This article was automatically translated from the original Turkish version.
How many emotions we experience for so many things, aren’t we? Anxiety about the future, daily emotional transitions, sadness when appropriate, anger when appropriate, excitement and joy and countless others... Sometimes we immerse ourselves so deeply in these that perhaps we occasionally overstep our bounds. We sometimes lose the awareness that it is Allah, the Creator, Sustainer, and true Giver of fate, whose mercy is so boundless that the word itself falls short, who has created us.
I had heard that our souls are our identity and our bodies are a trust, yet in this world where even our bodies are a trust, do we not act as if we are fully aware of our time? For instance, is it not strange to assign a lifespan to someone stricken with a fatal illness, in a world where death is possible at every moment and in every form? Our efforts to guarantee things are also intriguing; fate is certain and the Giver is known, yet we behave as if everything lies between people and under their control, as if every goal is doomed to be attained.
Could the thing we overlook be this: if the world is a business, then we are its customers, and it is our manner of using it that determines what we carry to our home (the hereafter); we are responsible not for the business itself or the chain of events within it, but for our responses, attitudes, and persistence toward those events.
