Are you Busy

Shaitaan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil servants, he said, “We can’t keep the Muslims from going to the Masjids. We can’t keep them from reading the Quran and knowing the truth. We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience with Allah (S.W.T)”.

“If they gain that connection with Allah (S.W.T), our power over them is broken. So let them go to the Masjids, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can’t gain that relationship with Allah (S.W.T). Distract them from gaining hold of their Creator and maintaining that vital connection!”

“How shall we do this?” shouted his servants. “Keep them busy in the non essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered. “Tempt them to spend, spend, spend and borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the husbands/wives to go to work for long hours, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their families, soon their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work!”

“Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice. Entice them to play the radio whenever they drive and to keep the TV, VCR, their PC’s going constantly in their homes. See to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Allah”.

“Fill their coffee tables with worldly magazines. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogues, every kind of newsletter and emotional offering of free products, services, and false hopes”.

“Keep beautiful models on the magazines, so that they start believe that external beauty is what’s important, and they’ll become dissatisfied with their partners. Ha! That will fragment those families quickly!”

“Don’t let them go out in nature to reflect on Allah’s (S.W.T) wonders. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead. Keep them busy, busy, busy! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotions”.

“Go ahead, let them be involved in soul winning but crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Allah (S.W.T). Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause. It will work! It will work!”

It was quite a convention and the evil servants went eagerly to their assignments causing Muslims everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and to rush here and there.

I guess the question is: “Has the Shaitaan been successful at his scheme?”

You be the judge! Are you BUSY?