Road to Jannah

It’s a weird place to be in life when you don’t belong to any group any more. All your friends are married or have kids, and all the girls at the ’same place in life as you’ are 10 years younger. You have the maturity and experience of someone who’s gone through a lot but you’re still naive and innocent in a lot of ways. Perhaps we slide and shift throughout our lives into and out of different groups. There is no real cohort. Or maybe we’re always doomed to be part of one set whether we belong or not.

I regret not being in touch with the people I grew up with, but yet I don’t want to be in touch with them. I almost want a new set of friends and a new life, yet there is no relationship like the one that’s strengthened with time and shared memories. Unfortunately though, I’ve seen people with the strongest of relationships and friendships over time cut each other off over nothing. Do we change that much? Is friendship made of such gossamer threads?  My mother always said blood is thicker than water and that your friends would always let you down without a backwards glance.

She’s been right in a lot of ways. But not even blood is a true relationship. There may be more of an attachment and sense of duty, but sometimes that too can mean nothing. We see it all the time, in the news, in families, in life. Human beings are just selfish creatures. They move in directions wherever they can gain. It’s all about ‘me’.

So why can’t people see the importance of religion? Religion brings us out of ourselves and makes it not about ‘me’. It’s about us and You. It regulates our relationships. What is the thread that connects? Not blood, not water, not feeling, but connection to God. An upwards connection and not a lateral. Finally, life makes sense and is not subject to the winds of human folly.

‘But religions cause wars’ they say. Does religion or do you? What greater argument or proof can there be of God and religion. We only have to look within ourselves to see it.