Islamic Pearls

For some odd and uncanny reason, almost any time I think of the Day of Judgment and the fact that we will see everyone’s life played out in front of us, I think (and I know this is weird) - Man, I really wanna know who killed JFK! And then I would think – well we’re going to be so concerned with our own souls that we won’t even notice or remember what we were wondering about in this world. So then I thought – if I enter Jannah, I will ask Allah about it.

It’s one of those things on the back of your mind that for some reason pops up out of no where in the most inappropriate of times. I hardly know anything about JFK to care, nor am I particularly curious to find out who killed him. I suppose I use it as a constant example illustrating how so many people are wondering, researching and trying to figure out something so simple, when Allah subhanaHu wata’ala knows all along. Allah is ever aware of the mysteries of people’s actions and their intent, while we constantly have no clue. In fact, ask us a year later whether we remember what ’so and so’ did, and we’ll likely draw a blank. Ask us what we did, and we’ll likely draw a blank.

While this is one of the questions I would ask Allah subhanaHu wata’ala, it is not THE question that I would really like to ask.

My question would be:Can I see how my life would have played out had I made different decisions at the decisive points in my life?

When I think of this question at any time, I remember this:

“As for my prison sentence, al-Ghazali said that if we had perfect power like God to determine our destinies, & perfect vision like God to see the future & know what is best for us, we would choose exactly the fate that God chose for us”  

- Ismail Royer

walhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘alameen  

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