How Many Questions?
Allow me to make this blog's title the same as a new Egyptian song, that goes by the same name, and the song goes :
How many Questions, do we ask each other?
About what was, what is going, and what is comming..
And it is so hard for the answer to satisfy us
And if it sounds wierd, we say How?
...
It is not easy, to find someone to comfort you
And if he loves you, it is possible that he may hurt you
When he tries once to bring you joy
He satisfies your dream with words that can hurt you tomorrow
Then the Music goes on, Rocket - someone i used to know way back - is the composer of this song, his head is so rock oriented so the music is so good, and conveys the words pretty much okay if you'd ask me..
So, what was? what is going? and what is comming?
You sure you wanna know?.. Okay, there were mistakes, there are some efforts to try and put things right, and there is hope.. that sort of sums it all up, doesn't it? And the guy didn't lie when he said that there are very few answers that could satisfy us.. but why? Because few people do ask themselves that question, right? Why am I not satisfied with the answer? Maybe because I am searching for one particular answer and I don't want any other one.. Maybe because I do not accept answers that open up a new domain I didn't see earlier? Maybe because I love myself and my own perception of the world more than the world itself, so anything that doesn't fit the view of my own window is not part of the real world.. eh?
Hmm.. Thanks Mohamed Adaweya for this song, it made me think alot about those three magical domains (and three is a magical number in itself but that's another story).. Those three domains have been always an huge issue in philosophy.. and there is a pretty good Divine philosophy to deal with those three domains of our life, ones that we CANNOT escape.. The Past, the Present, and the Future.. and perceptions vary but let us try to have some comfort right here and now..
The Past:
IS what was, and will never come back, leaving a unique fingerprint of events that will never return that same way, and will never change. A human being usually thinks about the past as "things that have been done", by the human or by another human to the human who is concerned. The thing is that the past is already done, and it will not change. People who live in the past are like trapping themselves between two mirrors facing each other, they look ahead of them to see their own behind, locked in a loop that will end in madness most probably. And the Cure here is repentance, and forgiveness.
The Present:
IS what determines what is comming, and is the most complex of the three, because it is THE responsibility. In the present you plan, you do, you get feedback of what has been done in he Past. In the present once you do, what is done is in the past already, held up in the wallet of time and is inaccessible except by three things,"I did good!", "I could've done better", or by "WHY DIDN'T I DO BETTER?", what's the difference? Well one of the opens the door to the devil for sure, which is the latter.. the Middle seems calm, right? sounds like repentance? Will it was intended to be that way! The Present is the gateway for the future in which today will be the past that cannot be changed, so how about complexity? Plan, just plan carefully and don't ever regret what you have done in good intentions, unless you made a mistake, and admit it once done, just for the sake of the future if you care about it, and for the sake of God if you believe in Him.
The Future:
IS the simplest thing to throw in the toilet! Why? because we are burdened with the load of the past on our shoulders, and suffering from the past in the present, so we couldn't just have the luxury of looking ahead into the future, because we need, our bodies need so we need to need, in speed, so the future is tonight, next morning, or next month maximum. So the Future goes down the drain in the toilet, no prospect, no vision. The Present marks the future, and the term "Its now or never" comes to my mind all the time.
Patience:
IS the superglue that ties all the above three together to form one worthy unit called "Life". It is what makes the past less painful as the mistakes in the past are being suffered less in the present time because the vision of the future must be reached, in patience and awareness, if you hurry the future it will be so easy for the rest of the small units to affect you, because you will be thinking in small units not in huge resolve-able units. Kind of like the story of the old miller who gathered his sons around him and in the end taught them to be united. Quite the same if you'd ask me. If your deeds and your time in this life are all united onto one main target, then the Past, and the Present will least affect it, making a much better Future..
So Help us God!
How many Questions, do we ask each other?
About what was, what is going, and what is comming..
And it is so hard for the answer to satisfy us
And if it sounds wierd, we say How?
...
It is not easy, to find someone to comfort you
And if he loves you, it is possible that he may hurt you
When he tries once to bring you joy
He satisfies your dream with words that can hurt you tomorrow
Then the Music goes on, Rocket - someone i used to know way back - is the composer of this song, his head is so rock oriented so the music is so good, and conveys the words pretty much okay if you'd ask me..
So, what was? what is going? and what is comming?
