Were not we born too early?

Have you ever wished that you were born in future? Yeah, many people have and at least have thought about it. Human has seen a vast progress and a giant leap in all sciences in recent ages which totally changed the world and lifestyles. As time passes, sciences accelerate in progress and undoubtedly bring about more and more comfort, health, facilities, entertainments and joys. Just close your eyes and get on your time machine and go back through the history. Don’t go so far, just nearby centuries. Now open your eyes, what do you see? Ouch! There is nothing. Don’t mention facilities, there is not enough food, there is not health. They are just cholera, pest and other diseases that massacre humans. You must shiver in the winter and boil in the summer. You must laboriously work all day long to sate your hunger and there is not any technology to assist you. “Drag water from the well and bring it in, haven’t you axed the timbers, hurry up you must clean the stable and milk the cows either “your father of that time calls. That’s enough, get on the time machine and come to your own time. O God! You have faced a technical problem and you have trapped in that time… “Oh, what a nightmare” you might say. Actually the people’s view in the future toward your time will be the same. They will feel pity for you and won’t stand to even think to be in your time. Some people get the issue so serious so they go to some institutes and give a lot of money to freeze in special conditions to keep the rest of their life for 100 years later. So again, were not we born too early? Actually the answer is “Yes” for some and “No” for some else. It depends to your philosophy of life. What is the goal of life in your viewpoint? Is it just material proposes: to enjoy, eating, to be entertained and something like these? So your answer must be “Yes” because your goals will be more fulfilled in future and you must know that you will always feel determent and lose, because there is a future for every future and you will never meet the goal of your life perfectly. But if your goal of life is to own all virtues, be a good human whom God expects and be beneficial for others, the answer is “No”. No matter for a man with these goals that he was born before the history or in a far future. He always has opportunities to make the most of his age. Actually these are the people who build the future. They always look to fulfill their commitment to their time and try to do their duty in the best way and upon their endeavor and industry, a compelling future emerges and flourishes. They see the comfort of others their own comfort and may prefer it upon their own. They are not selfish but selfless, they don’t expect the time to serve them but they serve their time. for instance, i have Imam Ali in my mind now. He used to work for people, dig wells and make gardens for people’s welfare all day long, and bring food for the poor during the night. He did not change his attitude even when he got the ruler. He was truly the father of orphans. He used to say “whoever is the most lucrative for the people is the best of them. Now, after more than 1300 years many people look up to him as their pattern. You can be in your time and be the best in all times to an extent that people in the future whish to be instead of you….Now make your mind, but I advice you not to use the time machine lest a technical problem occurs.

Why do Muslim women cover themselves

Women are beautiful and by instinct like to show their beauty. Like men they have right to do their activity in society freely and without any limitation. But why is that Muslim women cover themselves and are stingy and tight-fisted of coloring the society with their beauty and charm? Why they accept the limitations emerged by their covering (HIJAB)? Questions like these occur when a Muslim woman is observed covering herself and somebody may feel pity toward her. But Muslim women do not see covering as these people see. While many women in the western coteries suffer from sexual harassment at work places, Muslim woman take part in serious social activities feeling secure. Actually HIJAB provides a safe and secure situation for women to work and have effective role in society. They regard HIJAB as immunity not limitation. They see that with HIJAB society does not look at them just as pieces of beauty but honors them because of their reason, knowledge and skills. Just a cursory glance at surveys and statistics about sexual harassments that took place at work places, faculties and schools in western societies confirm that the only solution is HIJAB. Surveys indicate that more than half the women in the work force in the United States have experienced Sexual Harassment. The book Shockwaves: The Global Impact of Sexual Harassment, by Susan L. Webb, cites the following statistics:*
CANADA: "One survey showed that 4 out of 10 women reported being sexually harassed at work."
JAPAN: "An August 1991 survey showed that 70 percent of the women who responded experienced" harassment at work. "Ninety percent said they were sexually harassed on the way to and from work."
AUSTRIA: "A 1986 survey showed almost 31 percent of women reported serious harassment incidents."
FRANCE: "In 1991 a study . . . found that 21 percent of the 1,300 women surveyed said they had personally experienced sexual harassment."
THE NETHERLANDS: A study showed that "58 percent of the women responding [to the survey] said they had personally experienced sexual harassment."
Regarding these statistics and some other horrifying surveys, it can be proved that who is limited in social activity; Muslim women covering HIJAB or others.
Honestly, imagine a woman who has covered her hair and beauties and other not, which is more endangered by sexual harassment.
Women guarantee the society to be healthy and the family to be firm and immune of collapse. A Man who daily sees many beautiful women whom maybe are more attractive than his wife, gradually lose his love and tendency toward his wife and may cheat on her. On the other hand, undoubtedly women without cover are more exposed to lust of other men and hear amorous words and feel love toward others rather than their husbands. The family in such societies does not have a firm foundation and endangered with collapse. Actually, why is that in U.S.A, 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Why is that about 22 percent of American men commit adultery, while 11 percent of women dare to do likewise….these numbers have never been observed in societies whose women adhere to HIJAB. If you ask a Muslim woman that why she cover HIJAB she will answer you that because my religion asked me to do so and they are right; There is a verse in Qur’an that says: “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the faithful to draw closely over themselves their cloak [when going out]. That makes it likely for them to be recognized and not be troubled, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful”.
Now, if you encounter a Muslim woman cowering herself, you may praise her for preference God’s will over her lust of showing her beauty, and for her respect and honor toward your family.

