Question:
Why Are You PLEADING IGNORANCE?
Everyday you wake up to a new day. Getting out of bed, you wash your face, prepare and, most probably, rush somewhere. Like everyone else, you, too, hasten not to be late to school or work and soon find yourself engrossed with everyday routines. In the rapid flow of the day, in school or at work, you struggle to learn something or to meet a deadline, and in the blink of an eye, you notice that it has almost become evening. When you arrive home in the evening, you do your daily housework. Sometimes, just for a change, you visit your friends, go to movies and then return home to sleep. The next morning you start the same vicious circle all over again.
During these daily routines, is it possible that you remain indifferent to other important things in life? In the daily rush of your life, is it possible that you forget, don't notice or pretend not to grasp some important things?
Additional Details6 months ago
The answer of almost everyone should be "Yes." Because the majority of people fail to think or wonder about many details pertaining to their lives. You can start by thinking the following:
While you are in your room reading this article (its book??s link is below),
Never Plead Ignorance:
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are you aware that some astonishing incidents are happening? For instance, have you ever thought that you are now moving at 1,670 kilometres an hour through space?
Alternatively, have you ever thought that the room you are in right now occupies a tiny space in the universe, just as if it were a dust particle?
Or, are you, as a human being – the only being endowed with the faculty of thinking – aware of the perfect order existing in the universe?
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There are surely hundreds of similar questions you could ask yourself. The purpose in mentioning these questions is to unveil – albeit slightly – the covering over the human mind, which is already obscured by daily tasks, and help to expand its horizons. Our intention here is to reflect on some crucial issues.
Now, consider the following:
"What is the significance of these questions for my life? Is it really important to think about them while I have hundreds of things to accomplish? My final examinations?? the meeting that will be held in late afternoon?? don't they have priority?"
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These thoughts reflect a common mistake many people make. No doubt, plans pertaining to one's education, home or future are important. Yet there are some issues which are more important. Primarily, a person should reflect on the purpose of his existence in this world, on what exists beyond this life, on how this magnificent planet on which he lives came into existence, and on who is the Creator of all living things, including him.
If one thinks earnestly without pretending not to grasp the facts one comes across, one would arrive at a single conclusion:
In the immense universe, an astonishing variety of plants and animals, all beings – animate or inanimate – and more importantly man himself, are parts of the flawess creation of Allah(God), the Almighty. Man doesn't see his Creator, yet, pondering on the countless pieces of evidence surrounding him will make him comprehend Allah's existence and His attributes.
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In his efforts, his sincerity will provide him with a way to understanding his Creator's commandments and the ways to attaining His good pleasure. Allah relates in the Qur'an:
Eyesight cannot perceive Him but He perceives eyesight. He is the All-Penetrating, the All-Aware. Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees clearly, does so to his own benefit. Whoever is blind, it is to his own detriment. I am not here as your keeper. (Quran, 6, 103:104)
You also reflect on this fact and never pretend you don't grasp the superior creation of Allah.
Useful link:
THE MIRACLES OF THE QUR??AN (Video):
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
You surely have a point...i generally agree with what you said, however, i think that the topics you suggested are directly related to your personal interests, age group, educational background, religion...i don't think that there is a person on the planet who has no interest in anything. I would ask you alternatively some questions regarding sport cars, for example, which i think may be as important to professional drivers as resolving all the matters you put on the table for everybody else. If you feel so passionate about something that carries so much mystery...that may come from your nature that carries attraction for mysterious things. I ask myself all the things you proposed all the time, during my boring working hours and away from office too...but i always end up reminding myself that i spent a lot of my life getting to know things of a similar nature and i never use them in my daily life...surely i feel the self fulfillment from knowing the answers but at the end of the day...you stop and ask yourself...did i add anything to my old self, you know, the one that left for work at 8:00 AM, and you pick your interests accordingly.
How important do you think it is for a 25 year old living in Iraq today that the room he lives in is the size of a dust particle? I'm not trying to make a political point or anything, but I'm just trying to prove that interests are relative to ones background and nature.
Ignorance is also relative, for a NASA scientist, we are both ignorant, for a guy dealing Heroin in Afghanistan we are both the exact opposite.
Let me propose a last thought; it is a truly beautiful feeling that comes from exploring the wonders that surround us but how about exploring the people around us, the human aspect of our lives, we are human and we are rooted in to this planet, whatever knowledge we have of this universe doesn't change the fact that we are a second in the life of the universe. So what effects for we have on it till now? probably negligible effects, relatively, but you can always create positive traces in the lives of the people that surround you and that wouldn't be relatively negligible because you have practically the same life range, with a difference negligible relatively to the universe's.
Know about people and how to better live with them, if the universe decides to send a planet your way you can't do anything about it, but you can always do something to better understand people around you and all over the world.