You sure you wanna know?.. Okay, there were mistakes, there are some efforts to try and put things right, and there is hope.. that sort of sums it all up, doesn't it? And the guy didn't lie when he said that there are very few answers that could satisfy us.. but why? Because few people do ask themselves that question, right? Why am I not satisfied with the answer? Maybe because I am searching for one particular answer and I don't want any other one.. Maybe because I do not accept answers that open up a new domain I didn't see earlier? Maybe because I love myself and my own perception of the world more than the world itself, so anything that doesn't fit the view of my own window is not part of the real world.. eh?
Hmm.. Thanks Mohamed Adaweya for this song, it made me think alot about those three magical domains (and three is a magical number in itself but that's another story).. Those three domains have been always an huge issue in philosophy.. and there is a pretty good Divine philosophy to deal with those three domains of our life, ones that we CANNOT escape.. The Past, the Present, and the Future.. and perceptions vary but let us try to have some comfort right here and now..
The Past:
IS what was, and will never come back, leaving a unique fingerprint of events that will never return that same way, and will never change. A human being usually thinks about the past as "things that have been done", by the human or by another human to the human who is concerned. The thing is that the past is already done, and it will not change. People who live in the past are like trapping themselves between two mirrors facing each other, they look ahead of them to see their own behind, locked in a loop that will end in madness most probably. And the Cure here is repentance, and forgiveness.
The Present:
IS what determines what is comming, and is the most complex of the three, because it is THE responsibility. In the present you plan, you do, you get feedback of what has been done in he Past. In the present once you do, what is done is in the past already, held up in the wallet of time and is inaccessible except by three things,"I did good!", "I could've done better", or by "WHY DIDN'T I DO BETTER?", what's the difference? Well one of the opens the door to the devil for sure, which is the latter.. the Middle seems calm, right? sounds like repentance? Will it was intended to be that way! The Present is the gateway for the future in which today will be the past that cannot be changed, so how about complexity? Plan, just plan carefully and don't ever regret what you have done in good intentions, unless you made a mistake, and admit it once done, just for the sake of the future if you care about it, and for the sake of God if you believe in Him.
The Future:
IS the simplest thing to throw in the toilet! Why? because we are burdened with the load of the past on our shoulders, and suffering from the past in the present, so we couldn't just have the luxury of looking ahead into the future, because we need, our bodies need so we need to need, in speed, so the future is tonight, next morning, or next month maximum. So the Future goes down the drain in the toilet, no prospect, no vision. The Present marks the future, and the term "Its now or never" comes to my mind all the time.
Patience:
IS the superglue that ties all the above three together to form one worthy unit called "Life". It is what makes the past less painful as the mistakes in the past are being suffered less in the present time because the vision of the future must be reached, in patience and awareness, if you hurry the future it will be so easy for the rest of the small units to affect you, because you will be thinking in small units not in huge resolve-able units. Kind of like the story of the old miller who gathered his sons around him and in the end taught them to be united. Quite the same if you'd ask me. If your deeds and your time in this life are all united onto one main target, then the Past, and the Present will least affect it, making a much better Future..
So Help us God!
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and if i wanna summerize it on my way, i'll say that i get my lessons out from the past, apply 'em in the present so that i may be able to do better in the future..
Actually, this reminds me of a certain saying we've discussed here few weeks ago, which is "Whatever happens, it happens for a reason".. what happened in ur past was really meant to be, for a certain reason, or maybe it was just a message form Allah, so u start studying the whole situation and analysing every single point/event in it.. and whenever u know that reason and get ur message, u apply what u've just learned, in ur present, and absolutely,this will affect ur future in a way or another..
So, be careful and be patient as abdo's just said.. take your time and be positive but, Never forget that Allah's always up there, Watching us alllll the time
God Bless Us All, and Bless U Abdo!
P.S. : Adaweya's song rocks biiiiiiig time ;)
I've been thinking about this for a few days now and something hit me today. You called patience the glue but I say rather that faith is the glue and patience is a part of it. But being patient serves a purpose. The effect (i.e., future) results from a cause. Whether you prefer to name the cause "past" or "present" it is only two things--who you are, and what you do. Some of this is within our control and some of it not.
The tricky thing to understand is the immediate relationship of the future to the present--or the effect, to the cause. Because as soon as you make a decision, you're responsible for the consequence; it shouldn't surprise you minutes, hours, days, even years down the road. If we see our consequences as immediate then we can't complain any longer.
So does patience hold it together? Patience might have something to do with it, but ultimately I think it takes faith. And out of that we get good character, which is not only patience but gratitude as well.
Fear the Merciful.
Cheers