Prayer Can be Performed Today


O my soul! Know that yesterday has left you, and as for tomorrow, you have nothing to prove that it will be yours. In which case, know that your true life is the present day. So throw at least one of its hours into a mosque or prayer-mat, a coffer for the hereafter like a reserve fund, set up for the true future. And know that for you and for everyone each new day is the door to a new world. If you do not perform the prayers, your world that day will depart as dark and wretched, and will testify against you in the World of Similitudes. For everyone, each day, has a private world out of this world, and its nature is dependent on each person's heart and actions. Like a splendid palace reflected in a mirror takes on the colour of the mirror, if it is black, it appears as black, and if it is red, as red. Also it takes on the qualities of the mirror; if the mirror is smooth, it shows the palace to be beautiful, and if it is not, it shows it to be ugly. Like it shows the most delicate things to be coarse, you alter the shape of your own world with your heart, mind, actions, and wishes. You may make it testify either for you or against you. If you perform the five daily prayers, and through them you are turned towards that world's Glorious Maker, all of a sudden your world, which looks to you, is lit up. Quite simply as though the prayers are au electric lamp and your intention to perform them touches the switch, they disperse that world's darkness and show the changes and movements within the confused wretchedness of worldly chaos to be a wise and purposeful order and a meaningful writing of Divine power. They scatter one light of the light-filled verse,

God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth

over your heart, and your world on that day is illuminated through the reflection of that light. And it will cause it to testify in your favour through its luminosity.

By Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Revival with the Prayer.

A Matter of Livelihood

As the natural resources is getting decreased, the prices for essential things in life are inextricably getting increased. Indeed, this situation burdens much people particularly poor people. Nowadays, the prices are in the 'extraordinary' zone. With a monthly income is only about 100 USD, how could parents feed their half dozen of children? The easiest solution is probably work harder in order to gain more money because they have to face the reality, live in the current world, current trends, and within current prices. They cannot resist this because there is no other world to live in except this one. Many ways to generate incomes can be chosen, it is not a problem how they are as long as they don't break the God's rules. What most important is just keep our faith in whatever we do, surely a thing will be sweet, sweeter than honey, no misery.


" If the debtor is in a difficulty, give him time till it is easier for him to repay but if you waive the debt as an act of charity, it would be better for you if you understand it. "
(Al-Baqarah: verse 280)


" Allah alone can increase or decrease wealth, and to Him you all shall return. "
(Al-Baqarah: verse 245)


" I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money. "
- Leonard Baskin



" Spend in the cause of Allah and do not cast yourselves into destruction by your own hands. Do good things. Allah loves those who do good things. "
(Al-Baqarah: verse 195)


" This world is charming to the disbelievers. They mock at those who believe. Those who fear Allah will rank above them on the Day of Resurrection: Allah gives sustenance without measure to whom He wants. "
(Al-Baqarah: verse 212)