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In His Saying in the Quran (Surah Al Ashr 1-3) Allah Says (as narrated by A. Yusof Ali): "By (the Token of time) time (through the Ages), Verily man is in a loss, except such as have faith and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of truth and of patience and constancy." In his Saying in the Surah Al Ashr Allah reminded us that we man become losers if we do not use our time well. Many people waste their time. They waste it by loitering along road intersections and disturbing passer bys, by empty and non beneficial conversations, unnecessary arguments, swearing, malicious gossips, instigating fights, daydreaming and many other forms of activities which are non productive. Exceptional to these activities are the people who have faith ("iman") and practice good deeds (" amal solih"). These people believe that Allah S.W.T. did not created us unnecessarily or to be non-beneficial or non-productive. Allah created man in its finest form, but man himself abused this fine gift of creation. Man caused great disruption where great losses incurred and great tragedies resulted. People who have faith of "iman" admits that man was created in order to serve Allah and whatever he does is with the sole intention of getting Allah's Blessings. He worked hard and sincerely with the hope that all that he does is because of Allah and not for other reasons. His heart is filled with the love of Allah, The Magnificent, Who created man from a single cell selected from millions of other cells from both the male and female sex. Through an astonishing and complicated process of growth and development man was born to this earth. At birth however, man did not bring any physical assets to earth. As
a matter of fact man was born naked and accompanied by cries and howls.
Sometimes birth was not even accompanied with love and resulting in the
newborn being thrown into garbage bins as what is sometimes seen in this
present world.
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