Man from the time of his creation has been a bundle of contradictions and born weak. Had Hz. Adam, the First Man, created from Allah’s Own Hand’s not sinned by breaking the commandment of the Lord, he would not have been removed from Lord’s presence and from the paradise. Hz. Adam had to undergo severe trial and tribulations. Lord the Almighty showed Mercy and Adam was pardoned. Adam was to live an earthly living to procreate, create food and live as per Allah’s commandment. His sons quarreled and first blood was shed in the form of man slaughter. Like-wise the future generations of Hz. Adam were quick in committing wrongs and sins. God in His Mercy has been sending great souls to redeem humanity from the consequences of the wrongs and sins committed by the whole society. Thus, we find in history, thousands of Prophets, saints and good law abiding people, who have shown through their examples and exemplary lives a way out for the erring souls to fight back the battles of life to gain victory, solace and peace. Peace is not a cheap commodity available on the desk of a store. It is a precious metal like gold, diamond and platinum to gain from the virtuous living; by being dogmatically steadfast in our correct daily living. Only then can we spiritually elevate ourselves to win our most daring open enemy i.e., our own erring soul and the Devil, the Satan.
The present modern civilized society is as a result of many million sacrifices done by our ancestors, prophets, saints, political leaders, scientist, social workers, farmers, businessmen and workers. Rome was not built in a day. It took a millennium to reach this stage of a scientific era. Even in present times, millions and trillions of good hands are working for the good of the humanity by daily sacrifices. Many a times, millions lose out and find themselves ever in loss due to their own short comings and doings, than the social system or due to any adverse situation created by our wrong friends, adversaries and dogmatic people around us. Many a losing battles have been won by being virtuous, exerting and excelling in patience during troubled times and by avoiding pleasing our cheap senses and by avoiding to indulge in bonhomie, mirth and pleasures. Lot of injustice is perpetuated in this world. In umpteen situations in life, we are victims of such quagmire happenings. It is in such a situation that we are required to exert patience, remain silent and forgive our adversaries. We have to remain steadfast on the commands of Allah then enter into bickering, ending in quarrels, fights which may ultimately result in our losing our face, name, fame and even our wealth. The adversaries would pounce for a weak move on our part to gain control over us and blast us for ever and ever. A little patience and observing silence and forgiving our erring adversary would save us from ruination. It is our ego and erring self, which is our stark enemy than our real adversary. Satan would wait for such moments when our equilibrium is lost and when we lose our self control to mislead us into the quick sand, so as to destroy us fully without any scope of any redemption to even save our face; so that we could one day again redeem ourselves. It is so easy to err and become victim to our passions, sentiments and emotions but it is ever so difficult to regain our composure, maintain our dignity, poise, manners, courtesy and never failing virtue of patience in all our troubled times. To forget and forgive an ugly moment is a divine service to our own ugly soul. This would elevate our status then push us down before our stark enemy.
Study of lives of great men would disclose how they were brow beaten a million times by their opponents. There are none who have not faced opposition in life. We triumph when we remain cool like a cucumber, maintain our poise, manners and virtue of patience and silence. And never let our erring soul and real adversary, the Devil to have a better say in all the affairs of our life. Momentarily we may feel grave injustices have been done to us to take to sword or pen to enter into a controversy, arguments to establish our rights. We may ultimately fail, never to regain our lost prestige. We will be left with lots of time for regret, if not, to continue the battle with ever grave situations for ourselves, for our descendants and all our friends. Our ever best friends would be left helpless and would not be of any help. This would again alarm us more and we may feel let down more and more. We would never gain a situation to have a plus point except to lose forever and never to win. Sometimes, we may win an argument but in the result may lose thousands of friends and admirers. It may look easy to win an argument and a point but ultimately we may not win friends and most importantly the love of humanity.
Our troubled mind should be put to peace. We need to buy peace quickly by compromises and adjustments, than open widely our mouth giving out only bad breath. If we can find a situation for dialogue, we shouldn’t miss it, so also a situation to shake hands and make amends. This is far more advantageous and puts us in comfortable situation. It is like saving for a rainy day. It is the experience of generations that none are given comforts for joys and exhilaration forever. Nature has designed its plan such that we are required to face many seasons. For every season, one should prepare to face it or else be prepared to lose the ground and let yourselves be defeated and let down. Many a crime on humanity is when we lose a ground in an ugly moment and a situation, to allow our erring soul to gain over our self to commit a wrong or a sin only to be punished by law. Thus, to err is human but to forgive is Divine.
“Our Lord! Forgive us therefore our faults, and cover our evil deeds and make us die with the righteous.”
The Quran 3: 193