Rage Against the Machine

Prof Umar once said, there's something sinister about someone wanting to give you something that already belong to yourself!

That is exactly what the man-made laws are trying to do.
Give us our birth right - Freedom!
Under their many fancy names - the freedom to choose.
What one fail to see is the limited assortment ;)
Or, worst, from just one choice.
"You're either with me, or you're not!"
Tho, you could go out to choose me.
How peculiar!
What difference is it, be it green or blue?
A box is a box!

Rage against the machine.
No one gives anyone their birth-right!!
It was by the mercy of their being, their Lord alone!

I was born free!
To adhere to Him alone, not man's machineries.
My responsibility is to search. Not succumb to majorities.
Because what good is the majority, if most of them are lost?
Would I too be among the lost?

Our beloved Prophet s.a.w said:

"Do not be a mere imitator with no firm determination. You say, 'I am with the people. Should people do good, so do I. And if they do evil, so do I'.
But school yourselves. If people do good so should you. But if they do evil shun their evil deeds."

One should question oneself often, about one's position.
About the position of one's soul.
About one's prostration, and its direction.
Mere following, without once in awhile looking up to outside the crowd, could lead one into a direction one never intended to go!

I do not wish to realize, when I die...that I have not lived.
That I have not search and decided.
That all I did was succumb to majority.
I choose to live.
And I choose to adhere to what He alone prescribes and enjoin.
Otherwise, I have not lived!
Otherwise, I might have sold my soul to a power I never should have, through the wrong direction for which I prostrated!
And Allah warned me against the price.

"And vile indeed was the price for which they sell their soul, if only they knew!"
(Al-Baqarah, 102)

May He give us the strength and be merciful on our souls.
Peace be upon all of us, InsyAllah.