Discovering Your Role

Discovering your Role By: Omar Suleiman

There are three things human beings incline towards:

1)       Belief in Allah

2)       Adil, justice

3)       Compassion

When you are born you have an inclination towards all of these things, we are born with them. Naturally we want a God, we want justice and we want to show compassion.

There was a two year old Chinese girl who got hit by two vans, there were 18 bystanders and they did nothing, minutes later her mother comes to scrape her off the streets.

This is a decay of humanity, not having compassion is not human, and this is a sign of the day of judgment, people will begin to lose their inclination to justice, compassion and Allah. What does this have to do with your role? First, every human being is born with good and second, we all have the ability to do good things. Everything has something good in it, even shaitan because he strengthens the heart of a believer. Allah does not want us to be super stars and everyone is not going to be a sheikh or an imam, Allah wants us to be good Muslims, the Muslims we were born to be and within our capability. This will get you into Jannah. And a man came to the Prophet (sws) and asked him, what is the secret, like how do I get into Jannah, the Prophet (sws) answered (not exact word but in my summary): 1) give sadaqah (the man persisted, what if I am poor?) 2) enjoin what good and forbid what’s evil (he persisted, what if I am not a big shot and have the mean to do so) 3) teach the ignorant the truth (he persisted, what if I am ignorant) 4) stand with the oppressed (the man persisted, what if I am the one oppressed) 5) Don’t harm people.

The moral of this story is that there is always something for us to do, there is never a time when we can’t do anything we are always capable of doing something.