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“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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joe bloggs
for u first paragraph, yes it is make sense to all and word selfish cant fit here, as even each person has to do things alone by convince as God will reward him or punish him alone without the help of others, so he or she has to be selfish in that way to win without hurting anyone. we have to please our God to win later and in this life and why not to love him as love is also between humanbeings and manytimes it is selfish and for backrewards in many manifists. and if u say it is selfish, so let it be if we dont hurt anyone and we do good things to us and others according to morals.
i didnt understand how u will change u tune when u meet one of the angles or others? u will not be able to do anything at that time and only what u heart have before will be recorded only.
yes the teaching will help us in doing good for other people and help them, so no contradictions in that and also will increase our marks later in the certificate, so that is the real rival road and race.
our beleive in praying is not any others as i think , if we pray for others , it means we care about them and try to help them by all means and as we strongly beleive that everything is in the hand of Allah(God) , we pray for them as also to have more marks for us and them, we show that we are humanbeings and we not only enjoy life and their are other people who are suffering and die from hunger. We try our best not to let them be hungry, but if we cant do anything, so at least to think about them and pray for them untill we will be able.
also if our neighbor is hungry and we are not, so Allah will not consider us as real beleiver in God. help is a must for beleivers to others who are suffering .
why u obey trafic rules? as only u see the law or police only and that is not smart or inutive. smartness is to obey God even if u didnt see him and to think for u next life which is not seen now and never can we see it now. dont trust much your mind and even that mind is from Allah who creats it for u . We have to be humble to him and beleive in him as long as you cant change anything you created with like shape, race, coulur and manthings. if u are smart so if e.g as u said God is not proved or disproved, so it is better to believe in him to win. We muslims dont think like your thinking, we have strong beleiving in God and never we can say that as our invironment is totally different than the west. I think becasue of that God choose ME to descend its 3 great relegions and not in the west as he knows that those people will keep it especially people of islam and people of Quran which never changed from 1400 years.