Die before your death

We all like life and don’t like to die and it is not just us but every living creature is the same. Imagine a little ant for example. It escapes every thing that may endanger its life. It finds its life as sweet as we do. A harmony of milliards of our sells echoes the love toward life, so we love it and dislike what takes it away.
But death is not that bad. If we close our eye of self interest, and open the eye of general goodness, we will judge in another way. Death is beautiful in the harmony of life without which the universe would be imperfect. Fearing death is instinctual and is not bad to some extent as long as it is natural. We fear death so we protect ourselves from whatever causes death like diseases and incidents. Death provides the condition for upcoming generations. Death maintains the life and guarantees its continuance on the earth. People generally hate to even think about death but to think about it, results good effects on both personal and social aspects of human’s life. Why are some people and some governments so argent? If they had thought about the fate of those precede them that how death ended their reign which was thought to have no end, they would have changed their attitude and review their temperament toward other people and other countries. The kings and queens who had been ringed with guards, generals, servants, jiggers and bards, were surrounded by worms, ants, scorpions and snakes after their death. If we think about death we get ready for it trying as far as possible to do good toward other people to leave a good and glorious record of ourselves in the mind of history. It is proved philosophically and scientifically that we are not just this material body but we have a soul that constitutes our reality and it is what we understand with and our organs work as it’s tools. The Soul is immaterial and immortal so death is not the end but a transition and a doorway toward another world that we do not know much about it but what we have been informed by the most honest people and they are the prophets. They told us that we will be rewarded or punished there over what we do here in this life. This material world does not have that capacity to give the people their full punishment and reward. for instance this world gives a murderer who massacred thousands of people the same punishment that a murderer of one man receives Let alone the guilty who never receive their punishment in this word or virtue men who endeavored and sacrificed for the sake of humanity but did not receive their reword but were punished or tortured or killed instead. If people think about death and the reckoning after it, they will value their time in this world and do good as far as they can and avoid misdeeds and oppression.
If we consider other people’s death and think that they will die, we will be more compassionate towards them. Imagine you knew that your friend will die in near future, how your temperament towards him or her would be. You would forgive him or her for his or her misdeeds toward you, you would visit him or her more often and so on and so forth. There are very advantages in remembrance the death that Prophet Mohammad said: die before your death.
Death will come one day and will end all our wishes and we don’t know when, where and how we will die. It is interesting that we are so conscious about many uncertain things but we are oblivious about death which is inevitable and certain. Imagine a world that all think about death, what would happen. What would happen if rulers and governors of the world thought of death? How the world might look like if American state and President Bush considered their death. Let’s live with death and enjoy the best life on the best world.