrymple about Tipu Sultan (RA).
Read it. This is one story that never becomes old and that warms of your heart in spite of the fact that it is a tragic story.