Abtigiis Posted July 11, 2010 “God cannot and should not be displeased with this little matter of coping with too many responsibilities”, Sheikh Abdirahman said to himself in the first days he started doing it. Sheikh Abdirahman knew that if God does that, he is either petulant or maliciously insensitive. But conjecture and doubt is the feast of the unknowledgeable, not the food of the well-read and men who has drunk the beginning and end of Axkaan and Islamic teachings. Sheikh Abdirahman has always been fascinated with the seemingly oxymoronic dual disposition of the creator. He knows God is the fiercest of punishers but at the same time the most compassionate of the compassionate. God will not push aside all of the Sheikh’s lofty deeds and immense Iimaan he practices with every sun that rises and sets and will not get needlessly fixated with his ineluctable foibles. But it is not his desire to placate his fleshly temptations that introduced him to his present malady. It was his convictions about the need for honesty in one’s life that, in the end, led him to watch Pornographic films. And a little bit of devilish curiosity. The day was like any other three years ago when a young man approached him as the Sheikh was waiting for the traffic lights to go green. The man threw two DVDs into the Sheikh’s car with the remarks ‘it is an appetizer’. Sheikh Abdirahman quickly glanced over the DVDs and saw the explicit pictures. He was angry and immediately threw it back at the man, telling him to get out of his sight. But as the green lights came, some realization also dawned on the Sheikh. The Sheikh thought that if it is permissible to study other religions textbooks to draw from them useful lessons for Islam, it must as well be fine to go through the shame of watching processions of corporeal entanglements of the wicked, if it means he will get some more material to pass on to the pious on how demeaning such acts are to humanity. That night, as the Shekh went into his house, his two daughters and one son for whom he is a father as well as a mother for eleven years, after the death of his wife Mahado could see he was behaving strangely. First, he said he is not feeling well and will like the children not to come and disturb him as he sleeps in his room. Second, he said he wants the laptop they used to share and ear-phones. Third, he asked them to go to sleep. All of these were unusual. If he was sick, normally, he would sleep in his room and ask for some silence but he never takes computer or ear-phones with him. The other thing was that when one of the girls knocked his door to take batteries for a remote control, but she couldn’t specify where it is so that he passes it to her, he got agitated and cursed her loudly. The Sheikh inserted the one DVD he bought into his laptop. Initially nothing of the sort he was looking for came. He fast-forwarded to go past what clearly looked like a promotion of some African mainstream movies. That fast-forward continued for sometime but by the end of it he could see the end of the DVD but nothing he thought he would see. He immediately knew he was cheated. Someone put an enticing cover over unsold African films and is selling at the streets. Sheikh Abdirahman vowed to recover his money. After a week of going to the same place, he finally got the young man. But the young man insisted that he can give a genuine replacement but not money. The Sheikh got the right DVD and since then became addicted. It is not so much as an addiction as it is a practical way of observing the rule of the creator as well as his vow to his late wife on their marriage day. No matter what happens, he said then, he will never let another woman into his bedroom till the end of his life. He also keeps away from debauchery and carnal indiscretions which could jeopardize his otherwise impeccable ethical and religious observance. But more than anything, it is the feeling of self-sacrifice he feels towards his children that makes him proudest. He has never slept outside his house, and never failed to attend to their needs and attention. If he was selfish, he could have surrendered to his loins petulance and could have brought another woman into their life. It is exactly for this self-chastisement for the wellbeing of his progeny, if not for nothing else, that God will decide to wear his forgiving drape rather than his punitive hammer on this matter, the Sheikh knows. And that is if watching,with disapproval and melancholy,the decadent indulgencies of those who strayed from the path of God is a sin at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Haatu Posted July 11, 2010 This Sheikh of yours has none to blame but himself Xaaji. It was his lack of wisdom and weak Eeman which led him to start this evil practise. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kamaavi Posted July 11, 2010 Who can read that all ,,, in a world footy day... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
