I am fed up with…

I am fed with the people, those who forget God, and those who believe in Him, but have no faith. While knowing He is highly influential and all-powerful, ignore his muscle and authority. I am fed up with the men, when being in trouble; ask others for help, and even for a moment, they do not turn to God to help them overcome their problems. In contrast, God never ever forgets his creatures, but He considers even tiniest ones spread out all over the place. He has created all His creatures with a great discipline, and has put all of them in their right place. As a case in point, a research on penguins inhabiting minus 50-centigrade degree conducted by scientists indicated that when the female penguins lay eggs, they give them to the male penguins in order to take care of them. Since the climate in South Pole is frigid, they do not put the eggs on the ground even for a moment as it is frozen solid. Therefore, they have to keep them warm on their legs for four months, and surprisingly enough, they even eat nothing during this very period. They do tolerate all these hardships and suffering only for love. They do not leave their eggs on the ground; they do not go for food. At last, after 4 months the females get out of the ocean and feed their offsprings. How amazing they live with love, kindness, and self-sacrifice for their children. God does not forget the animals even in the farthest parts of this very planet, so is it ever possible to forget His most privileged and number one creature, human being?

God has dedicated love, affection, and self-sacrifice to animals. Providing you with another interesting example of animal's love, it is worth mentioning that one day a female zebra and her offspring were in the field. Suddenly a leopard ran after them, trying to hunt one of them down. Since the child was little and could not run as fast as his mother, was about to be hunted by the leopard. For that reason, the mother slowed down just to protect her little baby.  She sacrificed herself for her child so that the leopard caught her and the child survived. These events do not happen accidentally and are not only stories written in books. They are all realities of creation and prove that God ignores none of His creatures.

God granted wisdom to the humankind in order to love each other and live with harmony. Quite apart from that, He also sent down 124000 prophets and 12 Imams to guide us in the straight path but unfortunately, we did not value these very great gifts of God and right from the very beginning of the creation till today have been killing, disgracing, and humiliating each other. And two great world wars leaving over 85 million innocent people killed with no reason in particular, the wars in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and many other places all over the world are the legacies we hand down to our descendants. We can simply see that by these kinds of deeds, we have clean forgotten God, but He did his best, and even today, He has appointed a leader, a savior for contemporary age.  He has got different names in different faiths such as Mahdi, Messiah, Jesus Christ etc. I think the only one who can restore this world to peace and tranquility is the remainder of God living on the planet. He is absent, but alive. We do not see him, but he does. Some of us have forgotten him, but he has promised even not to forget us, but to take care of us. He is absent because we do not ask God sincerely for his coming. If you really want Hope and Opportunity penetrate into your life, the only way forward is to beg God from bottom of your heart to hasten His coming.

Imam-Mahdi is our kind father, and is ready to respond to our requests. Turn to him in all various circumstances in your life asking him to help you. Do it right now while reading, he is listening to your words. Even if you do not believe in him, give it a try even once in your life. I am sure he does not leave you unanswered as I personally have tested it many times.

May God help us practice what we preach.

Written by: F. Nazari

Edited by: Majid Ja'fari