Why we have to CHANGE?

Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Rahiim

Have you ever felt guilty, have you ever regret something you’ve done? The guilt is so big that you cannot forgive yourself. If you ask me, then yes I have. It happens more than once to me, but this time I just want to tell you about one story. Generally speaking, we suffer this condition if we’ve done something sometimes things that we thought is good but ended bad and causing damage to ourselves, others or to someone we love.

Baam!! That is the sound of my 2 years old daughter fall in to the floor on the back of his head. How can that happen, I let her to walk to the kitchen to my wife but she ran, slip and fall so hard because the floor has just been mop and it’s still slippery. My daughter of course cried as hard as she can and God knows how pain she suffered at that time.

After that incident I suffered a feeling that I’ve mentioned, a never ending regret. But what the use, I could never turn back the time and undo the condition. I tried to calm myself by saying everything must be happen for a reason including that incident. So, what lesson I could take from it that is the most important one.

Beside to never repeat my mistake in that case again, my mind suddenly remembered about lesson I have heard and learned from tafseer Surah At-Takatsur from Brother Nouman Ali Khan. The lesson is don’t be like the disbeliever in that Surah. They convict and submit after they see the hell fire in the next life, by then all will be already too late.

[Takasur 102:1] The craving for excess wealth kept you people neglectful.

[Takasur 102:2] Until you confronted the graves.

[Takasur 102:3] Yes certainly, you will soon realise!

[Takasur 102:4] Again, yes certainly, you will soon realise!

[Takasur 102:5] Yes certainly, if you had believed with certainty, you would not have craved for wealth.

[Takasur 102:6] Indeed you will see hell.

[Takasur 102:7] Again, indeed you will see it with certainty.

[Takasur 102:8] Then, on that day, you will surely be questioned regarding the favours.

Don’t do the things that we will regret in the future especially in the “real future” which is Akhirat or the next life. Other than that don’t make sin, unuseful things that eventually destructs us. Indirectly if we destruct and cannot save ourselves from hellfire, how can we save our family and all the one we love?

In line with this is Surah Al-Ashr, Allah tells us to change ourselves and the time to change is RIGHT NOW not when we get old, not when we feel like it or any other excuse. Because in that Surah Allah describes to us that basically we are running out of time and we are in the state of loss constantly. So, NEVER do the things that we will regret, ALWAYS think what the consequences in the hereafter and CHANGE yourself to a better person & make repentance (Taubah) RIGHT NOW!!