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An
artist fancied to sketch out a picture of VIRTUE. He remained roaming around
towns and villages for many a year. Eventually his eyes caught a child of
extreme beauty, having white colour, broad and pensive eyes, smart and tender
body, broad and bright forehead and soft limbs. He burst into cheers and
yelled: " I got : I got the picture of virtue "He hung the picture of
that child in his studio and wrote down it in superscription: " THE
PICTURE OF VIRTUE".
Subsequently
he made-up his mind to draw a picture of vice too. Once again he left his house
in the quest of that fancied picture. During his itinerary, continued to one
score of years, he came across millions of faces. the best ones and the worst
ones alike, but not to his total content. At last he beheld a highly typical
face which filled him with a gust of hatred and despite. Once again he
screamed: "I got: I got the picture of vice".
This
picture too was placed in his studio along with the old one. The studio was
frequently visited by the interested persons. One day a person came and stood
dumbfounded before those two pictures. Then he told the artist while tears were
streaking his face: "Both these pictures are mine" and trekked back.
And
this is Allah, in the Holy Quran, has said very categorically:
"One who perpetrates a pinchful of good, he
has to face it, and (likewise) one who perpetrates smallest sin, he has to face
it".
"What apprised you what was SIJEEN? A written
record".
"What apprised you what was ILLIYEEN? A
written record".
This
denotes that all the major or minor works, done by a man, is recorded in film
reels. In other words every human motion is picturised synchronizingly.
Allah
also says with some details.
"For those who have done good is the choicest
dividend and some additional reward, and their faces will be tarnished neither
by gloomy dust nor by subjugation. They are the occupants of the paradise. They
shall be therein for good. And those who have perpetrated sins, their one sin
will be requited by the similar one, and they
will be marred by subjugation. None can protect them from (the wrath of)
Allah, as if their faces had been pasted with a bit of gloomy night: They are
the dwellers of the hell. They shall be therein for good".
If
you go through these verses thoughtfully they will show you very obviously that
the faces are the veracious indicators of human good deeds and misdeeds. The
nature of the work, done by a bondsman, gets its impression on his facial
plate.
The
psychologists are fully cognizant of the fact that man is composed of lights
and these light-waves spread over from the human personality insensibly.
Therefore we feel sometimes attracted
and Cheered to a face when it comes in front of us. On the contrary, we
sometimes come across such a face which makes us disgusted of it due to the
repellent waves coming out of it, and we badly opt for its disappearance from
the range of our eye-sight.
The
people whose hearts harbor Divine love, and their minds are laden with
sincerity, sacrifice for others, austerity and philanthropy, their faces
generally appear picturesque, innocent and dustless, and they have such a
magnetic power which attracts everyone to them. On the contrary, the people who
are indulged in guilty consciousness and hypertension, you will clearly observe
on their faces the ominous portents of rigidity, dryness, in quietude, rudeness
and repugnance. These portents require the visitor to keep himself away from such
ugly faces.
Let
us cast glance at our own picture how does it appear? Before going to your bed
room, and after getting free from all the occupations, you should stand
VIS-A-VIS the mirror and close your eyes for some movements and think that all
your life records are kept with yourself and that you are witnessing those
records or the film, picturised within yourself. Then you should open your eyes
and cast a thorough Glance at the mirror before you. If you find your face
cheerful, luminous and with smiling profiles, then be confidant that you are
picture of virtue. On the contrary, if you find your face dejected, dry and
with negative impressions, so as to abhor your face, then be sure that you are
a picture of vice.
It
is a Natural phenomenon that every movement of the man is picturised and this
picture is displayed on the screen of his own face. So the film, produced by
Divine Record Officers, goes on playing on the human face. Haven't you seen
that the face of a panic-stricken and baffled person is indicative of all the
dejected impressions. No doubt, you would have seen a depressed and sad person,
when he makes his entry into a jocund gathering, all turn to be depressed and
sad. Even though, the world is not vacant from Ascetic and puritan persons whose
presence confers on the people a high beam of ecstasy and spiritual rapture as
Allah says in Surah "ALE IMRAN":
"The day when some faces
blossom and some faces wither. Those whose faces withered, will be addressed:
Did you turn to disbelief? So face the torture in retaliation of your
disbelief. And those whose faces blossom will find themselves amidst the boons
of Allah where they utilize an eternal life".
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MERCIFUL, THE BENEVOLENT
Dedicated to those scientists, who are inching towards the cognizance of the facts, spotlighted by Allah Almighty, in the wake of their intelligent observation for the top vertex of scientific achievement, which is not other than the "Disastrous end of the Universe". And this is probably during 15th century of Lunar calendar.
