Cynic & Cranky

so I was wrong being Judge(mental) WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND The Qur'an refutes the doctrine that certain consequences necessarily follow from sins and that man must in all cases bear them. In fact this is one of the most misleading doctrines to have been invented by human imagination. If it were true it would mean that a sinner would never have the opportunity to have his repentance accepted. It is a mechanistic view of reward and punishment and thus prevents and discourages the sinner from trying to improve. The Qur'an, on the contrary, tells man that reward for good actions and punishment for bad ones rests entirely with God. Malik-e-Youm-ud-Deen Fateha:3 ‘Master of the day of Judgment’ The reward that one receives for good acts is not the natural consequence of those acts; it is rather due to the grace and benevolence of God and it is entirely up to Him to reward one or not. Likewise, punishment for evil deeds is not a natural and unalterable consequence of man...

Today I heard a very new and fascinating belief, at least as far as I am concerned, about Paradise (Jannah) and hell (Dozakh). When in morning I went downstairs in my office to made a complaint about my home landline phone, two technicians were sitting. I heard while trying to make complaint (since PTCL central customer care office walas don’t pick phone that easily), one was addressing other one about what hell and paradise really are. I wanted to share it in urdu جنّت اور دوزخ دو چٹیل میدان ہیں. ہم خود وہاں رہنے کے لئے اپنا سامان اکھٹا کرتے ہیں. مثال کے طور پر جب ہم سبحان الله کہتے ہیں تو وہاں اک درخت لگتا ہے اور جب ہم دوبارہ سبحان الله کہتے ہیں تو وہاں دوسرا درخت لگ جاتا ہے ور اس طرح وہاں باغ بنتا جاتا ہے، جب کے اس کے برعکس جب ہم کسی کو گالی دیتے ہیں تو وہاں اپنے لئے اک چولہے میں آگ بھڑکاتے ہیں اور جب ہم ایسا کرتے رہتے ہیں تو پوری دوزخ ہمارے لئے تیار ہو جاتی ہے Paradise and hell are two big grounds in the world hereafter. We ourselves collect the things to pass our lives there...

So, Ramdan will either end today or tomorrow. This ramdan was by far the best ramdan I spent as practicing Islam (I think so, rest may Allah accpet my prayers and answer my supplications). Though there were some sins I commit too (*embarrased and ashamed*) during even fasting but still this ramdan ranked top among all ramdan. The best thing that I did this ramdan was that I tried really hard to offer five time prayers on time and alhamdulillah I can count that there were only three prayers that I missed (two Asars and one Isha). Like most of us, the reason was sleeping at the time of namaz =$. Secondly, I went for taraweeh though not much regular but surely the count of my attendance is more than my absence. Thirdly I started reading tafseer. Though this thought of reading Quran with tafseer was quite late (in last ten days of ramdan yet they say its never too late than never or in persian دیر آید درست آید ). This thought pass by my mind when while reading even with urdu translation...