04-17-2011, 05:50 PM
Praise be to Allah, The All Knowing, All Seer, adequate praise to His endless bounties and blessings that we can never count or identify, blessings and peace be upon his final Messenger our beloved teacher and leader Mohammad, his household, wives, and all other prophets and Messengers
I was reciting Surat Al Emran (Quran 3), and I stopped at the following noble Ayah, pondering deeply about and trying to extract insight:
"As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers." (Quran 3:56).
The part that mainly drew my attention was the underlined. Why? Because in many occasions you will meet a Muslim who tells you, look at the non believers who had it all. They are living a very outstanding life style, comfortable, convenient, attaining all necessary aspects of good life including medical care, education, money, resources, ..etc. The Muslim would say, how can this Ayah resolve with this situation. They are not tormented at all. On the contrary, they are enjoying themselves to the full, to an extend that they do not even feel they are at wrong. In other words, simply, they do not feel they are being punished because of a major fault which is the non belief in a Creator, their Creator who Provided all of this. So how can both situations match??
Alright, let us take a deeper look. What is the suicide rate in such societies?, what is the rate of using anti depressants? Seeking psychological consultancies? What is the crime rate? What is the homosexuality rate (wait I will tell you how this is a stark sign of punishment)? What is the divorce rate? What is the run away from home rate? Drug use? And the list goes on. Leave alone the natural disasters, among others, hurricanes which are quite frequent in the USA, flush floods, earthquakes..etc. One would say, but Muslim countries are equally exposed to such crisis. Yes, but not with the same frequency. Just take hurricanes in the USA for example.
The punishment is that mostly you find non believers are suffering discontent, despite of all the success they attain, all the glory they have, they feel empty, have nothing. Homosexuality is another form of dissatisfaction, they can not attain the happiness they are seeking in whatever they do, the illusive fascinating feeling they are searching for, so they resort to new forms of pleasure in an effort to reach this desired and far away inner satisfaction. But they still do not. Some of them indulge in excessive sex, others, seek pleasure in monetary gain through any type of practice, gambling..etc. And they still can not. At the end, they just feel that they can not cope, they resort to drugs looking for a fake pleasure and happiness, do they attain it?? No. That is when it comes to the climax and they just commit suicide. Is not this enough torment? They are not enjoying all the pleasures Allah Gave them, in spite of how advanced their countries are to the extend that such countries had become an attractive destination to Many Muslims who are looking for the worldly comfort. They do not feel it. Or they feel it and perceive it as a source of pride. But are still unable to feel it, enjoy it, depend on it for happiness, the real true and sustainable inner satisfaction. They might attain false satisfaction after taking a drug dose, drink of alcohol, sexual intercourse without marriage or even an abnormal sexual relation (between the same sex) thinking that this would really give them the ultimate desired satisfaction. But on the contrary they continue on the same condition. This is enough of a torment. Leave alone that they live their whole life serving the wrong purpose, which is a waste of time and effort. Is not this a clear and explicit manifestation of this noble Ayah. But the hardest torment, is their non believe per se. Because actually realizing that you have a Creator, believing in this Creator, worshiping this Creator and Him alone, lends you an incomparable sense of security, safety, satisfaction and pleasure. Walelahi Alhamd for being a Muslim.