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Worth in parallel worlds?

Posted Apr 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 PM by Croquet

What sets the worth of a person in one's eyes and in the society? and what indeed is the original worth? Going islamic and it is my most opted for route, surely the Creator knows the worth. However lately the semantics have led me to think that in current age perhaps the direst sin of a person is not to be a go getter in society and perhaps the very sin becomes the worthiest trait in hereafter. World has intergrated so badly, corrupted to the root so utterly that the division is getting starker and starker. Yet there are days when i think you can have your cake and eat it too. Meaning you can get a bit of this and a bit of that. Hard to walk the balance, i suppose. For nobody likes an idiot yet you are most definitely one in the eyes of the influentials folks, the la dee dah people, the high achievers, hard workers, go getters, tax payers if you wait for the tide. So it trickles down to this how strong does your faith hold? How long do you say no to credit cars, mortgage, loaned cars, compromising earnings, shady or lets say malleable morals. Where do you set the bar, whats the prodigy ? But of course there is only one prodigy. Did he (pbuh) established the trend of nice homes, good cars,kids in good schools, delicious mouth watering food, comfortable and aesthetic clothes? Sure the education is important but was it the education of how to be a functional engineer or the understanding of Quran e pak, or workings of zakat and halal businesses? Can you be a good muslim if you are not a high income earner , a tax payer or even living off dole? can you be a good muslim if you attend to the financial needs of your family, shower your wife with comforts, work hard, educated your children with regular school yet arent too fussed about namaz, roza, zakat and the way you earn and spend the money, if you dont spare many thoughts to life hereafter. If you basically believe that i worked hard for the money, i earned it fair and square and therefore its MY money. Does that concept of "MY" nullify the bond of attempting yet relying totally on Allah and attributing all comforts to him. How many of us can work hard, keep to the routine , try to bear up usual responsibilities and then genuinely say that i donot consider the money earned as MINE rather as Allah's? For that means you take minimum of for personal needs and spend more on others. Surely that means redifining our needs at the basest level. And what if even you spend it on others but without a thought being spared to Allah and hereafter, how does that spell out for you in hereafter?
Ik aag ka dariya hai or doob ker jana hai.

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	interesting thoughts.
	Posted Apr 24th, 2009 at 12:08 AM by Sara516

	We need to become Sufi. I recently found a Sufi community and regardless of all the materialism and consumerism going on in the world, I got my questions answered and found tranquility.
	Posted Apr 24th, 2009 at 04:56 AM by hareem01

	the trouble with me is i find many things that offer sense. but i get side tracked pretty easy. sighs
	Posted Apr 24th, 2009 at 06:51 AM by Croquet

im a fan of of both plauralism and absoluteism. I believe that we all have different paths (plaural) and I also believe that to not achieve in our respective arenas is absolute sin.

Recently I've been pondering about worth and I've boiled it down to integrity. I read Ayn Rands the foundatinhead several years ago and I was always a little confused about Raork. Surely to be so true was to be a worldly fool? but I find myself remigrating to that idealism. Be it religious conviction or a dream/ability.. to be lazy or to accept mediocity/the world for all its distractions at the cost of realising potential, I think that perhaps that is where worth can really be measured.

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