in which path are we?

among the stuffs i do to take my mind off the tension of reading medical books (that never seems to finish) is meeting ustaz Mahmoud :)

ustaz mahmoud gave me a metaphor yesterday about human's incentives to reach their goal

there is this mother with 3 children around school age
randomly i name them ahmad, muhammad and mahmoud

ahmad loves to go to school...everyday he would wake up early, perform solat, breakfast and go to school without being asked by his mother

muhammad doesn't like to go to school, but as mother promised him 10 EGP everyday if he goes so he went willingly

but mahmoud on the other hand would not go to school even if mother gives him 10EGP everyday, so instead she said she'll beat him if he didn't go to school. therefore mahmoud went because he's afraid of the punishment

finally, all three of them succeed in their studies

and that is also how we all are...

we were created to worship Allah

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم

وَ مَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلاَّ لِيَعْبُدُونِ

surah azZariyat: 56

thus, some of us, worship Allah, do good in our daily lives and avoid bad things because we love Allah as our God <3

some of us worship Allah because Allah promised us Jannah...and Jannah is not a small deal right?

but there are some of us who worship Allah, do good things and avoid bad ones because we are afraid of Jahannam if we don't do so...

on either path,
finally we will reach our ultimate aim that is to worship Allah
hopefully we are categorize as in one of these 3 groups of people...

and same goes to any goals we wanna achieve in our lives...
we will finally reach our aim
as long as we do not choose to be in neither of three

just a tiny thought to ponder on...
dah, lynn...g study!!
hee