WHAT IS FAITH?

Let's try to answer this apparently difficult question.....

"Whatever happens, happens for one's own good." This may sound very clichéd but on giving a little thought to this million dollar sentence, you can understand its depth and sophistication. Analyzing every situation, bad or good, of your life by keeping this in mind will make you realistic and will widen your mind's horizon with respect to optimism. I have come across many people who refuse to believe in it because they are not able to find any 'good' in a particular situation. My reply to such sceptics is that if we, humans, would have been given the power to understand reasons behind each and every happening in our lives, then we wouldn't have been called human beings. Not we, but God is the omniscient. The popular phrase "humans are mere puppets in the hands of God" is in itself the perfect answer to all questions borne out of a human’s logical mind. A simple fact that we fail to understand is that though our brains have come up with mind blowing technologies which are being called ‘godly’, there are a few questions and codes written by God that are indecipherable. I feel they are best left to our imagination. At this point I would like to quote a verse from the Quran-e-pak, "He knows what appears in front of and behind His creatures. Nor can they encompass any knowledge of Him except what He wills." Ultimately, all these points can be summed up into a small yet powerful word called ‘faith’. Faith does not require any reasons. There is no room for questions in the house of faith. Laying complete trust, confidence and belief in God and His doings in all phases of life, how much ever oppressive they may seem, is what I call faith.

It isn't an arduous task to assess a situation by keeping the cliche (whatever happens, happens for one's own good ) in mind.

Unless it's natural, implementing it will seem tough at first undoubtedly. But as the adage goes, "Practice makes a man perfect"( woman too! the joke seems so stupid now! lol), developing faith will also require practice. Gradually, you get used to it. And there will come a time when negativity will seem distant. Positivity will be automatically generated. And you will hear yourself saying, "It wasnt that difficult after all...Infact, it's easier than bearing the pain of pessimism.".

So, to make life worth living, let us all strive to make faith the basis of our existence in sha ALLAH....

Let us practise and feel the change. :)