We believe that every babies born in a state of purity. "His soul is like a sheet of clean white paper," just said our teacher teaches us about the life. Any action that he does become the responsibility of his parents until he reached the age of puberty called of akhil baligh. Obviously, the parents have a main role at these process of 'preparation' of course. Whereas after his puberty or baligh, a child, then all about his actions and his activities became his responsibility of himself. Everyone has a note or a book which will be a final report when the Hour of Arrives later. Sheets were the documentation of all about our actions. Therefore, living a life just like writing on a paper with our life itself.
So, Once we opened the box of documents which is one of storage has a lot of old documents that have been stored for many years, in the box, we found a variety of records, including love letters, funny cards, poems we wrote, and various other trinkets. When we read those its back, we repeatedly mumbled; Do we wrote this sentences? But we can not help ourselves because the paper contains our-own handwriting. On the Day of Resurrection in the future, our destiny is about the same: we are confronted with a big book with notes of our life of journey. If the record is good, then we would be happy. However, if the record is bad, we ask: 'Did I really have to do that? "
Lets see the good advises bellow:
1. The Value of a piece of paper written at these notes, were determined by its notes itself.
Imagine we have 4 sheets of A4-sized paper that each of them was bought by us for 100 cents. One sheet is used by Barack Obama to write a memo about America's debt payment scheme. One sheet is taken Bill Gates to write a memo about 1 billion dollar prize to anyone who brings the paper to the accountant. One sheet another was used to describe the Caribbean pirate treasure about a map storage. Last sheet we want to keep its intact in a wooden box inside the warehouse.
Now, Was the 4 sheets of paper that has a value would be the same valuable?
No. Because each of the above paper was now listed an important note that determining the 'true value of the paper.
What is the value of paper that we leave it blank?
Our lives are the same.
God created everyone with the same value.
But when we turned back to Him, that value is not the same anymore.
Since the end of our lives, determined by a note written in the book of life respectively.
2. Realizing every scratch of ink on paper at our life.
If we visit the nursery at the maternity households, try to take a good look of notice the baby's face one to another. Are they all of them funny and adorable baby, aren't they? We do not need to know who their parents to love. Because the baby is a just like a sacred creature like a piece of clean white piece of paper of 4-which we still save them.
You and me, first, just like the babies.
Clean souls.
But we are often tempted to do the actions and behaviors that are controlled by lust, so we often do not consider the consequences of action we take.
Yet, every move which we make, is essentially a pen scratches in the pages of our lives.
What a loss if we are too much ink scraping ugliness.
And we are overwhelmed by the good fortune promised by the Prophets, if we fill the paper with a pen that wrote the traces of goodness in our life's journey.
At least, we can try to get more good than bad notes.
3. We can not deny about the notes which writing ever created.
In a box of old documents that we found a poem that really wonderful. Who the hell wrote this poem? It's hard to believe if the poem we had written it ourselves. Poems that we make when falling in love. In the box we also found a paper containing notes about the confession of sins we have done. Our bad, huh? When? we never did that. But, obviously if the record was chalked our sincere recognition of bad behavior have we done. Indeed, we can not possibly remember all the things we ever did during life. But the paper listed all of our lives with as much detail, details about the food we eat, the rights of others that our history, our treasures seized by cunning, deceit which we cover in public, hide our hearts whisper, a smile that we scatter, advice that we deliver, we give kindness.
Everything is recorded neatly.
Later if the note is on trial was discussed hereafter, we will be surprised, oh, did we have to do good is it? A beautiful surprise.
But it was a loss if we were surprised by the poor record of our deeds. We may deny the tongue. However, note that told us everything. Disclaimers us to be in vain.
4. Note of the past can not be deleted, but Its can be redeemed.
My neighborhood wife has ever to work at a manufacturer of recycled paper. Raw material is paper-used paper, anything that contains various kinds of records. In their hands, waste paper is processed in such a way as to produce trinkets of art objects are beautiful. No longer visible trace records the contents of the previous paper.
Since we are entering a period of passage, called baligh, of course, a lot of ugliness that we've done.
Maybe we can apologize.
But the apology does not necessarily abolish the poor record of our deeds.
There's no way it could be removed.
However, we can make up for all evils in the past with a commitment to turn it into beauty. Paper life that was already streaked would be blended with the commitment does not make the same mistake later on.
Then squeezed, molded, pressed, and molded and decorated with beautiful temperament.
It was not easy. But we can do if we really want it.
But, who would not want a paper record of his life presented in the form of a beautiful moment later while we in front of the face of our Maker?
Good manners and wonderful temperament that we do from now on, may be to atone for past bad records that can not be deleted.
5. Clean its, a paper of life, from opaque.
In the box of documents, all the papers that we found got opaque brown color. Whereas once the papers were colored white. Just like our lives the first paper of pure white, but has now turned into dirty because of bad actions we do.
In paper mills, wood pulp undergo a process of 'bleaching' with chlorine to eliminate the influence of ligation, which makes the paper become opaque colors.
Do our paper of life would be bleached with what?
Since ancient times, the prophets teach us about how to bleach our paper of life.
In accordance with the challenges of his day, respectively, the holy messengers were endlessly asked people to continue their lives trying to whiten paper.
The teacher explained that although our life is different period, but the core teachings of the Prophet is the same, namely: "To surrender only to God Almighty."
Surrendering a whole, that is the 'bleacher' paper of our lives.
While our good temperament and actions into writing and beautiful string of sentences contained in the record book of our lives.
Every day, we wrote in our sheet of new paper of life.
Then the sheets will be compiled into a book containing detailed notes throughout the course of our lives.
Among the good deeds, bad deeds may be tucked.
Behind the good intentions, may be hidden a bad way of execution.
Therefore, it is worth if we would recognize each other imperfections themselves.
And forgive one another.
Just like the guidance of the Holy Prophet, to fill our days with the new sheets to carve a new life in a beautiful record book of our lives.
For Muslims, Ramadan is the best opportunity to straighten and whiten paper back monotheism life, and adorning it with good deeds.
Happy fasting of Romadhon.....
