Assalamu'alaykum,
Alhamdulillah, praise be to Lord for all of His uncountable blessings being endowed upon us.
In life, we always hate it when people treat us impolitely-hurls of profanities, unacceptable whims and contemptuous hospitality-. It really annoys us when they spoil our day and what aggravates even more when people are getting on our nerves and they feel nothing is wrong with it while expecting us to reciprocate back with respect and well mannered.
We feel like pummeling unremitting punches in his face, slam it onto the wall, picking up high-heels and nail him with that.
The first real issue that I would like to share with you all my highly respected readers is, if we could count, how many of us when we walked on the street and encountered a layman who happened to stood next to us begging for money we responded back with love or retorted with anger. Usually, we tend to have cold feet looking at the 'intimidating' layman and we sneered to him and even worst some intensely threw bad words before leaving the place.
Moving on, when we were sitting with our friends, sometimes we forgot to control our mouth and tend to be so passionate that we embarrassed our friends intentionally as to crack some silly jokes and we expected our friend to be just fine with it. The tantrum we threw could not get any more annoying when we started to expose out our friends' secrets that if it was known, it would give a huge embarrassment to them and everything is messed up.
Stop. Ponder upon this for a while; If the layman was you and you were the one who begged for the money as to feed yourself up after days you have been starving to death, would you want yourself to be treated like that or all you want was only a spoon of rice or at least drops of water as to quench your ferocious thirst? and if it was you who was sitting there with your friends, receiving humiliations after humiliations just to arouse people's emotion, would you be fine with it?. Of course you do not want to be treated like that and yet you feel not more than just fine imposing such behaviours on others?.
There is no other method to get ourselves absolved from this periodical predicaments or difficulties but to do as you would be done by. An idiom that delineates the cyclical difficulties that people have been facing for centuries, giving us a chance to pause and reflect. We have to realize that we are not living in this world alone. There are people who also breath the same air and live on the same land. Who also rejoice and bereave, relieve and depress. Thus, in order for us to establish peace and harmony in this world, we have to first and foremost, respect each other in the same way we want them to respect us. The act of respect here is not confined only to one subject such as race, but also faith, culture, ideologies and whatnot.
If you are a Muslim, then you have to respect others who possess different faith be it Christian, Buddhist or Hindus and they have to do the same in return. At times, people got confused between respecting the religion and committing shirk or associating Allah -God forbid-. Respect here means to let him or her to be at liberty of choosing whichever religion he or she wants to believe in. They have the rights to believe or not to believe and we just cannot simply obtrude upon others and retaliate if they refuse. That is just not Islamic at all.
It is this forgotten tenet that has caused severe depredation on human civilization that we can see through history how people had been shedding blood and escalating their pride higher than what they deserved. Just how we do not want others to treat us like that, we too have to respect them, parallel to our wish.
If people treat you in a very ruthless manner, you think back quickly; "if I were about to treat him back disrespectfully, what would make me different than him after all?." If people give you prickles, you give them flowers, even though they might crush it, but the aromatic smell will stay there, if God's permit, it will soften the heart of the holder.
"Indeed in the Messenger of Allâh (Muhammad SAW) you have a good example to follow for him who hopes for (the Meeting with) Allâh and the Last Day and remembers Allâh much." - Surah Al-Ahzab, Ayat 21
Alhamdulillah, praise be to Lord for all of His uncountable blessings being endowed upon us.
In life, we always hate it when people treat us impolitely-hurls of profanities, unacceptable whims and contemptuous hospitality-. It really annoys us when they spoil our day and what aggravates even more when people are getting on our nerves and they feel nothing is wrong with it while expecting us to reciprocate back with respect and well mannered.
We feel like pummeling unremitting punches in his face, slam it onto the wall, picking up high-heels and nail him with that.
The first real issue that I would like to share with you all my highly respected readers is, if we could count, how many of us when we walked on the street and encountered a layman who happened to stood next to us begging for money we responded back with love or retorted with anger. Usually, we tend to have cold feet looking at the 'intimidating' layman and we sneered to him and even worst some intensely threw bad words before leaving the place.
Moving on, when we were sitting with our friends, sometimes we forgot to control our mouth and tend to be so passionate that we embarrassed our friends intentionally as to crack some silly jokes and we expected our friend to be just fine with it. The tantrum we threw could not get any more annoying when we started to expose out our friends' secrets that if it was known, it would give a huge embarrassment to them and everything is messed up.
Stop. Ponder upon this for a while; If the layman was you and you were the one who begged for the money as to feed yourself up after days you have been starving to death, would you want yourself to be treated like that or all you want was only a spoon of rice or at least drops of water as to quench your ferocious thirst? and if it was you who was sitting there with your friends, receiving humiliations after humiliations just to arouse people's emotion, would you be fine with it?. Of course you do not want to be treated like that and yet you feel not more than just fine imposing such behaviours on others?.
There is no other method to get ourselves absolved from this periodical predicaments or difficulties but to do as you would be done by. An idiom that delineates the cyclical difficulties that people have been facing for centuries, giving us a chance to pause and reflect. We have to realize that we are not living in this world alone. There are people who also breath the same air and live on the same land. Who also rejoice and bereave, relieve and depress. Thus, in order for us to establish peace and harmony in this world, we have to first and foremost, respect each other in the same way we want them to respect us. The act of respect here is not confined only to one subject such as race, but also faith, culture, ideologies and whatnot.
If you are a Muslim, then you have to respect others who possess different faith be it Christian, Buddhist or Hindus and they have to do the same in return. At times, people got confused between respecting the religion and committing shirk or associating Allah -God forbid-. Respect here means to let him or her to be at liberty of choosing whichever religion he or she wants to believe in. They have the rights to believe or not to believe and we just cannot simply obtrude upon others and retaliate if they refuse. That is just not Islamic at all.
It is this forgotten tenet that has caused severe depredation on human civilization that we can see through history how people had been shedding blood and escalating their pride higher than what they deserved. Just how we do not want others to treat us like that, we too have to respect them, parallel to our wish.
" They treat us like fools, and you expect us to let them be?. Dude, you are an absurd living creature!."
If people treat you in a very ruthless manner, you think back quickly; "if I were about to treat him back disrespectfully, what would make me different than him after all?." If people give you prickles, you give them flowers, even though they might crush it, but the aromatic smell will stay there, if God's permit, it will soften the heart of the holder.
Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Amr: "The Prophet never used bad language neither a 'Fahish nor a Mutafahish. He used to say 'The best amongst you are those who have the best manners and character.'
(Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Virtues and Merits of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his Companions, Volume 4, Book 56, Number 759)"
(Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Virtues and Merits of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his Companions, Volume 4, Book 56, Number 759)"
Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it
--Saidina Ali (a.s)
--Saidina Ali (a.s)
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