O God let me not meet You
until You build me ready:
gentle
free from weakness
strong
free from harshness
devout
free from incapability.
Monday 7 November 2011
Tuesday 1 November 2011
The oddity of God's trading policy
"Indeed Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise..." (Al-Qur'an, 9:111)
How odd God's trading policy is.
He gives each one of us a life we did not have,
and makes clear that our provision is fixed;
we'll get what we're due to get
so no need to worry
and better to work for it than beg or swindle it.
Now here's the odd part:
any time we sell back a small part of our time, wealth or self,
we get yet more of what we sold
and along with it a share in Paradise to suit!
How strange a deal where both
what is bought and what is sold is the property of the purchaser.
How odd God's trading policy is.
He gives each one of us a life we did not have,
and makes clear that our provision is fixed;
we'll get what we're due to get
so no need to worry
and better to work for it than beg or swindle it.
Now here's the odd part:
any time we sell back a small part of our time, wealth or self,
we get yet more of what we sold
and along with it a share in Paradise to suit!
How strange a deal where both
what is bought and what is sold is the property of the purchaser.
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