Life

 Life

1.  Never make yourself completely available.  Make yourself available and people will think you are cheap.  You have no right to cheapen you.

2.  Think twice about doing something free for people.  Most people cannot value selfless things.  If you are good at something, never do it for free.

3.  Love people.  Always try to help people.  Humans cannot do justice properly but Allah can.  He will sometimes give it back to you many times over.  Man gets and forgets.  Allah gives and forgives.

4.  It's okay to love people you love a lot.  But don't waste 100% of yourself.  If something goes wrong when you give it your all, what will you get back up with?  Where do you get the energy?  Leave some love for yourself instead of giving it all.  People lose interest very quickly.

Remember these two lines of Syed Haque--

"People are like that, once they get it

It seems like pure clay, a seal of gold."

5.  The rights of parents are the highest priority in your life.  Never hurt them.

6.  Never earn illegally.  Allah is the owner of sustenance.  Allah, who does not starve a bird, will not starve you.  He who did not eat you in this 22/23 years, will not eat you in the next life  Maybe you can't eat fried rice every day, but at least you can eat rice.  It is very peaceful to eat rice with halal money instead of fried rice food with haram money.  Remember that what God gives abundantly, it will not take time for God to take away.

7.  Never chase fame and popularity.  They cannot give people peace.  Be a family guy.  If you are too famous, your life will no longer be yours.  It will become public property.  People don't like popular people.  Rather jealous.  The fallacy of life is that sometimes people want everyone to know them.  Once known, that person has to cover his face and go out.  He doesn't like a lot of people crowding in front of him.  The rate of depression among celebrities is very high.  But if Allah increases the acquaintance while doing good deeds, it is a different matter.

8.  There are two types of pain in the world.  Pain of Discipline and Pain of Regret.  Being born as a human means you have to take any pain.  You don't have to take Regret if you take Pain of Discipline.  And if you want to take pain of regret, you can do it without taking discipline.  If you take discipline you will get success even if you get pain  If you want to take regret, you will get pain as well as tremendous failure.

9.  The more a warrior sweats during preparation, the less likely he is to bleed on the battlefield.  And he who does not sweat during preparation, has to shed blood on the battlefield.  We have to decide whether we will shed sweat or blood. 10.  God uses broken things in strange ways.  Break the clouds and rain.  Break the soil and bring out the crop.  Crops and seeds.  And that seed is broken into a seedling.  One day Mahiruh from that seedling.

If you ever feel broken, know that God plans to transform you into something very good.

(Collected from Dr. Maruf Raihan Khan)