POWER & GREATNESS

POWER

Power to Erode

POWER!! Nearly everyone want it ...crave for it and the least dream about it..Those who have it want to cling on to it ....perhaps forever!  Many associate power with greatness because it really feels great to have power. It makes you feel you can do almost anything to anyone if you have power. It makes you feel you are much more respected if you have power...you feel more comfortable if you have power...you are more visible if you have power...great isn'nt it if you have power???

Perched -Top Post - Feeling High

 You walk tall ....feelings always in the clouds ...feet hardly on the ground !!! ...and almost always you are surrounded by whom you know and whom you do not know ..why ? ..because others also want to associate with you ...simply because you have power! All want to please you, afraid of you ..pss... make you feel almost like godlike isn'nt it..??? Mashaalah...This is what we refer to as power dependence ....because without it you are nobody !

Trying to cling forever ?

GREAT? 
The question is are we great when we have power? Do we really have power? Think about it ...whatever power   we have it is not absolute. It is not ours to own. It appear and dissappear and it has it's ups and down. We have to work for it, and we strive hard to to sustain it. The means in this case always justify the end! It is dressed as a challenge. It is tiring to just want to be up there but even  more tiring to make sure we remain up there...The question is  for how long ?


WHEN ONE FALLS

Limelight will fade away

 We have seen leaders whether in governments or corporations change through time. Try observing when one looses one's power or position. What happens? In ordinary circumstances most walk by unnoticed, unaccompanied but  in some extreme cases it is as  though they are strip off their identity and self respect. They run into hiding trying to save the basic...their lives ! In such a situation the only one thing that come's to one's mind is to utter "oh god...." or for the muslims " ya Allah...." repetitively. It is said without one even realizing... It's the last call....a call for help!....for survival...TO the GREAT ONE ! So is man really great after all ??

 NATURAL INCLINATION 
Why utter " oh god .." " ya Allah"...because unconciously power dependence has shifted to God dependence .... this is clear in surah 01 Al Baqarah  verse 5 "You alone do we worship and You alone do we turn for help" It is because man unconciously  is fullfilling the purpose for his creation and existence. It is obvious that man's obligation to serve god is felt by him as normal because it comes as a natural inclination on man's part to do so. This natural tendency in the man to serve and worship God is also referred to as din or fitrah.

Fitrah - Natural Instinct to Comfort

FITRAH
 Fitrah is the pattern according to which God has created all things and everything fits each into its pattern created for it in it's proper place. It is the law of God. Submission to it brings harmony, for it means realization of what is inherent to one's nature and opposition to it brings discord, for it means realization of what is extraneos to one's true nature. As Syed Muhamad Naquib Al-Attas in his book Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam he said " It is cosmos as opposed to choas; justice as opposed to injustice."

Our Origin

ORIGIN OF MAN 
If only man ponders seriously to his origin he will realize that  he is indebted to God , his creator and provider for bringing him into existence and maintaining him in his existence. was once nothing and he did not exist, and now he is
Quran  Surah Al-Mukmin (23) verse 12-14. see also last post "Gift of life".


MAN IS SMALL
In short man often  forget that he is  small, when he is in power ....actually he is powerless ....Sad...  realization hits only  when he falls... So in reality one is  not great at all when in  power. Worse when one dies one will have to answer for what one does to Allah ....when in power...

Man is small

THE TRUTH
 So the  truth ....only Allah is Might and Great ...as said clearly in the Quran surah 01 Al-Fatihah  Verse 1 Praise to Allah the Lord to the entire Universe Verse  The word "rab" has 3 connotations  i. Lord and Master ii.Sustainer,Provider,Supporter,Nourisher,Guardian iii.Sovereign, HE who controls and directs Verse 3 "The master of the day of recompense"

Eat What You Can Chew

KNOW YOUR LIMITS
 So when in "power"...know your limits so when you leave you leave with grace not disgrace ...  just remember what we  actually have is RESPONSIBILTY ...to execute what Allah warrants us to do ..we are not great nor powerful  we are but small and powerless ...subhanallah ...

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