OUR CONSCIOUSNESS

“I have not created the Jins and people but that they should worship Me.”

(The Holy Qur’an 51: 56).

To live in this world is like a journey in a dream; it carries us through emotions, but it offers little that is real. If I said so, it could mean that struggling with this world is like struggling with a dream. The dream that is true lies or the fact that is not real. When we deny its visions, can you see what was obscured in our sleep.

To make our life becomes real that is not merely to be struggling with this worldly life. What I mean here, we have to overcome the first problem to be tackled in every act we do is the purpose of the act because it would determine the process, the extent and also the evaluation of the action.

By the intention we can make our action not only a mundane duty but also a religious duty “for the sake of the hereafter”. The Holy Prophet Muhammad said: “Actions are in accordance with intention.”

There are things that consider as a mundane duty. It is like Eating, sleeping, showering and etc. But they could be the form of a religious duty because of the intention before taking these activities. We can precisely say that worldly in the form and hereafter in the meaning.

In other cases, we can find that it is a religious duty but ironically it is just a mundane worth in the meaning because of miss-intention. It is like going to the mosque but for the sake of someone not for Him alone or offering “sedekah” in order to be called as “the have” or a rich man.

When we take wrong intention, it means we are travelling in a dream land that we never know what is the end?