wayfarers - stop and smile

Things swiftly run along in the stream of time, and life's tides smash the rocks of the human frailty, making echoes resound through the vast realms in all spheres of existence. Yes, each of us has an individual universe as important as any other's.

When we hear and see through electronic mediums the shouts and booms and carnage in all those 'other' universes of our Adamic siblings, whose destiny has decreed that their existence corresponds to ours, we cannot help but think of how many lives are wasted... without care for the consequences, and long-term effects, or even the enormity of this kind of behaviour.

As our beloved Prophet Muhammad, (May God's peace and blessings be upon him) told us,

'the taking of one life is as if one has taken the lives of all humanity'...

Now let's hang back and not take sides, or go around blaming one or another party, because we are all responsible for good and bad things, so 'he without sin cast the first stone' (as our Prophet Jesus (may God bless him and give him peace) is reported to have said). We can of course agree that some acts are more inhumane than others, but we know deep inside as an unshakeable truth that each of us will be repaid according to our own particular choices, intentions and actions - according to the balance of the Almighty, Wise and Just Lord of all.

So if we are wronged, then the most excellent behaviour is to again follow Jesus' recommendation to 'turn the other cheek', and to carry on. One of the most admirable qualities in dealing with our fellow humans is to excercise 'good opinion' on everyone - i.e. to look beyond their faults, and only see the good in them.

What is all this except the beautiful principles borrowed by Buddhism (again just following on from natural instinct), coupled with the positivity propounded by all those American 'self-help' and 'how to be successful' manuals?

Just smile, even that can be considered charity. Know that your smile can have the effect of changing another's life (and according to the above tradition from God's messenger (Peace and blessings be upon him), ...'saving one life is as if one has saved the life of all humanity') . Maybe they have been down and have lost touch with love or human relations and to just give them a smile might re-awaken all their dormant natural emotions and help on their pathway to the correction of their lives.

There is nice thought related to this; it takes 40 muscles to frown and only fourteen to smile, so why do we find it so hard? Does our 'evil-commanding-self' have such sway over us that we only want to look negatively at others - and in turn move not only them, but ourselves further from the path of universal love...

May God show us the way, and make us sound upon it. Amen.

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